Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1891-09-13

and sank quietly into seat In the rear
of a box. She saw the performance out
and at the end applauded the play and
withdrew. Mrs. Drew is remarkable
old lady and many Of her cynical re-
me.ks have been quoted for years in
the dramatic profession. She probably
ranks at the head OF the actresses OF
America. The night following her ap-
pearance, Mrs. Barrymore was asked
what her mother had said about the
daughters appearance.
"She didn't say much," said Mrs.
BARRYMORE, thoughtfully. "She never
does. She squeezed my hand and kissed
me on the cheek, and interpreted that
as meaning she approved OF me-"
"But what did she say?"
"She didn't say anything" said Mrs.
BARRYMORE, calmly. 81 suppose she was
afraid that if she did I'd be sending con-
cratulatory kilograms to myself"
Broadway is clearing of. There are
now less than thousand actors TO De
found daily between Twenty-third ana
Twenty-second streets, and their num-
Der grows smaller every hour. They
are going on the road, fulfilling engage
ments in stock theatres and drifting OIL
to various points OF the compass to meet
the requirements OF engagements en-
tered into during the summer. But the
old guard which is still left upon 1.-The
Strand" can still be identified by the
reign OF the yachting cap and the man
ners of good-fellowship and cordiallty.
It may have been hard summer Tor the
members of the profession who have
been so long on Broadway, but they 90
not show the wear and tear Of it, either
in their manner or their talk. They are
as jocund, cheerful and whole-souled as
ever, though the season has been long
and arid and the end is not yet In slght.
Maurice Bernhard, who has gone out
to San Francisco to meet his mother,
has toned down very much since his for
mtr visit to this country. Undoubtedly
most of this is due to his marriage.
Like many other men who were wild
and apparently untamable in their bach
elor DAYS, he has developed into model
husband, and when the crowd OF young
! mtn who had found so much amusement
inhis society when he first visited Ne"
Ytrk turned out to greet him they were
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correct and thoroughly conventional
family man. 1t is not true that MI.
Bernhardt has gone out to secure money
frtm his mother, as the Western papers
assert, for the actress regularly proVluess
Ia, him by setting aside an income OF
sal 600 a year, and she placed this sum
to lis credit at her bankers for year
in ADVANCE before she started on her
Australian trip. According to Partisan
gosips the relations OF the mother ana
so, have become exceedingly tender ana
afectionate of late years. tMimrii;dtfooking
17tre woman. Her chief delight was
to dde on the elevated railroad when
shewaS in New York.
Mrs. Langtry's return will not sur
prize any one. 1t was recognized as in
eviable that she would come back when
thereports of her losing season began
to ind their way to Ameaica. 1t would
be tr healthier and better for all part
ieSaoncerned If the historic but nom
sendcal twaddle of actresses about their
love for America could be dispensed
witt in these days. No one is at all de-
ceipd by it. No sooner do Patti,
Wyldham, Irving, Kendall, Barrett,
Lanytry, Potter and the rest of them
make money here than they hasten TO
EurIpe to enjoy it. If they have made
anything like fortune they at once at
tempt to repeat their American sue
cess,s in London. If they succed-as
Irvilg does-we do not see them again
unless some sudden financial stress
drivs them back TO these shores. II
they fail-as they usually do-they at
once look around for offers and come
bach for more money. This is right
enorgh. We are willing to pay for the
most notable singers and actors in the
worll, but there is really no reason for
q rejetiton of the dreary old formality
Of EXPLAINING that these people come
| here because they love America.
NJ. Charles Frohman's serenity is I'M
rufifd by the incipent controversy con-
cernng "Miss Helyett," the new must
cal comedy which he has secured for
America and which is TO be produced at
the Stir Theatre early in November.
There Is great deal Of gossip about
what Mr.. Audran, the composer, will do
and what will be done by Mr.. Charles
Wyndham, who sold the American
rights, and what will be done by this,
that and the other person. Mr.. Froh-
man, as a matter of fact, does pretty
much az he pleases, and it is not alto
Oether Unsafe TO predict that he will act
wisely snd discreetly about the Ameri-
can production OF so valuable bit OF
property as "Miss Helyett" is conceded
10 be. AS a general thing Mr.. Frohman
manages to do things rather better than
they are done in Europe, and this agony
of apprehension on the other side OF the
water Is, perhaps, little premature.
Mr.. E. d. Price, who Is intrusted with
the management of miss Helyett,"
states that nearly all the people have
been selected and that the work Of pre-
paration will begin in about fortnight,
The cast has been difficult one TO sell
ect, and there are one or two parts that
are not yet quite determined upon.
William A. Brady's trick at Asbury
Park few nights ago was thoroughly
characteristic of the man. People had
almost forgotten that such play as
1.-THE Clemenceau Case" was still in ex-
istenee, but Mr.. Brady's action has adj
vertised 1t throughout the country. |
There Is unquestionably fondness for |
the nude among people Of Asbury Park.
It must have been so or Mr.. Bradley |
would not have made the famous regu- |
lationS concerning bathing suits there, !
THE Clemenceau Case" opened In As |
bury Park to packed house. When the !
curtain was about to rise on the famous |
studio scene, where LA poses as an IN |
draped model, the excitement was in !
sense Iva however was revealed in a i
bathing costume which looked like a |
BIoomer suit OF the vintage OF 1912.
Nothing has tiekled Asbury Park so |