Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1889-12-15
FOOTLIGHT FLASHES.
NEWS PROM THB STAGE AND THE GREEN
Room.
Notes Of Interest About Plays, Players and Play
wrighs-Mss Yohs Has Settled Down
De Wolf Hoppsr's Venture
Booth and Barrett

Special Correspondence Of he Sunday Register.
NEW YORK, December 1.-the New
York Herald of yesterday has this dispatch
from San Francisco concerning clipper
and sensational young person who began
her stage career in Philadelphia: "Miss
May Yohe, who was until very recently
the leading lady of The City Directory
company, has retired to private life. She
now resides in an elegantly furnished fiat
at No. 1921 Ellis stIeet. She is known
as Mrs. Williams, and is presumably the
wife of Tom Williams, son of General VIII
liams, ex- United States Senator from Ken
lucky"
The New York Fourteenth Street Thea
ire has taken the lead among the first
class theatres in New York in reducing
prices of admission to %, 80, rs cents and
81. This is the proper tariff Of rates for
admission TO an American theatre; ana in
time no other will be tolerated by the
public.
The contract for the engagement Of the
De Wolf Hopper Comic Opera Company at
the Broadway Theater was signed in New
York on Thursday night, and that for
Francis Wilson on Friday morning. The
Hopper company opens on May and stays
for fifteen weeks, and Mr.. Wilson opens on
August 18 and closes in November. 1t is
said on good authority that the McCaull
Company will not disband, but will not
pley next summer. The net result, there
fore, of the operate changes of the last
year promises TO be the permanent acces-
sion of two expensive comprehensive Hop
per and the Wilson organizations-tO the
ranks of an oyercrowded branch Of public
entertainment. High time, it seems, for a
Comic Opera Trust.
Booth and Barrett will spend the Holt
day season together in New York city.
Mr.. Barrett closed his engagement in
"Ganelon" at Washington Thursday night
and will 20 10 New York to remain until
after the holidays. This week Booth and
Modiesks will visit few interior towns in
New York, and will follow with week at
Harlem. Then Mr.. Booth will rest for
two weeks, beginning his tour again on
January 6, at Providence.
Grace Henderson retirss from the New
York Lyceum Theatre Company and the
stage in January or February. 1t is her
intention to retire to social life, resuming
her place at the head Of the household of
her husband, David Henderson, the pOpu-
lar manager of the Chicago Opera House.
Willard Spencer is now booking 1.-THE
Little Tycoon for the season 1890-91. The
tour will cover q period of forty-nine
weeks, and extend from Canada to San
Francisco.
Charles Dickson, who is playing this
season in "a Possible Case" company, has
signed contract to do comedy work next
year in support of Minnie Palmer during
her American tour. In the spring Mr..
Dickson will apper in :'Pine Meadows"
which is 20 be presented for a run at the
New York Fourteenth Street Theatre next
March.
Joseph Anderson, the brother of Our
Mary" and the brother-in-laW OF Law
renee Barrett, has decided to give up the
stage. While it cannot be said that he
ever displayed unusual talent, he was con-
scientious and faithful as an actor, and,
besides, he is to be commended for his de-
votion to his sisters interests-a devotion
that was the chief secret of his profession
al work. He has now attached himselft to
a London publishing house, and may with
reason be said to have good expectations.
The fgurehead of the vessel on which
the Government claim which suggested
Mr.. LlOyd's play, "The Senator" was
based, is now on view at the Maratime
Exhibition being held in Boston. Mr..
Crane hes gazsd longingly att several times
estimating it's value as an advertisement
for his play, but as it is Government prop
erty, it is beyond his grasp.
Wilton Laekaye has been engaged by
Manager Hill to support his new star,
Cora Edsall, who is to give a series OF
matinees at the New York Union Square
Theatre next month in Mr.. Csrleton's
new play, 1.-The Pembertons?"