Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1890-11-30

it became evident that the genius Of
the actress was going to triumph over
all adverse conditions, and when the
curtain went down for the last time old
play-goers-many of whom had come to
scoff-admitted that Mrs. Carter had
made hit such as had not been known
in New York in many year. The jury
Of critics literally returned verdict
without leaving their seats, and certain
ly not in twenty years has any debtddnte
enjoyed such unanimity of praise as fell
to Mrs. Carter's lot the next day. Her
triumph is all the more startling.
The new production which Marie
Wainwright is to make next season will
be Amy Robsart," one of the most sue
cessful plays in the repertoire of Ade-
laide Nelson, and in which she really
laid the solid foundation of her success
as an actress in London some twenty
years ago. Miss Wainwright and Julian
Magnus, her manager, have been en-
gagged for the past six months in max
ing elaborate preparations for this pre-
sentation, the date of which is still
nearly year in tho future. The ver-
sion by Andrew Halliday, which Miss
Nelson used, was secured from 7. Hen
ny French, and this has been rewritten
to suit more modern stage requirements.
Arrangements have been made with A.
NJ. Palmer for six weeks run at Pal
mer's Theatre, beginning September :,
1891.
The farmhouse which sheltered the
boyhood of Denman Thompson among
the green hills of Swanzey fifty years
ago, is to be brought intact, stick for
stick, to the big Academy, New York,
TO be used in the opening scene of 1.-THE
Old Homestead" Uncle Joshua, Cy
Prime, Seth Perkins, Aunt Matildy and
the Ganzey boys are all well known
characters in the New England village
which boasts the birth of Thompson,
and are to be met any day along its
crooked lanes.
David Henderson is in New York COM
pleting arrangements for the opening of
his new theatre in Pittsbnrg. The tour
of THE Crystal Slipper" under the di-
rection of Mr.. Henderson and AL Hay
man, closed on the Pacific coast last Sat
urday night, and proved to be the most
successful ever played by any organiza-
ton in that territory.
Arthur b. Chase is TO retire from
Margaret Mather's management, on ac-
count of i'll health, and will be succeed
ed by T. Henry French, of this city.
The week of December has been can
celed, and the company will rehearse
"Jeanne D'Arc.n which. Mr.. French
says, is to be deliberately produced by
Miss Mather.
Realism comes high, but the public
must have it, and the manager must
give il to them, no matter what the cost.
The lions in Nero" at present the
acme of realism on the New York stage,
perform at salary OF $500 per week
and they get it.
Independent of musicians and the
business end of theatricals, only about
l 200 out of 10000 people in New York,
who depend altogether on the stage for
livelihood, may be said 10 be regularly
employed at any one time.
May Lawrence, the bureSque artistic,
has arrived in Europe, and has already
received many ilattering offers for en-
gagements in London.
1t is rumored that Burt Dasher. one
of Hoyt and Thomas bright young men,
is shortly TO be married.
John w. Hamilton and George Keogh
will manage Hattie Harvey's tour, The
lady is in good hands.