Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1892-01-03

aud exhibit in this country the electri-
cal fireworks, an invention Of NJ.
champion, Of Paris. This novel inno-
walton in pyrotechnicS has created quite
sensation in Paris and Berlin.
Days is the distinctively fashionable,
theatre Of New York No other play
house could draw such an audience as
that which greeted the return OF the
famous company. Not only the boxes,
but hundreds of seats were occupied by
people whose names are synonymous
with everything that is prominent in
social and financial New York.
Fanny Davenport is great actress,
but she never forgets that the public
want to see a complete production.
Cleopatra" as presented by her, is
superb spectacle, gorgeous in coloring,
reSplendent with rich costumes, and,
above all, interpreted by frst-class
company. No wonder she out-dis-
tanees all her rivals.
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Rose Coghlan lost two diamond rings
az Kansas City. They were stolen from
her sleeping car. John 7. Sullivan, OF
Miss COghlan's Company, lost about
5000 worth of clothing and other prop
critics in the same way az Minneapolis.
Poor Rose! Poor John! But the lost
jewelry scheme don't work as we'll as it
did.
The year Of the deaths OF Lawrence
Barrett, William Jermyn Florence,
Harry Edwards, Charles Fisher, Joseph
X. Emmett, Edmon S. Conner, Samuel
X. Murdoch and Katharine Rogers, and
the retirement from the stage OF our
foremost actor, Edwin Booth, is not one
OF altogether cheerful theatrical memo
ries.
Katie Emmett's play, "The Waits of
New York" is given the most elaborate
sage settings ever seen in any melo-
dramatic production. 1t requires no
less than ten competent stage machinists
to properly work this scenic wonder.
The scenery used is carried by the com
pany.
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Geo. Staley is a pretty good comedian,
but as singer and yodler ne Is not In
il with some actors we might mention.
But the locomotive scene in "A Royal
Pass" does not take the side track for
any Of the late railroad shows.
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The Tom Sawyer Company has dis
banded, most OF the artists have
reached home. One hundred other
companies Of the same calibre as the
Sawyer aggregation could go to the
wall and the wall would still stand.
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If the Opera House were enlarged
and another gallery built, and
prices made from % cents to 81, what
nice big sum could be realized from the
structure. The 25-cent patron OF the
theatre is not to be ignored.
The Opera House has given its patrons
some pretty strong attractions of late.
What with Stuart Robson, Robert Man
tell, Eight Bells, Donnelly & Girard and
Others, there should not be much reason
TO complain.
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Young j. n. Emmett Is soon 10 iudhe
his first appearance in New York City,
where he has a host OF friends, who are
sure to give him rousing welcome.
His tour has been success from the
start.
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f. S. Willard, the English actor,
scored a great hit while in Chicago
recently. The critics Of that city say
he is without any exception the clever
est actor England ever sent to this
country.
According to the Brooklyn Eagle,
Russian tenor played Faust" with such
enthusiasm at st. Petersburg, that he
shook the voice out OF Marguerite in
the prison scene and was fined 81.
So
The Cadi' is likely to divert Bill
Nyes attention permanently to the
drama. 1t has made the farce-comedy
hit OF the season in New York.
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Buffalo Bill is presenting his woolly
entertainment in Scotland.
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