Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-12

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R,,o,r Tur.rrR i'My Aunt Bridget"
GRAND OPERA HoUsE....Pa Pauline Hall opera 20.
WILLIAMS, ACADEMY Hills NoVeltles
HARRIS s'THEATER....... dearIs VI NC"
DAVIS FIFTH AVE. MUSEUM. ...Curiosines E.o' 1.O
WORLDS MUSEUM. ..Curiosi'ies' A's'
The above are tn. theatrical attractions for
this week.
Manager Harry Williams got through his
fiery ordeal this week all right, and Williams
Orr's Minstrels played out the balance OF the
week in the Central Rink to large audiences.
AS a matter Of fact, the rink being good deal
larger than the scorched Academy, Mr.. Will
Jams was compensated to some extent for his
loss by fire and water by the increased receipts
at his temporary home. The Academy Will Do
open again tomorrow week, October ~.
Talking of the Academy it is worth Manager
Williams while to think about giving the pub,
lie larger variety theater. 1t is an accepted
fact that most of the time it is useless to go to
the Academy after o'clock, for all the seats
are sold by that time and standing room Is
mighty scarce as well. The popularity OF the
Academy has never been SO great as 1t Is this
season, and the demand for good variety per-
formances is increasing all the time. There IS
not room for two variety theaters nere-one
reason for this being that there are not enough
first-elass vaudeville combinations on the road
but there is a decided demand for larger
variety theater than the Academy.
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Ted Marks Internationals gave the best and
cleanest variety performance at the Grand
Opera House this week that has been seen here
in years. In some features the performance
could not possibly be more entertaining. The
imitation of monkeys given by Jaco and Coco
is wonderfully true to lite, and the Avolos are
the most agile athletes of juvenile years we
have ever seen. The Internationals drew large
audiences, it is pleasant to note, and Mr.. Marks
deserves especial credit for arranging pro-
gramme SO free from ofense and vulgarity of
any kind. That it is possible to give variety
performance that shall be absolutely free from
Objectionable suggestions and that shall at the
same time please the regular patrons OF
vaudeville, MI. Marks has proven.
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The books of Jerome K. Jerome do not en-
courage one to expect much from his plays,
that's fact. Such tasteless, cooked-over lit
erary hash as ''The Idle Thoughts of an Idle
Fellow" would indicate poverty of brain and
an absence of honesty in the author and GER
tainly suggest very slight dramatic power in
his pen. But. all the same new plays by
jerome K. Jerome are announced on all sides,
and curious to say most of them are meeting
with success. MIR. A. P. Dunlop, writing to
THE DISPATCH of the latest of Mr.. Jerome's
plays, says: ION Tuesday Mr.. Augustin Daily
began his regular season. at Days Theater,
with Jerome K. Jeromes new comedy, New
Lamps for Old" When the curtain went up
Me- Frederick Bond was discovered sitting in
one corner of the stage. He was reading
book, which he at once referred TO as the wick
edest book he ever read. voice in the gallery
Immediately called out, "Oh, what is itf' The
vast audience roared with laughter and ap-
plause, and this was the keynote of the even
ing"
One of the few genuine successes, artistic
and financial, this season seems to be Frederick
Warde's new Shakespearian revival with Mrs.
ID. P. Bowers in "Henry Will" 1t is about 16
years since Edwin Booth produced Shake
speare's Henry VIII" He always played
Cardinal WolSeV, the character Frederick
Warde is now assuming. But Charlotte Cush-
man often acted Queen katherine one night
and Cardinal WoLsey the next Mr.. Warde as
Cardinal Wolsey and Mrs. Bowers as Queen
Katherine. have been praised almost extrava-
gantly wherever they have played.
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Joseph Arthur, who wrote drama very sue
cessfully around a fire engine, has had equal
success in composing play around buzz saw.
Mr.. Arthur's new play is called blue Jeans"
A New York correspondent writes me that
"Blue Jeans" is picture of rural life in In
diana, and has a sawmill situation that alone
would carry it to success. Robert RiLliGrd the
hero is knocked insensible near sawmill. The
villain of the play picks him up and places him
upon long board lying on the bench of one of
the big buzz saws in the mill. He then sets the
machinery going and pushes the end of the
long board upon the Wheel The rapidly in
creasing teeth of the buzz saw wheezes around.
eats into the board and throws sawdust upon
Mr.. RiLliarGs quickly approaching body.
When he Is within two inches of the ugly look
ing teeth Of the saw, and the goose flesh is
creeping down the backs of the audience, Jen-
ME Yeanldns breaks into the sawmil raises up
the PROSTATE form of RiIliard. and drags his
life, and prevent the gallery from jumping
upon the stage. "Blue Jeans" is cleverly staged,
excellently acted, and good for as long a run as
Mr. Arthur's other play. "a Still Alarm"
In the summer Of 1855. in the lobby of the
Princess Theater, in London, where the fire
play, THE Still Alarm" was playing at the
time Mr.. Arthur revealed to me the buzz saw
germ that has developed into "Blue Jeans"
All he had in his minds eye then was the buzz
saw and the thrilling situation which is de-
will upset the precedents in the case and profit
by monkeying with the buzz saw.
The comic opera, 'Amorita," which Miss
Pauline Hall will prodncs here tomorrow
night, was played at the Bijou IN the summer
of 1887 by the Conrled and Herman Opera Com
pany. Perhaps you remember that very frosty
season of light opera. "Amorita" was intro
duceH after the "Flidermans" had fallen very
fat. Mile. Bianchi was the Angeto-the part
to be assumed by Pauline Hall on this occa-
sion-and made a great hit in it. BanchIs
singing was the great feature of the engage
ment, and Pittsburgers would like to hear her
sweet cultivated and powerful soprano again.
AS far as my remembrance goes "Amorita" was
q melodious little opera with a few numbers
of marked beauty, and mild vein of humor.
HEPBURN JOHNS.