Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-12-13
DRAMATIC DoINes.

Mrs. George Barrymore Drew has lately
bought house in London.
Philadelphia has nearly as many thea
tres as there are in the State Of Virginia
Five yesrs!sgo it is said, we had but one
third the amount of actors we now have.
Marion Booth is engaged to play .
pretty bar maid in the new play Hood
man Blind"
Francis &. Hsrte, son of Bret Harte,
is member Of Lawrence Barretfs Com
pany.
lydia Thompson has brought with her
q new burlesque on the subject of "Kenil'
worth"
Mr.. John s. Clarke has revived "Our
American Cousin" at the Strand Theatre,
London.
Lizzie Sims, the dancer, is still very i'll,
and her physicians believe she will be M
able to resume stage work for long time
Miss Adelaide Moore, the young English
actress, is playing in Texas, and Is attract
ing not only numerous but fashionable au'
diences.
l. is stated that the prices paid BY Mr..
Stetson for the lease Of the New York
Standard Theatre from December Z to May
/, was $4,000.
Mr.. J. B. Folks mixed Pickles" have
been doing well in New Orleans. The re-
port that The company had collapsed Is al
together without foundation.
Roland Reeds new play, from the pen
of E. E. Kidder, entitled, Zone of the
Boys" was given first production last
week at Providence, R l.
W. B. Cahill, the principal comedian OF
the Adah Riohmond Burlesque Company,
played comedy part in the original "Hs-
eel Kirke" at the Madison Square Theatre,
New York.
Fred. Warde is In Texas, but will soon
work his way back to New York, where his
forth coming spectacular revival OF Viz
ginius" is now anticipated with consider
able interest:
The ballet Of Amor" at La Scala, Mi.
Ian, requires over two hundred dancers,
2 800 costumes, an elephant, fourteen horses
and a perfect menagerie Of dogs, bears
and monkeys.
Noshs New York Sunday Times: Judic,
the famous French actress, is taking les.
sons on the banjo. Tum-te-tum! Cnink.
s.rink-a-dink.a-tink. 0ui, 0ui-mousieuri
We're splendeedel
1t is stated that Oliver Doud Byron re-
allied $25 900 on Across the Continent.
HE new play is entitled, The Inside Track,
and is said to be the meanest piece ever
put upon any stage.
Under the new law in Italy, any circus
which dceS not fully perform every act
promised in the pri ted programme or
which misleads the public by means OF pic.
turs g. is liable to fine o. $500 for each Of
fence.
The gross receipts Of Bobson and Crane
during their 9 years of professional CO.
partnership have been SS9+,225 30, and
The actual profit $352,l00 so. Upwards
of 5000 a year each If very han dsome
income.
Henry Irviug's production Of Faust"
will cost 500, 900. A special peal of bells
has been cast for it, and an organ has been
built for the cathedral scene, while ballet
is to be introduced in the Walpurgis Nacht
scene.
Joe Emmet has been on o very big drunk,
disappointing people in several Pennsyl'
vsnIs cities and towns, in which he was
announced to appear, and disgusting hun
dreds where he did appear. The disease
is styled alcoholism, at the ssylums. bat
in this section it is more generally know as
intoxicstion or inebristion.
Clara Morris is said to be over 40, but
does NOT look it; Jsnauschek, SO, and looks
every day of it; Fanny Davenport, SO, but
looks 20; Marie Prescott. SO, looks Kate
Claxton Al, looks Sc; Boucicslt, 63, re-
Gently married and does not look over So
Barrett, Al, looks SO; Tony Pastor, "a, but
looks not day over 48.
Miss Myra Goodwin, the young actress
who is starring in Edward E. Kidders
comedy, ISL" is thus described by New
Oclesns journal: She has a smile as faci
ns,ing as Joe Emmefs, and q face fresh
With The sweetness Of girlhood. She has
captured the town to a man, and the ladies
are nlso enraptured with her winning
ways"