Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-12
"The Still Alarm


hrry Davis Museum. .Curiosities, etc.
Norto s Museum. Curiosities, etc
Academy o. Music. Harry Kernel. Might Owls
Harris Thester. ''Two Johns
The above are the attractions at the differ
snt places of amusement this week.
~.%
That open-mouthed dialect of Ycn YonSon
cannot bs forgotten in a hurry. 1t is so en-
tirely unlike anything else heard on the stage
that one is attracted by it BY curiosity il for no
other reason. The character is not exactly an
unpleasan: one, and yet one wonders how a
bright educated girl can be attracted by the
opconth lumbeiman. WHO has nothing but his
honesty to redeem him. OF course the author
of the play WAS compelled to make the heroine
fall IN love with him. because he was the hero
OF the play but il is a struggle AGAINST nature
surely. Young girls of the period are not SO
easily drawn 10 rough fellow with a vacant
cOuntenance, not very much sense, and such
Hn abnormal appetite Tor sandwiches, that he
consumes them in a ravenouS manner at inop-
portune times IN public places. Y5p IonS0n
has good mouth, but unusual luck in his love
Effairs.
Gus HeeCe has evidently made careful
study OF the part Of YoR YoHSOn. He makes
the character something that las never been
seen before, and at the same time inpresseF US
WIN The idea that IL Is perfectly natural I0n
1OHy0R viii never he as popular with the
masses as + itz or Nyyes 4 ooa. bur it IS quite
as distinctive III It's way as either OF them.
It must be confessed that tIpf1uence', was
much better Oh Saturday than il was on Mon
day. The people had settled down into their
parts, and there was more vim and 90 about the
whole performance than al the beginning of
the week, dc notventure to predict success
Ior influence" AT the same time, l should be
ioath 70 say that II will be a failure. What if
fhe music is stolen: 1t is meIodIous and when
carefully snnE will be satisfactory to an aver
age audience. The libretto is S;upid, Rut how
many comic operas have hbrettos one can readS
1 no not know that the libretto of 'IufueDcer
is much worse than that Of The Begun for
instance.
saw the.opera yesterday afternoon. There
were about Two dozen people in the audiIo-
Tiun, and they were as cold as ice Never a
ripple OF applause, even Wien 1t was well de-
served W hat wonder that the perforners felt
SlsneaTtened? And yet they worked hard, too
never saw company do more conscientious
work at a miserable matinee than did these
people yesterday. l should like to see .IuflU-
ence SO, II only TO reward the pluck Of
everyone connected with it. Pittsburg how
eFer' VIII not stand renearsals full week
IHE DISPATCH has been asked whether the
expression In this glorious climate of Cali
tornla" occurs in My Partner or the Dan
ties" The answer is. neither. IL the stock
phrase IN ihe mouth OF one of the characters IN
A popular idea of 4 tragedian is is that he is
very lugubrious parsonage. full OF dignity
and blank verse. In real life his is not alway-
the case. Thomas W. Keene Is in private life
one Of the cheeriest and companionable men
alive. He had an adventure last week Of the
most amusing character, in which he was COM
PEELED Willy nllly 10 play the part of the come
dian in great shape. He was driving out with
hls wife IN blackboard near his country home
~ Castelton Corners. Staten Island when sud-
denly great red fox leaped the fence 20 wards |
shead OF Inn, and started up the road at tull |
speed. The next instant d pack of hounds i'm |
iui cry followed Reynard, and they in |
turn were pursued by some 40 gentle |
men and ladies on horseback, all members |
Of the Richmond County Fox Hunting Club |
Mr. Aeenes supposed staid aud steady nag |
had ln The days Of his youth been hunter him
sen. anu the sight of the chase was too much |
Tor his nerves. Taking the bit between his |
teeth he started of heller SHELTER with the |
feht. or nearly mile the fox Ching 10 tho 1
Foad and heene's horse kept up with the tan. |
enders, despite all the pulling on the reins the |
traGedian could do. AT length the fox iumped |
another fence and attempted to cross the field |
Do was caught in the center of it and killed |
DIR. heene had no intention of being il, .'at the
death, but he was there all the same con-
sldeTably lOted and ratified by the rapId mace
ms Bucephalus had carried him. Tom saws |
mat JObn GnpIn' s riae wasn't in it with his |
Gnu ne Is ready to challenge any man on Stafen 1
4S4and TO hunt foxes in a blackboard with tins /
PToYlsO that his son-u-sw rides his horse