Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-01-31
DRAMATIC DOlNGS.
Lester Wslisck ia 65.

ANSLN aAs az ~
Wilson Barrett loat $35, 900 on q three
weeks run Of the late Lord Lytton's play,
"The Household Gods"
Salvinas reception last week or Chicago
was as cold as the weather, and the Their
mometer was below zero.
Mrs. Lsngtry speaks Of this country as
"My dear America" The date OF her re.
turn will be announced later on.
R. Fl. Terrell, Jr. and Lillian Wsllack,
Of Minnie Maddern's company, were mar
ried recently at Binghampton, n. y.
Several Of the old actresses in New York
haven taken upon themselves a kind OF
missionary work among the ballet and
GLORIOUS girls.
Leonard S. Outram, now in England,
but remembered here is Ire announced eu
thor of f. b. Wards new tragedy, "Aalba,
the Gladiator"
Sara Bernhardt ID studying Ophelia, and
her Hamlet will be compelled to say lei
none but violets spring from her fair and
unpolluted flesh.
Con BOucicault, with the latest Mrs. r.,
is in New York, and very properly has lit
tie or nothing TO say concerning his alIeg'
ed Australian marriage.
Ja~nauscheck's next season ia positively
announced "a her farewell TO America.
She will then play two years in Europe be-
tcre retiring from the atage.
Rhea is creating o sensation through the
country With her rendition of the beautiful
play OF "Pygmalion and Galatea.' At
Wheeling, W. Va, the people were very
enthusiastic. -Baltimorean.
N. NJ. Ludlow, aged 81, and the oldest
actor in America, il not in the world, was
buried on the afternoon Of the llth at st,
L.ouis. In conformity 10 his request, the
funeral was O quiet one, and but ten Elks
attended. The weather was bitter cold.
Estell Clayton has given up starring
Her hacker, charles, W. Durand, con OF Il
New York millionaire sugar %retiner, went
into the theatrical management like o lion
and is coming out q somewhat ssorn lamb.
Happily, he can well afford his briel ex'
} perlence.
Lillian Russell is idle in Eew York, and
there are rumOrs'of o separation between
) her and Solomon, the composer. Solomon
sud Capt. Alfred Thompson are still a
work on their new opera, "Pepita; or
The Girl with the Glass Eye" 1t will be
o healthy work indeed.
, Some journalist with nothing else to do
: has written an article stating what diet ac
trCsBes Of prominence most delight 10 feed
upon. Clara Morris is very fond Of bacon
and greens, Lolita delights in an Irish
pheasant for breakfast, while for the sam
meal a bit of tender ~venison steak aud 6
plate Of buckwheat cakes are the deligh'
Of Mary Anderson.
Tom Ceeu returned 10 bis home on Yer
mont street, Brooklyn, and is now unde
-, the care Of his physician. The paralyti'
. stroke which the 9ctor suffered affected hi
speech more thar anything else, but he j
nov reported 10 be recovering rapidly. Hi
manager has notified the company tina
Mr.. Keene will start out again March ]
, Gustavus Levick ia his leading man ant
Henrietta Vaders the leading woman.
Oliver Doud Byron, as also Edwin
Booth, 10 q native of Baltimore. Mr.. By
e ron, however, although a dramatic devotee
does not esssY 10 perform any Of thu
Shakespearean or the Bulwer creations
3 He goes heart and soul into ''Across thu
Dominant" end The Inside Track.
These have yielded him many ducats, and
he is content. He played the latter recently
e at the Academy OF Music, Chicago, for the
one hundredth time. Every auditor re
ceired q beautiful satin programme as
{ souyenitr, and in return called Oliver be
fore the curtain sundry times,
nBidwelrs Star Company produced The
Two Orphans" last week in New Orlesn:
at the st. Charles, with a strong cast
o Louise, Marie Wainwright; Hen:iette
t Louise Muldener; Mother Frochard, Min
ME Monks; Countess, Louise Dickson
Sister Genevive, May Wheeler; Pierre
h Joseph Wheelock; Jacques, Barton Hill
Vandrsy, Charles B. Welies; Count Di
Il neres, Charles Wheatleigh; Pickari, Harr.
d Haks; Doctor, j. W. Hauge; MarquiJ
Presle, George Backus. 1t is claimed tina
\ this is the strongest cast the piece hna eve
d had in the Crescent City. Sunday nigh
n during the last act, Marie Wainwright!
wig took fire from u candle on the table
n causing excit ment among the audience
: but she pulled the wig of and extiniguished
r the fire.