Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-18

Woman Hero" Kate Purssell will perform the
break-neck feat of riding horse bareback and
with broken bride down an inclined platform
into stockaded post
AGNES HUNTINGToN's week at the Du-
quesne was a remarkably successful one from
every point of interested view. In receipts it
equaled the slippers wonderful business,
though there was one less performance.
The special family matinees on Wednesdays
are proving very popular with the Du9uesne's
patrons. The fifty-cent-and-ta
plan contains elements of speculation SEEM
ingly most attractive to the matinee maiden.
The members of the Emma Abbott Opera
Company have arrived in New York. 1t is pro-
posed to place the company on the road again.
and the manager, MIR. Pratt. has made an offer
to Lily Post. which has aot yet been accepted
or declined.
A LONDON paper asserts that Mrs Musgrave,
the author of sour Flat" which has had run of
more than 600 nights in the English metropolis.
only received $50 for her play. Nc wonder
Milton was grateful for the fS he got for Par
adIse Lost" London must be great place for
the budding dramatisr.
LoNDoN's low comedian. ]. L. Shine, .
planet of the Adelphi, has had ''ructions" with
its management and is to join Arthur Roberts,
Marion Hood and stately Alma Stanley in bring
But Is this a novelty How many actresses
have brought Joan to that pitch by playing her
seriously?
MRS JAMES BROWN POTTER and Kyrle
Bellew have left Australia and are on their
way home via Colombo. After playing in Cal
cutta and Bombay they will proceed to London,
where they are to produce their new play,
Hero and Leander." The story is not the
same as that with the swan situation. 1t Is an
adoption from the German.
HALLEN & HART, those ever-favorite laugh
makers. follow Hoyt's "a Midnight Belr' at
the Duquesne. Their bundle of fun. nonsense.
music and pretty girls is entitled Later On"
and has proved one of the best-wearlng pieces
of farcical properly ever put before the public,
1t bobs up serenely perennially and is always
received with the same conspicuous favor.
THE season at the Chicago Opera House SO
far this year has been the most profitable that
that theater has ever known. The season
started in with Lawrence Barrett, then Francis
Wilson, then Stewart Robson, then the City
Directory" then "The Crystal Slipper" The
receipts have averaged over 50 800 week. This
is the largest average that has ever been known
In a Chicago theater.
BoUCICAuLT always contended that locality
made no difference, and that good piece. even
in an ill-placed and unlucky theater, would al
ways succeed The majority of actors and man
ayers think otherwise Professionals fight
shy of engagements even at higher prices at, for
instance, the Opera Comique, Globe, Olympic,
Royalty Novelty and Her Ma1esty's Iheasers; @
PROSPEROUS at any of these houses.
SADIE MARrINoT is having play written
for her with Nine. De Pompudour as a central
figure, It will be a faithful portrayal of the
times of Louis XVI, and will introduce char
acters prominent in the history Of France at
that period. The subject is a faithful one, and
Miss Marttnot deserves credit for her dis
terminating taste. Nine. De Pompadour was
a sort of female Beau Brummel, and, no
doubt an interesting PLAY could be woven
around the many events of her brilliant but
not impeccable, career.
IT was a curious coincidence that, while in
Paris, they were thinking of hypnotizing Ga
brieIle Bompard in open court to ascertain what
she would state about the Gouffe murder. at
the very corresponding hour Irving was telling
Theoretically his story of the murder of the
pedler in 1.-THE Bells" at the London Lyceum.
Yet when he first produced this in England,
and j. w. Wallack, Jr. produced another ver-
the curious conceit but impossible event. The
year 1890 has seen the proposition for hypnotic
witness; 1891 may find q clever counsel hypno-
tizing an adverse witness or tough Iuryman.
THE other night at the Broadway Theater
Mr.. Booth occupied box with his daughter,
saws the Mirror He looked pale and i'll, and
when he rose and slowly made the detour Of
the house in order to reach the stage to con-
prarulate his friend Barrett, he was followed
bv many sympathetic glances, for ne walked
slowly and painfully, leaning heavily upon q
cane. Strange to relate. Mr.. Booth is in better
condition when he Is acting than when he is
resting from his labors and iounging IN the
ouiet house Of The Players. Work appears to
rouse his whole nature into an activity that
wards of ills and makes him more Ike MS OLD
self