Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-29
Stage WhIsDerg.


the direction of Frank L. Perley and J. J.
Buckley.
ADA GRAY, in the famous emotional drama
EAST Lynne" will be the attraction at Har.
ris' Theater for the week commencing
June g.
CHARLES BowsKR made a hit in Philadel.
phia last week as Jefferson Boomer in Helen
Barry's new play, Her Ladyship," written
by II. Grattan Donnelly.
SIDNEY RosENFELD seems to have written
a real success in Imagination" farcical
comedy produced a. the Fourteenth Street
Theater last Monday in New York.
ED COLLIER is authority for the statement
that Helena Golfers high kick in the kang.
aroo dance reaches an altitude of s feet 2
inches. He declares it is "out OF sight"
The winners of the handsomest baby and
mother in the Davis Museum contest last
week will be announced in Monday morn
ing's papers. More than 80, 600 votes were
cast.
LITTLE theater will be opened on the first
story of the Eiffel Tower in Paris June l.
There will be Sunday matinees. CASTOR An
nan Cailhavel is writing revue, Paris en-
rAir lor the new venture.
HENRY IRVING has again made a change in
his plans, and has decided to underline
king Lear for his next production. Ellen
Terry, OF course, will play Cordeiiu. Original
incidental music will be composed by Ham,
ilton Clarke.
THE "Colleen Bawn" was written by Dion
Boucicault, from Geral d Grifln's story of
"The Coliegians," in nine days: the haste of
the work being inspired by successive fail
ures at Laura Keene's Theater and the i'm
mediate necessity for q new drama at that
house.
WILLIAM STUART, of the Julia Marlowe
Company. has won q great deal of praise for
his Claudio in "Much Ado About Nothing"
Mr.. Stuart is Pittsburg boy, and all of his
many friends are pleased at his success. He
will remain in Miss Marlowe's company
next season.
ROBERT GRIFFIN MORRIS says that he wrote
1.-THE Egyptian" and that Margaret Mather
neglects both to acknowledge the fact and
to pay him therefor. Miss Mather's answer
is that she was compelled to make so many
chan ges in the book that it no longer bears
trace of Mr.. Morris work.
MRS BERNARD BEERE, who will next season
be under the management of Marcus R.
Mayer, will return to England from Aus.
tralia, where she has been'very successful,
about August and and will then appear at
the London Criterion in a round Of old COM
edies. She will leave England October 10,
and will begin her American season Novem-
Der "a at the Manhattan Opera House in
New York.
THE theater cat at the Grand Opera House
made another bid for histronic honors on
Friday night. Between acts and 8 of
"Ingomar" she appeared before the curtain
carrying in her mouth a nnely-developed
rat. which WAS still alive. She stood per-
fectly still, with a superb affectation of un-
concern while the whole house applauded.
Then she stole quietly into stage box and
disappeared among the audience, to the
alarm of some or the ladies,
A ROMAN hanson cab, a Roman patrol
wagon aud an Olympian elevator are three
of the novelties that are introduced in
Digbv Bells production of Jupiter" the
merry opera that has proven so successful
at Palmer's Theater New York, where it is
now nearing its flftieth performance. On
Tuesday evening next the second edition of
Jupiter" will be presented. 1t is Mr.
Bells idea to give new edition every
fftieth performance. 1t will certainly be
novelty and will add renewed interest in
the run OF the opera.
EUGENE F. EBERLE, of this city, intends
starting a school of the drama here, in which
a thorough training for the stage may be
had. Mr.. Eberle is well known here from
his connection with Pittsburg theaters dur
also been stage manager at Booths Theater
and the Standard and Park Theaters, New
York. His experience with large travelling
companies such as Booth & Barrett's, Mary
etc, has also been extensive
and varied, and he ought to be able to teach
young aspirants for the stage good deal
oABLEGRAM from London to The DIS
PATCH says: 1t will be recalled that Mr.
Gladstone left the House of Commons one
night last week while the Irish land bill was
being discussed and betook himself to the
Garrick Theater, where, sitting in the wings,
he enjoy ed Che presentation of "a Fools
Paradise" in which Mr.. John Hare, the man.
ager of the theater, takes the part of Sir
Peter Lund. The great Liberal leader has
now written highly appreciative and COM
letter to Mr.. Hare OH the subject
Of the play and upon MI. Hare's acting.
Mr.. CHARLES HANFoRp, for many seasons
past one OF the PRINCIPAL leading actors in
the Shakespearean companies of Mr.. Edwin
Booth, Mr.. Lawrence Barrett, Madame Mod
jesk ku, Mr.. T. W. Keene and the Robson and
Crane Comedy OF Errors Company, has pur-
chased from tine estate of the late Lawrence
Barrett all the scenery, properties, ward
robe, etc. used by Booth and Barrett in their
grand production of Julius Caesar" and he
viii tour the country next season playing
the part OF Marc Antony, being the same as
that he played with Booth and Barrett for
two years. He has engaged MIR. Bennett
Matlack ior the part of BTtit,s and Mr.. E. r.
Spencer for the part of CdssitLs. Mr.. Matlack
has been Shakespeareau star for the past
six or eight years. Mr.. Spencer Is an actor
Of wide experience and has been seen for
the past three years as Gtroc in paul
hauvar."
DAVID HENDERsoN's American Extrava-
yanza Company will present their latest ex-
Ali Baba, or Morgiana and the
Forty Thieves" at the Chicago Opera
House, June ,. This will be O week earlier |
han the appearance or any previous pro- |
luetion by the same company. Rehearsals |
nave been In progress for nearly two weeks, |