Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-10
Gossip of the Stage.

PEOPLE are still talking of the Pitou Stock
Company and Miss Seligman's remarkable
acting.
The advance sale for the Emma Juch
opera season opened yesterday at the Grand
Opera House and many seats were sold.
Miss LHrroN, who is Mrs. j. K. Emmett in
private life played here last season in "Lit.
tie Lord Fauntleroy," and as Minna the ad-
| ventures gave a clever rendering to that
omewhat conventional character.
THE crowds at the theaters last night show
that the season is in full swing It was the
best firstnight audience at the Duouesne
|. Theater in a long while, and society seem
to have overcome its objection to Mondays
theater parties.
The repertory Of the Juch Opera Company
next week is: Monday night, "Tannhauser;'
Tuesday, "Faust;" Wednesday, "Lohengrin:,
Thursday, Romeo and Juliet" Friday,
"CavaIleria Rustioana," !" and Saturday, 1.-THE
Bohemian Girl" Saturday matinee All
Trovatore" will be given.
THERE is q story going the rounds of the
clubs which has been told at q half dozen
different dinners within the last month
which for true originality would be very
hard to beat. The credit for it is given to
Henry Clay BarneDee, the tall, smooth faced
comedian OF the Bostonian Opera Company
Barneoee is wit If there ever was one;
nothing pleases him so well as to tell a Joke
unless it be to take and put up a practical
joke on some other fellow. During the engage
ment of the Bostonians at the Standard
Theater in New York, Barnebee was standing
in front of the theater when q tramp came
along and told him pitiful tale to the ex-
tent of 25 cents which the comedian gave up.
The next day at about the same
Bnrnepee Barn nI wa. ~ standing talking psss With
some friends when the same tramp came
along, he either did not or affected not to
gave him the same pitiful tale of having lost
all his money and being in great distress and
that sort of thing. and Barnebee said to
him, "Do you know how to play any
games?" "Yes," replied the tramp, his eyes
Frightening and prospects of perhaps an
other quarter, 81 have known the time
when i could play poker and win q pot on a
ecarte, checkers and even chess" "oh, you
Eyes, sir, there are few better checker play.
"WeIi, then" said Barnebee, ats your
move"
THE play of "Geofrey Middleton-Gen-
tleman" is, as has been said in The DISPATCH
before, an advance upon"The Merchant" al
though the most artistic interpretation of
the former unquestionably gives it
some OF its apparent superiority.
The chief faults in "Geoffrey Middleton
are the over-coloring of the comedy scenes
SON, in spite OF Miss Stuart's deliciousfy
funny portrayal OF the lattet character be-
longs to farce rather than serious drama:
the inconsistency of Robert Hunt, the alleged
aristocrat. and the tenuity of the plot; for in
real life, one cannot help thinking all the
time, man and wife who really loved each
other as these two are shown to do. even
when they misunderstood each other most,
would have come to an understanding with
out such waste of emotional calisthenics.
Still Miss Morton's play is a very clever one,
and If she does not write a far greater
before very long il viii be surprising. They
say, those who know her, that Miss Morton
is a modest litSle woman Of g. who has seen
very little of the world, but who has read a
great deal, in fact everything important in
literature, and especially in the drama, and
has observed very closely as much of life as
has fallen within her view 1t is hard to
think of the author of "Geoffrey Middleton"
as hardly more than girl in years; and one
who has been brought up strictly and
quietly. But you can judge how unsophisti-
Gated this young dramatist is by the fact
that when she went West last summer to see
the first production Of her play she trayeled
for the first time in a sleeping car, and liked
IL so little that she made the return Journey
by easy stages, SO that she might travel en-.
tirely by day!