Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-25
Stage Whispers.

Stage Whispers.
THERESA VAUGHN celebrated her birthda ay
on Friday last and received many elegant
presents.
JoHNsToNE BENNETT intends to star this
senson. Wesley Sisson, 1t Is stated. will be her
manager.
w. A. MEsTAYER calls his revived Tour
lists in a Pullman Car" delectable, dithyram-
bic advertisement in three acts.
The Cincinnati managers have been officially
notified by Mayor Mostey. of that city, that
Sunday theatricals will Hereafter be sup
pressed.
Jos. OFT is a member of the Actors Ath-
letlc Club. and was the winner of the 12O-yard
hurdle race at the last meeting. The hand
some cup won by Mr.. OFT is now on exhibition
at the Opera House.
THERESA VAUGHN will introduce for the
first time in Pittsburg. during the Tourists en-
gagenent new waltz song especially written
for her by the author of "SaId Pasha," en-
titled my Last Thoughts"
Little Ollie Berkley, who Is to play Little
Lord Fauntleroy" in the Australian production
of that drama, left for the Antipodes on last
Sunday. The little one was accompanied by
her mother, Mrs. Louise Dickson.
Negotiations have been concluded for E. n.
Sothern and his company to appear next
spring in Lord Chumley" at the Criterion Thea
ter, London. 1.-THE Wife" is also to be pro-
In a recent letter to his friend, Frank W.
Sanger Willie EdouIn denounces as cruel and
uncslled for the newspaper statement that his
wife, Alice Atherton, is demented. He states
that she is, on the contrary, in the very best OF
health.
THE Allegheny Coliseum has been entirely
remodeled and turned into the handsome and
commodious Worlds Museum and Theater.
Tomorrow will be its opening day. Expert
enced:gentlemen are in charge, who know how
to make such a house popular.
MISS LIZZIE EVANS follows Little Puck"
at the Bijou. This clever and persevering little
actress will appear in two new plays, namely,
"The Buckeye" and "Fine Feathers" as well
as in the old play, Our Angel" THE Buck
Eye" was written for Denman Thompson origi-
nally.
FRED WARDE comes to the Opera House
next week. HIS company will produce during
the first three nights and at the Saturday mat
inee D'Ennery's ':Mounrebank." On Thurs
day evening ''Diamon and Pythias." Friday
evening "Vfrginus," and on Saturday night
"Richard III" will be given.
A COOL policeman prevented a panic at H.
R. Jacobs Third Avenue Theater, New York,
last Saturday night While the performance
was going on, he discovered fire in the vault
under the sidewalk. Without sending out an
alarm he quietly summoned help and the
flames were extinguished with very little dam
age.
BESSIE SAMSON, who is the bright and pretty
star of Little Puck" doesn't like short skirts
1t is said that when Bessie Samson adopted the
stage as 6 profession her mother, devoted
church woman, exacted from her one promise.
This was that Bessie should never appear on
the stage in a short dress or in tights, and this
promise the little soubrette has religiously
kept. She has many times refused advantage
Gus engagements because they involved the
wearing of tights. ~ have done very well in
long dresses; am contented with the position 1
have achieved" says the charming little En-
glisn woman, land have no occasion to regret
the promise made my dear, old mamma"
MARIE PRESCOTT will appear for the first
time in her life in Pittsburg. on September O.
Her great success as Hermione and Perdita in
Winters Tale" has decided her manager Mr.
John Whiteley to make a specially of it. They
will produce it here with magnificent costumes
and beautiful dances in which Miss Prescott is
said to be remarkably graceful In Philadel-
phia last April, she received seven calls for
Perdita dance. Mr.. r. D. MacLean, her associ-
ate star, will also be seen for the first time. He
is said to be more like Forrest than any living |
actor, in size and power of voice. He is only |
30 years of age and yet for four years past |
has achieved almost Incredible success as |
Shylock, Richard III and other tragic Shakes |
III Winters Tale, AS You Like 1t, Virginius, |
and Ingomar, while in Pittsburg.
THE celebration of the one hundredth per- |
formance of "The Oolah." the burlesQue in |
which Francis Wilson and Marie Jansen have |
made a wonderful hit-and deservedly-at the |
Broadway Theater, New York, the other day, |
was marked by the superb souvenirs given. |
They were Spanish dagger-shapec paper cutters |
of solid silver. At the Casino the one hun |
dredth representation of THE Brlgands" was |
also marked by the distribution of an elegant |
souvenir, consisting of o handsome Russian |
leather and ivory card case. On one side of |
the interior is beautiful beveled plate glass. |
while she card pocket contains heavy satip
programme of the performance. On the out |
side of the case is a vignette Of Rudolph Aron-
son, and the words "Casino souvenir. One |
hundredth. The Brigands." while the reverse |
has an engraving Of the Casino building, THE |
Home of Comic Opera" This souvenir busi- |
ness must be quite an item in the expenses OF |
New York manager.
NYM CRINKLE fires some very hot-but none |
too hot-shot INTO the English melodramas in |
this weeks Dramatic Mirror. Says he: THE
crash-bang English melodrama is an invariable
quality; it never varies in thought. in method or
in purpose. A score of British melodramas are
as much alike as a score Of English landhold-
ers. who all wear the Same coats, the same
thiqk -soled shoes, the same solid bun dog re-
sp4tability. and the same invincibls deter.