Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1889-08-11
IN THE GREEN ROOM.
A New Star Coming Over-Notes About
Plays and Players.

A New Star Coming Over-NOtes About
Plays and Players.
Miss adelaide Moore, an actress of con-
siderable ability and of fine stage presence,
is one of the English artists who intend to
make an American tour next season. She
sgoing to produce 1.-THE Love Story" at the
Fifth Avenue Theatre, New York, August
10, and Otis Skinner and Fraser Coulter
are to be the leading male members of her
company. 1.-THE Love Story" tells Curl
GUS tale of the unhappy marriage Of a
brilliant young woman and London bank
official, while the lady's affections are al
ready bestowed upon poor novelist. The
banker proves to be defaulter, and he
ends his career by means of bullet before
his honeymoon is over. A peculiar acct
dent leads the wife to believe that she has
killed her husband. Chivalry impels the
poor novelist to accuse himself of murder,
in order to shield the woman he loves, and
it requires the intelligence of a detective
and a police magistrate to prove that
neither has committed a crime. In the
end the heroine and the poor lover are
made happy. Miss Moore has engaged a
company of American artists to support
her. The play has had very successful
run at the Vaudeville Theatre in London.
W. H. Wood, who with $4,000 in
ready cash attempted to build the West
End Theater in Hsrlem-a structure
which was to cost four or five times that
amount, is just now being much harassed
by his creditors. His father-in-law, Mr..
Bressler, of Detroit, is expected to come
to the front with some more of the long
green. Weed claims that the theater will
be built, Notwithstanding the trouble.
Frank Mayo finds it impossible to rid
himself of "Davy Crockett" after all. He
is going to play the piece in Australia and
New Zealand during the season of 1890
and '91, bat will also present "Nordeck"
and 1.-The Royal Guard" He does not
want to make too much of reputation
for "Davy Crockett" in the antipOdes, and
SO will try to push Frank Mayo as an all
around actor to the front.
There are /, 500 actors in this city to-day
who are unemployed. About one thou
sand English actors are coming to this
country to play next season, in companies
already organized, and for whom routes
are already laid out. Many Americans
who have already secured engagements
have accepted much lower salaries than
they have received heretofore.-N \. Star.
Pauline Hall was first made known 10
the admiring dudes of this metropolis by
Mike Leavitt in the "Adsmless Eden" at
what is now known as Dockstader's Thea
ter. She gets more money now from the
Casino than che did ffom the Eden"
management, but che is Deither more adj
mired nor more beautiful than she was
then.-Ne,o York Star
Miss Lucille Meredith will take the
place of Louise Kissing in the Spencer OPP
era Company, and Miss Alice Vane will
sing Miss Hsllock's roles in that orsapiza-
ton after Saturday evening. Miss Vane
was with the company previous to the Gin
cinnati engagement. She has since been
visiting friends in Paris, Ky.
Julian Mcguire, of the New York
Tribune, who has done excellent work as
an actor, stage director, business manager
and dramatic writer, has been engaged as
business manager Tor Marie Wainwrights
company next season. He has the ex-
perience necessary to pilot Twelfth
Night to success.
Kate Claxton's new and fearless drama,
"Booth's Baby" and comedy drama,
"The Lion and the Lamb" written by
Will. r. Wilson and Julian A. Lewis, were
successfully produced in New York last
Monday night.
Miss Cora Tanner, who has been spend
ing the summer in Europe will return in
few days, ready to begin work in the