Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-12
Stage Whispers.

"a PAIR OF JACK" will soon be with u.s. Il
| is a new farce comedy.
w. J. SCANLAN is buying more real estate in
New York. He must be one of the richest
actors on the stage.
'BETRoTHED" is failure and will be with.
drawn flom the stage of the Garden Theater
New York. in the near future.
MANAGER HAvLIN telegraphs from Chicago
that Kidnapped" the new melodrama. is a
great success. 1t comes to Pittsburg in a few
weeks.
ALABAMA" the new play by Augustus
Thomas, has made a hit at the Madison Square
Iheater. 1t will run the season out at that
house.
CHARLES R. ELLIS, a new German come.
dian. has date at one of our local theaters.
II will be seen for the first time here in '-Cas-
per the Yodler."
MISS MARIE BURREss, who has been with
Frank Mayo for the past three seasons as lead
lag lady, has been secured by Mr.. r. NJ. Field
Tor the Boston stock.
Mr.. LEWIS MORRISON, as Mephisto in his
scenic and dramatic production Of Faust" :"
VIII be seen at the Grand Opera House at an
early date for the first time in Pittsburg
KING KALIKo." a new comic opera by
Frank Dupree and Fred Solomon, will be pro-
duced in New York. at the Academy of Music
June l, under the management of w. S. Moore
The Pittsburg Amusement Lyceum is a new
institution which prepares students for the
professional stage and furnishes musical
dramatic. magical and variety entertainments
Tor puohc and private parties
In his last letter to a friend. which was writ
ten just four or five days before his death. Mr..
Barrett said he had signed a contract as sole
manager of magnificent starring tour OF Mary
Anderson next season. This seems to assure
Mrs. Navarro's return to the stage
Mr.. DAVID HENDERSON has arranged with
Mr.. Rudolph Aronson, of the New York
Casino, for the appearance of both the Casino
companies at the Duquesne TheaIer next sea-
son. One VIII be headed by Madam Pauline
l. Allemand, and the other will present a new
opera now being translated, which is at present
In the height OF successful run in Vienna.
THE CADT' is the title of new play, which
Bill Nye is writing for hext season, and which
will be produced by Stuart Robson at the
Union Square Iheater. 1t is founded on Nye's
experience as Frontier Justice of the Peace
Thomas T. Seabrooke has been engaged nv
Mi. Robson Tor the part of the Justice of the
Pe0ce MIR. Robson does not appear in the
new play.
MR. w. II. CRANE and his entire New York
company will follow Natural Gas" at the
Duquesne, presenting for the first time in this
city Mr.. Cranes greatest success, "The Sem
ator." The piece is comedy, with the scene
laid in W ashingtor, and it's characters the peo-
pie OF official society life. 1t ran for over 800
nights al the Star Theater. New York. and since
that time has been doing wonderfully well in
some OF the other principal cities.
'SHIP AKoY" Will have its initial represen-
tation IN Pittsburg at the Grand Opera House,
Monday evening, April 2U ]. NJ. Hill. who
controls the fortunes of the COMPANY, hardly
cares 10 have the production classed as an
opera, but rather as bright and merry farce
set 10 music. ship AhOy" enjoyed a run of II
weeks in Boston. The company thar plays ar
fho
supervision of Mr.. J. NJ. Hill 1t comprises
such well-known artists as Edward N Favor
Jerome sykes, Wallace McCreery, Jesse Jenk-
ins, MIR. Gourlay, Misses Marion Giroux. Ce-
ella Pollock, Lotta Gilman and chorus of so
people.
NEXT week the Bijou Theater patrons will
be entertained by ''Blue Jeans" the longest
lived and most successful New York produc.
tion of this season. ''5lue Jeans" is a comedy
melOdrama, filed with realistic novelty feat
ures and humorous scenes, and has held the
Fourteenth Street Theater, New York for
nearly geo nights, and played in that time to
30, 900 people. The story one of Indiana
rural life, with a strong plot of love and in
trigue. and a surprising succession of stage
niutures and effects. blue Jeans" leaves New
Hork only because of the interference of prior
claims of the attractions at the theater. ana
will return to New York as soon as possible.
win time enough engaged to give full swing to
its vitality
EDWIN BOOTH was born on his fathers farm
in Harforu county, Maryland. in November,
1888 Like Irving, Stuart Robson and John s.
Clarke, be IN his teens dabbled in amateur the
atricals- His debut the stage was made at
he Boston Museum, September 10, lS49. as
IreSscl in Richard I'LL" He first became a
str IN 1856. In 1864 Booth played Hamlet 100
consecutive nights at the Winter Garden in
New York. He was supposed to be silent
partner in the management of the Winter Gar
zen when it burned down March %. 1867. His
Iheater in New York was opened February 8,
lS6B, and the demolition of 1t began May l,