Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-25
bill. when 'The Boy Tramp will be played.
Current Comment.

Current Comment.
1t pays to produce wholesome plays es-
pecially If they be we'll constructed also
and brimming over with honest fun. with
here and there melting shadow Of patho-.
which is the case with "Kiliarney."
"The Hole In the Ground is getting just
trifie stale, and truth to tell it was not
acted as we'll at the Duquesne last week as
it has been in former years. The company
is to be strengthened materially at once.
Mr.. Lawton remains, of course, a pill ar of
strength, and his whistling is certainly more
wonderful than ever.
Without rejecting upon anybody in par
t1cular 1t must be said that the attractions
at all of our theaters up Co date this season
have been what the gentlemen up in the toi
gallery would call 20 tr fle yellow"
see that Chauncev Olcott, the tenor VIII.
made such good impression here two year
ago in comic opera. will play Scanlan's par
IN "Mavourneen." Mr.. Oicott is one
In fact, since he was last here he has made
hit as an eccentric comedian in London.
He ought to prove quite equal to taking the
place OF Scanlan.
The appea ance o. Mr.. Drew in Chicago
before he makes his first bow as star 20
New York audience has filed the people oil
the Windy City with great giee. The
Chfcagoans point out tnat this shows that
New York IL dropping behind Chical o as
theatrical center. A New York paper puts
another face upon the matter, snd says tina
Manager Fronman is "tryiIg it on a dog"
when he produces "The Masked Ball" in
Chicago.
1t is a noteworthy fulfillment of what has
been frequently predicted in these columns
that Henry q. Dixey has made real success
with his revivals of Gilbert and Sullivun's
operas at Palner's Thenter this summer.
Reginald DeKoven, the composer, is an
optimist. He believes that an immense
amount of cultivation is going on in all
classes, and that as result people are get
hOrSa-tIlAU
want light music set to light libretto. He
also thinks the day is coming when II hit
opera will be produced in grand opera style.
Mr.. DeKoven certainly deserves ere lit for
helping along the desirable contamination
he outlines. His "Robin Hood is the best
comic opera yet written and this fall two
"Knickerbockers" and ''The Fencing Mas.
ter" In tho latter piece he thinks there
will be the stron est trio Of female voices
ever heard In light opera. The opera will
certainly have the best comic opera artist
on our stage in the person OF Marie
Tempest.
In spite of the savage criticism launched
against her by some OF the Olympian critics
in New York, Lottie Collins, They tell me
has made a great hit with her terrible TIA
ra-ra- -boom-de-ay." She sang several extra
verses to the song on the first night in all1-
sion to her detention in Quarantine and in
spite OF their frightful quality tney caught
the house. Here Is a specimen verse:
DR.. jenkins, bright and gay, met us in the lower
Said h..mMy friends. you'll have to stay to see If
A pretty plight you must admit but still it
plagued Us not bit,
We said It's only for day. let's sing to pass the
1a-ra-ra booIn-de-ay.
Lillian Russell is lucky woman. 80 comic
opera star has ever had such superb backing
as Mr. French is giving to the lovely Lillian.
When she opened for the season in San
Francisco last Thursday night she WAS sur.
rounded by such artists as c. Hayden
Coffin, the English ten or, whose voice is said
to be even equal to his captivating powers
rison, Charles DUNCAN and others of like
prominence.
Everv actor and manager who comes here
from Philadelphia is boiling mad about the
results OF the war between certan managers
and newspapers in the Quaker City. No
matter what the merits OF fight are, the
visiting attractions are getting long way
do when the wicked fail out. Philadelphia
has long been known as sickly city. theat-
really speaking, but now, according to all
accounts, it is practically dead, and the poor
Il aveling actors and managers are having to
paw Tor the uneral.
It seems to be q race between Mrs. Pot er
and Mrs. Langtry to see who shall get t"e
na-tiest play. Mrs. Potter. still accompanied
by Kyrle Beilew, reap cared after four years
absence rom this country at Boston last
week. Her plav, "Therese," seems to he rs
gloomy and offensive as the novel of Zola
ing thing about the production is that the
critics admit that Mrs. Potter is O great deal
beNer actress than when she was last seen
in America. She could lie without settinL
the stage on fire. The pleasant quality of
Mrs. Langtry's new play, "The Queen of