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

IT will cost Sara Bernhardt about 8, 900 to
get her dogs to Australia.
"THE LITTLE RECRUIT, "a new military play,
will be seen at the Bijou in June.
ROSE CoGHLAN is preparing for the produc-
ton of her brothers new play, 1.-THE Gray
Mare"
TEERE are to be eight comio opera COM
panies in New York this summ.r, and Pitts
burg may have one.
RICHARD MANSFIELD denies emphatically
that he is to marry Beatrice Cameron. Why
SO much emphasis?
MRS. LANGrRy has closed the London Prin-
cess Theater, and has signed to appear in
Aug. Harris revival of "Formosa" at the
Drury Lane.
VIOLA ALLEN will originate the leading
part in "T Pickering Pick" the new piece
that Mrs. Bowers will shortly produce ex-
perimentally.
MINNA GALE, who is to be one of next sea-
sons stars, has secured from the widow of
Lawrence Barrett Oscar Wilde's tragedy,
Guido Ferranti."
EDWARD SOLOMON and D'Oyly Carte have
quarreled about the terms of the new opera
for the London Savoy Theater, and its pro-
duction has been deferred.
"wANe" and De Wolf Hopper are packing
the Broadway Theater. Manager Ben
tions to celebrate the one hundred and
flftieth performance.
RICHARD MANSFIELD will next week pro-
duce his "Don JUAN" which he says is orig
inal, although indebted for much of it to
Moliere and Merimee to Lord Byron and
Dumas pere. Mr.. Mansfield will himself
appear as Don Juan de Mariana.
"THE CLEMENoEAU CASE" will follow the
Midnight Alarm" at the Bijou. Columns
1ou haa ho1 fl1o =
play, and Pittsburg will have chance to
judge it. 1t is promised that the play will
be presented by the original New York cast,
with Sibyl Johnstone as la.
ONE of the realistic scenes in ''The Struggle
of Life" in which Frederic Paulding is to
star next season will show st. Patricks
Cathedral on Fifth avenue, New York. There
companied by grand organ The solos are
to be sung by a popular prima donna.
Richard Marston, Of Palmerfs Theater, is
painting the scene.
STUART RoBsoN's season at the Union
Square Theater ends May 80, when the great
comedian will at once join his grandchil-
dren at Cohasset Next season he will re-
vive "She Stoops to Conquer" and probably
stage Buckstone's old comedy Married
Life" '1s Marriage a Failure?" will be
given instead of "The Henrietta" in New
York. Philadelphia, Chicago and Boston.
SHAKEsPEARE's birthday passed by in Lon
don unnoticed, except that DR.. Bridge, the
organist of the Abbey, lectured in the even
ing on the music applicable to the plays;
while some one performedon Shylock's wry-
necked fife, upon q cleopatra flute recently
found in the wraps of a mummy, and a
chorister charmingly sang one of Shake
speare's EliZabethan melodies.
A VALUABLE mastiff owned by Marie VAIN
wright, and which had been the companion
of her daughter, who is attending school at
Norwalk, Conn.,, died May 5 of acute bron-
chitis. 1t was placed in a handsome casket
and buried in the afternoon of the 9Th under
an old apple tree on the school grounds. It
was the pet of the pupils, and they followed
the casket to the grave, which they strewed
with flowers
MARGARET MATHER and Otis Skinner sailed
for England May z. Miss Mather's trip is
purely on business which chiefly concerns
the purchase Of a new spectacular drama by
French author. Twenty-four hours before
she sailed Miss Mather made a very impor-
tant engagement. Joseph j. Levy, who was
Lawrence Barrett's lieutenant and faithful
agent for great many years, contracted to
manage Miss Mathers tour next season.