Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1889-03-10
THEATRICAL TALK

Nym CflnKle: me tneAtre Is not
moral academy. 1t is a workshop where
everybody is in the show-window. It
doesn't offer higher character; it offers a
vocation If a girl has curvature of the
spine it will not cure it, II she is born
liar and a thief it will not reform her. II
she is highly organized, exquisitely deli
cate and deliciOusly modest, the kss it
can do is to tougher her to her work o.
course it isn't possible for a girl to be as
timidly modest on the stage as 90 the
hearthrug Public exhibition in any case
does not develop the retiring charm of
c1yness; it does not tend 10 enhance and
perpetua;e the delicious blush Of shyness
We might as we'll make up our minds to
dispense with the bloom of publicity where
We accept the boon of publicity.
Mrs LaDgtry eats hearty dinner at 8
O'Clock. Mrs. Potter eats her dinner at
II O. clock at night. Adelaide Nelson used
TO eat at O'Clock in the afternoon, a din
ner which made the waters in strange
hotels double up with wonder. Mary
Anderson likes fried steak, and at the
Victoria Hotel during her recent engage
ment in New York she would eat
"smo;hered Venus" at 3 o'clock in the
afternoon. Nobody who eats well need
be told that a "amothered Venus" is
flied steak with fried onions
An actor had jug OF gin.
And when he went 10 play
He hid II darkly in box,
Till he could come that way
A super saw him hide it there,
And deity made a SCOOP.
So. when the actor came again
The gin was In this supe
Washington Critic.
Mrs. Laatry's decision to quit America
was made suddenly. II her revival of
Macbeth had been pscuniarily prosper
Gus, and thus had warranted the taking of
il to other large cities, she would have
srent at least one more season in this coun-
try. without a strongly attractive addi-
ton to her repertoire she could not hope
to crowd the big theatres longer. That g
the reason why she will 20 back TO Egg
land and undertake the management Of
London theatre.
Manager Thompson, of the 'Sid Pasha"
Comic Opera Company, nov PLAYING at the
New York Star Theatre, has brought euit
against the New York Herald for libel and
$50, coo damages for criticisms Of his pro-
duction. In these 1t was said that too
much of the work was boldly taken from
the operettas OF Strauss and Sullivan for it
to have much right to style itself original,
and that the libretto was equally bad.
Chassaigne's opera, 'Nadjy,' was sold
by him over a year ago for $4,000. Since
then it has beeu performed in America
and in London to more than $500, 600, on
which the TOY allies, at 10per cent, amount
to over $40 600. Chsssligue evidently
didn't understand the financial end of the
proc uction.
The largest theatrical advertisement on
record is that ju-t placed by Henry Irving
in the London Era. Il occupies sixty col
umns, or twelve pages Of that paper, and
comprises all the more important notices
that have been made of Mr.. Irving's pro
duction of Macbeth in the Loudoa prese.
NJ. Corquelin asked and received $500
for Ieriting a. the residence OF Mrs. CorDe-
lius Vanderbilt. Nine. HadiDg asked $500,
which also would have been paid, but
Conquslin declared that if Nine. Hading
should recite he would not, and so the fair
French woman WIS shut out.
The professional and matrimonial sepa-
ration of Louis James and Marie Vain
wright il a topic OF discussion among the
atricsl people. The move is thought to BE-
a mistake, for neither is strong enough to
star alone
Mary Anderson was severely criticised
by the Kansas City press eight years ago,
snd she has refused to play there ever
since Now ST. Louis goes into the fair
Mary'5 black list along with Kansas City.
Nine Patti has presented Marcus Mayer
with a sapphire ecarf-pin set in eight dia-
monds by way OF preparation for her
forthcoming American concert tour.