Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-04

has no rival in the county as a lecturer and
as an entertainer is q host In himself.
G. W. vARNEY's grand spectacular produc-
| tion, "The Vendetta" }" follows "Telephonla"
at the Grand Opera House. The scenic and
| mechanical effects are said to be unusually
| fine.
Mr.. FRANK HENs1e, for ten years a men,
Der of the Thomas Keene Company, and to-
| day the tragedian's leading man, is native
of Wheeling. W. Va, and his great success
| since his nrst appearance almost mas maue
him the idol Of Wheelingites.
THE directors Of the dismantled Metropol-
| itan Opera House may convert the fashion,
| able playhouse into hotel. The stock
| holders are tired of the heavy assessments
levied, and are willing that "some other fel-
low" furnish Gotham with opera.
THE average weight of the professional
| outfit of a premiere danseuse is as follows:
One pair of silk tights, ounces; five ballet
skirts, Including tucks. ounces; one pair of
slippers, ounces; one bodice. ounces; total
weight OF ballet costume, % ounces.
CHARLES A. BIaELow, the comedian, who
has been playing all summer in Milwaukee
with Strakosch's Comic Opera Company, is
taking a well-earned rest at his home in this
city. The manager who gets Mr.. Bigelow
will be lucky, for comedians are rare birds.
FOLLOWING Keene at the Duquesne Thea
| ter will be r. E. Graham, the comedian, in
LARRY the Lord" The play has made a hit
elsewhere, has plot. plenty of singing and
i dancing, great fund of amusing situations,
and is interpreted by a company Of clever
artists.
FARREN, who used to travel with Pete
Baker, keeps o saloon in Buffalo these days.
Farren is naturally success in the liquor
business, it is said. AS for Mr.. Baker it can
be candidly admitted that he is the best of
the many men who are using j. 4. Emmets
methods.
THE always venerable McMurray, the
Jupiter Billstickius of this village, is trying
to conceal the fact that he is the repository
of a brand OF cigars that would mako any
Cuban cry for envy. 1tis extraordinary how
fast the fame of a good cigar, or of q good
man to be touched" tor one, spreads in the
theatrical business.
ONE of the New York papers speaking of
Katie Emmetts new drama, Killarney, Says:
"While retaining some of the conventional
features of the Irish drama. Killarney has
dispensed with many of them, and lost
nothing by so doing. 1t contains no wicked
British landlord or scheming agent, and the
only officer in the caste is not proven a viii
lain.
JOSEPH HART will play a strict comedy
part in the new comedy play, "The Idea,"
which Hallen and Hart bring forward this
season. Mr.. Hallen's role is that of an ultra
fashionable, whose years of discretion would
C.
are said to be exactly fitted by their respec-
tive roles, and are buoyantly expectant of
better results in their work than they have
yet sustained. They will be seen ut the AL
vim september H.
NAT GOODWIN says some rather severe
things now and then, but says them so good
naturedly that they rarely give offense.
The other day he met Burr Mcintosh in
Broadway Said Burr, who is engaged to go
on the road with Frank Sangers company:
"Do you want to engage young actor as
ana to play star.ad Small your new
you left Sanger?" "Huh!' said Mcintosh,
striding heavily away.
ERNEST koEBER, who wrestles with Will
lam Muldoon, is the great mans pupil, and
learned all he knows of the art from Null
doom. 1t is this fact that makes the bout
between Muldoon and Roeber interesting
despite the overlapping proportions OF the
strength could easily hurl Roeber into the
middle of the parquet, but the smaller man
can give Muldoon an immense lot of trouble
because he knows all his gigantic opponents
tricks.
WHEN Marcus R. Mayer returns in October
he will do so as the chosen representative Of
the majority of London managers. The
Safety and the new Trafalgar Square Thea
tiers are two of the Transatlantic houses he
will represent. He will also be empowered
to negotiate for tine American ri2 hts of the
best London and Paris successes, musical
well as dramatic. In addition he Will
direct the tours of Fanny Davenport, Mrs.
Bernard Beere, the Mapleson Opera Comique
Company, and make arrangements for the
farewell tour of the peerless Patti.
A PrrTsBURGER who spent some weeks at
william Muldoon's country place in New
York State this summer. tells story that
illustrates the big wrestler's strengths
NAV be relied upon as a true story, too.
Muldoon one day was rubbing down a very
spirited horse he owns, and by accident the
staDleman locked him into the stall. The
horse made an attack upon him, and Null
doom had no way to escape an up and up
battle. The fight lasted but few minutes,
for Muldoon seized the fierce beast and
heave, which the horse could not Withstand
and fell before. Muldoon threw tine animal
just as he would man, by one of his fayorite
holds.
A MEMBER of the company, supporting one
of the best known soubrettes in the
South, tells story Of how his star was
issuing a pass to two of the distinguished
colored ladies who waited on her in the din
ing room. "1s dis heah show a circus?"
asked one of the girls. "No," replied the
star, "but we have plenty of singing and
dancing" This was said with view Of ex-
pecting the colored lady to rise to the ira
ditional seventh heaven of delight. "Singin'
and dancin'. 1 used to like singin' and
fellars, Dere was an ole man named Keene
who come along yer one day and fore he got
through 1 jes wish somebody had chained
me to de flo. Talk bout a niger goin' out
OF his senses, you couldn't hold me down
wild a cottin gin when she's workin' hawd