Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1889-05-12
GREEN ROOM GOSSIP.
Facts and Fsncies About Our Favorite
Actors

Facts and Fancies About Our Favorite
Actors.
Last season, when Edwin Booth and
Lawrence Barrett were playing in San
Francisco, Mrs. O'Brien, the widow of
the bonanza king, attended a perform
ance, after which she was introduced to
the tragedians. In the course of CONVEX
sation Mrs. O'Brien said to Mr.. Barrett:
IF Mr.. Booth and yourself will dedicate
it, 1 will erect the handsomest theatre
on the Pacific coast. Messrs. Booth and
Barrett agreed to do it, and next Monday
night the new and magnificent California
Theatre will throw open its doors to the
public, with the distinguished actors as
the attraction. The new playhouse is to
be managed by Messrs. Al Haymsn and
Harry Mann.
MINNIE PALMER's TROUBLES.
Is not this further evidence that Miss
Minnie Palmer should secure new man
ger? Little or nothing has been done in
the way of announcing or advertising her
engagement at the Fifth Avenue Theatre
Mr.. John r. Rogers stands about the
theatre lobby, taking pains TO tell the
members Of the newspaper guild that bus
mess is bad, and the play NO good. Now
all this consummate uutruthfulness and
nonsense arises from the fact that Miss
Palmer refused to consent to being adver
tised by flaming posters and Autographs
and the like, and expressed her belief in
the entire adequacy and suficiency of the
press in respect of such announcement.
Mr.. Rogers only gives as IN excuse that he
is nauseated with the monotonous praises
which have been heaped upon Miss Pal
mer all over the world.
Last Monday night at the Gaiety Thea
tire in Dublin, w. J. Scanlan made his
debutin Ireland, appearing in "Shane ma
Lawn" A cablegrsm received in New
York Gays that the young comedian was
enthusiastically received by an overflow
ing audience that called him before the
curtain many times AID encored his songs
over and over again. Next week the young
comedian will be seen in Cork, and the
week following in Belfast.
Next Monday night Miss Ullie Aker-
strom, who is described as cute little ac-
tress and dancer of the Lolita order, will
make her debut in New York as a star at
the Star Theatre, appearing in her own
play of Annette, the Dancing Girl" for
which Harley Merry and L. W. Seavey are
painting entirely new scenery.
The Pacific slope tour of Willard Spen-
GERS Little Tycoon" company appears to
have been very successful. A prominent
San Francisco journal, in reviewing the
a.. 20 20 Nil ~
note the success of the Little Tycoon on
this coast, because that success insures
another hearing"
Mile. Rhea's new play, written by Ro-
land Haven. an American, is entitled
Josephine" story of the first empire,
Mile. Rhea playing the role of Napoleon's
first wife. Every member of her company
will be American except herself The cos
tunes will be made by Hawthorne.
Charles Arnold, in whom Simmonds &
Brown confidently hope to find an i'm
proved ]. h. Emmett, was expected to ar
rive in San Francisco from Australia on
May 18th.
]. NJ. Hill has purchased an interest in
"a County Fair" and has arranged to put
it on at the Union Square Theatre in Sep
TENDER for run of one year at least.
John E. Warner, vino managed Nat
Goodwin on his first starring tour, will re-
sumo his old position at the beginning of
next season.
MT. Skiff, for five years the business
manager for W. j. Seaman, takes bene-
fl at the Union Square Theatre next Sun
day night.
Rose Coghlan expects 10 spend her sum-
mer vacation in San Francisco, where she
begins her next tour about the middle of
August.
Klaw and Erlanger expect to spend $lO,-
600 in the production Of George Jessop
and Ben Teal's new play, 1.-The Great Me-
tropolis.
Adelaide Moore will arrive from London
on or about June 1st to prepare for her
tour of this country in 1.-The Love Story"
Maggie Harold and Alfred Hudson have
been engaged to support Ullie Akerstrom
in Annette, the Dancing Girl"
Isabella Coe, as the Schoolmarm in "a
Midnight Bell" is one of the most attract
;.-o faot1rao IF Tho performance