Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1888-04-08
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W. j. Florence has secured the right 10
play Heart Of Hearts" next season.
Booth and Barrett will pass the summer
together at Newport and COhassett.
J. S. Clarke goes to England in April,
returning in November for q starring
tour.
Leonora Bradley has left aud Nellie
Sanford has joined G. S. Knights COM
pany.
Charles Wyndham says tbat.he will not
come to America next season, on account Of
the Presidential election.
John Jackson has purchased Pope's
Theatre, st. Louis, for $3.50, 600. This
will not affect Havlin & Robb's lease.
Miss Pauline Hall has signed with Fore
paugh and Conley for 4 summer season at
the Casino Garden, Philadelphia.
Chas. B. Jefferson's American version Of
"A Dark Secret" has been sent for to re-
place the original version in London.
1t will be two years on May 10 since
"Erminie" was first presented OIL the
Ca'ino stage, and since then the cast has
been almost entirely changed. In the first
production Marion Manola, Jennie
Weatherby, Agnes Folsom, Victoria Schill-
ing and Max Freeman all appeared.
Alexander Dumas sat down M night
not long ago and wrOte a single-act play
before he quit the work, which lasted
from 8 o'clock in the evening till half.past
2 IN the morning. He drank eight cups
of black coffee while he wrote, and con
vertei twenty-nine cigarettes into ashes. .
Young Robert Downing is reported TO
have made an immense success in 1.-The
Gladiator" during a late tour through
New England region rot commonly
tolerant ofthe robust school of tragedy.
If the reports are all true, he has done in
our more difficult day what even Forrest
and Mccullough barely accomplished in
Yankeeland in their time.
An actor, speaking of the electric sparks
that fell from the keen edged swords
welded by Henry Irving as Mephistopheles,
in "Faust," says thatthey are an effect in
vented by a young EUglishman, and that
recently an European speciality artist that
appeared in Philadelphia created great
establishment by emitting sparks and lu-
minous flashes from his nose and ears.
These effects were on a similar plan.
The widow of John T. Raymond, who
was Rose Eytinge's pretty daughter,
Courtney Barnes, is in London. 1t is said
that she lives on the American equivalent
of 81 per week, added to the little she is
able to earn as companion" to Kate For
syth. All that the generous, improvidcnt.
happy-go-luCky, match you fora hundred
Raymond left at his death yields his wild
ow an income (tor life) of five dollars a
week.
Sardou is said to have abandoned the
idea Of writing n hbTetto on the subject Of
Montezuma for the new work 10 he ON
posed hy M. Mlssenet for the Paris Grand
Opers. He will take a story of French
history instead, the scene, however, not in
any case to be laid i'll Mexico, nor the title
to be "MaxamilliaD."
1t ia now understood that Mt the fare
well benefit to Lester Wallack in New
York, in MAY, Edwin Booth will play
Hamlet, Lawrence Barrett, Llertes; John
Gilbert. Polonius; C. W. COuldock. the
ghost; Joseph Jeffeison and W. ]. Flor
ence, the grave diggers; Kyrle Bellew,
Osric; Robert Mantell, Horatio; Modieska,
Ophelia; Mrs. D. p. Bowers, the Queen;
Rose Coghlan, the player Qdeen; Stuart
Robson, Rosencranz, and VIM, II. Crane,
Guildenstern.
The Highland House is being rapidly put
in condition for the summer season, which
promises to be an unusually prosperous
one. Manager Rindfeech has occurred a
first-class opera company, which will give
all the popular light operas, with fine seen
cry and pretty costumes. The season will
continue through the Centennial Expcsi-
ton, and good opera will be fully aPpreci-
ated by visitors and will be sure of success.
The contract by which Manager II. c.
Miner becomes sole owner of paul Kau-
war; was signed March 81. MI. Miner will
continue the play ct the Standard, New
York, this week, after which he will send
the company to some Of the larger cities
for a shoSt spring tour. He has also secur-
ed control for the next five years Of all
plays now in the possession of Steele Mac
kaye, or that may be written by lin du-
ring that period.
A new version of the "TamipR of the