Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-11

These successes are the only New YORK
events worth chronicling.
THE Christmas attraction at the Grand
Opera House is Mr.. Charles Hanford in his
production of Julius Cesar" with all the
Booth and Barrett scenery. He has sur
| rounded himself with an excellent COM
pany, and is said to give very f1ne perform
ance.
IT is declared on the Rialto. saws the New
York Mirror, that Charles Frohman will
send John Drew to London with "The
Masked Ball. and a picked company for a
season at Terry's Theater next May, thus
placing Drew and the DAILY contingent In
rivalry III the British capital.
'"THE Junior Partner is said to BE one
of the merriest farces presented by the
Frohman Cohedy Company. 1t is preceded
by the dramatic trifle in one act entitled
"Frederick Lemaitre," in which Mr.. Henry
Miller has made the hit of his career. 1t
comes to the Alvin Christmas week.
PLANS are made for the building of a thea
ter in Chicago to cost $4,000 Dy James J..
Corbett, the prize fighter, to be known as
Corbetts Opera and Vaudeville House. It
grounds, and will be under the management
of Corbetts present manager, W. A. Brady.
MISS LANSING Rowan, who for several sea-
sons has been playing the leading roles
with Mr.. Lewis Morrison i'll Faust" has ac-
cepted an engagement in Manager Connor
and Keenan's Stock Dramatic Company,
which has been pleasing the patrons OF the
Worlds Museum-Theater recently beyond
measure.
Touch advance agent describing his show
to dramatic editor): "When de curtain goes
up we chain 'em to the foothghts; and be-
fore the act is over they are chucking seats
at each other, see! Before de show is half
over we got 'em dead, and when the rag
falls de aint able to move. Say. Cui, do it
up brown, and I'll fix you straight"
STREITMAN, the tenor, has purchased the
Austrian rights to "Eriends." Edwin Milton
Royle's successful comedy-drama. He is
having it translated and will shortly pro-
duce it in Vienna. II is understood that he
will change the pianist hero, now so strik-
ingly fulfilled by Lucius Henderson, into
tenor singer at the Metropolitan Opera
House,
MANAGER FRANK W. SANGER spoke in
whispers last week. He had temporarily
lost his voice from cold. But he was still
able to convey the intelligence that his
main attraction on the road-"My Official
Wife, in which Minnie Seligman- Cutting e
is starring-was doing an excellent business
1t Will not be seen in New York until
March.
'DR. BILL."a comedy that makes anyone
who has ever seen it smile to read the name,
is the next attraction at the Grand Opera
House. 1t has been so rewritten as to make
an evenings completn entertainment with
out the aid OF a curtain raiser. The CON-
pany is very strong this year, there is u
wealth OF new scenery and all the novel
features. including the celebrated "Kanga-
roo dance"
a WORTHY old clergyman is just dead, who,
nearly half a century ago.. was for eight
years brilliant and famous dramatist-and,
curiously enough, for eight years only. His
name was Jens Christian Hostrup, and
from 1916 TO 1854 he wrote u series OF success
ine lias icl,
ter. Then, with dramatic suddenness, he
went back to the church for which ne had
been educated, and spent the last years or
his long and quiet life in the quiet duties of
the pastor OF Il church in Jutland.
HENRY E. DIxEY has produced his new
play, "Mr. Dobbs OF Chicago" 1t intro
duces him in a manner that brings up vivid
recollections of his great success, "Adonis."
He is set in picture, the background of
which is an army /of pretty girls, a
grand chorus, lavishness and cyclone
of scenery. Those who have seen both play
and star ueclare that he never sung SO well
or danced SO gracefully as now. He comes
to the Duquesne Theater with "Mr Dobbs
OF Chicago" following the Baroness Blanc.
In the third act of "McKennas Flirtation;'
there is introduced a very pretty song and
dance called "Silvery Bells" In its execu-
tion trio of young ladies and q trio of
young gentlemen are utilized. As its title
indicates it suggests the siIvery sounds
which are popularity supposed to peal forth
from wedding chimes. One OF the young
laLies seen and heard IN this song and dance
Is engaged 10 be married to one of the young
gentlemen, who is her Vis-a-yiS in the song
and dance, and this couple evidence Il most
positive personal interest in the one verse
OF the song, which indicates the pleasurable
event which Is soon to Occur for THEM.
A HOME production by home talent, given
for the benefit OF Il worthy charity, is always
welcome. George NJ. Connell's famous war
play, "The Fall of Atlanta" will be pre-