Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1890-12-28
FOOTLIGHT FLASHES.

Diamond broker Lewis ana Marie
Halton are going abroad once more.
Chauncey Pulsifer has become mana
ger for Mckee Rankin's ''The Canuck."
Lconora Bradley continues with Mar
garet Mather for the rest of the season.
Hallen and Hart will have new play
next season called "In It," In what?
The next new theatre in Pttsburg
will be the Bijou, reconstructed and re-
arranged.
Henry Irving is TO revive Much Ado
About Nothing" On January 9Th, in
London.
Maurice Barrymore has left J. NJ.
Hills forces, and goes back to a. NJ.
Palmer.
Miss Minnie Seligman has been en-
gagged for the leading part of "Mr Pot
ter OF Texas"
The names Of Hoyt's next plays will
be "a Temperance Town" and "a Pat
en- Medicine"
Annie Lewis IS going to star in MY
| Sweetheart" with yours merrily" John
K. Rogers as manager.
Augustus Ptou will produce new
play, called The Powers of the Press"
at the Star Theatre, March Is.
Denman Thompson has about settled
to revive Joshua Whitcomb'' at the
Academy Of Music shortly after the hol
days
Robert Downing's new play, The
Saracen, has made a very strong hit,
and will prove the strongest money
winner he has yet had
AMBROSE Thomas, the immortal com
poser Of "Mignon," is setting Tasso to
music, the libretto Of which has been
written by Jules Barber
John r. Rogers has gone to Cincin-
natl TO spend the holidays with his aged
father. lie says that Minnie has been
hypnotized by her mother.
II. :. Taylor signed a five years con-
tract Oh Tuesday with Joseph liaworth,
by which he IS TO star him in new
American play and in " Hamlet " and
"Othello.@
[ Mary Anderson refused to see Henry
T.. Abbey when he called on her at Turn
bridge Wells lately. She says she will
never appear on the stage again, and
wishes nothing 20 do with theatrical
people.
Arthur Daere has received IA two
weeks notice from the Leslie Carter
management, which expires January 3.
At the end of that time Mr.. Dacre will
bring . suit for the recovery Of his
| salary for the entire season.
Marie HaltJn has left the Casino con-
many that was playing Poor Jonathan"
| IN the road. Like Maggie Cline, she
says she is too delicate for this business,
and that one-night stands impair the
quality Of her voice. Did she ever have
one?
Nellie Cummings was severely bitten
by bulldog ih Philadelphia last week.
She had q narrow escape, aS the dog
jumped for her throat when she was
giving him q piece Of candy. aud took a
piece out Of her cheek. The dog was in
stantly killed.
Nat Goodwin has proved sucha strong
attraction ~ be Park Theatre. in
! Rroolilyn. that, ca several occasions.
the orchestra had - be- placed beneath
tho stage. Mr.. Goodwin j. busily en-
cared I'm completing the details for the
elaborate production OF The Nominee, "
~ Dee given in Nrw York early in Janu
ary.
VIM. 4. Brady has now nine attrac-
tons ON the road, the last two which he
la. added Being VIII L. Wilson's sue
rcssful. The Inspector, and an enter
tainment in which the famous magician.
Prof. Kcllar, gives a magic seance'
which is followed by the six wonderful
~ trained lions chat created sensation
IN Nero"
Theatrical managers, when IN trouble,
like sailors, take to Duff. Last season
when business WAS bad ut the Academy
OF Music, Duff vas called in: doctor
Bill" failed to draw at the Garden The
atre. and there were minors OF Dun;
and now that Nero" failed to mater
!alize at the Broadway Theatre, Duff
appears once more on the scene.
Stuart Robsons humor is never di-
vorced from any Of his actions-even in
the making of wedding gifts. When
the engagement Of Lawrence Barrett
daughter Edith, with Mr.. Williams,
was pending, Mr.. Robson promised a
wedding gift of five thousand dollars.
and paid one dollar down as an earnest
OF his intention. One the day of the
wedding Mr.. Robson sent his check for
four thousand nine hundred and ninety
nine dollars.
About the "CleOpatra" production.
Mr.. William Winter writes a follows in
the New York Tribune: Miss Daven-
port makes good. wholesome, domes-
tic Bostonian or Philadelphia Cleo
patra," who would really do not one OF
the naughty deeds of the enhancing
Egyptian, but rather would have mar
ried Antony AZ settled him As Chief
Justice Of Alexandria. Mr. Melbourne
Mcdowell. a heavy man, with vast jaws
and Il tigcr-like countenance, presented
Antony and created frequent dis
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