Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-21

HELEN DAUvRAY, in spite of her ball-play-
ing husbands protests, will appear on the stage
again next season. She is booking company
now.
THE stuffed hide Of Jumbo has Just been
placed in positionin Tufts College Museum, Bos-
ton. The skeleton was sometime ago presented
to the Metropolitan Museum in this city.
SIDNEY DREW and Burr W. Mcintosh will
play game Of pool for the championship of
the dramatic profession this week, the pro-
ceeds to be devoted to the Actors Fund.
DIGBY BELL and his wife, Laura Joyce Bell,
have left the McCaull Opera Company. Mr..
Bell felt that the tall and athletic De Wolf
Hopper was overshadowing him unpleasantly.
A PRONOUNCED hit-art1stically and fnan-
cially-was made by Mile. Rhea in 1.-THE Case
Vidal" last week at Albaugh's Opera House,
Washington. Her audiences were largely COM
posed of the haut ton Of the national capital.
CoR1NNE may not be much of an actress, but
her advertising agent is James dandy. Here
is his last effort: On Saturday last H. R.
Jacobs signed contract for the building of a
yacht to cost So, ,000 which he will name Corinne
and present to that little star.
The marriage of Miss Fanny Davenport and
Mr.. Mcdowell will take place during next
month in New York City. The ceremony will
be performed by the Rev. DR.. Houghton at the
Little Church Around the Corner, in the pres
ence of few relatives and friends.
The Coliseum Rink, of Allegheny, has been
leased by the Worlds Museum Company of
Columbus, and win be opened as place of
amusement next fall. James Geary, formerly
OF the Casino Museum, is the company's mana
ger. Possession will be given July 15, after
which the building will be renovated prepara-
tory to its opening as curiosity hall.
HARRY EDWARDS left Mrs. Potter's COM
pany last week, says the Mirror, when the reg
ular seasons contracts of the company came to
an end. Mrs. Potter wished to re-engage Mr..
Edwards, but he was averse ia continuing on a
greatly reduced salary. There was a mighty
cut all around, by the way. The season has not
been profitable Tor Mrs ], B. P.'s manager.
ONE of the peculiarities of the production of
"FeatherbraIn" by Minnie Madden at the
Madison Square Theater will consist of the
fact thar no scene or piece of property will be
touched from the opening night of the comedy
until the end of the run. This is made possible
at the Madison Square because of the double
stage but it is the only time that it has been
done in this theater and probably in the world.
Miss LEWIS, the emotional actress, begins
her New York season May l3. she knows all
about Oklahoma, which she visited years ago.
AS memento of her trip Miss Lewis carries a
pair of tame wolves-lean, ugly sneaking fell
lows-who stink behind her chair and watch the
visitor with hungry green light in their eyes.
They have an aversion to poodle dogs and con-
slider them joint prey, which makes it rather
embarrassing for Miss Lewis when she leads
them out to get breathing spell.
THE name of Manager ]. NJ. Hills new spec
ulat1on is Gladys Bird, but she will be known
on the stage as Gladys Orme. She is girl
of Is, who has not yet outgrown short dresses.
She is pretty and remarkably clever. For some
time past Gladys has been under the tuition Of
female elocutionist of this city, who has
taught her to read without robbing her, as yet,
n a
tainment the other night in New York, Gladys
appeared in some scenes from Romeo and
Juliet, with Frederick Paulding as the lovesick
Montague. She showed rare aptitude and a
delicate sensibility which delighted the specta-
tors.
THE New York Mirror says: 1.-THE tempo.
rary disability Of Mr.. Booth, occasioned by too
liberal indulgence in tobacco, has called wide
spread attention to the evils as well as
the delights of smoking. From boyhood
Mr.. Booth has been addicted to the
habit, which has grown upon him so
that his health is seriously jeopardized. For
many years he had partiality for the soothing
pipe. At home or in his dressing room he was
seldom without 1t. His dresser used to keep a
meerschaum ready filed with his favorite
brand, Fruits and Flowers" and whenever
the tragedian left the stage if it was only for a
few moments, it was handed to him, and he
would Immediately begin to puff smoke like a
cigarettes, and there were few of his waking
hours passed without one of these slender cof-
fin nails between his lips. Cigars have been
the solace of his recent years. By his own adj
mission he had come, before his recent illness,
to consume score of heavy perfectos daily"
THE Red Signal" melodrama by Otis
Skinner, of Daly's Theater, and his brother,
Charles M. Skinner, dramatic editor of the
Brooklyn Eagle, will have its premier on the
9Th of May, In the Grand Opera House, Chica-
GO The scene is laid IN Pittsburg and the
action is illustrative of the contest between
labor and capital, strike in a rolling mill be-
ing one of the incidents, but the severity of
motive is softened by a love story and light
ened by comedy element. Several mechanical
effects-such as those introduced in the inter-
ior of the mill, and moonlight view of Pitts
burg with blue flamespouring from furnace
chimneys-are believed to be wholly original,
and have been protected by patent 1t is nota-
BILE that a, drama somewhat akin to this, in
that it is evolved from the strained relations
between capitalists and workingmen should
have been written by Sims and Petit and pro-
duced in England recently. The American
play, however, was not even suggested by the
English melodrama, and is wholly dissimilar in
motive and treatment. 1t was written and
copyrighted months before even the name of
the Sims and Petit drama master and Many
was published. Among the actors engaged for
the Chicago production are Messrs. Skinner,
Gilbert and Holland, of Daly's Company,
George Sprague and Helen Bancroft.