Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1882-08-27
FOOTLIGHT FLASHES.
Sayings and Doinas Of Singers and
Players.
Musical and Dramatic Notes From Many
Sources Rehearsing for the Open
ing Of the Season Gossip
Of the Stage.
THE DRAMA.

Edwin Booth is in Switzerland.
Annie Pixley at Columbus tomorrow
night.
Emma Abbott opens at Peoria, H.,
Sept. eth.
John T. Raymon at Newark, O.
Sept. It'll.
Toe jefferson opens at Bradford, Pa,
Sept. 4th. ..
Twelve Jolly Bachelors will be at
Wilkesbarre, Pa, Tuesday.
BARLEY Campbell will have two
White Slave Combinations on the road.
Alice Oates is still swinging around.
She will be in Rochester, n. I. sept.
9th.
Mary Anderson will rusticate until
Sept. Goth, whenshe opens III BROOK
lyn.
Frank Maye has gone back to Davy
Crockett. He opens at Haverly's, mi
cago, Sept. 4th.
Barlow, Wilson & Co'dminstrels open
ed at the Grand Opera House, New
York, last week.
Lawrence Barrett and Company
will open the season at Port Huron,
Michigan, tomorrow.
John w. Thompson, with Lawrence
Barrett last season, is tending bar in 3
roadside tavern ut. Modesto Cal.
Mile Rhea opens at Syracuse, n. !.
Sept. 18th, in Romeo and Juliet, with
Camille, Adriune Lecouvreur and AS
You Like 1t, following.
VIII. Gillette, "Thc Professor" is
concluding his honeymoon at the resi-
dence of his brother-in-law, Charles
Dudley Warner, at Hartford, Conn.
John w. Norton, who played the
leading support to Mary Anderson for
several seasons, is to assume the leauing
part in "The Romany Rye next season.
John LcCullough's season begins at
st. Paul, Mimi, September 4th. Re
hearsals have been called for Septem-
Der LIST at Hsverly's Theatre. Chicago,
| Ill.
John McArdle, the author OF Sharps
and Flats, paid a flying visit to New
York last week oy the Wyoming, re-
turning to Livereool on the same steam
er Tuesday.
Edwin Booth has written to friend
here that he will never play in London
again, and has ordered the work on his
new villa at Newport TO be stopped.
This does not look like success.
Cailender's colored Ministries and the
Haverly troope meet in Chicago to-day,
the former coming from San Francisco
and the latter from London. They will
consolidate tomorrow for the winter.
Nine. Marie Roze-Mapleson has just
inherited IS, 900 under the will Of her
grandmother after whom she was
uamed) in Paris. Her brother, Albert
Ponsin, the Partisan architect, receives
an equal sum.
BARLEY Campbell has returned the
money paid by the kiralfy Brothers for
his new play, Siberia, and taken back
his manuscript, in consequence OF their
failure to produce il this season. They
claim it to be impossible to get time TO
do the piece.
Nine Weathersby is so much like Mrs.
Langtry in features, figure, complexion,
and voice that she might play Dromio,
or the Corsican Sisters, to the Engllsh,
amateur. This settles the question OF
MIS-. laUStTy . loNtlineSs' ioi -o'
Weathersby is undeniably handsome.
Raymond will open his season this
year out West, and on Friday, defying
superstition. Some of the old Herald
STAFF used to Dv supc rsLitluus aouut FRI
day until Bennett made it salary day.
Then they preferred it to any other day
in the week. A fresh success to Fresh !!
There was lately at No. 81 Onslow
square, London, private reading OF
"Much Ado About Nothing" for a chart
ty at which Lady Martin Helen FaucitJ
read the part of Beatrice. Her husband,
Sir Theodore Martin formerly Secretary
to the Prince Consort), read that Of An
ton and Mr.. Irving that Of Benedick.
Mr.. Charles Wyndham cables from
London that he has completed all ar.
rangements with the people who are to
come with him to this country, and
that the company will be composed Of
the best talent to be had in England.
The opening play will be Byron's
Fourteen Days" which was played all
last year at the Criterion theater, Lon
don. The scenery is being prepared in
London under Mr.. Wyndham's super
version, and he will bring it with him.