Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-09

reOrganlZeQ and TO vast advantage IN cnOTuS
and orchestra. SO it is said. Already the casts
were as strong as they could well be made,
therefore the list of principals has been
changed but little from that of last year. 1t
includes Abbott, Annandale, Mirella, Monte
griffo, Michalena, Pruette. Broderick, Allen,
Ready, Karl (Richard), and Carl Martens.
Stage Whispers.
Mr.. HENRY e. ABBEY says he will not
bring suit against Miss MaryAnderson, and that
their differences will be settled amicably.
THERE appears to be no truth in the report
that Henry E. Dixey and Richard Golden are
to star IN conjunction in the near future.
FRANK DAVID has left the D'Oyley Carte
'Gondoliers'' Company. His part is taken by
Henry Lytton, brought over to play the part.
NJ. b. LEAvITT's spectacular production,
1.-THE Spider and Fly" is said to be making a
terrific hit in the West 1t will be seen here
soon.
MRS. FRANK LESLIE will deliver series of
20 lectures in the principal Western cities next
fall under the management of ID. b. Thearle
and Fred Pelham, of Chicago.
A CHICAGO newspaper says: Two very
handsome sets of scenery are playing THE
Mikado' at the Auditorium this week. The
scenery is badly supported by large CON-
pany."
EMMA V. SHERIDAN, who writes for THE
forts OF Home' at the Boston Museum on Mon
day night and her performance is highly
praised by the local papers,
WHEN in Baltimore Edwin Booth always
visits his old school teacher. He was educated
in Belair, Hartford county, Nd, and the old
school still stands. Iu several places in the
desks and walls the initials Z. b. are cut in the
workwork.
NINE. MoDJEsKA appeared with Booth in
D.I.; ,,ont Ca t1,o
time since she sprained her ankle on the stage
of the Academy of Music, Brooklyn, three
weeks ago. She played OpheLid, and was en-
Enthusiastically received.
RICHARD GoLDEN'S present season in "Old
Jed Prouty" began in March 1889, and will not
close until June next, stretch of 90 consecu-
tive weeks. His succeeding season is to open
early in August following, and perhaps run Tor
two years without intermission.
THE big Auditorium in Chicago is SO acting
like circus upon the regular theaters there
that the latter are quite sorry now that New
York did not get the elephantine fair of '92.
The Chicago Opera House and the Standard
are the only ones holding their own.
MIR. LAWRENCE BARRETT is spending sew
eral weeks in the South of France. He writes
to friends in New York that he is IN excellent
health and spirits, and will return from Europe
about May l. when active preparations for his
next tour with Edwin Booth will begin.
MEssRs R. NJ. GULIcK & Co. have some
splendid attractions to offer for the spring sea-
son, among them are "The Twelve Tempta-
tions," THE Spider and Fly" "Mr. Barnes of
New York." Robert Mantell in "Corsican
Brothers" Two Old Cronies,' and 'Tne Gal
ley Slave"
GEORGE EDwARDEs' original London Gaiety
Company, comprising 13O people. will shortly
appear at the Grand Opera House, presenting
Faust Up to Date" 1t is claimed this is the
foremost burlesque organization of the world.
The tour is under the direction of Abbey,
Schoetfel Grau.
DR.. BILL, the comedy, the rights of which
for this country have been secured by T. Henry
French, is meeting with great favor in London.
The Prince of Wales is said to have almost
fallen into convulslons laughing at it, and after
the performance he is reported to have sent for
Fred Terry and complimented him on his
acting.
ROSE CoGHLAN has been seen during this,
her second week, at the Fourteenth Street
Theater in New York. in Peg Wellington" and
interpolated a minuet, danced during the sup
per scene. 1t was peculiar and graceful varia-
tion from the usual movement of the minnet,
and Miss Rose Coghlan and John T. Sullivan,
the latter as Commander, were captivating fig
ures in it.
JOSEPH JE FFERsoN contributes most in
teresting installment of his autobiography to
The accompanying character portraits include
Mr.. Jefferson as DR.. Pdngloss in "The Heir at
Law" as asa Prenchdrd in "Our German
Cousin" as NeUmdn NO0gs IN Nicholas
Nickleby," as Caleb Ptunn1er in THE Cricket
on the Hearth" and as Salem Scudder in .'The
Octoroon."
SIXTEEN heavy and massive stage pictures,
moving panorama 400 feet long, and the gor-
geous transformation scene, the work of
Messrs. Charles s. Getz, Haley Merry and
Hugh L. Reid. comprise the scenic effects in
troduced in the Twelve Temptations" and
road cars, the aggregate weight of the scenery
being 26 tons. This magnificent spectacle will be
seen at the Bijou shortly.
THE ExILEs," one of the most powerful
dramas that Sardou ever produced, is to be the
attraction at the Grand Opera House for a
week, commencing with a matinee March II.
Tne story of the play, which is said to be
romantic and exciting, treats of Russian life
and the terrors of Siberia, now especially inter-
estng on account of the exposure recently
made by George Kennan. the explorer and
lecturer, of the Inhuman crueties practiced by
order of the autocracy in that ice-bound land
D. Henderson. manager of the Chicago Opera
House, telegraphs to Manager Gulick that the
"Gondoliers' was played to immense audiences
for the past six weeks. and appears to be des-
tined to become another "Mikado" in point of
popularity. Manager Henderson has the right
of the opera for all territory west of and in
cluding Pittsburg. 1t has been played to
crowded and enthusiastic audiences in Chi
cago, St. Paul. Minneapolis and Milwaukee
The company numbers rs people, and the
whole organization left last night on a special
train for Pittsburg.
MISS MARIE HALToN, who will be remem
bered as one of the Casino stars in New York,
that unexpectedly left for Europe some months
since, has secured all the American rights of
Audran's opera, la Cigale." She is at present
in London, where she will engage a company
sailing from Havre April s. Her leading man is
M. Tauffenburger, who was in this country a
few years ago with Mr.. Maurice Grau. Miss
Halton, of course will sing the leading part in
the opera, which is to be produced in New York
about Nav IL. This is if Mr. Rudolph Aronson
will permit her.
A TELEGRAM from New York York saws:
Judge DAILY, in the Court of Common Pleas. to-
day granted Author and playwright Edward
II, Housey an injunction restraining Samuel
s. Clemmens mark Twain). Mrs. Abbey Sage
Richardson and Daniel Frohman from pro-
ducing the "Prince and Pauper." Housey
claimed to have had a contract with Clemmens
to dramatize the book, and did SO at the time
Clemmens made an arrangement with Mrs
Richardson and authorizing her version and
he claimed it to bel an infringement on his own
dramatization and that some parts of it were
based on his own suggestions to Clemmens
EVERY time Sydney Rosenfeld manages
says Dunlops Stage Ne,Os a company each in
dividual member becomes wild with the desire
to present him with valuable gold chain, a
watch or a locket When he took "The
Mikado" to Chicago, on S35, the company pre-
sented him with watch and chain, which Sgd
ney paid for himself, and which he left a week
afterward at the Grand Opera House in Mil
waukee for money borrowed. He arranged just
such a1ittle farce at the Standard Theater last
week when he presented himself with watch