Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-23

Mathers management on account Of Ill health
and will be succeeded by 7. Henry French, OF
New York. The week of December has been
cancelled and the company will rehearse
| Jeanne DArc," which, MT. French says, is to
be elaDorately produced by Miss Mather.
THE new stock system in New york, OF
rather the revival of the old stock system, at
several of our leading theaters is not altogether
| bad thing for the bes. actors and actresses.
| Men like Willard. at Palmer's and Stoddard,
the leading man at Madison Square, get
high salarIes-it is said 81. 900 week. Certain
| 1t is that such actors are worth the money, II
| they get it. Other members of Madison
Square and the Lyceum draw correspondingly
| large salaries.
| MARCUS MAYER and Ben Stern are keeping
very quie: on the subject Of the Pauline Hall
| desertion. It is said that they will probably
allow her to go to the end of her rope. Messrs.
| Mayer and Stern are also the managers Of
| MISS Agnes huntington, who is great sue
cess. Miss Hall is now being managed by w.
w. Tillotson, although it is claimed that her
contract with Mayer and Stern still holds good
! Mr.. Stern arrived in the city yesterday from
Boston.
LAURA MOORE, who plays the part Of Litlitd
| in Francis Wilson's "Merry Monarch" Com
pany, was quietly married November 10 at
Bishop Cheney's residence, Chicago, to Elna-
than Snyder, one of the society hons of WASH
ington. The groom is the son of b. P: SNYDER.
President of the National Savings Bank at
Washington. The bride has been with Come
dian Wilson for several seasons, and the Merry
Monarch" Company will now lose one OF its best
singers and favorite member.
CLYDE FIroH's new play for Rosina Vokes
is called Frederick Lemaitre." and is founded
on single incident in the life of that master Of
stage art. Lem falls in love with girl.
beautiful, but of no mental capacity. He tries
to teach her his art. but in doing so gets dis
gusted at her inability to learn At first she
N a ter hpinp n
slant association with him and seeing him act
daily, she becomes fascinated. But by this
time Lensditre has cooled and no longer cares.
She sees it and dies of a broken heart. Out of
this thread Mr.. Fitch has woven a one-act
piece.
A RATHER amusing story is told of Miss
Florence Elmore otherwise Margaret Brad
ford, now of the money Mad" company. Miss
Elmore-Bradford decided to have an under
study, and an actress was sent to her to apply
for the position. II need an understudy" said
the lady to the applicant "Of course you un-
derstand that shall play when and where I
choose. reserve that right In certain towns,
however, you shall appear Your salary will
be $50 per week." The actress was overjoyed.
Then 1t occurred to her to go into details.
"And when you play" she asked, what will
my salary be?' "On those occasions your
salary will be nothing"
NEW YORK correspondent of THE DIS
PATCH writes: A row has occurred within the
Clemenceau Case" which was reproduced at
the Standard last week, but which was fired
out of that tbeater early in this. AS predicted
in this column, THE Clemenceau Case" as a
legitimate play does not merit production any
where. A piece which depends upon the pub.
lie for support, almost solely by the indecent
exposure of a woman. is in the nature of
things, liable to be sat upon by any respectable
community. l understand that Business Man.
ager Brady, recently connected with The
Whirlwind," has purchased all right and title
in The Clemenceau Case" with the costumes,
scenery and other properties at a nominal fig
ure. Btady says that he will bring it out
shortly in some other metropolitan playhouse;
but that is a matter which will be carefully con-
sidered by the lessees of such theater. Mr..
Hill now realizes that greater damage was done
to the Standard by the production of this play
there than the mere money value of the rental.
He was therefore quick to seize upon the first
infraction of the terms of the contract to land
the piece on the outside.