Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-15
STRAIGHT TIPS ON THE STAGE

HARRY DAVIS Eden Musee has booked
some surprises for next week.
A REMARKABLE sword-swallower named
Cliquot will show his skill at the Worlds
Museum-Theater next week. There will be
many other attractions.
THE attraction ut Harris next week is
"The Hand of Fate" In it Miron Letting
well does a splendid bit of character acting
US the morphine fiend, who is responsible
ior all the trouble distributed throughout
the play.
The impression made by "The Idea" is de-
cidedly good. 1t has the making OF first
class farce comedy in it, and the demand for
seats at the Alvin shows that The DISPATCH
was right when it hailed 'The Idea" as sue
cess, even if little crude here and there.
The Improvement in "The Vendetta" is so
marked since last season that it is no won-
der that the Grand Opera House has been
drawing large audiences since last Monday.
II pays to put such good actor as Mr.. Berg
man into the leading role of a melodrama.
ONE of the principal features of next
weeks bill at Harry Davis Eden Musee
will be the Bedoun Arsb bs. The group CON
sists of five natives of the Red Sea shore
headed by Mahomed Bashaw Islaam. This
Is the first exhibition of the group in the
United States. They are said to be wonder
full acrobats.
The clever acting of several individuals in
the cast of Larry the Lord" as we'll as the
beneficial operation of the AK since Monday
night, makes the performance amusing
enough in many places. MIR. Graham's topi-
cal song, with its suggestions in music and
style of "What the wild waves are saying"
wins many encores.
REALISM is the chief thing aimed at in sen.
sational melodrama these days, and "The Pay
Train," which comes to the Grand Opera
House next week, is just chock full OF realis-
tic effects. A full train OF cars crosses the
stage at full speed, boiler explodes and q
number of other catastrophes of a startling
character take place. Besides the sensa-
tional climaxes, the company, headed by
Miss Florence Bindley. affords good deal
of fun as well as strong melodramatic
acting. Fin Reynolds and Drew A. Morton,
Pittsburg actors, are in the cast.
WHEN Hoyt began showing up the foibles
and crankiness of his fellow-man in farce
comedy, the general public received with
genuine favor his satire upon railroad men
entitled "a Hole in the Ground" The bag
gage smasher, the impudent station agent,
the runners for rival rural hotels, the rail-
road depot restaurant, with its antique
sandwiches and antediuvian pies, the mix
ture of queer people only to be found on a
railroad, in all these people Mr.. Hoyt found
abundant food for fun. THE Hole in the
Ground" comes once more to the Duquesne
Theater next week with a company OF more
that there are so many novelties in the
piece as it is sent out this season that its old
friends will hardly recognize It. Frank
Lawton, the whistling commedian, and q
strong company will appear in 1t.
THE so-called irish drama has fallen into
disrepute of late owing to the amount of
rubbish that has been palmed Off in its name.
In fact. with exception of Boucicault's plays
a really clever work OF Irish color has not
been seen here in 10 or Is years. 1t is there
fore refreshing to feel tolerably sure that
Killarney" the new Irish play written by
Con T. Murphy is well constructed and
shows novel treatment of scenes in Irish
lite. or the play and of Katie Emmett, the
New York critics have had nothing but
good to say, and the hit made by the piece
and the star in New York seems to have
been unmistakable. The absence OF those
chestnutty characters which we expect to
find in an Irish drama, namely, the wicked
landlord, the scheming attorney, the English
rake in red uniform and the Irish colleen
all virtue and red cheeks, is one of the
recommendations of Killarney. Miss En-
NETT made a hit in New York by her clever
acting, her sweet voice and her graceful
figure. The scenery is said to be unusually
beautiful and the costumes handsome and
historically correct.s