Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-09
Stage Whlanern.

MRS. LANGTRY, who was reported very Ill in
London at one time last week, is now said to be
convalescent.
EDWIN BOOTH and Lawrence Barrett are tc
begin their third joint starring tour early in
October next
MARGARET MATTER has given $4,000 fol
Jules Barbier's play, Joan d'Arc," in which
Sarah Bernhardt has made great success.
Mr. D. l. MORGAN. the popular young come
dian Of Allegheny, has received nattering Offer
from the manager of 1.-THE Fakir" company,
which has just left the Bijou Theater.
AT the Bijou this week Mr.. John Butler will
play the part Of the SPY in 'Held by the Enc.
my" for the first time in this city, He has
made more of the part than any Of his prede-
cessors.
HAMLN's Farce Comedy Company will pre-.
sent ''The Fakir" in Wheeling on Monday;
East Liverpool, Tuesday; McKeesport, Wednes.
day; Connellsville, Thursday; Rochester, Fri.
days Altoona, Saturday.
Miss ROSE CoGHLAN makes her first ap.
pearance in Pittsburg as a star March 10. She
is to play in this city for one week, during
which she will be seen in "Jocelyn," "Peg
WofHngton'' and Forget Ne Not"
LAST Saturday night after several years Of
service, Mr.. E. D. Price resigned his position as
the manager Of Richard Mansfield. He will
now devote his entire time to the business and
professional affairs of Mrs. Leslie Carter, whose
starring tour next season will be made under
his direction.
DE WOLF HOPPER appears In Baltimore next
week with the McCaull Opera Company, and on
Sunday, February 16, he will hear for the first
time the new comic opera "Castles In the Air, -
in which he and his own company are to appear
May 8 at the Broadway Theater, New York.
The preparations for the production of the
opera are going on with great effect and 1t is
expected that the De Wolf Hopper Opera
Bouffe Company will play. one Of the most sue
cessful light opera engagements ever known in
New York City.
THE Henderson "Gondolier" Company made
an emphatic hit on Monday at the Chicago
Opera House. The opera was done in splendid
style by the following cast: The Duke, W. &.
Daboll; LUiz, Willett Seaman Jr.; Don AIhan.
bra del Botero, Joseph Frankau; Marco Pal
nfert Robert Dunbari Giuseppe PGlznierf,
ceSco Harry W. Hall; Gtorgio, Charles Vaughn;
Anntbdle, II. w. Groesbeck; the Duchess, Fan.
ME Edwards; Cdsildd, Addie Cora Reed; GIan-
eta, Lilly Post; IesS0. Kate Alma; FSdmettu.
Helen Pevear; VittortG, Susie Winner; Gfuli0,
Rose 'arew: f1ez, Dora Scott. Il win be seen
in Pirtsburg in March.
Mr.. JOSEPH HAwoRTH Is playing the most
successful engagement Of his career in Boston.
His paul Kauvar" has set Boston mad On
the opening night the theater was packed from
pit to dome. Among the audience were Gov.
ernor Brackett, Mayor Hart Judge Charles
Levi Woodbury., Rev. Minot Savage. John
Boyle 0'Reilley Hon. P. A. Collins, Exalted
Ruler Donneliy, of the Elks and many others
The theater was decorated with flags and
bunting. At the conclusion of the fourth act
Mr.. Haworth was compelled TO respond to calls
for q speech. Later in the evening he was
banqueted at the Parker House BY over 100
solid business men Of the Hub representing all
professions Mr. Haworth and paul KauVars,
will soon be seen az the Bijou Theater.
NINE times out of ten, says Max o'Rell in
the Mirror, the last act Of an English play Ii
the poorest This Is to be accounted for. I be-
ieve, in the following manner: Firstly, the
play must be over at IL O'Clock; secondly, it
must have happy ending, whether 1t should
be natural that 1t be so or not So, as the cur.
tain rises on the last act the author says to the
audience: Ladies and gentlemen. ir 10 now
o'clock as advertised. We will therefore now
proceed to wind up this business with as much
rapidity as We can" And, after succeeding in
making his hero 90 through succession of
halr-breadth escapes, the author proceeds to
dispose Of the villain. The detectives arrive
and of course as the aboVe-named villain quite
expected them. he marches of to meet his fate
without even lifting his eyebrows. Villainy &
no sooner punished than virtue comes In for its
reward. In the twinkltng Of an eve, everything
Is set right. and the happy lovers married.
THREE of the most stalwart and athletic Az
tors on the stage wear wigs. Two of them.
Barrymore and Mantell, have delicate toupees
which cover Q forehead whose abnormal height
Is detrimental to beauty. The third, De Wolf
Hopper, has head thar Ia entirely denudod of
hair and he wears wig for general decorative
purposes. OF the leading men, Barrymore in
the perpetual source OF wonder to his friends.
He does not look q day more than q years OF
age of the stage, and he Is the picture OF
fresh-colored, viYRcious and alert college ath-
lete. Nevertheless, Mr.. Barrymore won the
Hrst prize in boxing at Oxford College in En-.
Gland more than 20 years ago. Twenty years
added to any collegian's life il apt to lift him
above 26 years Of age. Barrymore's remarkable
youthful appearance is attributed to his early
athletic training and his superbp physique. Man.
tel Is more apt 20 pose than any Of the leading
mdn since Bellew left but he Is . big muscular
anf powerfully built man. In no sense, how