Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-19
Stage Whispers.

| MADAME RHEA has returned to America
| for another professional tour.
DEWoLF HOPPER comes to US In n few
weeks with his Castles in the Air."
LESTER AND WILLIAMS London Gaiety
and Novelty Company will be the attraction al
| the Academy October Y. and it is said to be
| giving an excellent variety performance.
IT is said that Henry E. Abbey is organizing
comic opera company for next season, OF
which Lillian Russell is to be the star. Miss
| Russelfs contract with the Casino expires next
| May.
| A WESTERN actor died recently, and his sor-
| rowing manager paid delicate compliment to
the surviving widowtby sending floral pillow
with standing Room Only" in immortelles,
| the Mi r0r says.
MARIE WAINWRIGHT has recently pur.
| which will be given production New York in
April. She Will soon be seen in Twelfth
Night" at the Park.
JULIA MARLowE will appear at the Broad
Street Theater, Philadelphia, next Monday
night as Beatrice in Much Ado About Moth
ing" her first assumption of the role. MI.
Creston Clarke will appear as Benedtck
THOMAS WHIFFEN. for many years princl-
pal comedian with A. Nj. Palmer's and Daniel
Coghlan's support AM, as he is an expert
fiddler. he is making great hit rs the poor
playwright In reg Womngton."
JAMES T. POWERS, in "a Straight TIP" will
follow Around the World in 80 Days" at the
Bijou. Powers will be remembered as one of
The piece is said TO be most excellent skit,
and the supporting company very strong.
THE N. Y. Mirror asks: "Is there ono com.
pany in this country, supporting tragic star,
whose playing is satisfactory to an intelligent
theatergoer% The DISPATCH has not seen it
If there is, and the betting on the strength of
the past is dead against such phenomenon.
MANAGER GILMORE, of the Academy Of
Music. New York, where the "Old Home
stead" has had such run. has with Mir. Tomp-
kins. bought piece of property IOOx75 feet ad-
joining the Academy stage, which will make it
the largest in the world. A four-in- hand can
be driven right up the stage and turned around
on it.
vERNoNA JARBEAU opened to Big house
at Richmond, Va, on Thursday last the Comte
de Paris, the Duke dOrleans, and their suite
occupying tho boxes. The distinguished party
were presented to the star and expressed their
delight with the performance. The following
Sunday Miss Jarbeau and Manager Bernstein
were entertained by the Duke to dejeuner q
Ia fourchette.
AN English correspondent writing of Terry,s
Theater. in London, says: "By-the-bye, speak.
ing of Terry's, we should call attention to
new fashion recently instituted in that theater.
1t consists in having pretty girl to preside
over the destinies of the box Office one of her
duties being to smile sweetly on all purchasers
as they plank down their half guineas for
stalls" We commend this notion to Managers
Gulick and Wilt with the amendment that the
soubrettes of farce-comedy companies should
be allowed to expend some of their fresh and
piquant beauty over the box office.
JOSEPH JEFFERSON and W. J. Florence are
playing wonderfully successful engagement
at Palmer's Theater, New York, where their
delightful impersonations Of DR.. PanoIoss and
Zektal Homespun are received with laughter