Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-13

| DUoUEsNE THEATER. ........o'Dowd's Neighoors
! 6i'oo IHEATER. .-...-.--..-.. .--.--Gus William
! GRAND OPERA HOUSE ........ .Gorman's Minstrels
HARRY WILLIAMS. London Specialties
WORLDS MUsEUM-THEArER. ''The Wild Violet,
DAVIS MUsEUM-THEArER.....-....C Curiosities, etc
HARRIS THEATER .......... ''The Runaway Wife,
The above are the theatrical attractions
for the com ing week
The theatrical business generally last
week was good, although the warm weather
had its usual effect during the latter part Of
the week. But every theater and the
museums likewise, felt marked change for
the better in the attendance. The managers
who had looked rather gloomily at the slim
crowds which August and the first week in
september brought to their doors are now
in better spirits and expect the season ahead
to be fairly profitable.
Mr.. Joseph Haworth's engagement was
little too early in the season to bring out the
regular theater-goers, and especially of that
class from which legitimate drama and
actors who are also artists expect support,
and so the audiences were not so large as
they ought to have been. Still the popular
greeting this talented actor encountered was
favorable enough to compensate somewhat
for It's lack Of volume. 1t is true also that
neither "St. Marc" nor the double bill of
Fra DNno" and "Ruy Bias" give Mr.
Haworth or Miss Kathryn Kidder the roles
matte vehicle. est. Mares" merits have
been discussed and its weakness pointed out
in these columns already. 1t is a cheap
piece of tinsel and fireworks. ERA Diano''
presents the painful improbability of pious
priest committing murder and suicide, with
out any adequate provocation, for the men,
ory OF an injury II years old, even coupled
with the new wrong intended, cannot be
sald to justify or require such violent crimes.
"Ruy Bias" is better work, of course,
though not play of remarkable merit. . Mr..
Ilnr .r-Al, k1,1 AL
full spirit and insight on Thursday night-a
performance far superior to the first on
Wednesday afternoon. Miss Kidder was also
however, but 81 Slightly % sletched % characteGT' a G
not half developed by the author. Miss
kidder undoubtedly may mount to any
height in emotional drama, for which she
has great qualifications. The main need in
Mr. Haworth's case is play. Perhaps 1.-THE
Ieavenworth Case" which will be played in
Chicago on Tuesday for the first time, will
prove to be Mr.. Haworth's opportunity.
Mr.. Haworth's company contains several
young people Of ability, notably Miss Keith
and Mr.. E. j. Morgan.
What can be done by means of hard work
money and brains, with poor piece, is IL
lustrated in Later On" which has bios
somed into an amusing, bright and decid-
edly novel entertainment from a very slow
and stupid thing in the beginning. Three
years ago IL was almost criminally idiotic:
their clever assistants give it now, compares
very favorably with any farce comedy on
the road. If farce comedy is to be saved by
any process that to which Later On" has
been subjected will do it. The Biiou was
too small for some of the audiences.
The success of "Fantasma" at the Grand
Opera House, which has been pher omenal,
shows that the public appreciate the square
methods of the Hanlons. The Opera House
was crowded at every performance.
Tha 30
may be said to have occurred last week.
Three or four important openings took
place there. "Amy Robsart'' with Marie
Wainwright in the title role, seems to have
impressed people favorably, although the
critics paid most of the compliments to the
Bells" nautical farce comedy with Incl
dental acrobatics. met with doubtful re-
ception, as did Frederick Paulding's "The
Struggle for Life, melodrama which was
ing, who, diving, left $40 900 for his nephew,
Frederick Paulding, to produce it with
The best thing Of the week appears to have
Solicitor" He is surrounded by the clever
est company yet brought together by Mama
ger Charles Frohman. The play is a London
good companion play to Jane" "The Pri-
vate Secretary" and Call the Comforts of
Home" 1t gives the misadventures of a
young lawyer who, in an hour of rash fun,
takes cabman's place. and has for pas
sengers his wife and pair of burglars. The
play is full of fun and dash from start to
finish, and will have a very long run.
The dramatizatfon of 1.-THE Leavenworth
Case" which is to see the light on Tuesday
at the Chicago Grand Opera House, is the |
work of the author Anna Katherine Greene, |
another story from whose pen is appearing |
in THE DISPATCH. For many reasons this |
will be important and the pros |
pect is decidedly favorable for a success |
Mr.. Haworth plays the part of the murderer |
who avoids detection so skillfully and there |
is not the least doubt that it will be a won
derfully powerful piece of character acting.
The good wishes of Mr.. Haworth's Pittsburp
friends and admirers certainly go with him,
HEPBURN JOHNS.