Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-17


DooUEsNE THEATER... The Patrol
1RAND OPERA HOUSE. Cleopatra
ACADEMY OF Fosters Gaiety Co.
HARRY DAVIS MUSEUM. .Curiosities
WORLDS MUsEUM.................... .Curiosities
nAi@ido IHEATER---. .lr1sh LUCK
The above are the theatrical attractions
for this week.
The past week has been a quiet one for the
theaters, the May Festival drawing largely
from the audiences of all of them, although
Mrs. John Drew and her excellent company
played to pretty fair business at the Du-
Quesne Madame Janauschel1's artistic per-
formances have not received the attention
they deserved. We are loath to believe the
announcement that after having been be-
fore the public for nearly 80 years, she pro-
poses finally to leave the stage this season.
If this is the case, and Madame Janauschek
has certainly earned the right to rest, the
stage viii sustain loss indeed. There are
very few actresses of Madame Janauschek,s
school and abilities left, and we can i'll afford
to lose her.
The appearance of young Mr.. Clarke of
this city in comic opera was one of the
events looked forward to with interest this
summer, but it seems probable that it will
be postponed, as king Kalico" will not be
done at the Academy as promised. ghe
hacker backed out: that is, the hacker was
minor and his guardian refused his perlnis-
sion for the contemplated theatrical specu-
latior. Over eighty people were thrown out
on this cold, cold world by this unfeeling and
unsympathetic guardian.
New York rrespondens writes: 1.-THE
single novelty ! week is the Tar and the
Tartar at Pal.-ler's, by the McCaull Opera
Company, now managed by Harry Askin.
The libretto is by Harry B. Smith, of Chi
cago, who has done much clever work in
comic opera, and the music by Adam Itzel,
on eccentric Baltimorean, who himself con-
Quoted the opera on Monday, and added an
other low comedy part to Mr.. Smiths anus
ing story by swaying to the rhythm of his
ditties and hammering as furiously on his
desk as did the late lamented jacques Offen-
bach when young. Mr.. Itzel is, however a
very young and enthusiastic musical genius
himself, and his work, a combination of
sugary, tingling melodies, and pompous
choruses that is sure to meet with
success, especially during the coming
warm weather. Mr. Smiths book is an
amusing treatment of an old theme, that of
the shfpwrecked sailor who is thrown on
shore in time to find himself the Sultan of
Morocco and the possessor of 400 new wives,
but his only Simon-pure, original and virago
wife turns up as one of the queens of the
harem, and Mr.. Smith makes the Tar and
Tartar IL nne style. On Monday Mr.. Mans
field began his summer season at the Gar
den Ineater with "A Partisan Romance"
the play which first brought him promi-
nently before the public as Baron CherridL
revolving old French roue, AMI his appear
ance is. If anything, more disgustingly real
istic than ever before. Rosina Voles again
changed her bill, reviving three familiar
fa-ces at Daly's, and at the Fourteenth
Street Theater "McCarthy's Mshaps," an IT.
resistibly funny knockabout farce comedy,
has been doing wonderfully large business.
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For this week the Davenport production
of "Cleopatra" overshadows everything in
the theatrical line. The season is nearly
ended and in two weeks time practically
the theaters of Pittsburg will have closed.
HEPBURN JOHNS.