Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-02-21
DRAMATIC DoINGS.

Inc MSpleson OPERA SohPaHS HS9 Se0N
sucssefu Id Chicago.
Richard Golden and Dora Wiley arc tc
lead new troupe Of fun makers.
The Mikado" mas descended TO the Ger
man vernacular, and is nov ssen nightly
st the New York ITALIA Theatre.
The American Opera Company in New
York has made a great hit with Nicolai'
Merry Wives Of Windsor.
Mrs. John Drew has received offers from
a number of managers to appear in othel
cities, but has thus far declined 10 accept
In Brooklyn, recently, the heavy man Of
the ivy Leaf Company being taken
suddenly sick, Manager Power assumed
his pArsat short notice and scored hit.
Miss Zslle de Lasan effected her frat ap
pesrsnce III opera at the Boston Theatre
iast week. The Boston newspapers speak
in the warmest terms of her performance
She was heard as airline IN The Gypsy
Queen"
Nine. Nilsson, who has just returned
from brilliant season in Sweden and Ger
MANI, signed an engagement with Nj
Srakosch for tournee in the United
States, which will begin October Is mex
and last six months, embracing both operas
and concerts. This will positively be hel
last appearance in America she says.
The live eagle carrid by the Power Ivy
Leaf Company is probably the largest Of
is species in captivity in this country, meas
uring seven and onehslt FROM tip to Tx
and standing over two feet high. 1t va:
capturhd at Green Bay, Wis, the home o.
the famous "Old Abe" the Wisconsin wal
esgle, about three years ago when hejg
Jog.
The Great Trunk Mystery. a Criminal
Complication in Three Tsnges, By Clay
n. Green, is the voluminsus legend which
heads the circular Of Messrs. Howson aud
Coote, who are to star in the play, begiC
ming summer season at the Chestnut
Street Theatre, Philadelphia, May 81. The
piece is said to be excrutistinsly funny by
many good judges who have read 1t, aEd
is very sweeping satire on circumstan
s'ar,ial evidence aud the ottenumes stupid
theories Of detectives
The Parisian stage is said 10 De DONNA
ted By the stage carpenter at present aud
a play without realistic and startling
scsuiC effects is not deemed worth p'o5uc
ing D'Ennery is the only playwright she
desrisss sumptucus accessories, and tbs
fortune he has made shows how right he il
not 10 sacrifice heavily to the decorator
His Two Orphan" was mounted at q cost
of lees than $40. I'VE cannot, he says
GET tack 70 the simplicity of the Shsks
pearian era, nor would it, with our indus
irial resources. be desired to do SO, But
We should fret geek for genuine talent in
the drams;ist and players, aad then e7erv
other requirement will be added to US.
an passionately fond Of the drama, but
can seldom get il at a Paris theatre.
want something to stir me up and help re
TO escape from the prose Of life, and an
only given a show Of clothes aud furniture
ana pictures not nearly SO good IS the ones
can obtain for nothing hy looking into
the shop windows. French actress, De.
cause Of their aI5ordination 70 their gplen'
didTlressea, do not teel the neccaity Of cU!
tiyatiug their best mental ard artistic fac,
ultra, and sce losing power 10 eubjdgats
the audience They begin wei sud end
hedy. | cauGot think of ono who was
rev 10 the stage sixteen years sgo, and
gave good promises, WHO has improved,
"A great number Of American girls and
women are carried RTNy By the ambition
70 become comic opera Cels6tilies," writes
Mr.. BlockIey Hall to the Argclau,. The
impression that il tskes little ability to sue.
coed ia light opera is very general, Inra,
atty there ispo'kiDg On the stage that calls
for GO rare O combination Of talents Is
light opera. Women who ore pretty, grace
fol and vivacioIs are numerous enough
There ara many who, il addition to pos
s2aing thesa Qualifications know how 10
ACT; out when woman posGesSss ell these
uuaii6aions it ID odds Of ten thousand to
one one that she doesn't know how TO sipg,
If she knows how to sing, she cas-; act
For Instance, Pauline Hall has ringing
voice. handsome face AID absolutely nc
ability al all Ga gu actress On the other
hand Sadie Martinot is bright, Pretty aud
Al excellent couc1ianne but she cannot
BE- heard beyond the third or fourth rows
OF the orchestra Marie Jansen started
out with 6 piquap, tace, a good voice and
beautiful fure, and developed fair qualities
rs ap actress but she began to grow StoU'
soma time sgo, and her sprlghtllasss is fast
disaprs ariug. The fear OF growing 100 ta'
haun,s Il! the ljghi-oPers singers. Miss
Jansen waighs too much; the beautiful
lines Of Miss Pauline Halls hyure hsve
osan obi e-a,e6; Lillian RIs0ejl grew so
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