Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-31
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Texas" a part that is said to remind theater-
goers of &ephdnie in "Forget-me-not" and
| Countess Zeikd in "Diplomacy." which char
| acters she made peculiarly her own. Any
| one who has read "Mr. Potter of Texas" can
| fit Jeffreys Lewis to the part assigned her by
| Mr. Sanger without any stretch of the i'm
| agination. Jeffreys Lewis this season has
| all her old time fire and force.
IT i. finally settled that Mrs. Bernard
Beere is to come to America next season and
make tour OF all the principal cities. Mar.
| Gus r. Mayer is the manager who has been
| fortunate enough to secure this gifted artist,
vino has steadfastly refused the most fiat
| tering offers from Henry Z. Abbey and diff
| ferent managers for several years. Mrs.
| Beere is popularity known as the Bernhardu
way to Australia to fulfill contract in that
country previous to her appearance here.
THE plaster cast has been removed from
Thomas @. Seabrooke's leg, and he is now
| able to walk about his house. He is deeply
| engaged in preparing for the production of
| Byrne and Harrison's comic opera, 'The
Isle of Champagne" which Will occur May
l6, at the Star Theater, Buffalo. From there
Mr. Seabrooke goes direct to Chicago. open
ing at the Grand Opera House, Monday
night. May %. Work on the scenery and
costumes has begun, and a production of
rare magDificence is promised.
MIR. T. HENRY FRENCH, Manager of the
Garden Thcater, New York, and Colonel
William E. Sim, Manager of the Park
Theater, Brooklyn, and also of Cora Tanner,
are to produce Phillips and Fendalls farcial
comedy, entitled Husband and Wife,"
which had a long run at the Comedy Thcater,
London, at the Garden Theater, New York,
commencing April Is, with Cora Tanner in
the leading part and a strong cast of Metro
politan artists. Cora Tanner will "star" in
"Husband and Wife" next season through
out the country with the same company and
rda
Theater.
THE Pittsburg Lodge Of Elks No. II, will
hold their fourteenth annual benefit at the
Grand Opera House next Friday afternoon
All the attractions in the city will take part
Marie Hubert Frohman in "Snow Bound, {"
Agnes Huntingdon, Sol Smith Russell, Mr.
Potter of Texas, Daniel Boone and q host of
specialties. from the academy Of Music.
Dairy Davis and Worlds Museum. An auc-
tion sale of choice seats to those holding
tickets will take place next Tuesday after
noon at the Grand at o'clock. The seats
that are not sold at the sale will be placed
in the box Office and disposed OF in the regu-
lar way. Box office will open Thursday
morning at o'clock.
FRAcNIs WILSON and his "Iion Tamern is
comfortably fixed at the Broadway Theater
for q run that will continue, from present
indications, until it is time for him to vacate
Tor his Pacific coast tour. The "Lion
that taxes the capacity of this big house to
its utmost and calls out the largest advance
seat sale known there since the theater was
opened for patronage. This is gratifying,
for the season has been rather disastrous for
many managers and for some Metropolitan
theaters. One feature of the Lion Tanner
rage" is the large and fashionable theater
parties that, finding scant mmodations
in the orchestra and orchestra circle, owing
to the big general sale, have taken to the
balcony (which in the Broadway Theater is
one of the best sections of the housel and
the result has been an excessive patronage
of that part of the theater.
AT the Actors Fund Fair meeting in New
York the other day at the conclusion of Mr..
Palmer's address, he introduced Mrs Ken
dali, who spoke very earnestly in favor of
the project and, among other things, said
that she would, when the proper time came.
contribute $500 iE addition to the $500 which
she had already given to the Actors
Orphans' Home. Mrs. Kendall did not pursue
her subject with exact coherency, and when
she stated that she would go to any length
to serve the fair even in doing q skirt dance
Mrs. Agnes Booth Schoeffel became yisibIv
annoyed. Mrs. Schoeffel followed Mrs. Ken.
dal. and stated in substance that she did not
consider that it would be much of sacrifice
If any woman performed a skirt dance and
pointed to the fact that years ago she
danced in the mining camps out West This
statement was taken, and was obviously
meant as a rebuke to Mrs Kendall and that
lady appeared greatly confused for the mo-
ment.