Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1890-04-06
BEHIND THE SCENES
NOTES FROM FIELDS OF ORA
MATIC WORK.
Della Fox in Trouble Again With Her Manager.
Sydney RosenfeldS Guarantees and Their
Value-Rhea Plays Poor Week
in New York.

Special Correspondence Of tie sunday Register
New YORK, April della Fox, the
little Western Soubrette. who is engaged
to play one of the principal parts in
Castles in the Air with the Wolf
Opera Company is again threatened with
all sorts of legal tribulationS by her cX-
manager, Mr.. Conricd. That gentle
man seems to believe that he has mort
gage on her. for he is sending threaten
ing letters that he won't permit her to
appear in Castles" and will exact to
its full mcaScrc his pound of flesh. Miss
FoX's story is different. She says that
whatever contract Mr.. COnried had with
her he broke by failing to pay her Sala-
ry. There is now due, she says, 1923
from him.
The Grand Duchess" is still the sue
cess of the season in comic opera, and
the big audiences gathered in the Casino
at every performance attestS the cX-
IRENE popularity the opera has ac-
quircd. A theatre party of one hun
drcd. of Troop A. First DagoonS, will
attend the performance this Wednesday
evening to watch Lillian Russell review
her stage army.
The De Wolf Hopper company are ac-
lively rchearSing under the Superintend-
encc of Mr.. Max Freeman for the pro-
duction of Castles in the Air The
opera is now well under way.
Miss Elsie Sheridan, a niece Of the
late General Phil. Sheridan. and Scy-
mour G.. Hess, son of Commissioner
Jacob Hess, are To appear in The
knights Of Tyburn' next Monday AT
Niblo'S.
Caroline Hill, the vivacious wife OF
Herbert Kelsey, of the Lyccum Theatre,
has been engaged by Manager j. NJ.
Hill to support Maurice Barrymore next
season in Gus Thomas new play. Miss
Hill is Il remarkably clever actress, as
she has already demonstrated in this
county particularly in her impcrSona-
ton of Lazy Dolly in Moths, at Wal
lacks theatre few seasons ago.
Gus Thomas has written a com
panion piece to "A Man Of the World "
entitled "A Woman Of the World, the
leading character of which is intended
for Georgia Drew Barrymore. 1t will
be presented rs Il curtain raiser during
the run of The Balloon, which is to
begin at the Star Theatre under the
of Joseph Brooks July 2I.
Miss RoSina V0kes will begin her an
nual engagement at Days Theatre ON
April IA. This is earlier than usual,
and is made possible by the early clos
ing of Mr.. Days own season. As usual.
she will give three short pieces at each
performance.
Miss Minma X. Gale sailed for Europe
last Saturday for pleasure trip. She
expects To be absent six months.
Miss Fanny Dayenport'S tour closes
early i'm May. She is having the most
successful season that she has ever
known.
\ large delegation of newspaper men
and managers are going TO New Haven
next week to see Louis Aldrich ia The
Editor"
Belle NUM-, last season a prima donna
OF one of Rudolph AronSon's New York
Casino Opera companies. has been en-
gagged for the new Criterion Comedy
Company which is being organized by
Mr.. Leslie Gos>in and is to begin tour
of the country in September next.
James T. Powers will not be mem
Der Of Rudolph AronSon's Casino Com
pany next season. He is TO star In a
new farce comedy under the manage
ment of Rich and Harris.
The Wilbur Opera Company has been
engaged 30 give summer opera
at the Academy Of Music, baltimore,
under five year contract. This j. the
longest contract ever known to be made
with any company in America.
Cinquevalli, the greatest Of all Jug
glcrs ever in America, has undergone a
surgical operation which, in all proba-
bility. will mar his professional future.
Tamagno has been as great a drawing
card AT the Metropolitan Opera House
As is Patti. Said the old imprcsdrio the
other night: AT the beginning OF this
generation we had Mario, tenor dc grd-
zia. and Tamberlick, tenor dc fora, at
the end Of it Masini "a the grain singer
and Tamagno a. the fora.
Miss Leonora Bradley has been OF
fercd place in The Stepping-Stone,
bv sydney Roseafold. who promises 70
guarantee" every one years salary.
Sydney's guarantee j. "a worthless,
however. as his play. The debts he con-
tracted during his "Mikado' craze re-
main vet unpaid. In fact. the only way
p back debt can be collected from him is
the manner in which John L. Rogers
collected 500 loaned: said John: iii
take il out Of your hide" and sydney
knowing he icouId. borrowed the money
and paid Rogers. 800.
Three gentlemen are mentioned lh.s
voel, AZ becoming Rhca's manager, first