Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-05
Whispers.

HADDON CHAMBERS mas WrlLCen q new play
| called 1.-The Pipe OF Peace"
"a PAIR OF JACKS" another new farce
| comedy, is gong to be here ere long.
GRATTAN DoNNELLY's opera, "ship Ahoy."
is to follow Fashions" at the Grand Opera
House.
THE ]. NJ. O'Riley Comedy Company will
give an entertainment tomorrow evening in
Academy Hall, Williamsburg.
Miss MOLLY BEUCHLER beatrice More), of
Allegheny, is at home resting. She will star
next season in a new play and company of her
own.
WILLIAM H. CRANE and his entire New
York company will introduce the successful
Senator to Pittsburg audiences in fort
night.
"K1DNAPPED," by Mr. Higgins who is also
the author of THE Plunger," will shortly be
seen at one Of our local theaters. 1t is to have
its initial performance tonight at Haylins
Theater, Chicago.
AUGUSTUS PIToU's new play, THE Power
of the Press" seems to be successful In New
\ ork. The scenic effects are said to be mar
velous and as every one knows who knows Mr..
Pitou, the company is excellent.
Mr.. DAVID HENDERsoSs new spectacle
will be presented at the Chicago Opera House
in a few weeks and the scenery and costumes
are already nearing completion. The produc-
ton will lie the most important that he has yet
given. The story is taken from the Arabian
Nights"
ADoLPHE MAILLART, the veteran French
actor, is dead at the age of so. He was in the
company at the Theatre Francois from 1889 to
1866 when he retired from the stage. In his
day he had supported Rachel and other famous
players. He was brother Of Aime Maillart,
the composer.
DoNNELLY and Girard, those clever come
dams, will follow The County FAIR at the
Duquesre, presenting for one week their
laughable farce comedy, Natural Gas" The
company appearing is said to be the best they
have ever had and includes a number of good
voices, pretty girls and clever specialists.
BLUE JEANS" with its sawmill in full oper-
alton, is going to pay us a visit shortly. This
play was emInently successful in New York
ana packed the Fourteenth Street Theater for
months. it is said to be highly sensational, yet
there is lots of real worth from a dramatic
standpoint, and the company is most excel
lent one.
THE Pittsburg Amusement Lyceum is now
prepared TO furnish tirst-class entertainments
for churches, societies and private parties.
They are also agents for Mallon's School for
Stage Arts. Lessons on the piano and banjo and
stage dancing are to be taught here. Mr. NAL
Ion, the manager, is clever artist and should
make success of his new enterprise.
Mr.. JOSEPH ARTHUR's purely American
play, The Still Alarm" will be seen at the
Bijou next week. The fire engine scene, show
ing the hitching and start of the horses to the
fire is probably one of the most realistic scenes
ever shown on any stage. The beautiful trained
horses and the patient hound will accompany
the company as far as Plttsburg. The play has
been seen here several times, and always plays
to enormous business.
ENGLISH dramatists and actors have advised
Bronson Howard to cut out the death scene in
THE Henrietta" on account of its being op-
posed to the tradition of true comedy, as
viewed by the EnglIsh play-goer. Mr.. Stuart
Robson has, however, cabled Mr.. Howard that
no concessions must be made to such prejudices
that the comedy must be played according to
the American text, and that he will shoot the
dramatist on sight" if he dares to cut out a
single comma.
THE prospects of Gilbert and Sullivan again
collaborating in bringing about. D'Oyley Carte
productions, possibility which was recently
looked upon as being almost a contract entered
into, is now believed TO have ended in what it
began-in smoke. The friends of both say that
it Is impossible to bring the two former friends
together again. Mir. Gilbert, in addition to his
serious Misunderstanding with Sir Arthur
Sullivan, has also had row with Alfred
CellIer.
THERE is a wonderful amount of excitement
among Pittsburg mothers just at present. Hun
dreds of doyecotes in both cities have been
futtered and the forthcoming baby show in
Harry DAVIS Fifth Avenue Museum is the
cause OF it all. Baby shows III any community
are unusual affairs and require very large ex-
penditure of tact to bring them to a successful
issue. Mr.. Davis has offered s., 500 in cash
prizes for his baby show during the week OF
April l3 while a number of Pittsburg mer-
chants have placed $500 of goods at the mana
gers disposal to be competed for in the show.
AT the Grand Opera House, the week of
April l3. Robert Fitzsimmons. of Australia,
will appear with Billy Woods, of Denver, and
spar for points in a three-round glove contest
unlike the usual exhibitions generally given of
the manly art. The champion will be supported
by a company picked from the leading artists
of the ope1atIc and vaudeville stage the CON-
pany, numbering q people, appearing in H.
Grattan Donnelly's comedy, Fashions" in
which Mr. Fitzsimmons and Mr.. Woods will be
introduced as appearing at a reception of the
Manhattan Club, first appearing as guests of
the club.