Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-18

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| Stage Whispers.
MRS JAMES @. BLAINE, JR., has been In
New York the past week at work with David
| Belasco.
| FANNY DAVENPORT Is still in California
| The lady by the same name, who arrived from
Europe last week. was not the star actress
MRS. BURNETT's new play, phyllis. which
| she has revised since its London performance
will be seen in its improved form at the Boston
Museum in October.
The striking likeness between E. H. sotheru
and r. A. Roberts, formerly with Minnie
Palmer. is so marked that several piaywrlgnts
are at work on q play for them, in which they
will appear as twin brothers.
BOYS have been substituted for the gyrsting
ballet girls in PAINS Last Days of Pompeii,'
at Manhattan Beach, N. Y, and it Is not un-
usual to see sylph-like fay, while executing .
double revolution, expectorate skniiuny "lo
EMMA ABBOTT has brought home two new
operas. namely. Romeo and Juliet' and THE
Crown Diamonds" ;" which are almost unknown
here. "Romeo and Juliet was produced sew
eral seasons ago. and It is now the great musicai
success Of both London and Paris
Francis WILSON ia building residence on
Meadow Lane in New Rochelle, out of the
profits of sThe Ooah.n The house is Of stone,
three stories high, and will be In the style Of
architecture of the Colonial period, of which q
few examples are still standing in that Sec
tion.
WE have had benefits for widows of all sorts
and conditions, but the following case, says the
Mirror. which was set forth recently on the
programme of London music hall entertain.
ment, seems unparalleled: For the benefit of
Mrs. =. who during the past IL months has
lost husband, home and Leg"
NINE MopJKsKA is in the city preparing for
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new costumes made. When her work with the
modistes is finished she will 60 back to her
Western ranch, remaining there until rehears-
ais begin in Pittsburg September l& Her sea-
son will open here September 30.
GREAT preparations are going on at the
Broadway Theater. New York, for the one
hundredth performance Of THE 0olah, /" which
will take place next Monday night. The re-
ceipts of the opera mp to the present time, are
stated by Manager Canhy to be ahead of those
Of the first summer Of "Erminie."
MISS MARIE g. BURRKss, leading lady to
Frank Mayo who has been spending the sum-
mer at the country residence Of Mr.. l. X. Stay
ton, her uncle. at Superior station. Allegheny,
left Thursday for Chicago to join her company.
where they rehearse few days preparatory to
the opening at Milwaukee the 18th inst.
MISS MOLLY REUcHLER, of Allegheny. q
wellknown elocutionist, has signed with the
Oliver Byron combination for the coming sea-
son, opening at the Ocean Theater. Long
Branch, on Tuesday, August 90 She will be
the understudy Of Mrs; Kate Byron, and for the
first five weeks will take her place, as
Mrs. Byron viii not join the company for that
space OF time.
THE unsavory notoriety Mrs. Leslie Carter.
says the Mirror, has won through her recent
social misadventures has penetrated even TO
the booking agencies. and she seems TO have
some difficulty In securing time for her pro-
posed stellar experiment Last week her man.
ager applied to Klaw d Erlanger to undertake
the booking of her route, but those gentlemen
positively refused to become in any manner
identified with her or her dramatic exploit.
Mr. ]. n. RYLEY, ON reading his part in "The
Surprises of Divorce" which he is to play the
coming season, finds it much more juvenile
than he had anticipated. IF he Is successful,
it is not unlikely in the near future he will
poaoh on the preserves of Nat Goodwin, E. II.
Sothern, and other light comedians. The
genial ]. h, who is only known to us in comic
opera, intends surprising the public with his
versatility. Madeline Lucette will Introduce
in the first act of surprises of Divorce" one of J
her own songs, entitled Wont You," to which
Harrison Millard has put the music. Some
important work may be expected from these
two people.
MANKIND" which will be produced by Mr..
Eugene Tompkins, manager of the Fifth Ave.
nue. Theater and the Academy of Music, New
York. and the Boston Theater, Boston. will be 4
presented with great care, the scenery and
mechanical effects being all Specially ally painted
such competent artists as W. H. Thompson,
Forrest Robinson, s. E Springer, Jas. L. Ca
hardt. ALI. Fisher, Clarence Heritage, Herbert
Ayling, Q. W. Vance, Marjorie Bonner. Esther
Lyons, Maggi Holloway, and little Gertie Bos-
well. In the second act the big steamboat
scene occupies the entire stage, and during the
scene heavy fog arises IN which the steam-
boat disappears; then the morn breaks through
the fog. showing the heroine who was thrown
from the stesmer into the water; then q full
rigged fishing smack comes on, with all sails
set, men aboard. sails working; the boat Is |
brought about. and the girl rescued. The mob |
scene in the last act is the big effect of the play
In this scene a mob of so or 80 people attack q
action over $50 panes of glass are broken, max
ing very realistic scene.
THE London correspondent of the Dramatic
ance Of Burnand's new comedy, "The Headless
boys hissed. Wyndham lost his temper and his
head as wen and foolishly entered into a con-
troversy with "a young man IN white pot
hat" who occupied front seat in the gallery
and happened to catch his eye. Wyndham
declared that White Hat was the only hisser-
upon 1t, was not strictly accurate. and many in
the audience at once signined the same Wynd- |
ham then came down to the footlights and |
White Hat to say what he had to |
;sy and he tW TCnld cond reply to oh him Says
Them ss the % curtain was dropped and there % was
round of applause and Wyndham was fool |
enough to come on again and say ny that, Bur- |
nand was not in the house, and (2) that Bur-
nand never was in the house on such occasions, |
and (s) that if be had been in the house he
would on no account have taken call. not be-
Ing built that way-all Of which was, Of course, |
absurd as well as untrue.