Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-01
PLAYS TO COME.

HARRY WILLIAMS Academy has q strong
attraction booked for next week.
In spite of the interference of constab!es
with Mr.. Edwards, the Homestead workman,
whose children are such strong musical at
fractions, the Worlds Museum has done a
rattling business this week. Among the
novelties for next week will be the Goat
Paradox and Mahomet, q horse that under
stands six languages, and is rather more in
tellectual than the average man. The orig
inal Bostonian Variety Company will be in
the theater.
MANAGER HARRY DAVIS has his hands full
these days. His Harrisburg museum opened
on Monday last. and is reported to be doing
a wonderful business. The other houses at
Johnstown and Altoona will open next
week The wax works at Mr.. Davis Eden
Musee in this city are attracting much favor
able attention. By the way, "NeIsonia," +" who
is exhibiting here this week, is a remarkable
traveller, and he can show date book which
proves that he has travelled over 169, 900
miles during his professional career.
THE lobby Of the Duquesne Theater is
being painted in rich shades of an inde-
scribable,color, that is a brown and yet not
brown, and so bright that it ap-
proaches something warmer. The boxes
within are being retouched and new
curtains are being hung in them,
so that the little theatre when it re-
opens on Monday will be prettier than ever.
W..
here with Richard ILL.," and follows with
"Richelieu" TUESDAY evening, Hamlet"
Wednesday, Louis XI" Thursday:
Saturday matinee and Richard I'LL" Satur-
day night Box Office now open.
"THE CHARITY BALL." with a strong metro
politan cast ana under the management of
Daniel Frohman, of the Lyceum t. eater,
New York, will be the attraction to open the
Alvin on September s. The well-known ex-
cellence of companies bearing the Frohman
name has caused that name to be regarded
as a sort of trade mark, and "The Charity
Ball. on its visit here last season fully kept
up its reputation. This year the company is
said to be even stronger than then. 1t has
had weeks of careful rehearsal under the
watchful eve of Manager Frohman himself,
and with its entirely new scenery and hand
some costuming ought to make the Alvins
opening on Monday quite an event.
THE first important novelty of the season
will be seen at the Grand Opera House on
Monday next. 1t is an extravaganza called
"Telephonia," written by Lou Leubrie. A
GOOD deal of stress is laid upon the scenery
for this production, Mr. Seavy having
painted series of accurate pictures OF
Genoa, Italy and Palos, the port from which
Columbus sailed, and finally of our own
beloved Coney Island. To finish with, there
is a grand transformation scene. Further
than this, telephone" is something of q
sealed book, but it is probably safe to ex-
pect liberal display of feminine beauty
and perhaps a ballet, for an extravaganza
without fair damsels and lots of dancing is
apt to be penitential performance.
THERE is no mistake about it. 1.-THE
Limited Mail" last season made the biggest
hit of aIl the railroad plays. Without ques
tioning the sensational merits OF this play
it is safe to say that it oweda considerable
part Of its success to the effective boosting
it received from Elmer Vance's friends and
co-workers, the telegraphers an over tho
country. Mr.. Vance has the reputation OF
being one of the fsstest operators in Amer
ica, and wherever he went with his play
last year the news would flash along the
wires from one telegraph office to another,
and every operator would become an active
advance agent fer the melodrama. 1t was
seen here last season and pleased Q great
many people, and when 1t comes to the
Bijou next week it will contain all the elec-
trical effects it had last season and among
some novelties the child actress, Beatrice,
who is said to be a remarkable dancer.
There will be a special matinee on Monday,
Labor Day, as well as the regular matinees
on Wednesday and Saturday.