Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-24

in the same journal looks like cross be
tween a Celestial wash bill and the inscrip
tion on Cleopatra's needle.
STUART ROBSON will not revive married
Lifen next season, as has been announced
"The Henrietta" "She Stoops to Conquer
| comedies in his repertory. This is official.
JAMES T. POWERS thinks "a Straight Tip,
| will last him two more seasons Then he
| means to try legitimate comedy, and play
| such as Charles Wyndham has used with
success is being written for him by q Boston
| author.
NErr1E LYFoRp and Ray Douglas will "do''
Europe this summer without the restraining
influence of a chaperone. When they meet
| Isabella Urquhart and Sylvia Gerrish, the
| quartette viii paint Piccadilly bright YER
| million.
IT is said that Mrs. Langtry. has "gone
| brokem in London. A good part of the for
tune she made in America is, however, still
| intact. Reports say that she VIII soon wed
| a wealthy English turfman. named George
| Arlington Baird.
e. S. WuLARD's tour of the road has not
been as successful as it was thought 1t would
| be, and his friends are advising him not to
attempt another American season, and yet
| Mr.. Willard is the best actor England mas
sent over for many year.
THE Lillian Russell Opera Comique Com
pany, under the direction of T. Henry
French, will open the coming season at the
| Garden Theater, New York. Audran's la
| Cigale' will be sung: The company in
| cludes, beside Lillian Russell, Attalie Claire
and Carl Streitmann.
CLEMENT SCOTT has received legacy from
lady who admired his criticisms. The Bos-
ton Post says that sft could be misleading
confiding public, however, to say that this is
| one of the customary rewards OF the profes-
sion. The dramatic critic usually makes
more enemies than friends"
MANAGER THEODORE BROMLEY has engaged
Creston Clarke as the leading actor of Minna
Gales company for her first season as star.
The repertory has not been fully decided
upon, but will probably include "Tho
Duchess of Padua, v Romeo and juliet" "As
You Like 1t" and "Pygmallon and Galatea."
In recent interview, Henry E. Dixey was
reported as saying: 81 believe ip clean en-
tertainments, and will only appearin those
which should like my mother to see." The
Boston Post observes thereof that consider
ing the fact that Mr.. Dixey is identified
chiefly with "Adonis' in the popular mind,
this remark equals in humor any that he
ever uttered on the stage"
MARCUS MAYER and George Lederer will
try q novel experiment. with their Dickson
Comedy Company next season. The princi-
pal play OF the evening will be "1ncog" but
they will do a curtain-raiser in German.
Ellen Burg, lately of Amberg's; Dickson him
curtain-raisers, and Immediately afterward
play the principal pieces of the evening in
English. All of them are curiously enough
Americans.
MINNIE HAUoK, the operatic star, has been
trying unsuccessfully to gain possession of
her child, the daughter of the late
Brewer Rubsam, of Staten Island. The
child is heiress to third of her fathers
$SOOOOO estate, and Mrs. Rubsam yesterday
was decided to be the proper guardian of
ll1,,,,
of New York Minnie Hauck tried to cap
ture her daughter outside the courtroom,
but Mrs. Rubsam and her friends repelled
the attack after wild scene.
THE Philadelphia North Americdn says that
there are not enough frst-class attractions
on the road to supply changeable weekly en-
tertainment at dozen theaters, and
cautiously admits that the Philadelphia sea-
son "has not been a wildly prosperous one"
Pittsburg's experience has been that there
are not enough tirst-class road companies to
supply three theaters, or perhaps it is that
inferior companies are more proftable to
local managers, or they think so. Competi-
tion may improve things.
ISABELLE Coz, who made a great success
on the road tour of "Dr. Bill'T this season has
returned to her pretty house in Harlem
looking the very picture of good health and |
contentment She has a handsome husband,
one of the prettiest little girls in the city, a
splendid home, all paid for, and in conse-
quence bas half made up her mind not to |
tramp around the country in the future, al |
though she has offers galore, with quite big |
salaries attached to them. 1t is more than |
probable however, that she will join one of |
the big metropolitan stock companies, and |
New York is selfish enough to be glad of her |
resolution.
THE Mirrors Paris correspondent writes: |
At the Nouveautes we have had new piece 1
by MN. Desvallieres and Mars, music by |
CASTOR Serpette entitled 'La Demoiselle du |
Telephone" The piece is. amusing and has |
been well received. Nile. .Agdthe is clerk |
in the employ of the Paris Telephone Com
pany. She learned one day, in connecting |
two clients that her fiance, Sigisnltt'ad, has a
rendezvous with Olympic, disreputable |
woman, and that Olympic wants femme de |
chambre. Agdthe wishes to confront her |
false fiarce, and presents herself as the |
femme de chambre. She is accepted. Soon |
after Olympic receives the visit of her rela- |
tives from the country, who are totally |
ignorant of Olyn,phe's character. Olympic |
begs Agdthe to take her place, while she |
receives the adorers of Olympic, all of whom
she captivates. Her flance among the rest |
falls at her feet. .... .......- |
G. A. SALA says that in Barnum he lost q |
very old and valued friend, and proceeds in |
the Sunday Times to relapse into reminis-
cences concerning the late Snowman, in
which he was himself more or less connect |
ed. 'Don't laugh" says Mr.. Sala, "when I |
tell you that in New York many years ago
and used to go to the same church,
Sunday after Sunday, and sing out of the |
same hymn-book. Barnum was Universal |
list, persuasion which is not mine; but 1 !
great admiration for the Univer- |
salist minister whom he sat under, a certain |
DR.. Chaplin, O very learned, wise and elo- |
quent preacher. Some ten years later met |
Barnum at a dinner given by Albert Smith |
at the old Garrick Club, in King street. Con.
vent Garden. If l remember, j. c.. O'Dowd |
was of the party. Barnum was the heartiest |
of eaters, but the rigdest of tea-totallers; |
and L remember a characteristic reply of his |
when Albert offered him some champagne. |
Thank you,' he said, guess I'll take it in
cash. Not that he was in any sense penu-
rious man, but he was fully aware of the |
value of Washington Irving's aphorism |
about the almighty dollar a