Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-17
Echoes of the StnRe.

LOTTA goes directly to her hotel after a play,
eats bowl of bread and milk, and retires.
"THE stowaway" will be revealed nightly at
the Bijou during week of March 25 1t will
also be seen at the customary matinees.
HELEN BARRY will open the next season of
the Union Square Theater in a new play by
Malcolm Watson. an English playwright, en-
titled Love and Liberty" The play has proved
successful IN London.
IF Mary Anderson ever returns to St Louis
she should take "tank'' along for the Perdita
scene in "The Winters Tale" and dive off the
rock in a rubber suit, so as to show the critics
out there that she can really act a little if she
is given the opportunity, says LIE Chat Notr
KATE LESTER, of 'The Cavalier" Company
displayed nerve and judgment at the matinee
at Palmers New York Theater on last Satur-
day afternoon. A pile OF floor cloth caught
fire and burned rapidly. Miss Lester saw the
blaze. and instead of screaming quietly told a
stage hand, who put the fire out before it was
seen by the audience. The latter was slightly
burned about the hands and arms.
PREPARATIONS for the production of "The
Oolah," by Fracis Wilson and his company, at
the Broadway Theater. on May 10, are going
actively forward On Monday Phil Goatcher
and four assistants began work on the scenery,
so girls were put to work at Dazian's on the
wardrobe, and Richard Barker has begun work
on the manuscript Orders for seats to the
number of 240 odd have already been received
for the opening night.
THE London correspondent of the Dramatic
Mirror writes: Mr.. W. Shakespeareis fine
Roman tragedy, Julius Caesar" has been
played this week at Oxford University by the
Varsity Dramatic Club, usually a good set of
players. Among the representers of the minor
characters is Henry Irvings eldest son, Henry
BIB stands for Brodribb, you know. which is
our leading actors very own name. Irving fils
who gets himself up in exact imitation Of
Irving pere, is not altogether devoid of self
assurance, and be has this week received so
many puffs preliminary that shrewdly suspect
that he has been compelled to order a larger
sized hat.
THE custom of making-up to resemble
prominent personages of marked individual
ity is a favorite one with some actors. Man.
ager Palmer has been used as a model for
benevolent fathers, retired merchants and
family doctors time and again. In "a Midnight
Bell" Mr.. Humphreys, as the bank cashier,
builds up his countenance on the j. M Hill
plan very successfully. The bland forehead,
the placid mouth. the proyerbial whiskers and
the familiar soft felt hat are shown with
startling fidelity, and when he speaks we in
stinctively lean forward TO hear all about the
latest banner week of Murray and Murphy and
to catch on to the prodigious number of oyster
stews sold during the month at Bostons
bivalvular palace. Of course we are dissap.
pointed--the cashier talks about the robbery of
his bank and we settle back with sigh of
regret
HERE is a chunk of sense from lie Chat
Notr: There was an intense power of acting
that died with Charles R. Thorne Jr. It was
one of the most thoroughly American excel
lences in our drama that ever saw. 1t had
the tried CLEAN of perfect steel in it. 1t was
manhood pure and simple. Lord, what a
splendid thing is manhood We are only pre-
tending to be satisfied with the sweet-fern
stage heroes of now. They are as pretty as
clean babies and as kissable, but we would
| every one of us like to see them snap with the
| true passion of powerful maturity, While
they flicker against q Underground of fine seen
cry, like sprays of mIgnonette against SAP.
| phire sky. we are listening for the crack of a
| thong whip, and looking for the oak to be
| splinTered by tempestuous lightning. Consider
| Herbert Kelcey's mustache, how it grows, and
| then try to imagine a tempest near Regard
the curling breaker of Kyrle Bellows bang.
| and then try TO hear the mutterings of the
| storm and the boom of the great. mad sea.
| Examine the cameo precision of Frank Car
! lvle's profile, the languorous wreath of Maurice
| Barrymore's upper lip, and the very proper in
| tonation of Henry Mlller's lovely defamation.
| and then try to call up to your drowsy mind
| the Whirlpool and avalanche of masculine
| grandeur.