Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1892-10-30

And now some one has IounQ OUT Vudt
| ''Dixie" originated in New York. NEen
slavery existed in New York, one DIZZY
owned a large tract Of land on Manhat-
tan Island and large number OF slaves.
| The increase of the slaves and the In
| crease of the abolition sentiment caused
an emigration of the slaves to more
thorough and secure save sections, and
| the negroes who were thus sent OIL nat
! urallv looked back 10 their old homes
where they had lived IN clover. with
feelings of regret, as they could not
imagine any place like Dixy's. Hence
it became synonymous with an ldeal
locality, combining ease, comfort and
material happiness Of every description.
Lillian Lewis and Lady Lii has the
newest advertising novelty. II you see
a person in the public streets bearing
paper bag gaily decorated, you may
know that this one has been TO see LII
liam Lewis in Lady Lii. ln the bag IS
baby-everybody has one-because they
are given away. 1t is an exact reprduc-
tion of Miss Lewis in green tights and
carleton skirts, miniature or course, out
it affords excellent opportunity Tor min
ute study Of the actress anatomy. ms,
however, is not the only reason for the
great success the play and the actress
made. There is good scenery, good act
ing, good play, good music, fine uni
forms and excellent production.
The Prince of Wales is being pulled
over some very live Goals because he
attended race instead OF Tennyson's
funeral, but the last he saw OF the poet
was at one Of his plays and that may
account for it. l think, however, that
the poets occupation has gone even
more completely in this country than it
has in England. Verse builders them
selves will OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES as
year after year goes by the country has
! less and less need Of them, less and less
regard for them.
Charles Frohman's company produced
on Monday at the Columbia Theatre,
Boston, The Sportsman, q comedy
| from the French by William Lestocq,
| the author Of Jane" The present
version is located IN England, and, like
Jane" the action takes place in one
day. The story is light, bright and
! breezy. The plot is one OF cross pur-
poses and Observation-Disclosures and the
play made great big hit.
Kaianka did not please the people
who turned out TO see it. The company
| is only fair this year and will go 10
pieces before long Those who ex-
pected to see a lot Of fine scenery were
sadly disappointed. The owner Of the
company was kept constantly busy
while here evading creditors. lie claim
ed the show lost 50, 500 during it's tour
of the South, which closed a few days
since.
The one thing very noticeable in the
Langtry's gowns in her last London
production was that the sleeves did not
! predomluate, indeed in TWO Of her even
! ing dresses she had no sleeves, only
straps. This looks as il the collapse OF
the leg-of-mutton sleeves was not far
| distant.
The music-lovinR people are soon to
be agreeably astonished by native
born musician, who can hold his own
against any OF the celebrated pianists
| that have ever visited Us from the 9TH
err side His name is Rudolph Colt, and
! he is a native OF Massachusetts.
Verify, the circus is crowding hard
upon the drama. With fighters Corbett
and Sullivan producing their personali-
ties before the public in plays" one is
tempted to believe that the school Of
Muscle has got its elbows sharply
against the short-ribs Of Art
Frank Wills says 1t is mistake about
his company closing. "Wait Till the
| Clouds Roll By" is strictly in it" and
will appear at the Grand tomorrow
evening. Wills also has Two Old
| Cronies Company on the road again this
season.
Mrs. Markham, wife OF Harry Mark
ham, who played a weeks engagement
at Bellaire, fell down a flight Of stairs
at the hotel and injured an arm pain
fully. She was confined TO her bed for
a couple Of days.
Eidorado. on WeehawKen Heights,
opposite New York, the most beautiful
and gorgeously appointed amusement
! resort probably in the world, is in the
hands OF a receiver.
SedOhr Rhodes, the American singer,
was not debuted successfully in Lon
don. The polite Englishmen in the gal
lery Kissing and booing vigorously after
| her first act
The Opera House has not had very
! many attractions of late. II is more
profitable at present to rent the place
of amusement,for political purposes
The Larry the Lord" company sails
for Galveston next week, where they
re-begin their season, stopped by the
Illness of Mr.. r. Z. GRAHAM.
BilPs Boot did fairly good business
at the Grand, and Alfred Kelley in
Widow Murphy's Goat" pleased good
audiences.
Town and Seaside.
He-'I don't see as much Of you in