Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-18
viii be all right in time to eat bis Christmas

will be all right in time to eat his Christmas
dinner in PittSourg.
Mr.. Keogh, one of Baroness Blanc's man.
ayers, has had useful experience with Lily
Langtry, and he will have a chance to ex'
plot his new star in New York Tor the next
week before she opens there.
Tho gentleman who puts up the money for
theatrical venture Is known to the pro-
fession as ''an angel" and City Passenger
Agent A. F. Read, of the Pennsylvania lines,
has happily called the little pocket hand
book of Pittsburg issued b. Mr.. Moody's de-
partment by that name. The book contains
lot of useful information Tor theatrical
men, including very good miniature map
of Pittsburg. 1t is IAN anger' that can be
touched constantly and will always give up.
The Christmas number OF the Dramatic
Netus is a beauty from the wintry scene on
Broadway outside Daly's Theater on its
first cover to the pictured tableau from"Th
Fencing Master which forms It's back
cover Between the covers are lots OF good
stories, sketches and poems, pictures OF
pretty women and actors great and small.
capital poem by Eugene Field recalls the
"palmy days OF the drama" when eve we're
Roman soldiers with Brutus in St. Jo." One
of the best stories is by "Macon" McCor-
mick, which tells OF n not infreQuent cpl
sode IN newspaperman's life. Lean
der Richardson has capital tale
called "a Tenderfoot's Midnight Ride" and
there are Characteristic bits by the Hon.
Charles II. Hoyt, Nat Goodwin, Stuart ROD
son, Nym Crinkle and other well-known
advertisements, OF which there are several
tons, afford E. good idea of how big stage
land has grown to be.
A mighty pretty girl invites you to see
what Is behind her in the Christmas number
OF the New York Dr0Hldtfc 4hiTToy, through
the ornamental cover of which her face ap-
pears to have broken through. 1t is not
deceiving you, either, for the contents OF
the holiday ediGicn are certainly II literary
and artistic feast. Tie Illustrations include
an unusual variety OF subjects, not wholly
theatrical, but chiefly done by actors
or people connected with the stage.
They are mostly very good, and the por-
traits o. prominent actors and actresses are
especially fine. The stories and sketches
include contributions from Ada Lewis
Harrison Gray Fiske, Charles Barnard, Burr
Mcintosh and a host of other clever people.
The portrait of the inimitsble Burr is
speaking one, ana the story he tells seems
TO refer to the talented and lovely woman,
Miss Jennie A. Eustace, whose picture
adorns an adjoining page.
Tie foreign sensation Tor this season prom
fses to be Eleanora Duse, the Italian TRACE
dienne who visits this country In January.
She will be under the management OF Carl
and Theodore Rosenfeld, the Lilliputians'
managers. She Is said to be greater actress
than Bernhardt. The fact that she will play
in Italian is a drawback.
New York has echoed Pittsburg's verdict
upon THE Prodigal Father" the farce
comedy produced here last summer. The
Dramatic Mirror says: 1T may pass muster
in primitive communities but not on Broad
way" Sill nanY things satisfy New York
that affriLht the primitive" provinces.
The success Of Byron Douglass in good
but by no means easy part Is llkely TO orlng
that young man to the front very quickly.
There are very few good looking men who
can act, by the way. HEPBURN JOHNS.