Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-04
Stnge Whispers.

| extorted praise from everyone eainer IN the
| season.
| stnee whispers.
j. H. GILMORE and Domnick Murray are
starring in Master and Man" They will be
seen ere long in this city.
MRS. JOHN DREW, Viola Allen, Frederick
Paulding and George Denham have been re.
| engaged for the next tour of the jefferson
Florence Comedy Company, beginning in oc-
| tober.
HELEN DAUvRAY-WARD has announced
that she will certainly return to the stage next
season. II her new play, 'The Whirlwind," is
not successful, Zone of Our Girls" will be again
| taken up.
ANNA BOYD. the burlesque actress, says she
is tired of tights, and will star next season in
| comedy drama written by Franklin File and
Gay Greene. w. W. Tillottson, will. OF course,
| be the manager.
MISS MOLLY BEUcHLER, the rising young
actress, and a member of the Oliver Byron
combination, has arrived home and will spend
| the summer with her parents in Allegheny.
The company closed its season on Saturday
| night.
MooLEY, the COW in .'The County Fair" was
taken i'll few evenings ago, and her under.
study (from New Jersey took the part on short
| notice. Several foreign mannerlsms were no
ticed in her acting, but otherwise she scored a
success
MAJOR CHARLES RICE was in New York
during the week, as martial, as kindly and as
philosophical as ever. Business is simply i'm
mense with "McCarthy's Mishaps," and the
gallant Mage" wears an even more genial
smile than usual.
c. w. CoULDocK, the veteran actor, will join
Joseph Jefferson and his party in their annual
piscatorial expedition to Buzzards' Bay, near
which Jefferson's new house will be finished in
June. Mr.. Couldock has finished his engage
ment with ''The Great Metropolis" " and is at
liberty for next season.
MANAGER CHARLES B. JEFFERSON is at
work perfecting a novelty IN the way of
scenery. 1t is snowstorm, to be used in con-
junction with the exciting tank of real water in
"a Dark Secret" The snow falls in heavy
fakes and as it strikes the water merges into
solid cake of ice, on which team Of horses
cross with merry sleighing party.
NEXT season Mr.. Lawrence Barrett will be
seen in an elaborate and costly production of
an original historical play called "a Beckett"
of the great Catholic Archbishop. The new
play is described another "Richeleu," sew
eral of the scenes being as strong as the fourth
act of that famous play. Mr.. Barrett will, OF
course, act the title part
MAUDE GRANGER begins her spring season
at the New National Theater. Washington. to-
morrow night. She will present Mrs. Lucy
Hcoper's new play Inherited" which was
originally brought out in Paris last winter at
the Theater de EApplication. and was so
warmly applauded by the French critics. w. M.
W1kison, for three years business manager for
Robert Downing, and who this season managed
the American tour of William Terriss and Miss
Millward, will be Miss Changers manager.
TooLE, the English comedian. tells of
Sothern: HE was the most amusing creature
on earth. You remember that absurd trick of
his when he asked so people to supper, and
AooI, IlfA hor,
to ask him to be SO good as to say grace, as the
chairman was unavoidably prevented from at
tending the dinner. The faces of those so men
as they rose i'll body, at the tap on the table,
which Sothern had severally informed them
was to be the signal for grace, must have been
a sight indeedF'
CHARLES MCCARTHY will appear in his
celebrated comedy drama, Zone of the Bravest,"
the week of May IL at the Bijou. The piece is
a story of New York life, and while it has it's
serious aspects there is a rich vein of comedy
running through the entire play. The situa-
tions are thrilling and follow each other in
rapid succession. The fire scene in the second
act is a wonderful feature, handsome fire en-
gine drawn by two horses is very effective. The
company is said to be good one, and the
specialties are very taking.
THE shelves of the library in the Players
Club now contain the books left by the late
John Gilbert. They were presented to the club
by Mrs. Gilbert, and number between $50 and
800 volumes All of the books relate to the
drama, and they form a very good history of
the stage up to date. Many of the books are
valuable for reference. In the collection are a
number of old and valuable play bills many Of
them dating back to the early part of the
century. The books are on the east side of the
library and face those given to the club by Mr..
Lawrence Barrett
THAT "Old Jed Prouty" stage-coach-full-o
advance-agents, on Richard Golden's present
Moip f0ttr fnd IN ha In
stuck in the mud of avengeful Maine creek.
All of the coach. from the wheel.hubs down, is
said to be out of mortal sight. The 'full-of-
advance-agents' were happily rescued with
clotheslines. broad planks and the milk of
human kindness. A 40foot advertising car of
the Maine Central Railroad has been sub
stituted by Manager MacGeachy for the over
ambitious coach. and the "full-of-advance-
agents. are once more merTily on the rampage
with their inexhaustible paste and huzzas for
"Old Jed"
GEORGE R. SIMS sums up in the Referee the
result of the much vaunted British drama as
per the actual playbills in London. They are
as follows: "Drury Lane. Paul Kauvar' (an-
nounced) drama. from America; Haymarket,
Village Priest drama, from France; Princess
(aunounced), Old Homestead from America.
or 'Theodora,' from France: Comedy, Pink
Dominos,' from France; Her Majesty's, Jeanne
dare from France; Gaiety. Prince and
Pauper,' from America; Lyceum, The Bells
drama, from France; Garrick "A
Pair of Spectacles.' from France; Opera
Comique Les Cloches de Corneville' opera,
from France; Toole's, The Bungalow from
France: Avenue. DIR. Bill from France. Now,
you dear little British dramatists, how is that
for highr'
MRS. JAMES BROWN POTTER and Kyrle Bel
lew are catching it hot in Australia. The Mel
bourne Bulletin for example, speaking of |
their first appearance in that city. says: "The |
first appearance of Mrs. Potter and Kyrle Bel |
lew 1.-TWO distinguished notoriery artists) oc- |
Cured at Melbourne Princess on Saturday. |
The presence of the local emblem of monarchy. |
added to the fact that Mrs. Potter's costumes |
are by Worth, of Paris gave a certain air of |
refined interest to this sad event, as lar as the
dress circle and stalls were concerned. Above |
in the amphitheater, where Worth of Paris ia
not name to conjure with, public interest in
Mrs Potter took the form of exhortations to
speak up, and vented itself in trreverence cal
culated to disgust Worth. Of Paris, had that
excellent milliner been there. Even K Bellew
an occasional scoff, although he also
Is splend1dly upholstered person who realizes
our dreams of an adult Little Lord Fauntle-
roy.'"