Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1889-01-27
THEATRICAL NOTES.

George S. Knight is reported as recover
i-g.
Henry johnson has become business
manager for Mckee Rankin.
Mary Anderson's business in Philadel-
phia has averaged $4,000 a performance
during the week.
Miss Julia Marlowe, whose business con-
tinues to be phenomenal, will not appear
in New York this season.
Louis Rial will he o member of The
Private Secretary" Company, which a. M.
Palmer will s)cn send on the road.
viii Msckey, foa of Steele Mackey'
died in New York on Tuesday. He was
member of Kate C,axtOn's Company
Both and Barrett played Othello" at
the Boston Theatre on Monday to one oi
the smallest audiences ever IN that house
John Stetsou mas taken such q dislike to
New York that he will not visit the
metropolis even to transact important bus
ire3s.
The topical sorg, Don't you think they
would like to? Rather" sung by Nellie
MeHsnry in The Humming Bird" has
made a ersat hit in Baston.
Said Pasha," The new comic opera
from the Pacific coast, has made success
in PhiladelpSis. The music is bright and
catchy, the librstto very bad.
The weather 10 Paris has been as mild
as il is in New York this winter, and mani
ayers are complaining that business never
was quite as bad during the holidays.
Clairette Vanderbilt, one of tie pretty
chin chin glls in the Pearl of Pekin, 3"
leaves that company soon to begin her
musical studies 81 Cincinnati, after which
she will 90 abroad.
Time does not deal gently with Lilly
Langtry. She looks haggard and worn,
aud her figure, over which two continents
have rsved for several years, seems wasting
away. The cause is said to be Oyerwork
and fatigue from travelling.
Mrs. James G. Blaine, Jr, has been en-
gagged By Manager Daniel Frohmau for
two years She Is to have part Of the
profits of her starring tour, be supplied
wi h costumes, and have both female
con panicn and q maid, at ell tie expense
Of Mr. Frohman.
Manager I Z. Rice says that, owing to
the difficulty he has had all on account Of
the interstate commerce law, he proposes
to build railroad himself for the accom-
notation of The Rice and Dixey companies.
The cars will all be sleepers, each membsr
to have a private room.
Charles Alfred Byrne and Archie Cor
don have ioiCt Y written an amusing COM
edv called the Backer" 1t introduces
several new types of curious metropolitan
characters to the stsge, o1e being figaro
Ter willing to back anything from the
atrical show to d safe burglary.
Mr.. Mckee Rankin, in a sealskin lined
overcoat, brown vest with crimson spots
and a pea-green scarf with sky-blue aud
yellow dota, hiss been a constant prone
nader on Broadway during the week. Mr..
Rankin is as handsome as ever, but his
makeup has been one Of the wonders OF
the town.
Charles L Davis, who accumulated a
fortune and three or four quarts of yellow,
green and mcsa-agate diamonds by playing
"Alvin Joslin," has Just been convicted in
a New York court Of having ia his posses
sion a lot of peculiarly vile photographs
taken from life. Davis was fined 500 and
severely reprimsnded.
The other day would-ba funny man
wro.e Manager John Russell that he bad a
Joke which could be used in Natural
Gas" that would be sure to convulse the
audience. Russell told him to call, and
this is the joke:
What is the difference between sailor
and an actor?
The first likes to see a lighthouse, aud
the other hates to see q lighthouse. Mr.
Russell has been severely indisposed ever
since.
Mrs. Langtry surprised the metropolis
On Monday by her Lady Nab eth, which,
although neither electrical at any time or
satisfactory at all times, had at least the
merit of originality. Her Lady Macbeth
was not the imperiOus virgo of Charlotte
eastman or the gentle persuasive inciter
of assassination that Clara Morris once
made her, but midway between the two
extremes an equal partner with her hus-
band before the crime, and loving con
iugal comforter after it Sae was mag
nifieently costumed until the sleep-walk-
ing scene, when her comeliness was sacri-
feed and she appeared in a nightrobe, pal
lid and ghastly-a corpse from a tomb. In
this scsne she was monOtonously plteous,
spake like a sleeping person and ussd none
Of the tragic airs tradition warrants. Her
Interpretation Of Lady Macbeth will insure
discus S on, but she acquitted herself OF
the difficult task with great credit. The
Macdnff Of Mr.. Charles Coghlan was a
thoughtful creation, but he lacks both
strength and variety, aud WAS throughout
coasp!cuously unsatisfactory. He made
the Thaue weak and willing accomplice,
brave only in the spasms of supernatural
fear.