Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1892-10-23
NEW YORK THEAIRICALS.
Joe Jefferson in Rip Van Wrinkle Draw
ing Immense Crowds-News Notes.


Joe Jefferson in Rip Van Wrinkle Draw
Ing Immense Crowds-News Notes
New YORK, October 22.-If all New
York fails to see Joe Jefierson's acting
in Rip Van Wrinkle during his present
engagement at the Star Theatre, 1t will
be simply because the capacity of that
playhouse is limited. All the pageants,
parades and displays OF the Columbian
celebration failed to lesson the throng
that nightly went to see him. Mr..
Jefferson is a survivor of past gener-
alton OF great players, but he is as pop
ular with the present generation OF
theatre-goers as he was with that OF the
past.
A number of English actors and act
resses have recently arrived in town
and are In search of jobs, but as gen.
eral thing they have not been success
full. To offset this number OF Ameri-
cas- stage favorites will soon sail for
Europe.
Jennie Yeamans has received fat
tering offer from London manager, as
has also Della Fox, but neither has as
yet accepted.
Little Miss Millions" had gone the
way of all the earth. 1t has been with
drawn by Mr.. DAILY as failure, and re-
tired to the dust and silence OF the up
per shelf. Dollars and Sense, an excel
lent comic play has been on its place at
Days Theatre, and has materially in
creased the volume Of fuh in the city.
Miss Rehan has a delightful role as
Phrone fremont. She sings Coy Little
Ballard, and dances and skips about the
stage with a fairy-like grace and agil-
ity that is truly marvellous. Even Lit
tie Lottie Collins, who has been whirled
into temporary popularity on the tips
OF herVoes, is away below par wnen IL
comes to gyrating with Miss Rehan.
Miss Rehan's song and dance Is called
Jennie JONES'" an adaptation from an
old nursery rhyme. She wears loose
long slowed wrapper, white lace skirts,
black hose and CATERS with red tops
turned down. And the way she can
kick and glide and revolve. 1t brings
the house down and the curtain up at
least twice every time.
Now that the critics have wearied OF
abusing Pauline Hall, the public has
awakened to the fact that as 3 comic
opera artist, she has ability and that the
sPuritana" is real comic opera and
not one OF the so.called variety. She
has demonstrated that critics sometimes
make mistakes as to merit and she bids
fair to close a successful season imam
cially. It was so with the farce comedy
'12 p. M"
The critics scored it numerically at
first but the people went to see 1t and it
has gone on the road and made money.
De Wolf Hopper's revival OF the
Lady or the Tiger" attracted many to
the Broadway theatre Monday night.
The programme said 1t was Sidney
Rosenfeldt's "masterpiece. Critics,
however, vigorously differed from the
programme and declared that 1t was
not The piece lacked humor and the
music was dull, and the people who saw
it came away in bad temper.
Hallen and Hart will appear at the
Fourteenth Street Theatre in few
days.
They will be followed by "Blue
Jeans" which may be called one of the
"has been's." 1t has become bsggy at
the knees, as it were, and frayed at the
bottom. All the talent who gave the
play popular place on the stage have
left 1t, and il must soon take to proyln-
cial towns and one-night stands.