Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-04

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"FHE GoNDoLIERs" may not have caught on
here. bur they celebrated their anniversary at
the London Savoy last week. Sir Arthur Sulli-
van welded the baton.
LADY DUYLo is playing in the Drury Lane
pantomime, "Beauty and the Beast" She is
Beauty of course, but strange to say, her noble
husband is not in the cast.
sEPTETTE in ''The Crystal Slipper" en-
titled "Johnny's Got His Gun" is rapidly
reaching the popularity of its illustrious pre-
decessor, johnny Get Your Gun."
HENRY NORMAN. who plays the Baron de
Boulevard with "The Crystal Slipper" besides
being comedian and clever vocalist is quite
a musician, and is the composer of the song
Guess Again" which he sings in "The Crystal
Slipper"
IN answer TO several inquiries it may be said
that Mr.. and Mrs. Kendall will be seen at the
BIjou Theater during the week of January 26,
and the engagement will be of course OF the
greatest artistic Importance.
CLEMENT SCOTT says that Mime Modjeska
has arranged to appear in London next May,
Bashford She will be seen as Adrfeane
Lec0urreur, and in Measure for Measure" as
well as in the brilliant Donna Diana" of
Westland Marston.
HENRY IRVING has struck snag in "Rav-
enswood." The play is TO be withdrawn and
Much Ado About Nothing" revived. If, after
all the money and trouble that has been spent
in mounting "Ravenswood," it is hastily with
drawn In favor of Shakespeare, we can hardly
suppose that Irving's latest creation has proved
pecuniary success, says the Mirror.
THE lovers of the refined comedy entertain
ments, for which the Madison Square Theater,
of New York, and its manager. Mn A. M.
Palmer, have become famous, will be pleased
to note the engagement of Mr. Palmer's travel
ing company in the successful farcial comedy,
Aunt Jack" Mr. Jos. Haworth appearing in
the role of Berktey Brue, the attorney for the
defendant at the Grand Opera House week Of
January II
BEFORE the British Parliament took holi-
day, it received bill to give power to the trus-
tees of the Shakespeare birthplace at STRAIT
ford-on-Avon to deal with their accumulatlng
capital, and to inherit, in the matter. all the
powers of the Stratford Town Council. 1t is
proposed to found Shakespearean scholar
ship in the grammar school where the poet
dramatist was taught grammar, diction and
rhetorical arrangement
MISS EFFIE ELLsLER, who is now starring
through the country, has decided to revive
Hazel Kirke," of the title role of which she
was the original representative MIR. Couldock.
the original of Durstan Kirke. will play his old
part, SO familiar to playgoers of decade ago.
Miss Ellsler will first present the play on jan
uary 26. and will then take it on tour. The
other pieces in the repertoire this season are
"Miss Manning" and THE Governess."
AMONG the dozens of gifts offered at the
shrine of otero. the Spanish dancer with the
MadonnaIike face, on Christmas Day. was
grapes of species peculiar to her native pro-
vince, and sent from Spain by an old sweet
heart. "Each oue" she declared to friend in
Spanish. was dearer TO her than any gem she
possessed, and their flavor suggested to her
recollections of the happiest hours she had
ever known"
NYM CRINKLE, the well-known writer and
dramatic critic of the New York World. said of
the famous bridge scene in Steele Mackaye's
sensational drama Money Mad:' Nothing in
all the imported sensations of English melo-
drama can compare in structural audacity and
pictorial effectiveness with the bridge scene as
Mackaye presents it. The very idea of swing
ing q causeway so feet long across the stage for
the passage of steamer at least 60 feet in
length will fill the average theater-goer with
wonder and admiration for months"
IT is said that of 1000 light-hsarted, sanguine
bands of players who set out for fame and for.
tune at the beginning of the present season,
us survive. The others have fallen by the
wayside. Here is the assortment of lucky
companies still on the road: Two pantomime
troupes, % opera companies, Is presenting
tragedies, 100 presenting society plays, IS pre-
senting melodrama. 2l3 presenting farce come
dies. Is minstrel bands, S5variety organizations
% magicians, horse shows. 8 companies of ed
ucated animals, 100 comedy drama organiza-
tions.
A FRENCH exchange tells the following: An
ambitious super" whose soul hungered for
the applause he never got, had, on one occasion,
a speaking part of one line: "The countess
awaits you in the conservatory, my lord"
Every night he got this off differently, some
times he was defiant, anon humble and always
impressive. yet never got hand. He became
desperate and one evening after getting rid of
his message. he marched right down to the
footlights and said: "Let me also add that the
william who would lay his hand on a woman is
unworthy the name of Frenchman and a
man." He got big round. likewise the sack.
A LoNG-HAIRED Jerseyman was an in.
tensely interested visitor at Hermann's Thea
ter the other night, where the wizards latest
illusion, ''Strobeika," was being performed
He followed the committee on to the stage to
see that there was no shenanigaE, as he loudly
declared, much to the amusement of the
audience, and attended personally to the lock-
ing of the steel bands around the body of the
assistant who was stretched out on a wire
suspended board. The curtains were drawn
and the countryman had barely had time to
lumber back TO his seat when Hermann threw
back the portieres. disclosing the shapely fig
ure of Nine. Hermann reclining safely man
acled on the board. As the assistant walked
smilingly down the aisle from the back of the
theater Uncle Simeon's eyes stretched to their
widest limit and with a swell, Pll be darnedr'
he snatched up his hat and stumped out of the
theater.
AMONG the musical enthusiasts the event
which is most anxiously awaited and about
which speculation is rife. says Dunlap Cable
Company message to The DISPATCH, sent
from London last night, is the result which
will attend Sir Arthur Sulllvan's first incursion
into the ranks of grand opera. The evening OF
Monday, 18th inst, is fixed for the production
of "1vauhoe," for which the most elaborate
preparations have been made, and which will
see the light in theater which has never be-
fore been opened to the public. Curl
osity, OF course is very much stirred
over the dual event but the house, which is
beautiful In the extreme, does not, naturally,
command the attention which the work does
for in many quarters the composure of the
''Mikado" is regarded as the hope of England,
musically speaking, and very great things are
expected of him by his admirers De Koven's
light opera. Robin Hood" will in all proba-
bility be the next musical event in London to
follow "Ivanhoe." 1t will be produced at the
Prince of Wales Theater some time during the
middle Of next month, and Mr. Horace Sedger
the lessee, has now definitely engaged Miss
Marion Manola, the well-known American
soprano, to play Maid Marion.
A Novel Gift for Stanley.
New York HERALD
The most extravagant item of this year s
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