Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-11

mounted and has scored q success in New
York, where it was first produced at the
| Star Theater.
| Miss FLORENCE BNDLEY will present her
| comedy drama, ''Tte Pay Train.' at the
Grand Opera House following "The Ven
| detra." The piece is one of intense interest,
| while the scenic effec: are most realistic.
| Prominent among the latter is railroad
| scene in which q full train OF cars crosses
the stage at full speed and is uncoupled in
| sight of the audience.
| "IF you are going to back horses this sea-
| son." said Bob Graham, "by all means play
| operate ones. Wang is a corker; Tar
and Tartar out of sight; Robin Hood
the greatest on earth. Place your money on
| Larry Lord sure winner every time. By
the way. have you seen tile new operatic
| comedy?"
| HALLEN AND HART, it is said, will introduce
| a new character type to the stage in their
new piece. 1.-THE Idea," in the person of a
Blue Ridge Pennsylvania, whose rising in
| Election is true to the soil and humorously
fetching. Donald Harold interprets the role,
| and as he had his origin in the haZy atmos-
phere of the Allcghenies, the local color of
voice and manner ought to DE richly pre-
| served.
In "The Scarlet Letter. which Mr. Mans
field will play at Dalyl's Theater. he will ap-
pear as arthur Dtfnm sdaie the peo ant
clergyman, and Miss Cameron will under.
take the role of Hester. "The Scarlet Let
ter" is in four acts, with a scene to each act,
and will comprise Hssters public penance
on the market place, Dimn1esddLs's solitary
vigil on the moonlit scatfold, the scene in
the forest, ana the revelation of the scarlet
letter.
The singing quality of the Hallen Hart
performance has always been conspicuously
good. They appear to have made an honest
effort to provide good voices and capt1vat-
been agreeably evident in their popular
skit, Later On" II Is to he presumed that
in their new piece The Idea" to be pro-
duced here for the first time next week, this
element of pleasure will be added to with
the same, If not greater, satisfaction.
WITH complexion like the
Due TO powder on her nose,
suppose:
She twirls upon her toes,
In abbreviated clothes.
And exhibits spangled hose
To th2 beaux.
When life frayed and faded grows,
Like her BOWS,
She in garret sits and sews
FurbelOws;
IT'LL her weary eyelids close
In the peace OF deaths repose.
Is she reapng what she sows?
Heaven knows.
THE comedians, Hallen and Hart, are
spreading abroad a lithograph which daint-
lily hits off the college craze OF the day for
things athletic. and some of its ludicrous ef-
fects. The subject is called "a College
Course" and represents the comedian in
three humorous attitudes of exercising with
miniature clubs. 1t may be the new piece
satiriZes this current fad in some droll fash
ion, and If so it is bound to be humorously
appreciated by the average reader and tu-
dent.
Mr. WILLIAM HENRY FRosr of the New
York Tribune has received letter from Mr.
oil cd rrff n
agement of the Passion Play at Oberam-
mergau which ought to put cork in Dame
Rumors mouth as TO its possible appearance
at the Worlds Fair in Chicago. "You may
give the most emphatic denial to the state
ment. Nothing could be further from the
intentions and wishes of our people. To me
1t seems almost amusing. for I would as soon
believe to see our Koiel being brought to
Chicago. Knowing, however, that outsiders
are not in the same position to judge, and
that consequently such statement would
find believers, and naturally arouse t he in
dignatfon of friends of Oberammer gau, I
shall thank you to contradict the rumOr as
u groundless, and should say, malicious in
vention. Not before 1870 and nowhere else,
you may rest assured, will the Oberam-
mergauers again represent the Passion
Play" For which we may be thankful.
Mr.. DUNLAP. the New York critic, writes
thus caustically about the attempt to make
dramatic capital out of Homestead's un-
happy troubles: Homestead In '9g' was
constructed by Frank Norcross, an actor
with money and pluck enough to launch his
play. He tells the episodes enacted at
Homestead, but wande rs into chaos almost
from the start, and canrot be accepted as a
plausible plea for the Homestead strikers.
The author has merely strung together q
series of incidents, picked up at haphuzard |
from misinformed or prejudiced newspaper |
reports and they do not form q play that |
will even draw top-heavy houses One of |
the amusing bits in this unique Labor play |
is Hugh O'Donnell, audaciously brought for |
ward as a hero by John E. Kellerd, who |
neither looks, nor talks, nor acts like the |
little hafr-oiled labor agitator, but who fired |
OH quite as long speeches. The stage man. |
agement was excellent, the supers forming |
themselves into mobs with great agility; |
the scenery was also very good, but the dfa- |
logue execrnble." |