Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-11-06
Personal Gossip.


Mr.. Mansfield's agent regrets to announce
that "The Scarlet Letter" and "Nero" will
be given but once. Well, it is not too late to
mend-leave out "Nero" and repeat "The
| Scarlet Letter"
That exceedingly clever artist Miss
Jennie A. Eustace, last seen here in ALA.
bama," has written a capital paper in the
North AnleIic1n ReUeW entitled Objections
to Thea trical Life" Miss Eustace very can.
didly shows that the actress does not lie on
a bed of roses or walk amid flowers that
bloom all the year round. Ambitious young
women verging on the stage-Struck should
read what Miss E"stace says.
Apparently the cold from which Mrs.
Charles II. Hoyt was suffering when in
Pittsburg recently has developed into some
thing more serious. for see that she has
left the cast in "a Texas Steer" and BosSy
is being played by Miss Dorothy Sherrod.
Lots of Pittsburgers wish the charming
Flora Walsh a speedy recovery.
George Grossmith, the English actor who
is lecturmg in this country, should be in
duced to visit Pittsburg. If he is half as
amusing on the platform as he was in & j.
bert and Sulliyan's operas, many charact
in which he created, hs will be above par.
M willard ae an hit in
rhapsodizing over him. In a Characteristic
little speech the other day, Mr.. Willard gave
the matinee baby a shot. Said he: "'Judah'
is esse ntialiy love story, and therefore
Imagine the ladies, who are inveterate
matinee-goers. will be glad to see it; hut
hope the matinee baby-who is a delightful
friend of mine in private life, but deter
mined enemy in puolic-will do me the favor
OF remaining in its cradle at home"
blue Jeans" has firm hold on the popu-
lar heart. Mr.. Arthur may yet write a
great play; he shows steady Improvement
and is ambitious.
Manager W. F. Blande Of "Blue Jeans" is
capital actor, and one rather regrets that
his capability as a business manager should
deprive the stage of his services.
The attempt TO engraft the London Music
Hall upon New York seems to be proving a
dire failure.
1t is not right, OF course, to say unjust
things about any actor or actress, but Miss
Pauline Halls male relatives and friends
are making it clear that it is likewise un-
safe. One New York critic had a tempest
uous time last week with Miss Halls cham
pions and narrowly escaped, it Is said, the
lovely Pauline herself in ambush with
horse whip.
beard in "The Lady or the Tiger" till last
week, when in response to strong popular
demand he shed his whiskers and appeared
with a smooth face. A comedian can never
afford to conceal his mouth, and Hopper's is
a most expressive cavern.
Poor Cleveland bemoans the loss of her
handsomest theater; Manager Hartz. who
loses lot Of money by the burning of the
Euclid Avenue Opera House, has many
friends In PittsbuTg. They know he will
soon build or buy another theater
stalH art exponents this season in Frederick
Warde anG Louis James. They are meeting
with great success in Julius Cesar" and
"The Lions Mouth
In one week OF "Tne Scarlet Letter, at the
Chicago Grand Opera House the. receipts
were SS,749. Mr.. Mansfield has no reason to
complain of tine West. Generosity to actors
certainly took Horace GreeIey's advice.
An interesting table is published in this
weeks Mirror showing the very early age at
winch many ot our greatest actors and sing
ers wenI uhon the stage, and that they are
none the worse for it. By the way this
showing in the Mirror reminds one that its
editor, Mr.. Fiske, has robbed tho stage of
one of its most promising comediennes Miss
Minnie Maddern. In the list referred to
above it is stated that Miss Maddern made
her stage debut at the rather early age of 2
Is Miss Maddern's retirement the penalty of
beginning so sOOnf
Evans and Hoey are vaguely limiting at
new piece. How sick they must be of
"a Parlor Match" But the public does not
seem to be.
The one-act drama, "Out in the Storm
which Elwvn A Barron, the noted Chicago
critic has written, is to; be produced this
week. We may see it at the Press Club
benefit, played by the 'Gloriana" company.
The Mass n-Mano;a combination would
like to be known rs the American Kendals.
This is u laudable ambition. but really and
truly not very wise, for it invites compari-
son with PAIR of actors who are not at all
at the same stage in the race. Mr.. Mason is
not beginner it is true. but Miss Manoa is
in this field. while tile kendals are decidedly
mature.
1t is not easy to understand why Chicago;s>
critics emptied the vials OF their wrath
upon "1magination." As the modern
drama has been going of late, Mr.. Rosen-
field play is mild But its suggestiveness
did not recommend it to Pittsburg
Visitors to New York will be glad to hear
that the Casino Is to be returned to its
original purposes next month. After a brief
but weak aud Improbable attempt to make
IL an Alhambra OF the London pattern
Manae er j. NJ. Hill has leased the tbeater
from the Aronsons, or their hackers rather,
the Casino Company, and will put on THE
Fencing Master" with Marie Tempest, for a
New York run.
HEPBURN JOHNS,