Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-18
Stage Whispers.

o'clock each morning this week.
"A TEMPERANCE TowN'' will move into
Pittsburg about the second week of Oc-
toLer.
LorrAs tour will begin in Toronto early
next month. She will play new comedy
called "Clyt1e."
FIN REYNOLDS, well-known Pittsburger,
is in ''The Pay Train" company at the Grand
Opera House this week.
THE late BARLEY Campbelrs farce comedy,
"Bulls and Bears is booked for an early
date at the Grand Opera House.
PIERCE L. JARVIS, the well known Pitts
burg manager, is in the city this week with
"The Hand of Fate" at Harris Theater.
AUGUsr1N MELVILLE, in "The Boy Tramp"
will be the attraction at Harris TheareI
week commencing Monday, September 20.
DE WOLF HOPPER will play wang" all
this season, and six months of the time in
New York, where it is scoring seco nd hit
now.
"THE Tar and Tartar" opened its season
in Detroit and mot with great success. In
the cast is Annie Myers and Madame Cot
trelly.
W. B. GROSS. the business manager of
| "Across the Potomac" company, has decided
to write and publish an account of his recent
trip abroad.
Otis SKINNER, who is at present touring in
the swiss Mountains, will return next week
and join the Modjeska company, in which he
will be "feltured."
THE famous Brothers Byrne in Eight
Bells" under the mana cement of Primrose &
West will produce their Nautical Panto-
mimic Comedy ut the Grand Opera House
soon.
THE prospect of Larry the Lord' being
| licked into tolerable shape is very doubt
| full, although the customary notices are ap-
| pearing in the dramatic papers OF its tre-
| inendous success here. There is no such
| word as fail i'll the managers dictionary.
SADIE ScANLAN is meeting with great sue
| cess through the South. Some of the New
| Orleans critics say that she will go so far
to take the same hold on popular favor,as was
held by her brother for SO many years.
WHEN "Jed Prouty" reappears at the Alvin
shortly 1t will be doomed with souvenir
spoons as well as new scenery, which the
Eastern papers praise highly. Mr.. Golden
continues in his quaint and wholesomely
funny creation Of old Jed
MANAGER DAVIS, of the Eden Mu5ee, has
been making a round OF his museum circuit,
and is still at Harrisburg where his museum
lately esta Dlished is proving great sue
cess. The other museums at Altoona and
Johnstown, are doing very we'll.
INTERVIEWED in Boston last week, Mrs.
James Brown-Potter modestly said: "a
actress after she has mastered the tech
nioue of her profession-and l have done
that. Dumas says play Camille the best OF
any actress he has ever seen. He ought TO
know. He wrote the play"
EAGLES NEST" is the next attraction at
the Grand Opera House with Mr.. Edwin Ar
den as the star. Hehas been seen in this
CITY before but not for some time. The show
comes w ell recommended, having turned
people away,it is said, at every per! ormance
In Syracuse. He is supported Dy Miss Mar
ion Elmore, Harry Mack, Frank Losee ana
others.
ONE of the penalties of fame is to be noted
in announcements like the following
which appear every time our feIlow-citizen
leaves his room in New York hotel: CHI
FriclS of the Carne ie Steel Company, occu-
pied n box at the Hoyt Madison Square
Theater on Tuesday. He was we'll enon@h
to laugh very heartily at " "A Trip TO emma
town.
Irmay interest some Pittsbur-ers to know
that Lester Schaffner, who ran what he
called 1.-THE Lyceum Dramatic School, IN
New York City, has been held for trial for
grand larceny. He is said to have swlndled
many aspiring amateur actors out OF inoi,ey,
| and one OF his alleged victims is suing HIM
now. Most dramatic tutors are consciously
| or unconsciously frauds.
"FRIENDs" a fouract play which made an
| almost instantaneous hit at the Standard
| Theater, New York, and is said holds the
| I'M terest OF a culture audience to the last
| curtain, will be presented at the Alvin
| shortly. The company is an eXceptionaiIy
| strong one and includes such well-Snown
| artists as Miss Selma Fetter. Nelson Wheat
| croft, Theodore Hamilton and Lucius Hen
derson.
W. H. THOMPSON, one of the best OF charac-
ter actors, will play a prominent part In
| Bronson Howard's new play, "Aristocracy."
| Mir. Thompson's engagement for this play
/ means q great compliment to his ability, tor
| Mr.. Howard, contrary to mis- custom, mas
| written in" strong role that was not IN
| cluded in his original plan in order to intro
| duce MIR. Thompson in the cast. Later, MT
| Thompson will be leading member OF the
| stock company at the new Empire Theater.