Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-01
Stage Whispers.

"McCARTHY's MIsHAPs" will soon pay us
another visit.
AN illuminated roof garden scene in ~ & n
is almost an exact representation of the famous
roof garden of the New York Casino.
w. ]. SCANLAN is having the most successful
tour that he has ever known. 1t is estimated
that his profits for this season will reach 500.
QUO.
In an interview with New York Eerald re-
porter Nine. Bernhard says: "Yos have one
great artist in America-Clara Morris. I saw
her twice. She is wonderful"
BRONSON HOWARD has arranged with Stuart
Robson for production of THE Henrietta al
the Avenue Theater in London on March 2S A
well-known English comedian will take the part
played here by Mr.. Robson.
The eminent romantic actor, Robert Mantell,
begins weeks engagement az the Bijou Thea
ter on Monday evening, March 8, when he will
appear in spectacular revival of Alexander
Dumas famous heroic drama, .The Corsican
Brothers.
JEFFERSON and Florence, those two incom-
parable masters of legitimate comedy will fol.
low the minstrels at the Duquesne Theater The
engagement is for one week only and repor.
tore OF plays will be given, including, of
course, THE Rivals in which, as Bob Acres,
Mr.. jefferson has never had an equal.
MANAGER DAVID HENDERSON promises
quesne Theater next summer. The company
which is now being formed is to be away up
and beyond in personnel and equipment any
repertoire company which has ever whiled
away the tedium of the heated months.
JOSEPH JEFFERSON is not only an admirable
actor. but he is a painter of much more than
ordinary skill. The work that he has performed
in either department of art would have secured
for HIM more than common reputation, He
has painted pictures that would have brought
big prices If nobody had ever known the
identity OF the author. It is quite certain that
the name OF Joseph Jefferson will never be for
gotten by the lovers of all that is best in art.
TALKING about Denman Thompson's char.
aeteristic picture of home-lite framed in 1.-THE
Old Homestead" no matter how many times
it may be seen, there seem to be just as many
hidden beauties in its vivid picturings as exists
in the average home-life of the present day.
Truly Denman Thompson touched gently a
subject that is well calculated to come home to
most of its auditors, when he constructed the
foundation of the play which has made his
name so famous
THE sale of my Aunt Bridget on February
20, at Klaw d Erlanger's Exchange, terminates
the copartnership between George W. Monroe.
John c. Rice and Robert B. Monroe, known
under the name of Monroe & Rice. By mutual
agreement Monroe & Rice will continue to play
my Aunt Bridget until April %, when ali ex-
istIng contracts will have been filled. At the
auction MY Aunt Bridget was sold for S. $50
to Mr.. Abe Erlanger, and subsequently was
bought by Robert B. Monroe for $1,000
FIRST impressions are generally thought the
best but this does not seem to apply in Steele
MackaTes case with bis plays. The famous
play. "Hazel Kirke,, was first produced under
the title of The Iron WILL" His more recent
play paul Kauvar," first saw the light in Buf.
falo as Anarchy" money Mad" has latest,
was originally known by the title of Through
the Dark' and afterward as "The Noble
Rogue" The change in each instance has re-
suited in the success of the new. christened
play. This verites the trite saying: "A wise
man changes his mind and a fool never"
Sol SMITH RUSSELL some years ago, played
in a small town, and did not leave until noon
the following day. In ihe forenoon an elderly
countryman saw him about the hotel, and, after
some hesitation, came up and said: BE you
the man that played last night at the Opry
House?' Russell said, II was the culprit"
well, want TO speak to you about boy O.
mine. I've tried to make a farmer of him an
I've 'prenticed him out twice to learn trades;
eVen put him in livery stable an in hard