Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1890-08-24
IN THE GREEN ROOM
NEWSY GOSSIP ABOUT THE DRAMATIC
WORLD.
Clog Dancing a Purely American Art-Some O.
It's Great Profess0rs-Kate CaStleton
Will Not Go 0ut-News Of
All Sorts.
Solciql Correspondence orMe Rsoister.

/ SBeciQt Correspondence Ofthe Rs0tsfer.
New YORK. August Charlie
Q1cen." said John Mari. of the Hustler
company. recently, was probably the
finest performer that ever raped the
boards with "a pair of clogs. Clogs are
made Of hard white ash. Good ones
cost at least seven simolconS pair.
I They never wear out. but they crack.
/ They're something like chcStnutS i'm
/ that respect. Queen died in Kansas
/ City at the age of thirty. Most clog
dancers die Young. He was wonder.
/ When Queen went over TO the other side
with Havcrly'S minStrelS he knocked
'cm out. Fellows in the audience used
/ to yell to have him pass the clogs around,
so that they might examine the wonder
/ full things and prove to them there was
no trick. Billy Hale, of Denver was
another great clog dancer. Clog dane
T ing is an American art. Howe and
/ Doylc.arc probably the best living clog
dancers to-day: They command 5000 a
week. Barney Pagan. who is a Boston
ian. is generally considered the best all
round dancer.
1t is now believed that the ">timu
lating influence of Mr.. Ted Marks was
put up in the wrong bottle. 1t was a
soporifc and not Stimulant that struck
the international NaudeyilleS.
Louise Rial has been engaged to play
i'm Jim the Penman the part formerly
PLAYED by Mrs. Booth. The manage
ment promise a new drama for Mrs.
Rial next season. and will then star her
She is particularly strong in the terri
tory she is now 10 revisit.
Kate CaStleton was the first To break
faith with the company She had en-
gagged TO support her for this season
and now Louisa Litta has deliberately
declared that she will not 20 out lust
vet" This makes two companies
thrown out at this early stage of the
game. Doubtless more wOuId-bc-starS
will shortly follow suit and yet manaS-
crS consider themselves badly treated II
an actor breaks his contract, talk OF
suing for damages. etc. Now. what re-
dress has the said actor? None. what
ever: and il bchooveS artists to look out
for themselves.
Miss Lillian Lewis has a strong
creepy" vein in her composition. and
no better evidence of il could be re-
ouired than the fact that she spent
hours during her stay in Paris studying
the dead bodies i'm the MOrguc. Not
one of the CHASTITY details was lost. y
protruding cyeball, an ugly muscular
contraction, the odious diScoIoration IN
hands and face are all dwclt upon i'm am
article in her diary that has been prom
ised to one of the daily papers.
Sidney Booth has been engaged FOR
the Tommy Russell Prince and Pauper
company.
Al. Hayman. who has not visited San
Francisco since last February. and who.
during his absence, has visited all the
chief cities in Europe, will leave this
week for Chicago TO attend the opening
of his theatre there with the County
Fair. en- route to Portland and san
Francisco. Mr.. Hayman will meet the
Palmer Company at Denver, and 90 ON
10 the coast. After spending three or
four weeks in San Francisco he will re-
turn TO New York for the winter. Mr..
Havman'S interests not only cover four
of the chief Western cities and cir
emit the Western country, but he Is in
terested i'm several of the leading travel
ing enterprises for the coming season.
Arthur c. Pell. late musical director
of Evangelne, goes abroad this week.
and will spend the winter in Leipsic.
Miss Ada Glasca, the prima-donna OF
the Gilmore Opera company, received a
very natterng offer from the manage
mcnt of the Emma Juch Grand English
Opera company to alternate Miss Juch.
Miss Lee Lamar has returned from
New Hampshire. Her card says She Is
diSengaged.
Joseph Armand has been engaged as
leading tenor of the Boston Ideal Opera
company.
Josephine Shepherd has returned
from Asbury Park looking bright and
fresh after her sojourn by the sea.