Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-22
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JOSEPH JEFFERSON, it is said, will ~ among
the first-nighters to see "The Prodigal
Father"
PRoF. BYRON w KINGS school of oratory
has rented the Grand Opera House for week
of June g.
JOHN H RUSSELL and Amelia Glover were
married in New York last Tuesday and
sailed for Europe
wM STUART, the talented young Pittsburg-
er is a member of Miss Marlowe's company,
who has won many favorable notices.
THE popular comedian, Daniel A. Kelly,
will return the week of May 80 to Harris
Theater. in his new sensational melodrama,
"After Seven Years"
RUTH CARPENTER, whose beauty and sweet
ness made such a favorable impression
when she was here with 'The Ensign" is to
play a character of great Importance in
1.-THE Prodigal Father"
WHEN Mr. Robert Mantell opens the fal
season at the Twenty-third Street Theater,
New York, he will be seen, during his en-
gagement, in at least two new plays. He
also proposes to give magnificent revival
of Hamlet"
In some respects W. II. Thompson, who is
to create the title role in "The Prodigal
Father" this week, is genius of remark
ably high order. He can originate eccentric
characters down to fine details, that make it
seem life like.
THERE is considerable curiosity to see
what constitutes the peculiar charm of ''La
Regaloncita," the child actress who plays in
"The Prodigal Father" and whose facina-
tion of New York society was sensation of
the past season.
THE railroad bridge scene and that Of the
fire house, with its stamping horses and
engine stack pouring out clouds of smoke
and red-hot cinders, are two of the features
in ''The Midnight Alarm" which is the next
attraction at the Grand Opera House and
closes the regular season.
BYRNE & HARRIsoN's opera in three acts
entitled 1.-The Isle of Champagne" was pro-
duced for the first time at Buffalo last Mon
day, and made an unequivocal and pro-
nounced success, Thomas Q. Se8Drooke,
Webster Allen, Otis Harlan, Lee Harrison
and Eugene O'Rourke scoring hits. Next
Sunday it begins summer run at the Grand
Opera House in Chicago.
On Monday evening the attaches of the
Alvin Theater will be rendered benefit by
Manager Charles L. Davis and Messrs Jeffer-
son, Klaw & Erlanger on which occasion the
McDonough's new comedy, "The Prodigal
Father" will be given The sale OF tickets
has been very large and the benefit should
be success.
HERE'S food for the superstitious: Wafte's
Comedy Company, Premium Band and Or
chestra opened their season on Friday,
August 1S. On November 13 their bill trunks
and paper were destroyed by fire in rail-
road wreck and the agent seriously injured
On Friday, May IS, the Grand Opera House
at Hazleton, Pa, was destroyed by fire, in
which the entire properly of the company
was destroyed.
The Windsor Kennel has sent to j. K
Emmet to notify him that they are in pos
session of a st. Bernard dog 21& inches
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by the late j. K. Emmett. They want EI 900
down for him. He is the son of full
brother to the other dog. Mr. Emmett has
cabled them that il as represented he will
take the dog. 1t is only Is months old and
considered as fine a specimen as there is in
the world. The dog will undoubtedly be
seen next year in "Fritz in Ireland"
THE final smash-up of Charles E. Locke
and the Emma Juch Opera Company is re-
ported from San Francisco. 1t is about the
eighteenth disaster OF this kind that has oc-
CURED to Mr.. Locke this season, ana it was
much more impressive to that amiable and
seductive manager by creditor who hit him
with something harder than his cheek upon
the head. Miss Juch says that her season
has been succession of magnificent success
ses and failures, but the last-named surely
must have been in the majority.
The many friends in this city of Burr Mo
1ntOsh will be pleased to learn OF the sue
cess OF his hrst effort at playwriting-a
one-act comedietta entitled "WhyP" which
is used by the De Lange and Rising company
as a curtain-raiser, preceding the laughable
comedy Tangled Up" which will be seen
at the Bjou this week. Its story deals with
a wager between Jim Blank and Jack Brown
that the former cannot remain in the room
half an hour and utter no word except
why without giving offense to the Browns.
Blank Is the accepted suitor of Marguerite
Brown. While undergoing the test the
father, mother, and finally the sweetheart
Decome alienated. Blank only saving him
self at the last moment by forfeiting his
wager.
The Lilliputians will open a weeks engage
ment at the Alvin Theater on Monday, May
3d. These little actors have presented "The
Pupil in Magic" their brilliant spectacular
play, for more than 200 nights at the Metro
politan Opera House, at Nfblo's and other
spacious metropolitan theaters. The play