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...last week a blind violinist played in the street in front of the Fort Pitt Hotel, Pittsburgh. Blind musicians have doubtless played there before-they are not infrequent. A music lover, goaded to desperation, will from time to time resort to bribery to make them stop. Thus they eke out their precarious livelihood. In this case, strange things happened. Men, hurrying past, paused, listened, stayed. A crowd gathered. An occasional ear was strained to catch the excellences of an unexpected technique. For two hours the crowd stood, respectfully attentive to the program of classical favorites-Schumann's Traumerei...
Walter Huston, who bounded from the precarious footholds of vaudeville to a secure personal success last season in Mr. Pitt, is the amateur Doheny. As an ineffective but irresistibly lovable character, he again established his exceptional abilities...
...Pitt was (on its opening night) an inept and incoherent production, possibly aggravated by Producer Pemberton, under the burden of presenting three productions in five days (The Living Mask, Mister Pitt, The Marionette Man}. Differences between the stage hands and the eleven sets of scenery multiplied confusion...
...major contribution of the proceedings was the introduction of Walter Huston, recently rescued from vaudeville. His playing of the pitiful Pitt is one of the bright spots of the season. It gives promise of increasing brightness in seasons to come...
...Pitt is an adaptation by Miss Gale of her novel, Birth...