Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-20
STRAIGHT STAGE TIPS.

MANAGER CHARLES L. DAVIS is rehearsing
calvin Joslyn" in New York, and will start
upon the road next Monday.
RosINA Vokes Is singing q new song and
| dancing q new dance in her new comedy,
"The Paper Chase" which she has added to
her repertoire this year.
"Two OLD CRoN1Es" will be seen at Harris
| Theater next week. The company present.
| ing the comedy is said to be larger and bet
ter than on any previous presentation.
An extra matinee will be given at the
Grand Opera House tomorrow afternoon
columbus Day. at the regular matinee
| prices. The attraction Is "a Railroad
Ticket"
Ar the Duquesne Friday evening "Star
| SpaDgled Banner" and "Hail Columbia will
be given by the Dixey Company in the last
his inimitabie story Of the Discovery Of
America"
MANAGER HAYMAN, Of the Chas Frohman
Company, delights in Introducing people to
| the only leading lady in the business who
is really and truly under control Of her
nlanagers She is barely three feet high, is
little Ethel Black, but she is q wonderful
] little actress.
THE New York papers this week say that
The Boston Howard Athen@um Company,
which is playing at Tony PASTORS, is better
than ever Bertholdi, the wonderful equili-
brist, 10 still the chief star, but there are
lot OF new people In the company, which
comes. by the way, to the Grand Opera
House next week.
A NEW comedy of the type now prevalent
and popular was produced in Boston on
Monday. 1t is called "The Sportsman" and
it is big hit. The Charles Frohman Com
pany, which played "Mr Wilkinson's
Widows here last season. or the best part
OF II, Joseph Holland and George Drew
Ilny 4SAl1x Is dniY fhn
play.
NEW YORK does not appear to be overbur-
dened with theatrical novelties or plays Of
real importance this week. At the Broad
way Theater De Wolf Hopper has put on
'The Lady OF the Tiger" once more. This is
the comic opera Rosenfeld wrote for McCaull
long while ago, and Pittsburg has never
seen it. De Angels shares the comedy
honors with Hopper. A New York critic
complains that no one falls downstairs, does
skirt dance, or even sings q topical song IN
tion appears to have been Della Foxs return
to skirts, raspberry ice-colored ones at that,
with her waist under arm-pits.
THE only English star of prominence whom
Americans nave not seen will visit this
country shortly. This is Mrs. Bernard
Beere. Manager Marcus Mayer has lovely
woman in Mrs. Beere to show Americans.
She is said to have q most fascinating smile,
u
inches in height, Is said to resemble the
Rernhardt in her cat-like suppleness and
grace. Her eyes are gray, with laughter in
them usually when the actress Is at home,
and those who have heard her render bal
lad in a rich mezzo-soprano voice say that
she might easily have made her mark as
singer She will appear in Gas In q Looking
Glass" and Fedora"
THERE is little doubt but that "Imagina-
tion," which is to be done next week at the
Alvin Theater, will excite considerable
attention here. 1t rather shocked and thor
oughlY amused people in New York when
IL was produced there and since then ne , has
in 0ssss the of 2e
have been talking columns about
"Imaginationn and the theater where
it has been given has been packed. There
ness. Sydney Rosenfeld, the prolific adapt
er and writer wrote "Imagination." The
company which will appear in it next week
work. The chief object aimed at by "Im-
agination" is to make people laugh.
The performance of "The Mascot" at the
Duquesne Thenter pleases the majority,
but it puzzles q good many to account for
MIR. Dixey's exclusion of humor from the
first two-thirds of his impersonation. The
last act brings out both Dixey and Lennox
in the broadest of comedy, and is unques-
tionably the most enjoyed. Miss Gordon
has never sung so well here as in the part
or Beftf7ld; her voice mas mellOWed ana her
method has improved wonderfully, and in
fine she Is very near the ideal comic orera
artistic. Her singing last night was ex-
quisite. and the tenderness and glamor she
manages to put into the word "gobble' in
the famous duet is alone proof positive of
her skill as an actress as well as singer.
Signor Tagliapietra is delightful when he
sings. r's.
. pEo .
IT can be said with reason thatfew amuse-
ment enterprises will start out with brighter
prospects than the Manola-Mason Company,
of which John Mason and Marion Manola
are the stars. 1t is a venture the import
ance of which is not to be underrated, since
failure means relegation to the dreary
round of salaried existence, while
success means fame, friends and about
all that money can buy. Jack" who
despite his many successes has been looked
upon as somewhat of q dilettante, has
developed q busness-like earnestness ana
directness of purpose which is most inspir-
ing to his associates, and he is steadfastly
aided in every effort by the professional
and conjugal devotion Of his talented and
charming wife. These two shonld deserve
we'll of the amusement public They come
to the Duquesne for the coming week and
may good luck attend them.