Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-06
THE. TOPICAL TALKER.
Bits of Gossip From the Green Room and
Other Places.

Otuer ftHCCss
WHEN the great combination containing Joe
Jefferson, W. ]. Florence Mrs. Drew and John
Gilbert comes to this city next year, and Mr.
Wilt assured me yesterday that he had con
tracted with them, we are to be treated to an
auction of seats. and doubtless the bidding
will be extremely spirited. Probably the big
sums which such an auction will produce could
not be realized at the regular prices. or even il
the scale were raised to the figures at which
Messrs Booth and Barrett played. And yet il
has been the general experience of theatrical
managers in Pittsburg, believe, that buying
seats at auction is not regarded with favor by
theater-goers here.
The fact that the Jefferson-Flo Com.
pany will only play here three nights-it was
their original intention to give Pittsburg only
one night-may induce great many to pay the
fancy prices which will be asked. The per
tormances will be an extraordinary treat
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BY the way, Mr.. Wilt doesn't think Pittsburg
is behind other cities of like size in getting the
new and desirable attractions from the East,
He instanced several companies which he had
been instrumental in bringing to this city, and
it may be admitted that Pittsburg is net
always Sighted. But it certainly remains true
that Pittsburg does not get anything like her
fair share of the good things going in theatri.
cal way. This could easily be proved by
enumerating the many frst-class companies on
the road which have not been and will not be
here this season. 1t is a large list, and by COM
pairing with it the list of what we have seen
the injustice done to Pittsburg would be ap.
parent.
A VERY valuable picture might be obtained
by the photographer who would catch with his
camera the entire gallery of the Bijou Theater
during the interval of almost total darkness
before the shipwreck scene in "The Fugitive u
Such picture taken instantaneously by flash
light would show wonderful variety of quaint
faces, mostly twisted into grimace.
The gallery gods at the Bijou enjoy to the
utmost chance to give unrestrained vent to
their feelings in whoops, whistlings, cat-calls
and personal salutations.
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simply marvellous
On midnight Cleveland Pittsburg train
very recently when the conductor reached a
slouchy, loose-jointed lout of a youth and
asked for his ticket, the latter produced a.
monthly commutation ticket, which bore the
name of station at which the train did not
stop. The conductor told the passenger that
the fare to the nearest station at which the
train would stop was 10 cents more than the
commutation ticket was good for.
81 haven't got 10 cents" coolly remarked the
youth.
Don't you know anybody on the train who
can pay it for your
'tNo." said the youth without stirring an
inch.
Then shall have to put you off the train,
said the conductor quietly, and reaching for the
whistle cord, he began to signal the engineer tc
stop. At the same moment the youth dipped
his fingers into his vest pocket pulled out some
change and gave the conductor the 10 cents
without any remark.
"You had that dime all the time; you ought
to be put off the train anyhow" was all the con
ductor said.
A good many passengers would have enjoyed
kicking that incarnation of meanness and i'm
pudence off the cars.