Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-27
Stage Whispers.

| DAN suLLY in 1.-THE Millionaire" IS booked
for an early date at the Grand.
| FRED SOLOMON leaves the Casino and Join,
the Pauline Hall Company May l.
MRS. JOHN DREW is Is years old, and will
not travel with Mr. Jefferson next season.
Rose CoaHLAN will play "Lady Barter" and
'Nance Oldfeld" at the Duquesne next
week.
| MISS FLORENCE ST. JoHN has been engaged
by Rudolph Aronson as prima donna OF the
Casino for the next season.
| The Spark Comedy Company next week
at the Grand, will present . new musf.
cal comedy, 1.-THE Boomer"
| "sH1P AHoY." that amusing musical farce
comedy, comes to the Alvin Theater next
week, with a strong company.
DAVID HENDERSON, of the Duquesne, is in
New York preparing for the production of
'Sfnbad" at the Garden Theater.
MAY day Is coming and OF all the 45 regular
play houses in and around New York, Nfblo's
Garden is the only one "to let," as e. G.
Gilmore retfres May l.
THE Theatrical Attaches Onion NO. Ell
will have. q benefit at the Alvin next Friday,
with 100 volunteers on the bill. Tho advance
sale begins Tuesday at Ecker'a
TIE Boston Howard Atheneum Company
will be seen here next month, and among
other novelties will present Miss Ena Ber-
toldt, remarkable contortionist.
LOUISE. .ALLEN, the great kangaroo dancer
Of the "Hoss and Hoss" company was i'll
when the farce comedy was presented here
earlier in the season. She Is entirely at her.
self again and can kick with her accustomed
grace and agility.
MINNIE sEL1exAN is having all sorts of
praises showered upon her by the New York
papers. It is creditable to Pittsburg that
her ability was recognized here at once,
while New York required four years to
reach the same point
The best and brightest farce comedy ever
written by Hoyt is said to be "a Texas
comedy but has cast the play with the best
company that has ever yet been seen in q
Hoyt & Thomas organization.
M HILL has purchased a comic opera
called 1.-THE. Fencing Master" music by
Reginald De Koven, book by Harry B.
at $500 week, and George sweet, the bari
tone. will also be in the cast.
OSCAR, the WILDE is now using . green
flower in his buttonhole. 1t is a white car
nation dipped in sulphuric acid, or Some.
thing of that sort, the effect being to make
Could anything be more monstrous7 A dyed
flower! ....-.
The inipitable Bill Nye and his popular
coadjutor, MI. Burbank, will dispense
humor and pathos at Old City Hall April 9.
The fun of the former is just as good from
the platform as from the printed page, and
the latter has few equals as q dramatic |
entertainer. i
B., u. STEVENS, the manager Of Dewolf |
Hopper and his company, is at present in |
New York City, attending to the initial de- |
tails of the big comedians new opera.
which is to receive its premier presentation,
at the Broadway Theater in that oity, about |
the middle Of next August. Stevens is very |
enthusiastic, and Is confident that Hopper |
will have another winner rs big as wang" |
has proven to be.
SIR ARTHUR SULLrvAN's music to 'The For: |
esters'' is highly commended, although It Is |
said that many large outs have been made |
in tho score as used in the New York pro- |
duction. Sir Arthur, who II still at La |
Turbie, his villa at Monte Carlo. has com |
pleted the score Of his new comic opera, |
which viii probably be put in rehearsal by |
n. Cara - . vszy s6kly dass. He has i