Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-01
THE TOPICAL TALKER.
A Voyage on the Wild Ohio COmmemOrated
Uncle Tom in EngIand-NIr. Mansfield

| A Voyage on ths Wild Ohio COmmemOFated
Uncle Tom in EngIand-DTr. Mansfield
Again Humpbnck.
WHEN May put a nice clean dress on nature
" last year, party of Pittsburg ladies, l
believe there was one more than two dozen of
them. took passage on the steamer Scotia and
sailed away down the Ohio. Their destination
was Cincinnati and they came back to Pitts
burg on the Scotia's return trip. They had
variegated and halcyon time-though no gen.
tlemen were of the party. Such remarkable
success in touring suggested that some souv-
euir- of the first voyage of the 'Scouans" as
they called themselves, should be manufac-
tured. This souvenir was ready for distribu-
tion at the beginning of the year. and one lies
before me now.
1t is merrily written journal of the voyage
got up by Mrs. Rosa Shafer, with an appendix
of poems by Mrs. Shafer and Mrs. ]. R. Dar-
ragh. Printed handsomely on single sheets of
thick paper, and encased in covers painted in
water-color floral designs-the work OF Miss
Mary D. Watson and Mrs. z G. Godfrey-the
souvenir is a mighty pretty thing. Other voy-
ages are likely to be made by the same fair
band this spring.
H. ROWE. the veteran actor, has been re-
j minded of a trip he made to England with
pany, by the presence of Miss Marie Bates In
"The White Slave'' at the Bijou Theater.
Said he yesterday: There is lady at the
Bijou this week in the White Slave who went
to Europe with the same company belonged
to-Marie Bates, she was the Topsy of our
cast. in Uncle Toms Cabin under Jarrett d
Palmers management in 1878. By the way the
first Friday night in London the Prince and
Princess of Wales were IN box; also the King
and Queen of Denmark and the young prince.
During the plantation scene in the nth act
Albert Edward got up on his feet and clapping
his hands kept time with the 1S0 colored people
who were singing jubilees, and dancing break
downs After the act was over His Royal High
ness came back on the stage and had chat
with Martha Washington, the leading colored
shouter of the opera. In fact he made himself
agreeable to all the colored people but gave the
white trash wide BERTH Pony Moore, the
Christy minstrel man, hobnobbed with Horace
Weston, our banjo player, and made
him present Of beautiful
knife. There's no getting out of it the colored
people were the attraction. One of the London
papers called our show "A white kite with
black tail, and that was about the way of it.
The colored artists felt it, too, for they put on
lots of airs. But, oh, what a fall Two years
afterward met a lot of them on Coney Island
boat doing the free and easy business, and pass
ing around the hatp'
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A FTER playing Richard III. and others Of
the highest legitimate roles, it is something
of descent for MIR. Mansfield to appear in a
play by those arch sinners in the dried-and-dead
melodrama line, Messrs. George R. simms and
Henry Petit. But New York correspondent
writes me:
Master and Man. drama in four acts by
6. r. Sinms and Henry Petit, which is owned
for this country by T. Henry French, will be
produced by Richard Mansfield at Palmer'B
Theater next Monday night The scenes of
the new play are laid in a manufacturing town
in Lancashire. England, and the story relates
to the loves and trials of Jack Walton, young
engineer, and Hester 1hor1lbury. village
school mistress. Mr.. Mansfield will be seen as
RWnlpy Logan a humpback, a strong charac-
ter part that will afford him many opportuni-
ties to display his ability. Manager French is
having entirely new scenery painted for the
production, and one scene, representing an
iron foundry in full blast, will be decidedly
realistic"
One thing is clear, Mr.. Mansfeld's experience
as Richard III has set him in love with hump
backs.