The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-12-06
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DRAMATIC pOIAON.
SSWsy Votes About some wheeling ia.
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yOFiIsa.
Thomas W, Kssns has scored a big sus
cess in the South.
+ The Osborne Troupe had first rat
house at the Academy Of Music last night
They hold the boards there all week.
Keep it dark, but Maggie Mitchell il
New York City in lS32, and made her frs
appearance in child parts vt the Old Bow
cry,
Edwin Booth met with a curious misad.
venture IN Waterbury, Conn. The bag
gnge did not arrive, SO he had to give three
acts OF "Hamlet' in street costume. Fancy
the melancholy Dane in a billycock hal
ind drab overcoat Of the period
Mr.. ]. ]. Sullivan, who has been playing
the "Parson" in Mckee Rankin's "Danites,
is dangerously i'll, and has probably made
his last appearance on any stage, his disease
being pronounced hasty consumption. He
was almost unable to play when the Ran.
kins appeared here some weeks ago.
The Pauline Markham 1.-TWO Orphans"
Company has closed up, and tue star is
hunting for new hacker. The gentleman
who formerly acted in this csplity made
money steadily, but had three nights OF
bad business in Indianapolis and was
frightened into closing his season hastily.
The Company played its last engagement
here Thanksgiving night,
The Dramatic TimsI recentlyannounced
on what authority was not stated, that Miss
Carson, the pretty soprano OF Our Goblins"
company, was married to Mr.. Wilson, the
blonde mouslached young man Of the same
party, while they were in Wheeling. This
Miss Carson denies, saying that she il still
plain Emma Carson, The Times gracefully
responds, "Sho may be Emma Carson, but
she is not plain"
Mains Comic Opera Company will pre-.
sent the opera donna Juanita" at the
Wheeling Opera House, Thursday evening,
December 10. The Boston Post says
Suppe'A opera, donna Juanita," was sung
for the frst time in this city at the Boston
Theatre last evening by Mains Comic OPP.
era Company, The opera Is rOlliCking,
luncfnl affair, which pleases at once, and
The performance was an excellent one.
Minnie Palmer is having a rough time Of
It in the South. At New Orleans her man.
ager, emo" r, Rodgers, discharged the
gentleman who played the Doctors" part,
because Minnie persisted in falling in love
with him. Minnie stormed good deal
about that, and now the whole company
are storming because prominent paper
spoke OF "My Sweetheart rs "a dramatic
nightmare" and said that Minnie could
neither act nor sing.
Mary Anderson was born in Sacramen.
to. Cal, twenty-five years ago, She Is not
u iorly.niner, however. Apropos to the
rumor that Mary is to be married and re.
tire from the stagr, an exchange says:
For this week we report that Mary Ander.
son denies that she Is soon to DO married,
aud next week, il the management wish il
said that there Is u rlmor that she Is soon
10 be married, he will have to arrange for
the same with the business manager Of the
paper" Mary is at Washington this week.
Counsel for Miss Anna Dickinson brought
suit in Philadelphia lust week against Mrs.
Price, better known as Fanny Davenport,
Tor the recovery Of the manuscript OF Miss
Dickinson's play, An american Girl and
also for royalties on the same, alleged TO b.
still due. Miss Dickinson says the play was
written expressly for Miss Davenport, but
that the actress ruined it by ncglecting her
part and introducing guys entirely for
ign to the libretto and the plot. Miss
Davenport admits the guys" but says the
play was altogether bad, lnd she used to
introduce them in order to arouse some
faint interest In the audience. They failed,
and the play was withdrawn.