Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-13

large and fashionable audience at the Oper
House, will give Pittsburgers another chanc,
to see very beautiful and talented womal
and to hear sensible and witty address upon
very important subject at Old City Hall OF
Wednesday next, October l6, at2P. M. Seat
may be procured at Hamilton's music store.
Stage Whispers.
FANNY DAVENPORT was taken i'll on las
Saturday in San Francisco and was unable Il
play the last night of her engagement at thu
Baldwin Theater.
Mr.. AND MRS. P. T. BAREUM and theil
grandson, Barnum seeley. sailed for Europe
on the Etruria yesterday. The show Will be
brought from Bridgeport to New York on next
Monday, preparatory to It's departure for En-
gland.
RUDOLPH ARoNsoN, the manager Of the
Casino, New York, was married on September
Q to Evelyn Chandler, of Schenectady, N. Y.
| The affair was kept quiet until a few days ago,
when it leaked out The bride is non-profes.
| sional
LAST week Mr.. A. ]. Shedden was at
Wheeling looking after the interests of Miss
Kate Castleton. A good many of Mr.. Shedden's
| friends went over TO Wheeling to see him, and
| report that he is in good health and spirits.
Miss Castleton will not play in Pittsburg this
| season.
THERE are rumors of trouble in the "Hands
Across the Sea" company, and it Is reported
that Gus Levick recently refused to 60 on
without his salary being paid. Manager Kahn
has had several good offers from prominent
New York managers to take the play of his
hands, but ne insists on running it. If he will
keep it running away from Pittsburg we viii
not quarrel about the merits of the play. Bad
melodramas are seen often enough here, as
it is.
THE Jetferson-F Florence comedy company be-
gin their season tomorrow night at the Star
Theater, at New York, opening in 'The
Rivals" with Mr.. Jefferson in his familiar i'm
personation Of Bob Acres, and Mr.. Florence,
for the first time in % years, as Sir Lucius
~. SU1r'gger. @ n Inc supporting & cast viii include
as Lydia LdnCuish, Edwin Varrey as Sir An
thony Absolute and Frederick Paulding as
Captain Absolute The prices for seats Will
range from " In the orchestra to 90 and Is
cents in the gallery.
81. B. CONWAY, the English actor, and Daniel
Frohman's $l0, 600 leading man, is not little
disappointed at the change In the plans which
affected his engagement in this country. He
was to have had good role, commensurate
with his salary and his professional reputation,
In young Mrs. Blaine's company. Her illness
has broken up all the plans, and Conway is
compelled to play instead in a new comic play
called Our Flat" Though he will not be seen
to as good advantage as it was expected, yet
the part is pleasing light comedy role and
Conway will no doubt do much with il His
real name Is Conlson. He ls known in London
as Handsome Harry"
The influx Of English actors has become the
talk of the town. Mr.. Terriss and Miss Mill
ward are now to be seen daily on Broadway
They are melodramatic stars Of Great Britain.
Terriss is the man who has played such char
acters as the Silver King for long runs in Lon
don; and his appearance here is the result of
nf
When Terriss comes here Augustin DAILY man
ages him in New York, and when Aueustin
Daly's company goes to London, Terriss man.
ages it there. Outside Of New York, Mr..
Terriss and Miss, MilIward will be under the
management of Henry @. Miner. Mr.. and Mrs.
distinguished foreign artists recalls the hula
baloo raised last year to exclude foreign actors.
The movement was rather a failure, as is
evinced by the European arrivals.
ADoNIs DxEY's new play, 'The Seven
Ages" produced last Monday In New York,
does not appear to have caught ou'' very Ger.
tainly yet The New York Sun says: The
house mildly liked nearly all of the work, but
1t could not grow actually enthusiastic except
at rare intervals, and there was too much slow.
ness between these periods. All the groupings.
choruses and spectacular features were very
slightly; the scenery was excellently pict-
uresque; the costumes were in soft colors and
Of enticing cut, and the girls were pretty and
numerous in every scene. In these respects
there was no departure from the elements
which made for "Adonis" much of its triumnh.
and which may yet win favor for 'The Seven
Ages" But Mr.. Rice's music was disappoint-
ing, because not all Of it was new and that
which had been repeated was not of sufficient
sprtghtliness to warrant the revival. On the
whole, there will be need Of much revision be-
fore Mr.. Dixey's new venture can hope to du- |
plicate the success Of its predecessor.
NYM CRINKLE approves of the Kendals. In
the Dramatic Mirror he writes: Mrs. Kendall
has personal charm that is not wholly phys |
ical. In some sense It is temperamental,
beamy, internal. You feel, without being able |
to interpret it nicely, that she Is doing some |
thing her own way, and that her own way il |
the best possible way for her. She possesses |
that fascination that a wholesome maturity |
alone can confer. We see it now and then in |
the drawing-room, when some mother who has |
never ceased to be a favorite, though she has
ceased to be girl, draws all men-and women |
too, for that matter-round her, and compels a |
mingled respect and gallantry that needs no
compelling. Her coquetry in "a Scrap Of
Paper" is the rich, mellow coQuetry of a |
woman. not the caprice of miss. Behind it is
. generous subtlety and an easy knowled dge
Cnance there is Is NJ none in the comedy for trans
are thousand chances for the byplay the sug-
yestion, the intimation and the mingled glance
and tone tnat are demonstrations, and she uses
them all with spontaneity that deceives you
INTO the belief that she cannot help it.
LAST Monday night at the Chicago Opera
House, in Chicago, Mr.. Lawrence Barrett, after
many months of careful preparation, produced
William Young's new romantic tragedy entitled
'Ganelon." The story of the play Is historical,
md is located in the Island of Corsica, in the
'arly part Of the ninth century. Ganelon Is a
ION of that elder Ganelon, who betrayed Ro-
and at the battle Of Roncesvalles, under
Jharlemagne. In consequence of the disgrace
attached to his fathers history, the son aban.
Ions his home in France and enters the service
II Hugo, the Count Of Corsica. The drama
leals with the love of Ganelon and Blanca. the
laughter OF Hugo, and the stirring events of
he wars between the Saracen and the Corsican.
n addition to unlimited opportunities for
cenic sPlendor, the play possesses the unusual
merit OF having several parts almost as great as
hat OF the hero. Mr.. Barrett was seen Is
Idneton, and his impersonation of the role was
exceedingly effective throughout. The scenery.
" Phil Goatcher, was unusually picturesaue
md handsome, and the costumes historically
orrect as well as beautiful Miss Minna Gale
vas seen as Btonca, the heroine. She looked
exceedingly handsome, and was strong and
natural in the part.