Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1891-01-04

firmly put his foot down and has noti-
fed Charles f. Locke that no further
drafts on his company will be honOred
until the termination of the season. In
the last ten weeks Locke has drawn out
of the Hopper company between six
teen and seventeen thousand dollars.
Where it has all gone nobody seems to
know, but probably into that bottom
less pit called the Emma Juch Company,
which is able TO absorb the wealth OF
Golconda. Stevens has been actually
embarrassed at moments to move the
company at time when the profits
were sometimes as high as three or four
thousand dollars in week.
Dan Sully, by the way, has got himself
in rather bad box by jumping on Cur
tbs when he thought he was defenseless.
Sully used the utterly unprofessional
means Of trying TO seize Curtis proper
W in Philadelphia on Saturday night,
just as the company were about to leave
town. Sully claimed that Curtis owed
him money on a California land trans
action, and in his affidavit Sully says
that the land he bought from Curtis the
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the papers pertaining TO this affair were
in San Francisco. Curtis now has them
in his possession. They show that Cur
tbs did own the land, and had owned il
| for two years before the transaction
with Sully. That Sully only made one
payment, aud that after waiting two
years to receive the balance, Curtis sold
the land TO somebody else, as he had a
perfect right to do. Curtis has now sued
Sully for $50, 900 for malicious prosecu-
ton, and also talks Of bringing in Il
criminal suit for perjury against him.
One of the scenes in the new spectac-
ular farce comedy, "a High Roller, "
which is TO be sent on the road next sea-
son with Mr.. Barney Pagan and some
of the brightest and best comedians on
the stage, will represent the interior Of
the Manhattan Club in New York City,
which now occupies the Stewart Man
sion on Fifth avenue. Several months
ago an artist was allowed To take
sketches of the salon, for the decoration
of which the late A. 7. Stewart had
spent upwards of half million dollars
in paintings, statuary and bric-a-brac.
mostly collected in every part OF the
world-all this will be duplicated in the
second act of "A High Roller" making
it the most beautiful and expensive stage
setting that has ever been used.
Donnelly and Girard have never ex-
perienced such season of good business
at time when many good companies
were walking home. Even the unruilled
Samuel Z. Cox who directs the tour of
Natural Gas" now wears look Of
mild surprise. On Sunday evening this
stealing attraction filled POpe'S Theatre
in st. Louis twice with overlooking au-
diences. In consequence thereof, there
is much rejoicing. BY the way, there is
no truth in the rumor that Eddie Girard
has lost his shape.
Leading Lady-"Golly. I've lost my
big diamond pin. and am afraid some
one will find it,
Friend-"Find it? OF course you will
offer reward"
Leading Lady-"Hush! if anyone
finds il, and knows it is mine, | am
ruined"
Friend-"W Why"
Leading Lady-"It will be taken to a
pawn broker and then the world will
know that the brilliant gem of the ORR
ent cost me Sl.j0."
Willett Seaman, Jr.. the handsome
looking young baritone of the Merry
Monarch Company, is said to have lost
his voice