Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-13
and that next season he may add one or two
Shakespearean characters to his repertoire.

and that next season he may add one or tw,
Shakespearean characters to his repertoire
The regret of all who have seen Rhea il
romantic drama and comedy during the pas
week is that so much beauty and art as ar
hers should be obscured by inability to speal
| the English language so as to be un
| derstood without effort. About the play
| in which she has appeared enougl
| has been written in TIE DISPATCH, ant
| neither sThe Czarina" nor "Gossip"is is likely
| to live very long upon the Enghsh stage, tn'
| former because it is too dependant upoi
historical matters that are not essential.
| interesting to u.s. the latter because th'
| motive is also too French for American
| taste.
Those who have seen Frederick Pauldins
with Jefferson, Florence, Booth and Mar
garet Mather have awaited his appearance
| as a star in melodrama with interest. MI
Panlding will appear at the Bijou Tbeate'
tomorrow evening in an elaborate and costly
production of his uncle's Spectacular
comedy-dama, "The Struggle of Life"
In the play is told the story of Bd,odrd
BrockholSt, who has been obliged to assume
the name of Hdmilton Spread on account OF q
conspiracy by the villain of the play, JOIN
Lorley, who has fastened upon him the stigma
of a card sharper and a forger. He has been
Obliged to remain away from home. During
all shis time his sweetheart, Nathalie Duncan,
has been true to him, Notwithstanding the
desperate attempts of John LorIey to make
her his wife. Brockholst returns after having
accumulated a fortune in California, and de-
termines to bring his caluminator to bay
and redeem his good name. He meets Rep.
Andre,c .Sultdire who has come to New York
from Maine in search of his betrayed daugh-
ter, and the two make common cause. The
twain are caught in q gambling den. The
old man escapes, but the hero, while hiding
s,,o %,~,, hr>tn tc ind hxrf he
and is only saved, when well-nigh exhausted,
by the desperate efforts of Mdrooref Snltoire
by whose aid he is lifted out of a man-hole.
In the last act the minister nd his daughter
are united and all is forgiven. BrochhoLst
succeeds in enticing the villain to his rooms
and compels him to make written con-
fession.
The stage settings are illustrative of New
York scenes one of the most effective being
the view OF st. Patrick's Cathedral. Then
there is view of Battery Park. with the
of Liberty by moonlight, the river and the
shipping during snow storm, and the great
dock and sewer scene is an exact and accu-
rate view of a point on East river, near
Water street. 1t shows the mouth of the
great sewer, there being a double stage,
down which the hero is borne into the river.
Notwithstanding the elaborate scenic effects,
they are said to be secondary to the support
surrounded himself
Bill Nye, who has for a number of years
occupied the trying position of lord high
fun maker to the American public, supply
ing them with ready-made humor both
through the columns of the daily press and
from the lecture platform, has tempted the
fates by writing play, which will receive
its initial presentation at the Duquesne
Theater. The piece is called "The Cadi,'
and though the title would suggest the
flowery and luxurious but uncivilized orient
as the scene of proceedings, such it is said,
is not the case at all. On the contrary "The
Cadi' has nothing of the effete localities to-
ward the rising sun about it; it is about as
western piece as they ordinarily turn out,
but unlike most western dramas the cli-
makes are not attended with wholesale
slaughter, buckets of gore. red fire, abduc-
tions and heroic rescues: neither, according
to the best information at hand, is the hero
called upon to whip six men sin
and av fGe society sS Gentleman
Nye, it is said has in his own peculiar way
made a study in this play of his experience
while acting as editor of the Laramie Boom
collector and sanitary trustee of the town of
Larimic. His experience of amateur braec-
Mr.. Nye has good company and the char
acters which are allotted the various men,
bers indicate lots of fun. They are as below:
The Cddi, frontier editor, postmaster and
Justice of the peace. Mr.. r. J. Dustan; Lieu |
'end1 George Pdckenhom, cavalry officer on |
detached service, Mr.. George d. MacIntyre; |
Silent Sage Zen, late of the Seiwash tribe, Mr.. |
William Spencer; Taylor Wellington, wild
young son OF a good Irish family, Mr.. Fran |
bis Nelson; So1roaCfiA Smith, grocer, grud |
stalker and amateur burglar. Mr.. Adolph |
Bernard; Arnold J. Constable, an officer Of the !
court, a scorcher, Mr.. W. F. Mack; CroupD |
Ddggett, a grammatical boy who knows more |
:a Rsgore Ra 1ooA postmistress @ aressmaRer and
telegraph operator, Miss Lizzie Hudson
Collier; Dora Stanley, young English girl, |
Miss Franks Gaunt; Helen French, the school |
Miss Jennie Goldwaithe.
"Miss Helyett," to be seen at the Alvin |
rheater this week, is not a new foreign |
star, but an operate comedy in three acts t
descriptive of little Quaker maidens per- |
,lexing adventures in the Spanish Pyrenees. |
She tumbies down mountain, is found IN |
Ter embarrassing circumstances and rescued |
oy young American artist, whom she does |
not see, but whom she believes it to be her |
luty to find and wed. In her search she |
mistakes an amiable English blockhead and |
IN Irishman masquerading as Spanish bull |
lighter, for the real "n1an of the mountain" |
put peep into the artists sketch book puts |
,er on the right track at the end. There is
from the rise of the curtain, where |
lot of pretty girl tourists are |
,ehearsing characteristic French dance |
,he very last, when there is a tender and |
iainty little love scene very charmingly |
played by Mrs. Louise Leslie Carter as the |
luakeress and Mark Smith as the venture |
some artist. Among the others in the cast |
Ire NJ. A. Kennedy, as the English swell; |
Harry Harwood, as the maxim-Quoting |
quaker; j. w. Herbert, as French artist; |
George Lyding, as the bogus toreador; Gil |
Davis, as fiery Spanish matron; Laura
Clement as her daughter, Manueld; Adelaide |
as woman of fashion; Iotta |
Nicol, as mountain guide, and Marie |
rhe cast is the same as seen for u6 nights at |
The Star and Standard Theatels, New York,
Thete it drew very large and representative |
audiences. The scenic adornment is the |
ame "Miss Helyettn so delighted the real
luakers in Philadelphia, more recently, |
hat it is to go back again next month. |
David Belasco has made the American
Idoptatfon of this quaint comedy, and the
music, comprising 90 numbers, is by Ed
nond Audran.
The merits of paul Kauvar' are pretty
veil known in Pittsburg, and it will be pre-
ented, no doubt, to an appreciative audi
nee at the Grand Opera House tomorrow
light. 1t attracted considerable attention
vhen played here before with Joseph
Iaworth in the cast, and there is no deny
ng that it has deeply interesting plot, and
'resents series of exciting stage pictures.
The story of tho French Revolution
which it tells is, of course, shadowed
Nth the terrors of that extraordinary
'eriod, but there is comedy in it, a bright
ein of humor, and the love interest is ex-
eedingly pathetic and pretty. The cast
romised is strong In it are Ed
Yard L. Snader and Miss Roselle Knott in
he principal male and female roles, and the
fessrs. spencer, CONWAY, Montgomery,
Ielly, La Barre, Knott, Forrest and the
lisses Ivanilli and Bennett.
The ATTRACTION at Harris, Theater this |