Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-21
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salary ever paid stock company leading man,
| 500 a week.
PLEASURE seekers at holiday time will be
gladto hear that they can take in Harry Davis
Fifth avenue Museum from $3.50 A. II. until
1870 P. NJ.
"ALL THE COMFORTS OF HoME,p Gillette's
very successful farce comedy, will follow Bar
rett at the Duquesne Theater. 1t had brill
liant run in New York.
MISS CLARA l. DAWES made a very favor
able impression by her recitatons atthe Sc
wickly Opera House on Thursday night All
her recitations brought her recalls.
MARION MANoLA has been engaged by
Horace Sedser to take the leading part in the
new opera, "The Rose and the Ring" at the
Prince of Wales Theater in London. Jack
Mason will probably become member OF
Harry Lees Monte Cristo" company at the
Avenue Theater. zt
OF Locke & Davis many enterprises, Nero"
is the only one that has paid profit. The Do
Wolf Hopper Opera Company has pulled
through without loss, but ''The Shatchen," the
Minnie Palmer Company and the Emma juch
Opera Company have heavily depleted the
pockets of the Napoleonic Locke and the
''bustling" Davis.
FREDERICK WARDE, the tragedian, has con-
tracted with Henry Guy Carleton for his ro-
mantle drama entitled The Lions Mouth" "
and will give its initial production in San Fran
| cisco March l6 1.-The Lions Mouth is written
| in blank verse and is pronounced by those who
| have read it 10 be fully equal i'll dicton to the
authors first tragedy. ''Memnon." while sur
passing it in human interest and dramatic in
cident.
NYM CRINKLE says that the robustschool is
dying out The Marlowes, the Sydney Arm
| strongs. the Gales. are brainy girls They are
not ashamed to be well bred. They think.
Miss Seligman stands midway between the old
and the new and is content 10 feel. Some of
| frfor nfNea Th1f
Mather never heard. They listen to voices like
Joan. but no one else can hear them until they
are interpreted. -..--
DoRE DAVIDSON and Ramie Austen have
Just purchased a new play entitled Green
Lights" an intensely thrilling melodrama of
New York life the author of which is MI.
Oliver North which will be produced in con-
junction with their thoroughly successful
drama Guilty Without Crime" by strong
company, carefully selected and especially
adapted to both plays. The new piece will be
presented with elaborate enecI and careful
attention to detail.
The Christmas number of the Dramatic
Mirror is a beauty from cover to cover. The
covers indeed. are not the least artistic part
of the publication, for they contain illustra-
tions in colors of very striking character. The
articles, contributed almost entirely by we'll
known actors, are in many cases very clever,
and there are many good illustrations chiefly
well-executed portraits of leading people in the
profession. 1t is number of which Editor
Fiske may well be proud.
AUGUsTIN DAILY was dramatic critic and
playwright before he became the manager of
theater. A. NJ. Palmer was a librarian 20 years
ago. E. G. Gilmore was in the hotel business
aud will be remembered by the older patrons
of the St. Nicholas and Metropolitan. T.
Henry French is now and was a publisher of
plays before his name became connected with
the management of companies. Daniel
.ul,N
went on vacation Is years ago
and has not yet returned to his desk. Frank
w. Sanger was in wholesale business until he
was thrown upon the cold world through fall
ure, ]. NJ. Hill was in the retail clothing busi-
ness and was forced into theatrical manage
ment to protect himself from loss. H. G.
Miner was prescription clerk in drug store
before he ever thought of Jheatricals. Tony
Pastor was a clown in a circus before he made
his popular hit as singer on the variety stage,
thence to success and management. Rudolph
Aronson was a musician and leader of an or
chestra before the Casino was what tits.
AwRITER in the New York Press has been
peeping into actresses homes. She says tina.
Lillian Russelrs bedroom is a bower dainty
and exquisite enough for Queen Titania her.
self. Everything is soft and downy, dainty
and costly. Every appliance that ease, wealth,
luxury or self-InduIgence can suggest, for per-
sonal comfort and convenience, is to be found
in this pretty room. l had nearly forgotten the
most beautiful thing (barring Miss Russell
herself) in the whole drawing room. 1t is the
white and gold piano. which adorns one corner.
1t is covered with garlands of roses tied with
true lovers knots. all of FURNISHED gold in
high relief, and upon the front of it are
painted the most lovely Vatican scenes. each
as beautiful as an ivory miniature. If Miss
Russell likes you very much perhaps she will
seat herself on the resplendent gold embroid-
cred piano stool and sing Dear Heart to you
she alone can singit Everywhere about the
house are pictures of Baby Lillian, the pretty
little creature who calls the larger Lillian
mother" The wee lass is very wnsome and
grows every day more and more like her
mamma.