Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-06
that house last week, when third quarterly
dividend of per cent was declared.

that house last week, when third quarterly
| dividend of per cent was declared.
"MRs. KENDAL brings over from London so
dresses and her husband. The Custom House
passed the whole business, and yet poor Wilson
| Barrett must pay duties on his scenery before
1t can be landed at Boston" says LIE Chdt NoT
OCTOBER IA will be an interesting night for
| New York theater goers, with Booth and
| Modjeska in 'Richeleu" at the Broadway
| Tbeater and the Joseph Jeferson.t Florence
comedy company at the Star Theater IN zine
Rivals"
GEORGE W. CABLE the Southern noyel1st
is the most popular reader from his own wilt
ings of any man on the platform. He clears
| from 5000 to 5000 each season. he is con.
sidered the lace of the platform and the nrst
called for by institutions OF learning. he Is
| dramatizing "Bonaventure,n his new and latest
Acadian novel.
THE Treasury Department of this United
States has ordered the collector of the noble
port of Boston to levy duties upon the $40 tons
| OF artistic scenery brought to this country
from England by Wilson Barrett the scenery
to be used in dramatic plays This is the workiof
Louis Aldrich and his gang OF ldiotlc ham1at-
tiers who want to keep out all foreign actors.
MAX O'RELL is to arrive from England
early in January to make a tour under the
management of Major Pond. His first enter
book, Jonathan and His Continent" The
title of his second subject will be Ma
tional Gallery, Jacques Bonhomme, John
Bull, Sandy Macdonald and Brother Jona-
than.
THE Bric-a-Brac company did not close sea-
son in Philadelphia last week as reported. 1t
is resting" while the author. Frank Tame
hill, is rewriting the play and putting in an en-
tirely new second act preparatory to resuming
season at Omaha, October Il For the remain
n ,r-t,1 has,
hit in the role of the countryman, will be
starred.
FRoHMAN'S LYCEUM THEATER COMPANY
has lost one of its brilliant actors in Charles
Dickson who has joined the forces of ]. M.
Hill. and plays the light comedy role in "a
Possible Case" His excellent work in the role
of the correspondent in Held by the Enemy"
and more recently "The Wife," will be pleas
antly remembered in this city. He now plays
the role formerly assumed by Bob Hllliard.
SYDNEY RosENFELD, the author of "a
Possible Case" says that Helen Russell, who
now plays the role of Violet Mendoza, is the
best exponent of the part of any who have
played in it. She seems to have struck happy
medium between the two extremes of Geneyieve
Lytton and George Drew Barrymore. Pitts
burg audiences will have a chance to judge of
Miss Russells abilities at the Bjou Theater in
the week of October a
NJ. A KENNEDY, the well-know comedian of
from the critics this season than ever before.
A writer on the Albany Times says: "Comedy
will never die with jefferson and Florence as
long as Kennedy is on the stage. He is the late
John T. Raymond and Ben Maginley rolled
into one in personality of his own" Another
critic compares him more than favorably with
w, II. Crane. and still another classes his
methods of naturalness with Den Thompson.
On October IA, dear old gentle-hearted Joe
Jefferson, with his delightful smile and tender
eyes, will trip jauntily forward at the Star as
Bob Acres. By his side, as Sir LucitLs OTri0-
ger, will be everybody's friend, Billy" Flor
ence, the champion fisherman of the Resti-
gouche, breezy bon vivant, and splendid actor
all through. American, these, down to the
ground and not foreigner in the whole
shower now peltfng down upon US can ever
elbow the happy boys out Of the innermost nook
of our hearts,
ADoN1s DIxEY's art may not be high or
important, says LIE Chat Noir, but he can cast
heart-healing glow into the shadows that
close in on US from time to time, and can
shatter care with the warmth of legitimate
smiles. Even Mr.. Daly's family can do no
more. They are but frivolous. light, useless
humming birds. DIxey is as harmless, and he
worthy as any other actor Beauty, grace and
cleanness are noble qualities, and imagine
Dixey possesses them all.
THE New York World labels Steele Mackaye's
new play, IAN Arrant Knave," one of the best
comedies ever written, and says that it places
its author at the head of American playwrights
beyond all peradventure. The dramatic opin.
ions of the World are snaky as a rule, so per-
haps this one is strained, but Mackaye is un-
doubtedly great writer, and no person who
has watched his work would be surprised If he
should some day make just such a play as the
World man describes. IAN Arrant Knave,"
which is the property of Stuart Robson, had its
CHICAGO Monday
The Chat Notr adds.
A Low London paper, called the Wasp, not
long ago libeled Florence st. John in a most
shameful manner, says the New York Mirror.
Thorough, the proprietor. was promptly prose-
cuted. He had no defense or justification to
offer for the outrage and was compelled to
throw himself on the mercy of Miss st. John
and the Court.
The actress was satisfied to let Thorough off
with public Acknowledgement Of the falsity
of his publication. an humble apology to her in
ceedings and a gift of $3.50 to the Actors Benev-
olent Fund. The Court was moved to let the
wretch go after these humiliations.
"SoME attention, I suppose" says Nym
Crinkle in the Mirror, might be given to
form of hallucination which may be called
retrospective. 1t shows itself in the tendency
to idealize and exaggerate that which is past.
Two or three years ago Lester Wallack was
Burton grew after death at a prodigious rate.
Adelaide Nelson who was in no sense a great
actress, and not accounted great by cotem-
poraneous opinion, is now spoken of with
something like awe. 1t is the same way with
plays and companies. We continually hear of
the unapproachable excellence of this and that
stock company of the past, and continually
forget that it is the intervening time that has
softened and mellowed everything"
81 NOTICED the other evening"" says the mu
sical critic of LIE Chat Nofr, 'n the Pearl of
Pekin,' a remarkably clever bit of work by
,Kerker, which would interest any musician, on
account of its ingenuity. 1t is in the Chop
Sticks Polka where the xylophone plays a
simple melodIc figure, over and over again.
while all about it, above and below, is woven a
woof of vocal and instrumental designs totally
independent and yet most pleasing. Theoretic-
ally this might perhaps be termed Passacaglia
in middle voice. The Passacaglia being a
constantly reiterated bass, upon which SUPER
structure is built of constantly varying pro-
gressions. Mr.. Kerker has thus given to us an
other of those proofs, which happily are be-
coming more and more frequent, that piece
may be tuneful and well written, catchy and
classic"
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