Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1892-01-24

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Twelve theatres exclusive OF the Roy
al Opera House and a number oil music
halls. supply the amusement for Berlin.
The ROYAL, Berlin, German, ResioenZ,
| and Leasing theatres produce only plays
of thoroughly legitimate character
ranging from Shakespeare and Goethe
TO modern comedy. The Residents de-
voted exclusively 10 the contemporane-
Gus French drama, although new plays
! are produced al matinees, in which way
| Ibsen'S wild Duck" and ToIstois
Fruits Of Civilization" first saw the
! light in Berlin. The Wallner, Aldorf-
! Ernst, Frederick Wilhelm and Thomas
/ theatres give only comic opera and Vau-
/ deyille. In the Victoria, which Is TO De
/ demolished 20 make room for larger
/ theatre, are ballet performances, while
the Belle Alliance, 0stend and AleXan-
dria, theatres OF secondary Importance
approach nearest the policy OF the com
bination houses OF New York.
Loie Fuller has caused the arrest OF
/ William B. Hayes, who she charges with
having committed bigamy by marrying
her in New York in 1889, when he a.
ready bad a wife living. While Loie
was in London year ago she sent
letter 70 one of her creditors enclosing
draft to her dear husband" Hayes
asking him TO pay II. The letter was
handed TO w. Il. Hayes and the gentle
man knew him perfectly well, still
Hayes protested that be was brother
of the Hayes wanted, and that w. b.
HAYES was in Dakota. He kept the
messenger going for about month, I'M
I'll he was detected In his deceit, and
then he coolly admitted he had lied.
Loie has the reputation of being a good
girl.
A pleasing indident happened during
Alexander SalVani's engagement In Bal
timore, where he played TO immense
business at the Academy against Bern
hardt, the divine, at the Lyceum.
After his performance Of Don Cesar"
on Monday night, in company with
Manager Wilkinson, he was driven TO
the Lyceum, where he arrived just be-
fore the curtain went up on the last act
| OF LA Tosca." The audience recOgniZ-
ing him gave him a hearty reception,
and he was compelled 70 rise from his
! seat in his box and bow his acknowl-
edgments in response TO loud calls for
| Stlyini.
Fred Gebhard, once "Langtry's Fred
| die" has gone 20 DR.. Kelley gold cure
| institution near New York. Before
going he filed himself full OF cham
payne and brandy In box al Roster Il
Bial's dive with dizzy blonde. He is
/ iatter than when he belonged 70 "tbe
| Lily" His face is q bright vermillion,
and one side Of his mustache is white.
Those who know the old, handsome
Freddie would be unable TO discover
resemblance In the disSlpsted face and
blaze air Of the miniature distiliery.
The divorce mill is again set In mo-
ton by James J. Beard, New York
Maiden Lane Optican, who wants 10 be
| cut loose from his wife, Maude Beard, n
| statuesque blonde beauty at Roster 81
Blal's' who not long since was brought
! up in court on a charge OF firing two
/ shots at a man she said was about to
/ desert her" There seems 20 be good
| deal Of the dive about Roster & BIal's.
! Maude's stage name is Russell, and she
strikingly resembles Lillian Russell
! Whose real name is Leonard), hence
her notoriety at the music hall.
Three NeapOlitan composers have sent
finished operas to the Italian music pub
! Usher SOngsgno. Umberto GiordanO
has written "Malavita" in three acts, a
| libretto taken from the drama OF the
| same name by Signors di Giacomo and
! COgnetti. Francesca Cilea has written
| LA Tilda," also In three acts, and Err
nest Coop, who is Of English parentage
on his fathers side, has finished an
opera in a prologue and two acts, enti-
tied Teresa Raquien," the subject be-
ing taken from Zola's novel. All will
! be put on the stage soon.
Experience shows that during the Elk.
! hibitions held In great cities the thea
| tres have always lost money. IL was so
| in Paris, In Vienna, In Australia and in
| London, and will, no doubt, be so I'm
| Chicago. People who come In from the
country 10 look at the Fair will be wan
dering through the Windy City by the
tail end Of Lake Michigan, gaping at the
wonderful sky.scrapers, rather than
| give up the price for Ambulance 20 a
| theatre.
The oldest member o. the dramatic
! profession 10 the whole world, died at
Nemours, France. on Wednesday last.
His name was Chollet, but IL has natur-
ally long since disappeared from the
| play bills, for it's owner was born In
! l79s. He created the part Of the Pos
| ttltiOn dc LOnjumedH, the part after
wards made celebrated by Watchtel,
and he was also the first repres entative
OF the leading character in Tampa"
The attempt OF the new management
Of the Paris Grand Opera House 70 have
cheap opera, beginning at p. IN, has
been q failure. The reduction OF the
| price OF stall from thirteen francs %
two and half francs brought washer
women and their families and peasants
and suburban shopkeepers by the hun.
dreds, nevertheless il cost ST. 900 "a
raise the curtain, but at the popular
scale the house only holds 81 200.
Hoyt's "a Trip to Chinatown whIcs
is still packing the Madison SQua q The
stre, could run for another season witt
profit II Hoyt ard Thomas so desired
but IL Is whispeiei that 10 the lattel
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