Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-25
THE TOPICAL TALKER.
Blind Mems Ways-A Pleasant Change In
Scenery-Barnum in England.

| Blind Mems Ways-A Pleasant Change In
Scenery-Barnum in England.
Two blind men came marching down Fifth
avenue on Sunday afternoon. They were arm
| in arm. When they came to Smithield street
| one of them turned toward the City Hall, but
the other gave him sharp tug, saying: Let's
go down Fifth avenue"
"WhyT" asked the other,
''Oh, there is so much more to see."
1t is a curious thing, which 20 years intimacy
with hundreds of blind people has taught me,
that blind man never acknowledges his lack
of sight in his conversation.
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In reply to E. NJ. NJ. the tremendous operatic
fact may be recorded that the song, Ills
ten to My Tale of Vice." or Little John and
His Sister Sue," was sung when "Nadjy" was
at the Bijou last season by Mr.. Francis Wilson
and his partner and right bower, Miss Marie
Jansen. And they sang it very well. They
are still singing it in .'The Oolah" at the
Broadway Theater, New York.
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THE scenery used in Miss Wainwright's
production of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night"
at the Opera House this week is not at all what
we are accustomed to see here. Several of
the scenes are pictures of real artistic value
The servants hall, in the second scene of the
second act, for example, is a rarely q uaint
interior of an old mansion. The furniture is
historically accurate and unusually complete,
The galleried hail. with it's huge fireplace, in
which the brass mounted bellows is a corspicu-
GUS feature, its old-fashioned Settles its table
whereon reigns genuine punch bowl of the day
represented, afford a guiding glimpse at the
fashion of life in the era of the play. Another
painting of considerable beauty is the bower
of roses in sight of the Duke orsino's palace.
Other scenes ARE hardly less remarkable for
taste and ability in the artists.
The chime of bells which occasionally pulses
prettily is another evidence of the care and in
tuitive artistic sense that prevails in this pro-
Guction. Miss wainwright must be congratulated
on this achievement, and SO must her advisers
and the executors of her desire. Not least
among these, 1 strongly suspect, should be
placed Mr.. Julian Magnus.
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IN another way the interior Of postoffice
shown in The U. S. Mail' is worthy of praise.
1t is highly realistic and no doubt will prove
great feature when the proper dramatic strength
of thatscene is developed.
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IT is not understood, think, how ambitious
are the plans of Mr.. P. T. Barnum for his En-
glish tour. He will take all his animals. and
not single English performer will he hire.
Instead of English artists, Mr.. Barnum will
take with him Americans with peculiarly
American specIalties. And yet the circus and
the various troupes of performers will really be
subsidiary to the great spectacle of Fall of
Rome" produced in this country by the Kiral-
fys. The circus as whole will enter Rome as
sort of triumphal parade after the fashion of
the triumph of a Roman emperor after vic
tory.
There are one or two difficulties ahead of the
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of the big advertising spaces Barnum & Bailey
have been wont: to use here. The boardings,
however, will offer fair amount of room for
the elaborate colored posters 1t is feared by
the managers of the show that the night parade
of the circus in London. which it is proposed
to give after the New York fashion. will not
be allowed to take place. There is reason to
believe that the London police will interfere
because of the immense crowds a torchlight
parade would attract, and the field for thieves
the crowds would afford.