Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-13
StnRe Whispers.

COLONEL MCCAULL has engaged R. F. Cot
ton to take the place of De Wolf Hopper.
FRANCIS WILSON sails for England on May
8 for a pleasure trip. His next season will
open at the Broadway Theater on August Is.
Mr.. MART. HANLY. manager for Edward
Harrigan, states that we shall soon see his star
in his well-known play sold Lavinder" at the
Bijou Theater.
DRAMATIC version of Rider Haggard's
Jess" by Eweretta Lawrence and ]. J. Bis
good, was produced at the Adelphi Theater,
London, on the 25th ult. 1t proved failure.
FAY TEMPLEToN begins her season as a star
under the direction of William Lykens August
4, at Proctor's Twenty-third Street Theater
where she is booked for an engagement of eight
weeks, opening in new comic opera.
THIS from Dunlops Stage Ne,0s: The new
Duquesne Theater, which will be erected by
David Henderson at Pittsburg, will be sit
uated on the ground floor, and in all re-
spects will be as complete as the fremont
Theater in Boston, or the Broadway in New
York.
AS was inevitable burlesque on Jeanne
d'Arc' is being prepared and will be held in
readiness for production at a London theater
simultaneously with the appearance of Sarah
Bernhardt. Florence St. John, the actress
seen here last week In Faust" will probably
play Joan.
EMILE ZoLA, who is known to have made
more by his pen than any author living, and
whose last work has reached its fifty-ifth edi.
ton, has written five plays all of which have
proved CHASTITY failures. They are: "Therese
Raquin," LES Heritiers," ''kabourdin." lie
Bouton de Rose" La Curee and Germinal."
THOMAS w. KEENE will be the next at
traction after The Wife," at the Grand
Opera House. He will present for the first
time here his latest and most successful char
Ste Of Lo9s en-
and THE Merchant OF Venice"
THE news comes from England that New
York is to have music hall on the London
plan. The site is said to be selected, and the
representative of syndicate with $500, 900
capital is in London looking up attractions.
1t is said that the entire companies of the EN-
pre and the Alhambra will come over and
alternate at the new hall.
Mr.. HENRY TALBOT. of the Lyceum Thea
ter "Wife" Company, has transferred his al
legiance from Mr.. Daniel Frohman to Mr..
Charles Frohman. and, with a number of the
latter geptleman's stock company, will open
at Proctor's Twenty-third Street Theater on
or apout September l. MI Talbot has made
success in the part of SildS Truman, in THE
Wife,"
MADAME PATTI was reported to have said
some pretty hard things of Mrs. Kendall. and
the latter by way of comment replied: Il can
scarcely believe that Madame Patti said these
harsh things of me. and rather look upon it as
the license of an overZealous reporter. l do
not know Madame Patti personally, but know
she is nice little woman and great singer"
Now Patti exclaims: Il have never in my my, life
had anything to say about Mrs. Kendall she
exclaimed. ut is falsehood, made out of
whole cloth. 1 could not speak SO meanly of
anyone" So everyone is happy.
THE Dramatic Mirror will issue the first
number of new periodical, the Dramatic
Mirror Quarterly, early next month. This
magazine will contain the dramatic essays
which have latterlY become the Mirrors first
page feature, together with certain other spe-
cial matter that it is promised will prove valu-
able to those interested in current dramatic
literature. The Quarterly will be edited by
Harrison Grey Fiske The dramatic essays
are the best contributions OF their kind ever
made to a theatrical journal, and the Mirror is
to be congratulated on its enterprise.
ROBERT MANTELL begins a weeks engage
ment at the Bijou Theater on Monday, April 2l,
when he will appear in Alexander Dumas ia
nous romantic drama, 1.-THE Corsican Broth
ers," in which he is reported to have achieved
a brilliant success. The deep, human interest
surrounding the lives of the twin brother Louis
and Fdbien del Frdncht. cannot help but prove
attractive to the play-goer, and every promi-
nent revival of this drama has met with popu-
lar approval Mr.. Mantell, in his production,
has to a certain extent copied Mr.. Henry
Irving's magnificent presentation of the play at
the Lyceum Theater in London. There is some
very fine scenery. rich costumes; and the intro
duction of specially artists in the masquerade
ball scene makes the third act one OF the most
interesting IN the play. AS both combatants
are expert swordsmen, the duel scene will be
well worth witnessing Besides an unusually
fine dramatic company. there will be large
auxiliary force employed in this production,
which promises to be memorable one in every