Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-29

Duquesne Theater. ... ''Maister of fWoodbarrow''
Grand Opera House. Smith Russell
DAVIS Museum. etc
noriu s Museum .....-..-........Curiosltles etc
Harry Williams Acad' Y. Irwin Bros specialtyCo
harris Theater. Charles Erin Werner
The above are the theatrical attractions for
this week.
The din of battle has resounded through
the Grand Opera House for d. week; the
tramp of marching men, the flashing of
sabers and musket barrels, the rattle of
drums, the clinking of side-arms and the
wild shouts Of men in the craze of warfare
have been repeated over and over agsin
amid the quiet surroundings Of the play
house. To many who have witnessed the
''Fall of Atlanta" this week, it has been
much more than mere drama. 1t has been
the bringing back of the stirring events in
which many of them participated over a
quarter of a century ago. and the applause be-
slowed on the performance showed that the au-
dfence considered it good There have been
more ambitious. and percbance more artistic,
entertainments In the theater this winter. but
certainly none that pleased more than this war
drama produced under the auspices Of the
Grand Army OF the Republic.
Stuart Robson wears his hunors with becom
ing grace. Success has never;spoiled him; he is
the same genial, kind-dispositioned gentleman
he has ever been, and his reputation for that is
Ms wide as his reputation as a comedian. In
hotel he is the most quiet and considerate of
guests, and SO far from making trouble and
giving himself the airs many another in his
place would, he seems to study how little
bother he can be. Arrogance is trait un-
known in his composition. Mr.. Robson makes
friends easily, and once made he never loses
them. Il would be strange if such man did
not possess many characIerlstics peculiar to
himself lie has whims and fancies, of course,
but he never lets them become annoying to
those about him One OF his fancies is
In regard to cigars. Robson is an inveterate
smoker, and Will use but one brand o. cigars
one he has manufactured for his express use.
II is rather smaller around than the ordinary
cigar. but is nearly twice as long. His great
enl yment is to get into dressing gown: fling
himself into any easy chair, cock his sippered
feet upon the bed in his own room and puff one
of these cigars.
Lawrence Barrett, Henry Aveling and John
A Mackay-three great actors in their respec.
nVs lines-and all dead within week.
A friend of Tragedian Thomas w. Reene
who visited him at his pleasant country home
1T Castleton, -Four Corners, Staten Island,
lately, found him in apparently excellent health
and most buoyant spirits. YES" said the
actor, 81 had a close call from my old enemy,
palsy. was completely broken down by excess
ive travel climatic changes and bad hotels. My
itinerary began at Staunton, W. Va, in
August and travelled clear to San Francisco
thence to the Puget Sound country Then
went East along the railroad to Butte and
Helena, Mont. After that south TO Salt |
Lake, thence through to New Mexico into |
Texas. After doing the Lone Star Stare, 1 Wis |
ited New Orleans, Mobile and most of the |
Gulf States Southern cities. In all Travelled |
above 10000 miles, and for weeks at |
time did not sleep twice in the same bed or |
eat four consecutive meals in the same hotel. |
WhatI endured Was enough to kill a horse,
let alone a man viii never undertake such a |
task again. Next season intend to play only |
in the big cities and then for not more than "a |
weeks. intend to get the strongest company |
together that IS possible and play only the |
pieces which are assured money winners, like |
Richard Ill" "Richelieu" and Louis XII" |
These plays this season made me more money |
mp to the time gave up my engagements than |
earned In all last season. have a new play |
on the stocks from which hope great profits. |
1t is dramatization of a work OF fiction, which |
has made a tremendous sensation III not only |
literary but general reading circles" Mr.. |
keene thinks sea voyage would make him las |
nne as a fiddle" and he will probably take one |
this summer,