Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1891-05-03
THEATRICAL TOPICS
TIE REVIEW OF TIE WEEK OF THE NEW
YORK THEAgERS.
Fanny Davenport Changes Her Bill-Robs'u's Sue
cess at the UsiOn Squara-Collsgs Students
in Musical Burlesquo Present
Novel Entertainment to the
GOthamitss.


dora" for the final week of her engage
ment at the Broadway has met with
fair share OF public approval. The
audiences since Monday have been Of
generous size, and there has been a re-
newal OF Miss Davenport's earlier sue
cess as the impetuOus Fedora. Mel
bourne MacDOwell's LOriS Ipanoff is
forceful but not always finished imper-
sonation. The support otherwise Is ac-
ceptable. Another revival of we'll
liked and much worthier play is that
which started at the Union Square
with Monday nights perform
ance Of The Henrietta" Interest in
this was increased by the temperance
here of Stuart Robson. who seems some
how TO stay away from New York too
long There are many playgoers who
believe that Robson should visit US fre-
duently, and remain with us months at
a time; and perhaps that will come 10
pass by and by, when the occasion, the
actor and the play are all ready. Mean
while it suffices this droll comedian,
who becomes more artistic as he grows
older, to come among us FOR a brief
spring engagement, bringing the
play that has made a fortune
for him. "The Henrietta is quite
as valuable to Robson alone rs it
was to Crane and Robson partners. The
Union Squares audiences have testified
to this by the heartiness of their plaud-
its and the frequency of their laughter.
Robson has naturally elaborated mis- old
role of BERTHE" but he has still kept it
within reasonable bounds. Cranes for
mer part is now played by George ;.
Woodward, who sensibly avoids imita-
ting Crane, and gives straightforward,
original and effective performance,
marred slightly by Over-elaboration.
May Wadron is 4 capital Mrs. OPP
dyke" The others in the cast are gem
orally competent.
This weeks fresh bills at the theatres
disclosed no novelties. 1t is period Of
quIetude preliminary to Il fortnight that
will be rather notable for new produc-
tions. if all the promises are fulfilled.
At the combination houses on Monday
night the audiences were not large IN
most cases. Perhaps the biggest crowd
was that which welcomed Primrose Il
Vests minStrels at the Harlem COlum-
bus. The theatre was filed in every
part and the MINISTRIES have cause to
feel proud of their greeting. This show
was admirable in its singing, picturesque
and novel in its dancing, and very in
teresting in its several speciality acts.
Lew DOckstader was conspicuous tlg-
ure among the fun-makers, and Of course
he was cordially received by his city ad-
mirers. At the Harlem Opera House
'The Pearl of Pekin," Lecocq opera
that has been modernized and made
valuable through the skillful reyisOry
work Of Charles A. Byrne and Angus
tus Kerker, was performed with n great
deal of spirit and cleyerness by Louis
Harrison and his re-Organized company.
The revival is careful and artistic
enough to merit much larger audiences
than those which have been in the
Opera House thus far this week. Har-
rison is a drol and effective comedian,
and the people in his support have been
well drilled. The opera is very prettily
mounted.
Maude Granger is acting in Inherit
ed" at the Lee Avenue Academy, Brook
Ign. This play, under the title OF
"Helen's Inheritance, was notably
tested at a ma nee in this city last au-
tum; and in the role OF the mentally
threatened heroine Miss Granger finds
scope for her beauty and talent.
Something e. lirely new will be pre-
sented at the Academy Of Music on next
Saturday night Eighty college stu
dents Of the Univ rsity of Pennsylvania,
representing wha is called the Mask
and Wig Club, wi appear in male and
female characters d ian original musico-
dramatic offence ca ed Miss Columbia. ="
1t is in reality .Irlesque with spec
tacular trimmings, and was written to
fit these students. Personages parodied
are Ferdinand and Isabella, OF Spain,
Christopher Columbus and Miss Column
bia. Skirt and ball dancers, marches,
tableaux, choruSes and songs are prom
iSed among the fea lures. The scenes
shift between Madr and Washington,
and the drifts OF The language is essen
italy toward traveSty. Philadelphia and
Washington have seen the Mask and
Wig Club in Miss Columbia"