Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-27

| sons productions. The story told by the
play is said to be a transcript from the
| pages of everyday life, and in an unobtru-
sive way points an impressive moral teach
| ing wholesome lesson and striking at one
| of the salient evils of the day-the money
getting craze. Its characters are real per-
sonages and Its story one that although fa-
miliar never loses its interest 1t is said to
! be particularly strong in natural and effec-
| tive dialogue, interesting and amusing in
| its comedy, and at no time is the charm of
fre fne s56ory t6a ordnn1 s5rned depaTtgre
- 1t comes under the classification of a
| society play dealing with contemporaneous
| topics and events, touches the lives and
| interests that the beholder knows exist
! The evils of lhe modern rush and reckless
| ness in business are held up to view and the
| curse of the money fever, the phantom of
| speculation, the reckless course of living
snch life entails, the dangers that beset
Wall street, the anguish and agony that fol-
low on rum ana the breaking up of home
Is the central idea of the play and all pre-
sented in simple, natural and effective
manner.
The playis said to present nothing new
IN dramnt1c ethics, being built simply on
truth. Nothing falls down or explodes,
moth ng runs off the track; there is no buzz
saw, saw, real engines or tanks, and yet the mer-
American in theme and from the pen of
Martha Morton, a New York girl, who was
fortunate in having her second at-
offered by New York newspaper,
ana thus early in her career has been more
successful than any female dramatist The
cast includes these actors: Mr.. John Glen
ginning MIR. Cuyler Hastings, Mr.. Frank B.
Hatch, Mr.. Edward Poland, Mr.. Eugene
Sanger; Mr.: W. B: Murray, Mr.. J. H. Ferris,
MOS Mr; e. w W. Pike Mr. R. c. Gilbert ~ MI: H.
Carrie Radcliffe, Anna Cowell, Marie Dantes.
Manager Davis is entitled to the very
| highest praise for the theater; 1t is beyond
everything that Pittsburgers expected. It
| will be some days, or perhaps weeks, before
the house is quite what Mr.. Davis intends it
shall be.
By the way, in the matter Of acoustics in
the new house, Mr.. Davis had better urge
actors to test their voices in tho theater on
| the first nights Last week several members
| OF Miss Halls company failed to make them
| selves heard ten rows away from the stage.
There seems to be point in the parquet-
| the last row-from which it is particularly
hard to hear, but it may have been the lack
OF force in the actors voices that gave me
this impression. 1t is worth Mr.. Davis
while to inquire into this.
There fs something about the name Tony
| Pastor that brings balm to the soul Of the
| lover of variety shows, and 1t is safe to say
| that there is no more popular attraction
| than Tony Pastors company, which comes
| to Harry Williams Academy this week. Mr.
Pastor himself heads the cohort, and his
songs are said to be new and telling. The
| only Maggie Cline as usual is to the front
| with bouquet of her own peculiar ballads.
Some of the others are: The Schallers, gro
tesque acrobats; the LIE Blanche sisters,
who dance and sing; the transatlantic come
dian, John e. Drew, and Conroy and Fox,
with Irish songs and dances.
Managers here should be careful to avoid
the mistake of flithographing too freely. The
lithograph and free pass system has been
overworked in Pittsburg of late, with the
consequence that decided disinclination
to paying for seats is becoming general.
If managers but knew it, the money they in
vest dii ectly in Autographs and indirectly
in passes is the most wasteful system Of ad-
vertising imaginable. The same money put
into advertisements in good newspapers
would bring quick returns without max
ing a large part of the community pro-
fessional deadheads at the theater.
The popularity Of the Worlds Museum
Theater is not to be wonde red at when the
entertainments presented each week are
taken into consideration. The coming week
will be no exception to this rule, as the man.
agement have engaged Carl Brehm's we'll
known company to produce that ever popu-
lar drama, "Ten Nights in q Barroom."
This company has made quite reputation
in this particular drama. making, in fact, a
specially of producing it every night and
being engaged by Mr Brehm for their Mt
ness in each particular part All the
beautiful tableauX, scenery, ETC., incidental
to the play are new this season. A hand
somely uniformed brass band travels with
| the company and will give open air concerts
in front of the "World's' every evening dur
ing the week. In the curio hall that famous
strels, Ando Mitikiki will be seen, and Prof
Charles Smith and his wonderfully educated
goat, truly remarkable animal, as well as
many other attractions, and the speciality
performance, which is always given on
bijou stage in the curio hall, makes, all COM
bined, big list of irst-class attractions for
such small sum as 10 cents.
cableg ram to The DISPATCH from Lon
don last night says: Lord Tennyson, the
Poet Laureate, has just completed the first
work he has ever written for the stage, and
Augustin Daily has secured its exclusive
acting rights. The Poet Laureate's play is
three-act comedy. with parts specially de-
signed for Ada Rehan, John Drew and
James Lewis. 1t will not be printed until
after it has received its first public repre-
sentation, which will take place i'll New York
during the coming winter. AuguStin Daily
and Ada Rehan visited Lord Tennyson's
house, Aldworth, near Haslemere, Surrey,
on Thursday last. After lunch Lord Tenny-
of his comedy to his two guests, especially
dwelling up those designed for Miss Rehan,
who was delighted with her part.
Notwithstanding the warm weather of the
past week and the number of counter at
fractions, Harry Davis Fifth Avenue Mu-
seum-Th eater has had large audiences. For
this week the Bijou Quartet, an organiza-
tion that has created q furore in London and
New York has been specially engaged. The
FitZsimmons cell. bars, steel saws, photo
graphs letters, furniture, etc, will be on
view. with Colonel Cooper, the 9-foot giant,
jerome, the contortionist, and four or five
other clever artists In the theater an hour
pices of Frazier and Bunnell's Olympians.
The company comprises number of we'll
known singers, dancers. acrobats, jugglers,
etc. The free concerts by the Hungarian
Gipsy Band on the balcony every afternoon
and evening, are strong attraction.
At Harris Theater this week Tho Hearts
of New York" thrilling meIodrama, will
be given. 1t is said to be full of sensations
and scenic wonders, as well as other good
things.
The engagement of Miss Ellsler in 'rHazel
Kirke" at the Grand Opera House was an
artistic and financial success, and the lat
ter result is wonderful considering the hot
weather = Mr.. Couldock's admirable work
was greatly appreciated.
The new plays of the week produced in
New York do not count in their number any
remarkable success. A correspondent
writes: "Nero," an Italian drama in five
acts, by Cossa and Gezoletti and worded
into English for Richard Mansfield by T.
Russell Sullivan, was produced at the Gar
den Theater on Monday before a small au-
dience. The play is consistent, dignified
and on the whole well written. Mr.. Mans
fields Nero is the jaded, vicious, cGllous
cowardly Caesar handed down by history TO
iynominy-a Cesar whose bestial instincts