Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-08
SOME THEATRICAL POINTERS.

HARRIS THEATER is drawing large audi
ences twice daily, the result of good show.
Regaloncita as a special attraction and judi
cious advertising on the part of the manage
ment.
AT Davis Museum-Theater the pres ent bill
is attractive, and q NUMBER of new features
are to be added next week. The wax works
are row in perfect running order. if the ex-
preston may be used, and nothing so good
as them in their way has been seen in the
city before.
THE intelligent way in which Mahomet,
the trained horse at the Worlds Museum,
answers all questions put to him is astonish-
ing everybody who goes there. Prot. Pro
hasco has given the animal wonderful
training. Mahomet is to stay over next
week, when Master Eddie Abbot, the boy
necromancer, will also appear.
JACK MASON and Marion Manola have made
q good start as joint stars. The pair pro-
duced William Young's new comedy and
Sydney Rosenfeld's new burlesque "Diana."
Both pieces are musical and Julian Edwards,
Dfgby Bells conductor last year and the
composer of the music for Jupiter" is said
to have written some charming songs for
Miss ManOla, which we shall have the pleas
ure of hearing this season.
"HAMLET" was given before a good-sized
audience at the Duquesne Theater last
night. Mr.. Keene's Hamlet is a remarkably
studied and artistic performance, although
it is not as good by any means as his erich
ard I'LL" Miss Burroughs Ophelid was de-
cidedly an improvement on her previous
efforts, and creditable to a novice. Miss
Vaders, as the Queen, was of course excel
lent The company is not, as whole, quite
competent for Hamlet" however; that is,
to give Shakespeare's masterpiece as it
should be given.
LONG life in the theatrical business is a
pretty good sign of merit, and Natural
Gas, (which comes TO the Bijou next week, is
one of the Oldest of the farce comedies now
on the road. Donnelly and Girard are still
the chief comedians of the piece, and they
are said to have spent their summer vaca-
tion finding new songs, new business and
new jokes with which they mean to enliven
the piece. Amy Ames, clever soubrette.
who originally helped to make Natural
Gas" a success has rejoined the organiZa-
tion. The rest OF the company is said to be
better than it was last year. and it is safe to
assume that this farce comedy will be as
amusing as in the past, and that means a
good deal, for the piece has made many
still In charge of the meter.
THE Grand Opera House will present its
first melodrama of the season next week. 1t
is ''The Vendetta" which was seen here last
year, and at that time won considerable
favor. 1t contains a stirring story of New
York life and some characters drawn from
tie region most favored by melodramatIc
writers in these days. namely, the river
front of the metropolis. OF course it has
startling scenic effects, for a melodrama
could little hope to achieve popularity with
out them. The chief of these is tableau
which shows full-rigged sailing ship in the
act of colliding with an ocean steamer. This
scene with its realistic terrors of the great
than it was last year. Mr.. Wilt is now fully
embarked upon his voyage as purveyor of
popular plays. He has arranged the prices
to suit his new patrons, and the Grand
Opera House bids fair to win new name
1or itself in this field.
THERE is apt to be laughter at the Alvin
Monday night when HalleR and Hart bring
forward for the first time in Pittsburg their
new piece, "The Idea" They have retired
"Later On" which was widely popular, for
this new piece written EXPIRE ssly for them,
and said to be fetching in all the bright and
varied details that go to make up healthy
farce comedy. Everything in the piece it
is said, will be brand new. Some 20 or more
songs and choruses, all of which are said to
be pretty and catchy, have been written for
the new play by Joseph Hart, who, by the
way, is co-author with Herbert Hall Wins
low I'm the composition OF the play. In the
company are the well-known names Of
Mollie Fuller, John McWade, Alice Garlic AL
Wilson. Fannie Bloodgood, Carrie DeMar,
Donald Harold, Mabel Nichols Lula Nichols,
e.
Adelaide Crawford, W. S. Francis, George
O'Donald and several others as we'll known
and liked.
THE chief humorous figure in ''The Little
Tycoon,''it will be remembered, was General
Knickerbocker, when R. E. Graham played
the part, but at last Mr.. Graham has tired or
impersonating that eccentric person and
this year comes out in a character created
by himself. He has written what ne calls an
operate comedy called "Larry the Lord. /"
1t is an ambitious musical affair, for 1t con-
tains no less than "a songs and other mum.
bers. But Mr.. Graham knows as we'll as
anybody that in things of this sort a good
deal besides music is needed. SO he has pro-
vided it with some remarkable scenery in
cludlng boat-racng scene and panoramic
view in which electrical effects are said to
be used with great advantage. But of course
what the public wants most of all is good
acting. Mr. Graham himself is o comedian
OF uncommon ability. He possesses the rare
art oi being funny without making himself a
clown, anc can sing comic song as well as
any man in the land-you remember how
popular he made >"You Can't Do 1t You
Know" He has surrounded himself with a