Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-21
STAGE WHISPERS.

"STILL ALARM" is soon due at one Of our
theaters.
"SUPERBA" IS so much Of a success that the
Hanlons expect to continue it on the road for
several seasons longer.
LITTLE MINNIE TERRY is to play Princess
Elizabeth in Henry Irving's forthcoming pro-
duction of "Charles L" in London.
E. H. SorHERN in his new comedy, THE
Master OF Woodbarrow," comes to the
Duquesne shortly. Prices will not be ad-
vanced.
dolIers" has been put in rehearsal at the
Savoy, in London, and, as usual, 'it has not
been named"
THE HENRIETTA" will receive its first En-
glish production at the Avenue Theater, Lon
don, March 2S and Notwithstanding the fact
that Mrs Kendall and other English players
predict for the comedy complete success, it is
said that Stuart Robson prophesies that its
purely American flavor will be its death war
rant.
A PLAY called Goods and Men, or From
Mount Olympus to Washington" was tried In
Washington, D. c., last week. Its. original is
"Lumpaef Vagabondus," an old German play,
and into this story the author, ]. II. Pratt, in
troduced many well-known United States
Senators. 1t failed to catch on in Its present
shape, and is to be rewritten and sent on the
road.
THE late John E. Owens used no makeup"
whatever in his celebrated character of Scion
ShingLe, nor does Denman Thompson as
Joshua Whitcomb. make any attempt with
paint or chalk on his face, relying entirely
upon his natural farmer-like appearance. But
Richard Golden, who i a very young looking
person off the stage, has to invoke the aid of
art to produce the effect of the advanced age
of his creation of Old Jed Prouty. 1t will be
at the Duquesne next week.
Il; ;ol
mer. The couple had lived happily together
for nearly "a years. This fact has not deferred
the theatrical gossips from adding another
pang to the comedians sorrow by circulating
the report that lie is engaged to be married to
a lady of his company who is young enough TO
te his granddaughter. A similar report was
circulated last summer IN respect 10 Edwin
Booth, who was announced to be ON the eve of
marriage with the 7-year-old daughter of Law
renee Barrett.
The many friends and admirers of Thomas
w. Keene, the tragedian, will be pleased to
learn that the illness which obliged him to
terminate his season at Vicksburg, Miss, has
almost entirely disappeared, and that he is now
IN as good health as most men at his country
home at Castleton. Four Corners. in the center
of Staten Island. His malady was nervous
prostration brought about by the vicisstudes
of travelling from the Atlantic to the Pacific,
and from Puget Sound tU the Gulf of Mexico
Next season he will be more careful in making
his route.
Sol SMITH RUSSELL has been acting for 2S
years and yet he is only T. Hewas drummer
boy IN war times and found himself in Cairo.
ILL.,, where he Joined the stock company of the
Defiance Theater in 1862. He played utility
parts, sang songs between acts and played the
snare drum in the orchestra-all for $6 week.
Then Russell went to DeBars Tbeater, st.
Louis, and To Nashville and to other stock COM
panies. A few years later he Joined forces with
the Berger family, doing monologue sketch and
songs. A good many people think Sol Smith
Russell was developed from the raw material
by this organization. He wasn't He was an
actor Of experience, but Of pronounced youth
fulness, before that :;