Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-24

happen to creep into this paper before they
reach you / hope you will not feel hurt.
The following notes are given me up to
! date, and are gingerly yielded to the eagle
gaze of the public:
Charles ]. Davis the eminent actor. who
has interpreted with such wonderful ac-
curacy for wears the character of Aluis JOS
| lin will present a neatly framed lithograph
| of himself to the Players Club early in the
autumn. Also three sheet poster. Same
Mr. James Owen O'Conor will sail in
july for Europe to seek much needed rest.
He will return in September, it is hoped,
| mentally refreshed and ready to rattle
around in Mr.. Booths place next season.
He still suffers severely at times from the
concussion. irritation and temporary deaf
ness, resulting from the presence of some
foreign substance, supposed to be the frag-
ment of an anamic egg shell, which he got
in the ear while playing Hamlet at Ho-
boken, N. j., three years ago.
Sullivan to Elevate the Stage.
Colonel John L. Sullivan will also 90
abroad this summer, as he says, to get Sar-
dou to "seck a little pop and high pur-
poses'' into his lines in the great melo-
drama "Honest Hearts and Willing Hands -
Colonel Sullivan will return in the fall, in
time. it is thought, to moisten his hands
and elevate the stage next season. He will
also do all he can to persuade Mary Ander-
son to return to the stage. He is looking
also for a new play that has an unsealed
doom in it. He says>the old drama with the
sealed doom is getting passy and blaze He
will get hold of a doom that is not SUBJ
ject to letter rates, if he can.
Much pleasant comment has been heard
recently over the new and beautiful litho-
graph on the letterhead of Mr. Percy Mush-
rush, the bright young dramatist of East
Perth Amboy. 1t occupies the upper two
thirds of the sheet, in the center of which is
seen pile of volumes bearing on their
backs the names of Mr.. Mushrush's several
plays, including "Alone in Tompkinsville, I"
''The Man Teacher and the Claybank
Blonde, or, Where Have They Went Top
Among these plays are interspersed those of
Shakespeare, and in the foreground of the
picture, armed with quill pens, may be seen
Mr.. Mushrush and Mr.. S. engaged in duel,
with the left hand carefully inserted in the
air. Underneath is the sentence referring
to the picture, ga friendly tilt for immor-
tality." Mr.. Mushrush regards his letter.
head as the most successful Of all his works
Realism to the Bloody Limit.
An enterprising manager of Toledo will
introduce bit of stage realism in a new
Uncle Tom company which he is organiz-
ing for the next season. 1t consists in kill
ing Uncle Tom in brutal way each evening
and settling for him at the box Office. Sew
eral almshouses have offered to sign for the
season, agreeing to furnish as high as 20
Uncle Toms each, provided their names are
not used The manager thinks it will be a
great card. He will also discharge the
Little E0a he had last season and engage her
daughter-in-law in her place. His former
Little Eya will celebrate her golden wedding
in September.
Mr. Shucknasty Pete, a survivor of the
Wounded Knee affair, who barely escaped
with his life by being in Western Montana
at the time, will continue to appear at Kohl
& Middletons museum in Chicago with the
exception of two weeks about Christmas
time, when he will appear and eat pounded
glass on the Northside for the benefit of the
Worlds Fair sufferers.
The eighty-third annual benefit for Little
Petite, the child violinist of Southeast Had
dem, will be held at the schoolhouse north
of town in July. It will include a reading
from Browning and creased pig race.
Messrs. EARLY & Bird, owners of the
"Singed Cat" travesty on the opera of
'Tutti Frutti," have scored a success.
They cleared $50, 900 during the season, but
will not produce it next year owing to i'll
health They offer their scenery for sale in
another column. Also two good theatrical
trunks, one valise and parrot, neither of
which has been damaged to speak of The
ad referred to is signed Reduced Circum-
stances, care of this Office.
Rehearsing in an Inebriate's Home.
Larry Dogan, who cast gloom over the
community last season by crushing the
skull of his adversary in two round go at
the Palace rink, will star in "All the
World Agin Him." taking the title role or