Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1892-01-17

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lack Lodge, the gentlemanly advance
.,Drsseutative Of THE Fast MaN'' Com
.,rv. which appears at Bellaire on
Wednesday night, has had world Of
.,,s-fpnce during the % years he has
zen in the show business. "Old Jack"
.sbe is called, has had every known
s,rd OF a theatrical company on the
lad. He has made plenty OF money
md he spent 10 nearly as fast as he
~sjs i-. DE settled down in Kansas
Civ several years ago as manager of a
,tsgter. but the ground on which his
srH5.ug stood went into litigation,
slack was thrown out Of his abode and
q, now telling managers Of the merits Of
"a Fast Nail"
N5doc, an elephant formerly Of Fore
rsugh's circus, made her debut In
around the World in Eighty Days" at
,ss New York ITALIA Theatre last week.
N050c'S debut was not success, but
through no fault OF hers. She weighs
nearly two tons. When she came upon
me stage, pracing gaily with a couple
o. travellers in q howda, the boards and
tubers creaked, and the big creature
1ot only brought down the house, but
vary nearly the stage as well. Modoc
SIS ordered to her dressing room and
discharged from the company without
the customary two weeks notice.
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There are two new theatres talked Of
r-etty definitely for New York. One is
% be built for Richard Mansfield, on
Tvanty-ninth street and Fifth avenue.
The theatre will be built on a most lux
r-.0us plan. There will be a suite Of
alous for ladies where they can retire
gths maGnees and sip tea. For the
rsn there will be q large smoking room
and billiard room. The other theatre
s % be between Thirty-ninth and For
ts,h streets, on Broadway, and Al.
Hayuan and Frank w. Sanger are talk
ei Of as the managers. II will cost $780,
900.
Frrnk Frayue. Jr., who was starred
ty Edward Hasson, went off the road
the other day. Young Frsyne tried to
make money on the reputation left by
bis father who died some time since.
The young man, however, is a fine shot
with a rifle.
The Country Fair will soon be IN these
PARTS again. The show will go to Bel
lire after the performance here.
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Bristol's horse show did 8 big bust
ness In Bellaire last week, nOtwithstand-
ilg the inclement weather. The show
will be at the Opera House the 1st OF
February. Rumor has il that Prof.
Bristol is negotiating for the sale Of his
stock for $4,000.
Corlnne celebrated her eighteenth
birthday in Knoxville, Tenn, the other
day, by banQueting the members OF her
company.
Poor Scanlon's breakdown has eIcit-
ed sincere sympathy. Paresis IS ter
rib.e fate, incurable, progressive, yet
slow in its course, its victim approaches
the grim portals Of death by many
stages, each more dreadful than the
last. 1t were better to write mans
become a paretic.
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Business seems 10 have revived with
the new year, the principal theaters in
New York, Philadelphia, Boston and
Chicago having done surprisingly well.
The spell Of dullneSs seems TO be bro
ken.
James REILLY in the Broom-maker,
pleased the audiences that turned out
70 see him at his return engagement at
the Grand.
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General Beauregard's letter praising
T. Z. Graham and The Little Tycoon
Is as much out OF place as IL General
Grant had written letter praiSing Pat
Rooney as a great artist, and his play
Lord Rooney" as a great work Of art.
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A New York exchange states: "The
muse OF comic opera is apparently grow
lug less prolific every year. In France
and England no new work OF even
slight value has as yet been produced
during this season. Germany seems al
most as badly off. An Operetta oy Witt
mann and Weinberger, entitled The
Uh.sus,' is the only recent production
that seems TO have merited any KIND OF
favor. And accounts Of comic opera
successes. OF all others, must be taken
with q considerable pinch OF salt
II is reported that Marie PRESCOTT
and r.. d. Mclean are playing at the
Union SQUARE, New York, TO an aver
age business OF 500 night. These
kinds OF engagements are expensive
Injuries.
til said in New York that unless
vigorous reaction sets in, IL Will hardly
be possible to cast a ShakeSpearean
play In the United States in the year
1900.
Frank wills "Two Old Cronies Com,
psuy is now under the management OF
George II. HeiSer, Walter Turner being
no longer connected with the troupe
Mr. Willis is constantly adding new peo-
pie, and writes that his show Is no" oet-
Ter than 10 ever was. de MAKES wv
weeks trip TO the Pacific Coast In AprH
and plays Cincinnati in February
During the performance at the Opers
House at Wilmington, Del, on Ne"
Years night, Robert Downing aouress-
ed the audience before the CURTAIN ue-
1ying that he was suffering from pare
Sis, as one Of the local papers had stated
why should 1 be slick?' ne askeu;
81 am large and strong and take care %
Myself. / neither smoke, enc" nor