Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1890-10-19
THEATRICALTHINGS
FIVE NEW PLAYS PRODUCED IN TEE NEW
YORK THEATERS.
Description Of Some Of the Scenes-Lillian Russell
Gets in a Neat Fling at Pauline Hall.
General Gossip About Actors
and Plays.


| WOlldH, WIFI lull, IlSu, HoiouipuS anu
thrilling voice, made an unQuestionable
hit in paul Jones" at the Broadway;
Joseph Arthur's new sensational play,
'Blue Jeans" has tickled the peculiar
fancies of the public amazingly at the
Fourteenth Street Theatre; Jerome X.
Jerome's little play Sunset" used as a
curtain riser before "Dr. Bill" at the
Garden Theatre, was well received.
Hamburger Pilen" was greatly aD-
plauded by the German-AmericanS
at Amberg's Theatre; and ga
bio Romani" at the Third Ave
Avenue Theatre is no doubt an east side
success. HammerStein's new Columbus
Theatre on One Hundred-and-T twenty
fifth street, was also to have opened on
Monday, but the Fire Department inter
| fered, and the house will not open until
Wednesday, with Margaret Mather.
Planquett's opera was originally called
'Surcouf," but made into English by
II. Il. Farnie, who has tinkered over,
and made more unfunny operas than
any man alive. His paul Jones" is no
exception, but it is brilliantly set, and
Miss Huntington carried everything be-
fore her by storm. She is beautiful
woman, a contralto with voice of un-
common compass, especially powerful in
the middle and lower register. Her
paul Jones" is captivating picture OF
captivating hero that will make as big
success in America as it has been in
England. "Blue Jeans" is a picture Of
rural life in Indiana, and has Sawm!ll
situation that alone would carry it TO
success. Robert Hillard, the hero, is
knocked inSensble near sawmill. The
villain of the play picks him up and
places him upon long board lying on
the bench of one of the big buzz saws
in the mill. He then sets the machin-
cry going and pushes the end of the
long board upon the wheel. The rapid
~ increasing teeth of the buzz saw
wheezes around, eats into the board
and throws sawdust upon Mr.. Hillard's
quickly approaching body. When lie
is within two inches of the ugly looking
teeth of the saw, and the goose flSeh is
creeping down the backs of the audi
ence, Jennie Yeamans breaks into the
sawmill, raises up the PROSTATE form of
IIillard, and drags his body from the saw
mill Just in time to save his life, and pre-
vent the gallery from jumping upon
the stage. blue Jeans" is cleverly
staged, excellently acted, and good for
as long n run as Mr.. Arthur's other play,
"A Still Alarm" Sunset" by the sud
denly celebrated English author, Je-
rome, is based on Tennyson'S poem,
THE Sisters" The first half of it is
filled with silly, childish dialogue; but
the last half, with the sisters Self-deni-
al, attracted interest. "Fabio Romani"
is dramatization of Mario Corelli's
powerful novel, The Vendetta" made
into a thrilling and realistic melodrama
that will "catch on" at the cheaper
houses.
On Tuesday Mr.. Augustin DAILY began
his regular season at Days theatre with
Jerome X. Jerome'S new comedy, "New
Lamps for Old" When the curtain
went up Mr.. Frederick Bond was dis
covered sitting in one corner of the
stage. He was reading book, which
he at once referred to as the
wickedest book he ever read. \ voice
in the gallery Immediately called
out. 'Oh. what is it?' The vast audi
ence roared with laughter and applause,
and this was the keynote of the even
| ing. The play concerns Miss Rehan and
Mr.. Drew principally. These young
people are married, but tired of each
other. They find other ailinties, and
resolve to elope with them. Mr.. Drew
has chosen fresh partner in an exceed
! ingly aggressive young woman named
! FramoSch, while Miss Rehan has eloped
with an Edmund Russell sort of a poet,
called Burr Macintosh. BY curious
accident both of the guilty parties
choose for their honeymoon spot the
same country hotel. The complications
and uproariouS merriment of the piece
occurs in the endeavors of the rival
clippers to avoid meeting their rightful
partners in the dining-room. The com
edy ends as happily as it began, and
with it the famous DAILY Company well
deserved the warmth Of its welcome
home.
Besides these The City Directory
| has drawn immense audiences to the
/ Biiou. and "The Editor others to the
Fifth Avenue Theatre. Later in the
week other things are to follow. Herr
mann'S new theatre, after many post
ponements, will open on Saturday with
Minnie Palmer i'm "Suzette" The
Hammerstein Harlem Opera House Will
on the same evening be re-opened with
Mr.. Hammerstein'S new English Opera
Company in "Ernani," and at the We'd
nesday matinee Mr.. Richard Mansfield
will try new play, called "LeSbia, "
at the Madison Square Theatre rs a
curtain riser 1t has been a week of
novelties for theatre-goerS. and business
has been excellent at all the play houses
in town.
There is one moment in Poor iona
than" at the Casino which permits Lii
liam Russell to enjoy herself almost as
much as her auditors do. As DIR. Har-
nit she is discovered to be the posses
sor of remarkably fine voice. where
upon an opera manager at once offers
an engagement.
You will make a fortune, and so will
r. he exclaims.
But your terms?" she asks.
1.-TWO thousand dollars a week,
special car, maid, and three diamond
robberies a year, he shout, transport
eddy, and adds, with a sinister leer.
That's Hail."
The Casino audience of Monday night
almost choked with ribald laughter at
this wicked, but pointed pun; and the
blooming Lillian, never more lovely in
her woman's exhibition of malice,
laughed as gleefully as anybody else.
Yet she might have been kinder, for
Pauline Halls little advertising scheme
of diamond robbery the other day,
came within an ace of causing that
shrewd young woman deal of diScom-
fort. When the Newark Grand jury
men on last Thursday it was at first de-
cided to call Miss Hiss Hall before the
members. There were hard-headed
and stony-hearted men on that jury who
believed that the hoax had some dis
agreeable features which ought TO be