Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-09-27
DRAMATIC D0iNGS.

Mary Anderson is rs.
Lotta has two new plays this season.
The country is full of ten-cent shows.
Salvini will sail for America October z.
John +. Owens con times TO improve.
Topsy Venn will retire after this season.
Billy berry is going to return to min
strelsy.
Joseph Murphy will take his Kerry Cow"
through Ireland. ~-
George W. Denbam has signed with W.
T. Carleton as the Ko Ko, in the lstter's
"Miksdo."
Neil Burgess has laid up for the season
ard will not play again until the season OF
1861.
Part of the scenery for Mary Anierdon's
engagement has arrived al the Star Tnss.
ire, New York.
Ssrdou il busily at work on Charlotte
Cordsy," which is 70 be Sarah Bernhards
next creation.
W. j. Scanlau's leading lady is Ethel
Brandon, very pretty young LADY, ami q
sister Of Olga Brandon.
George Clarke has taken 10 dramatic au.
tborship. II is q melodrams and its name
is Lost in New York"
An actress always begins to regard her.
self as pssse after she begins TO make birth
day presents 10 her grandchildren.
Joe jefferson took summer vacation in
Canada, and painted seventeen pictures lro n
nature while be was up there.
In the coming revival Of the The Ten.
pest ut the LJceum Theslt-, London. Mss
'rsuy's daughter, Edith, is TO appear ~
Ariel
Itisrumored 'ha. Louis Bale willshorhy
apply for divorce from Der husband Her
bert Leonard, bnsit z her application on cruel
tres meht
Mary Anderson hss bought Giloers one
act play, Comedy and Tragedy" outright
IL is the 6rst time Gilbert ever sold play
in that fashion.
Ely Coghlan has retired from the stage
and 10 living quietly with her husband IN
Montreal, whtr the latter represents q large
manufacturing interest.
The Bureau Of Registry Of the Actors
Fund is progressing well, from twenty TO
thirty files blanks being received daily
| Over 500 names are nov erolled.
Minnie Msddern has paid the sum OF o..
600 to Agnes Ethel Tracy for the plsy Of
agnes" thus securing all rights TO any YER
sion thereof, and has consented 10 permit
Madame Janish 20 retain her version Of this
play in her repertoire.
When the Opera House in Alliance, Ohio.
failed to pay some years ago. Henry T. Ae-
bfy. q Young merchant Of that tosn, took
hold Of IT, and ont of failure placked sac.
cess. Then be resolved 20 give up his basil
ness and devote himself 10 theatrical mao.
seement To that young man the Amer
can people are indebted for the visits OF
serah Berphardt and Henry Irving, and fof
The reason Of Italian opera in which Mr.. Alb
bsy.loet the fortune be had already gained.
BE is now making sno:htr in England With
Mary Anderson. Of all modern managers
more bette merits bis success.
Lester Wsllsck is one of the few remain
ing relics of the good old days when mere
,peculstors we're unkpo IN In theatrical bus
| mess spd sIl managers we're actors - veil
Time has dealt very gently with Wallsck
ard detpite bis nearly three score years and
ten be can ftill impsft 70 Elliott Grey OF
Captain Absolute youthfulness and spright.
" grace that many younger men might
envy. BE has an interesting family OF sons
ard daughters, none of whom. srrsnee 70
,sy, are en- the stsgs. he lives in New York
in the winter and spends bis sum, efs in
Connecticut, where be has beautiful ooun-
ry tsst-
| Negro minst1elsy proper vssyorgsnized
| in February, ls43 Dick Pelham WAS dane
| ing a regular engagement at the Chsthaa
| Tbesre in Ee1 York, where benefit va
&C, orded him. He solicited the co-opees'
ion Of some of lis burnt cork colleagues
In order TO make . strong sttraciion Tor me
/ occasion. The fss who responded begsn
a, orcs TO rebesrss ct Pslh.ms boarding
house In Catherine e.reet. They styled
,bemselsts the Virginia binstrels, and msde
their debot at The Cbsshsu Theatre, Neg
York. esrly In February, 1913. The Isr,y
cor listed ii Dan Emmett Billy Whiaook'
Prank Boser and Dick Pelham. Ell Of shos
sre dead excspt Eamett he = ~ yes1
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