Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-03-21
DRAMATIC DOlNGs.

Eelen Dauvray g 26, and on Saturday
las, Ellen Terry was 80.
a new flavor of chewing gum has been
named in honor Of Mary Anderson.
Digby Bill and his wife, Laura Joyce
Bell, signed contracts last Saturday with
Colonel McCsulI, at Philadelphia. for next
season.
They have Q woman at the Paris circus
that jumps from one horse to another while
the horses are going round the ring in op,
rosite directions
Philadelphia will have a Greek play in
May given by the students of the Univer-
sity OF Pennsylvania. There will be 60 per,
formers and chorus Of 60 voices.
Both the great London opera houses are
to lei for next season. High price stars
have greatly damaged the business, aud
others are laughing in their sleeves.
Daniel }ronsm is 10 play Maurice n.
Barrymore. R B Msntell and company
in San Francisco in June Mr. Barry
more, therefore, must shortly return from
England.
Lydia Thompson is said to have lost her
voice, and yet, say the newspaper men, the
best thing in her new burlesque, Oxygen,
is the song, 1T Depends on the Way II Il
Doue," which she sings herself
BARLEY Campbell not only denies that he
is poor, but also that be has ever been
mashed on Miss Mills the actress He
claims that his income is So, 900 q year
just one half the amount President Cleve-
land receives. .
Kate Forsyth and John T Raymond do
not agree halt so well as did the accom-.
plished actress and the late John McCul-
Tough Miss Kate has therefore left Col.
Mulberry Sellers, who is playing to very
poor business in the South. Her place will
he filled BY Ellie Wilton.
Madame Mo6jeska's English has i'm.
proved wonderfully since she last played
here Both Miss Cobb and Miss Clara Lip.
man lived with her, and she speaks only
English, devotiUg herself to acquiring q
purer pronunciation and batter scquain.
tsDca With the idoms Of the language.
The manager Of San Francisco thea
tire who invited the public to send conun.
drums in competition for prizes, to be
awarded during the performances, has
found the scheme not bad one By any
means Prizes are given 70, the best and
worst ccnuudruus, and both are read from
the stage
ya1rics Gtsu has gone to Europe on be.
half OF Henry Abbey. 10 complete the ar
rsngeuents FOX the Bernhard tour. She
will begin her season in Rio De Janeiro on
May Is; visit, among other places, Bueuos
Ayres. Santiago and Lima, and appear in
San Francisco, Nov. 10th. After q visit to
Mexico and Cubs she will return TO the
the United States February 18th. aud give
sixty performances, reaching New York,
March 18th.
Mrs. Lily Lsngtry has e rev. and for
midsble rival She has recently appeared
in London, aud her real name il Mrs
Smale. She is an sDsteur Of high sociSl
and made her debut at the Cri
terion uudsr TIE pseudonyu Of Charlotte
Elliott" She took the minor part Of Hrs.
Parker in "a Great Divorce Case" aud
having elaborated il into an important role
made q decided Bit. She tems sure of an
envisbls future in the profession she is
about to adept.
A critic of experience Gays: "Edwin
Booth has conceived the character Of Hsu-
let years ago. and has little altered it; the
spiritual dreamy philosophy of the part ia |
outside him; he never could portray Il. |
But that did not matter formerly, for Ham.
es had slwaJs been presented in heroic !
,olors. lis only in lsts years fist the
dssfty Of the character hsG gained the |
upper hand, aud Mr.. Booth is net going 10
,e troubled about it now; he continue, his
,En representation, and from bis own
,oint Of view IT is very fine on, but In !
deal one.