Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1892-12-18

play.
"a Society Fad" at the New York
Bijou Theatre has caught on, and VIII
have long run.-Mr. and Mrs. Edwin
Milton Royle will make tour OF
Europe next summer.-Albert Bruning
will take tine Clemonceau Case" 10
the Pacific coast during the warm
months.
Frank Mckee is at present in Chica-
go directing the tour OF "a Trip 10
Chinatown" road company +. h
Wright is praised by everybody for his
clever press work in Boston for Hoyts
"a Temperance Town."
Edwin Milton Royle, Selena Fetter
and Lucius Henderson, In "F'riends,
are being warmly received everywhere,
and the talented trio are playing to
very large business.
1.-THE Kansas City Times" December
7, says: Keene's "Richelieu," Ike all
OF the productions Of his present tour,
is staged sumptuously. The costumlng
is elaborate and brilliant, and there IS
the same historical correctness OF detail
that marked Richard. The French
handles in "Richelieu" all wear req
heels on their boots, which is quite In
keeping with tradition; the otner
smaller details are as carefully looked
after. The scenery, too, is unusually
god The best stage picture is that OF
a room in the Louvre with its tesselated
floor and wonderful perspective OF blue
columns. Throughout Keene's produc-
tion of the play is a careful and COM
plete one.
Miss Brooklyn, who is to create new
part in Lady Windermere's Fam" In
Boston, is one Of the most fascinating
women on tbs stage.-Gus Peters, the
old-time ballet masser, is now resident
of the st. Louia poor-house, where he
was sent srom the city hospital.-Ihe
trial of NJ. B. Curtis hae been indeh-
nitely postponed, owing TO the death OF
Juror Porter A. Libby.-Mrs. Frank Z.
Gaylor says the report that she has en-
tered suit for divorce Is incorrect.
Emily Lytton, the pretty leading
lady of ]. X. Emmet's Fritz In Ire
land" Co. is sure of a great reception In
the South. Although she was born Ia
California, she is Southern girl,
through and through.
Lulu Klein has begun on another play
this time a comedy.-The rights for
the production Of Fred Marsden's
Check" and "Humbug" have been
bought by Manager Geo. E. Lothrop,
and those plays will be produced on bis
circuit.-Messrs. Thatcher, Rich d
Harris have signed contract with }.
Cheever Goodwin to write for them a
new play embodyIng the best features
of comic opera, farce comedy, minstrel
sy and urlesque.-Pauline Lucca has
recovered, and has resumed her teach
ing at Vienna, after an interruption OF
two months.
When Love appeared at Drury Lane
in the character of Falstaff, being man
OF some genius, he used to puff constant
" in the newspapers upon his excellence
in the part, all OF which, however, avail
ed but little, as he never could bring a
full house. One Bignell, sitting with
few of the players at the Black Lion,
had filled a pipe, the funnel OF which
was stopped, and after several attempts
to light it be threw it down In a passion,
saying: "Egad, gentlemen, I'm like
your new Falstaff. have been putting
and putting this long while past, but all
to no purpose, for / am unable to
draw"
Fanny Rice plays San Francisco
Christmas week.-Duncan Harrison Is
growing beard, but his doctors have
reduced his weight nearly twenty
pounds.-Col. IngersolPs lecture on
Voltaire delivered last Sunday at the
Broadway theater, was very great
success. Every seat in the house was
sold, and George w. Floyd netted nearly
$4,000. Mr.. Floyd has arranged with
the Colonel for two more lectures.
j. X Emmett made a flying "Trip to
New York on Wednesday. He has
gained eight pounds since he has been
on the road, and heaven knows how
MANY dollars.-The Rialto now &C
knowledges that E. S. Willard IS the
best actor England has sent over for
ten years, fact Stage NelUs discovered
months ago.
OF Signor Mascagni's struggling days
some interesting particulars are given
in the italian press. 1t seems he was a
restless school boy, and was often sus-
pended for his mpertinence. He Is a
GOOD story teller, and relates his advent
ures In q pleasant manner speaking OF
the time when he was very poor, OF the
first meeting with Sonsogno, and the
rehearsals Of the "Chavalleria." he
arrived in Rome with great hopes,
empty pockets and only one coat. His
wife tremblingly awaited at Cerignola
the news of the success or failure OF
his opera. The first evening the theatre
was half empty (the commission had
merely considered the "Cavalleria" as
the least bad of the operas offered In
competition). Then came the
moment when the public
rose to their feet, waving handerchiefs,
cheering and clapping their hands.
When called before the curtain Mas
cagni was sobbing with emotion,
stunned by the unexpected success, and
afterwards telegraphed TO his wife;
"For the love of God come at once 10
Rome, because can understand moth
ing; come with our boy, so that l may
remember that / am still myself" Sig
nor Mascagni is now working enthusi-
astically but calmly at his "Vestilia, y
the libretto by Signori and Menasci.
The plot is taken from tale by Rocco
di Zerbi. Mascagni never starts work
at the beginning of an opera. He write:
first the pieces that he feels most
especially the part that has decided
him to choose the subject.
The first appearance OF Miss Ellen
Terry was marked by singular little
mishap. She played Puck in "a Mid
summer Nights Dream" and at the END
OF the last act had to come up trap &c
give the final speech. Her elder sister
Kate played Titania. Puck was pushed