Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1891-12-27


This necessitates every member Of the
com pany ordering three suits o. ciotnes
from the same source. Great mead tnat
actors got.
" 8. Cleveland, the minstrel mana
GER who came near dying at the Hon.
man House, N. ", three weeks ago OF
tvnhojd pneumonia, has sufficiently re-
covered 10 be about attending TO onsi-
ness again Mr. Cleveland is oneof the
plnckjest and most energetic OF men,
and his star. which seemed likely TO go
below the horizon at one time, IS again
In the ascedant.
Young Alexander ComstocS, wnose
name as manager is on all the printing
OF the new comedy company headed oy
Mr.. and Mrs. Sidney Drew Is out OF the
combination. IL is not known hcw he
comes 10 be ont. but that he Is. Mr.
Comstock seems to have facility for
getting into management that is sur
passed only by his faency in getting
out.
The WILDER Opera Company did
pretty good business at the Grand last
week. The prices for Christmas were
higher than on the other days OF the
engagement. The company acted poor
ly at both performances on Christmas,
aud Mascot aud Erminie were badly cut.
The crowd must have had too much
Christmas.
The Christmas number OF the New
York Dramatic NeiCs this year weighs
one pound and half. IL has 81 pages,
each one magnificent specimen OF w.
pogra phical art, and the issue carries
over Sl2. 900 in advertisements. Inc
Christmas number OF the New YORK
Mirror is publication OF which the
publishers may we'll be proud.
The Little Electric Battery" Lizzie
Evans, did big business at the Opera
House on Christmas day. Miss Evans
made her reputation in Foge's Ferry.
The report that she was TO close because
she has been unsuccessful with her new
play was premature. The lady goes 20
Cincinnati for the week and her time Is
booked weeks ahead.
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Langtry is not Ill at all, and drives
about London happy That she has cam
celed her American dates. which would
have made her very i'll. Her disbanded
company have presented Ter with a
silver shield with the following inscrip-
ton: "Age cannot wither her nor Gus
tom stale her infinite variety" No, IN
deed!
At the close OF the present season Mr..
Staley. the popular German dialect com-
edian, who is known from the Atlantic
20 the Pac fc as the successful star Ia
"a Royal Pass" will sail for the Faith
erland and spend his vacation visiting
the scenes where the action Of his sue
cessful play Is laid.
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"BiR" Hall writes, from Chicago,
that he once asked a musical critic II
he knew anything about Hungarian
music. He said, he did, whereupon Mr..
Hall asked II he ever heard Tho
March Hunyady?" YES" he replied
sits a qui, k step"
80
Mr.. VIM. II. West, OF the famous min
strels, Primrose & West, made the mu-
nificent Christmas gift OF check for
81 900 to his brother, John L. West,
who acts AS treasurer Of Eight Bells"
John says he has more friends than
ever.
BY actual count, fourteen chorus
girls during the past three weeks have
come into fortunes varying from $780,
600 TO $500, 600 The money Ia each in-
stance was left by relative dying at the
other end of the earth.
50
Charles Alfred Byrne and Louis Har-
rison's new opera, "The Isle OF Cham
pagne," will be the summer attraction
at the Grand Opera House az Chicago,
with Thomas Q. Seabrooke In the lead
ing comedy role.
Manager Thomas Stowaway Davis is
thinking OF taking his play OF "The
Stowaway," with Spike Hennessey and
Kid Mccoy, on three-years-tour
through the antipodes.
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A Pair Of Jacks was booked 10 play
Bellaire on Christmas day but cancelled
and went 10 canton, OulO. us CoU-
pany will not oe In this section until
March or April.
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Fanny Davenport has bought big
farm In California, near the rancho OF
Modjeska. Lily Langtry has big farm
out there that she will sell mighty cheap
for cash.
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Progressive euchre, poker and build
ing associations are the worst enemies
that the theaters have at present. The
skating-rink craze is not In 1t with
them.
The Carried Opera Company will APP
pear at the Opera House on New Years
afternoon and ght In that fayorite
comic opera. Poor Jonathan.
Frank Dan iels will take little Puck"
10 California In April. He will tour the
Pacific coast all summer.
The Storm In minneapolis,
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