Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-11

the chiefs generosity and hastened to feature
the new auxilaries as 'real policemen" but the
Newark public and press are taxing dluerent
view of the matter. and the conduct OF the
chief is severely censured.
CHARLES E. LOCKE has published a card in
which he says: 81 desire to deny in the strong.
est terms possible any act of a dishonorable
nature" in connection with his theatrical al
fairs. This must be very comforting to the
confiding gentlemen who have lent Mr.. Locke
money.
.MANAGER SANGER has been complaining to
the U. S. Treasury Department that the nes
silver certificates are SO fimsy that they fall
to pieces in the handling. Other managers and
indeed less favored persons have ha5 the ex-
perience but they haven't blamed 1t on the U.
8. Treasury.
R. L. BRIrroN, of Harris, Britton & Dean,
left Baltimore for Louisville last week, accom-
panied by ]. 3. MacElfatrick, the architect,
Harris new tbeater at Louisville. The house
will be completed on April 8. Bobby Gaylor in
''An Irish Arab" will be the opening attraction.
THEATERs are SAID by the superstitiously-in-
clined professionals to burn by threes. Lifts
Minneapolis Bijou made the second. and for a
week before the Fifth Avenue in New York
was destroyed the old fellows were scanning
they seemed extremely happy, particularly as
Mr.. Miner himself is SAID to have broken a big
mirror the night before the fire.
AN Englishman who has been travelling
through Italy gives the following description of
the theaters of that benighted country: I'm
Genoa 1 wandered into the Politeama Theater
when 'Gioconda' was being given. Men wore
their hats on their heads. There was no
prompter's box, and the prompter sat in his
place without any attempt at concealment,
with his score leaning against the footlfghts.
Ihe curtain was adorned, not with paintings,
but with advertisements fastened on it. Even
among the orchestral players some had cigars
lying on their desks"
PROBABLY one of the coolest audiences that
ever assembled within theater was present at
theAmberg Theater, New York Monday night.
The theater was crowded, and the performance
OF "Der Arme Jonathan" had reached the
middle OF the first act when one of the shades
on candelabra on the right side of the stage
caught fre. 1t blazed up. but nobody seemed
to give 1t any attention. Herr Braki Kept on
singing. apparently unconscious of the increas-
ing blaze on his right. After wait of about
half a minute, one of the esupernumeraries, who
stage and carried off the candeiabra. One man Ian
began to applaud. but he was quickly hissed
into silence.
THIS curious advertisement, which the Times
refused to publish, has appeared in several of
the big London dailies: "Wanted, eight bald
headed men to occupy eight adjoining seats in
row three of Drury Lane stalls on the first
night of tie Christmas pantomime. Each ap-
plicant will be furnished with a new dress suit,
a boutonniere, will receive cab fares and a sup
per at midnight. Apply, etc. Manager Harris,
not having any unusual ballet on the night
in question, looked into the matter aud
discovered that the proprietor of an enterpris.
ing weekly paper wished to paint on bald heads
Nos. !, 3 and the letter I, on bald heads and
the letter l, on bald head the letter 8, on
bald head the letter B, and on bald head a
hyphen, So that the back rows boxes, circles
and pits would read the name of the paper Tit
Bits. Harris offered to put the baldsters in the
harleQuinade with their backs to the audience,
but refused to let his stalls for advertising pur-
poses