Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-13
The TOPICAL -TALKER.


The carnsEis Library Makes Progress
Popular Organ RsciraIs- How About
the Duauesus Theatsrs-Gessip and
Common.
7 LIBRARIAN STEVENSON, OF the Carnegie
Library, Is making good progress with the
equipment of the institution In his charge.
The formation OF library Is necessarily slow
work; It requires the greatest care, and the de-
tails OF the business Of buying books are often
bothersome. But Mr.. Stevenson is proceeding
methodically and intelligently with his task,
and the library bids fair to have favorable
beginning. The periodical literature which Is
already at the disposal Of the public attracts
larger numbers every day to the library. IT'S
pleasant to hear that the Library Committee
Of Councils is giving Mr.. Stevenson all the as
sistance they can.
THE Saturday organ recitals In the Carnegie
Music Hall are evidently appreciated. Yes
terday afternoon the hall was pretty nearly
full-the audience being almost entirely COM
posed of ladies and children. 1t was pleasantly
cool on the floor Of the hail. but rather warm
In the gallery. Mr.. Leonard Wales, the inde-
fatigable organist, must have found it pretty
hotwork between keys, stops and pedals
The audience showed truly catholic. .consid-
GRAFTON of the musical numbers. The air Of
rapt attention which prevailed even among
the small children could not be excelled ia
Boston. The influence of these organ recitals
is certainly good, and shonld under favorable
conditions materially enlarge the musical con-
stituency Of Allegheny.
TIE uncomfortable feature of the Duquesne
theater project is that it is necessary to In
quire about twice q week If it has climbed the
oir ha mas
sentatives OF Mr.. David Henderson have said
emphatIcally that the theater is to be built as
planned and promised. At the same time there
is no tangible evidence that work Of tearing
out and remodeling the interior Of the J ack-
man building is under way. The place is shut
up and wears the air Of mausoleum rather
than theater.
II the assertions Of reliable men and the
statements in the New York papers may be
trusted Manager Henderson has booked q
strong line of attractions for this
season, beginning in the first week
in October with the Emma Juch
Grand Opera Company. That the Duquesne
theater will not be built by October or No
vember ], am not prepared to say. Every
theater-goer in Pittsburg hopes It will be, and
it would be great satisfaction to the public II
Manager David Henderson would make q clear
and positive statement Of his intentions in the
matter.
prTTsBURa Is spt the only city that has IN
prospectu any humber Of new theaters
They are springing up in all the Western cities
like plantains in o lawn. New York will have
I'VE wholly new theaters next season-Oscar
Hammerstein's Murray Hill Thsater, on Forty
second street; Ed. Harrigan's new house, on
Thrty-ffth street; the Columbus, on West One
o., ~, anuta
Gaiety, which was Dockstader's old theater,
but which the Professor has made entirely new
and the new Madison Square Garden Theater.
Brooklyn-really part Of the great mstropo.
lis-will have two new theatera
TIE "United States Mail" George o. Jenks
farce comedy, Is coming out again this
season under the bost Of auspices. Mr.. jerks
has rewritten tho last act, which was rathor
weak, In tho original production, and touched
up the whole work IN many places. No money
will bo spared to make II q thing Of beauty 30
far 40 costumes 90, and II is delightfully."- and
wonderfully certain that thero 10 plenty OF
money on hand for this purpose.
Tho ~. 8. Mall will begin It's season ut the
Chestnut Street Theater, Philadelphia, Sop.
tember !. with o cast including the fve we'll.
known comedians, Frank David, Sam Reed,
Ed J. Connolly, Billy Robinson and Ed Heron,
and Miss Georgie Parker, Miss Maggie Field
Ing Miss Belle Lynn, Master Harry Lynn, Miss
Marie Bockei and Mss Virginia Ross.
THOSE who arc enamored NJ tank plays
should begin 70 save up their money to buy
bouquets for ono that 10 promised US during
the coming season. am informed that the
play is called "Tha Oath" A horse appears IN
A.. ANl.r hfo rfA fnfn fan nf
water. A large dog appears, bites the horse.
who disappears, and then the dog, not the
horse, plunges into the tank and rescues the
man. The lucky owners Of this exquisite
dramatic work have not been revealed to me,
but the enterprising managers who carried "A
Dark Secret" all over the country concealed in
o tank should obtain "The Oath" Perhaps 1t
is hardly fair to say so. but the idiocy Of "The
Oath" at first blush appears to exceed the
lunacy of "a Dark Secret" And that is saying
Q great deal. HEPBURN JOHNS.