Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-13
STRAIGHT STAGE TIPS.

| THEATRICAL business Is improving sUedu
| lily. Last night standing room was at q pre-
MUM ut the Alvin and Duquesne Theaters
and the other houses were well attended.
THE main attraction next week at Harry
| Davis Eden Musee will be Marquis, q won
| derful stallion with elongated name and
| tail. The gypsies made such a hit that they
| are re-engaged for another week, and IN the
theater big minstrel show is to appear.
| MANAGER CHARLES L. DAVIS has torn him
self away from his beloved Alvin. and is re.
hearsing for his tour in calvin Joslyh" at
| New York. He carries q good load OF
friendly wishes with him, and THE DISPATCH
| will advise Pittsburgers of Alvin JostyDS ap-
| proach betimes.
THE arrangements for the monster benefit
of the Press Club at the DuQuesne Thenter
on Friday. November is, are nearing conl-
| pletion. No such elaborate programme has
ever been laid out for a benefit in this city
before. 1t will be the biggest theatrical
feast of the season beyond u doubt.
'THE RANCH KING" is pleasing large audi
ences at the Worlds Museum Theater. 1t
has really good cast, and the stage effects
are startling. Next week the company will
give Myrtle Ferns" melodrama in which
a realistic water scene will occur. showing
Mr.. Clitton's mechanical working boat.
A NEW farce comedy called "a Railroad
Ticket" which has been making some little
uOlSe else Wnere, Is neAG week dIurdCtlou l9
the Grand Opera House. 1t is said to be q
novelty all through. The principal sceue ls
laid in ticket brokers Office, and the score
of comedians in the piece are said to get
good deal of fun out of it. Special scenery
an d mechanical effects are promised.
AT Harris Theater next week the popular
character actor and comedian, Daniel A.
Kelly, will appear in the sensational melo-
drama, "The Shadow Detective Mr.. Kelly
assumes three different characters during
the play, successfully an Irish policeman,
an Italian and Il Yankee farmer. The scenic
effects are good, showing the full workings
OF block signal system. Miss uelen DE smond
plays the heroine.
HENRY E. DIXEY is gradually slipping back
into Adonis. and Pittsburg will be privileged
next week to see this graceful comedian in
the intermediate stage. He will revive
Audran's tuneful comic opera "The Mascot"
which ran q long while this summer in New
York, and, from the names of his principal
supporters, it appears probable that it will
be the best performance of "The Mascot"
Pittsburg has seen in years.
THEY have rule Mt Harris Theater for
bidding admission to barefooted boys. A
few nights ago newsy, whose feet were in
nocent of any covering, borrowed q chum's
shoes and gaily assembled to the gallery.
Once there he slipped out upon the fire
escape, and, taking off the shoes, dropped
ing on the Fifth avenue pavement below.
The shoes reached the ground So felv, but
scared the pedestrians badly among whom
they fell.
SEVERAL years ago, before the Boston
Ideals went out of existence, Il dainty little
singer, with a sweet and we'll trained voice.
made her debut on Pittsburg stage in
"Mignon," and scored success. Later she
was one of the first Maid MdridnS Pittsburg
saw in Robin Hood" Since then we have
lost sight of Juliette Corden, but she will be
Betti1d in Dlxeys production of THE Mas
cot" next week at the Duquesne. Miss
Yolande Wallace, Signor aghapietra, Fred
Lennox, Harold Blake and others are in the
cast.
PITTsBURa laughed pretty heartily at
"Wfkinsons Widows" last season. and next
week a companion piece from the same
author, Bisson, will be played at the Alvin
TEeater. 1t has been translated into Amer.
lean by Rosenfeld, and is entitled "The
Family Circle" The company gathered by
Charles Frohman is undoubtedly strong,
and among other good actors in the cast is
w. II. Thompson, who was such n brilliant
Family Circle" had run of 100 nights in
Boston and has made good deal OF laugh
ter elsewhere.
WHEN "The Isle of Champagne" was here it
will be remembered that q horse of singular
decrepitude and decorated with straw cham
pagne bottle envelopes was q feature of
the finale in Act II. One night the boy who
had charge of the steed tethered it to an
empty barrel and slipped through the stage
door to get a peep at the show. The horse
had enough life in it to scare at the discharge
of a gun in the opera, and finding nothing
heavier than a barrel to prevent its flight,
started off on starring tour then and there.
No horse appeared on the DuQuesEe stage
that night, but q frightful vision resembling
nu pl Nj thfa
Point then and dawn. Next morning q
policeman found the curiously ornamented
animal on the river bank Tins week they
are using another travcsty upon horse flesh
in "a Temperance Town." but as yet it has
kept to the beaten track as an actor.
The Armstrong European Novelty Com
pany came to Manager Willis rescue at the
Grand Opera House yesterday. The doors
were opened for the first time this week at
the matinee. The Armstrong Company gives
a performance which keeps to the beaten
track of vaudeville, and is quite rs good as
the common run OF variety entertainments.
Hamilton and Glynn are II little better than
the average musical comedians, that is they
play better on the banjo and VIOLIN 1
They got deserved encore for clever
dancing were good, ii their slangy song
was not. Miss Emile Pearl sang with
unusual power and feelinga couple of songs,
the iatter OF them, My sweetheart's the
modern popular song. The greater part of
its air is stolen from Comm -Thro' the
Rye" The knockabout trapeze act or
Basco and Roberts showed their agility, but
was marred by vulgarity particularly out
of place before au audience composed
largely of ladies. Other acts good in their
way were Frank Riley's dancing. Reto's
elastic movements on the silver pedestal
ladder, John J. Sheehan's songs, the funny
and dancing frolic of Harry Edwards and
Daisy kernell, and Ramla and Amos gro
tesQue work.