Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1893-01-22


plays new to New York were produced
in New York during the week, and both
arc money successes. William Ha-
worth's new play, "a Flag of Truce"
was brought forward at the Columbus
Theatre on Monday and received most
cordial greeting. The plot Of the play
is forceful and clever, and one OF the
scenes made an enormous impression on
the audience--enough, In fact, to assure
it's success for many seasons to come.
1t represents gigantic rock suspended
over the hero. who is rescued just in
time, before It thuhders down the stage.
The play was e1cellently acted
and. we'll staged, and besides,
it's realism scored an artistic hit.-At
the Peoples an English melodrama,
called, 1.-THE Span of Life" received its
first metropolitan production, and is
likely TO span good many theatrical
seasons and bring much money to its
owner, MIR. Fl. s. Taylor. II scored
deserved. success. The great scene
from which the play is named comes In
the fourth act, when the hero and nero
inc, the joint proprietors OF an African
hut, diamond mine and twoyear-Old
child, are chased by Arabs. They have
cut a bridge down across the chasm,
which was the only means OF escape.
The three English servants with them
have been acrobats in their younger
days, so they rise, or rather fall, to the
emergency in their. professional ca
pacity. They form themselves into a
living bridge across the chasm, and
hero. heroine and the baby cross un-
scathed. The present has been a week
of endings, and next will be one OF be-
ginnings. THE Masked Balls" run at
the Standard stops on Saturday and so
will Mr.. Byrne's 1.-THE Isle OF Cham
payne" Baroness Blanc will also leave
the Fifth Avenue with her deception
and as she has lost SIS, 900, it is doubt
full il she will go on the road. Capt.
Herne" met his Waterloo al the
Union Square and will not be
heard of again. On next Monday
Eleonora Duse will make her
American debut as Camille, and "My
Official Wife" will be brought into the
Standard Theatre. On Tuesday Ham
merstein starts his grand opera season,
and a revival OF 1.-The School for Sean
dal" takes place at Days. On Wed
nesday Charles Frohman'S new Empire
Theatre will I'D opened, and on Thurs
day Marion Manola and John Mason
will produce Friend Fritz" at Herr
mann's.
John Stetson Is being besieged by
managers who are anxious for "a Piece
OF Crust. "-Wihiam A. Mestayee, the
portly comedian, has cast aside the cap
and bells to become the business mana
ger OF the Baroness Blanc, vice MessrS,
Keogh and hamilton, who have retired
from that position Of honor and emolu-
ment.-M. 3. Leavitt has arranged TO
play the Baroness Blanc over his ex-
tended circuit across the Rockies for a
period Of twenty weeks.
Wilson Barrett has been "initiated"
by the students of McGill College, Mon
treal, and is now "a fellow" in frst-rate
standing. The ceremony was performed
with violent enthusiasm in instruments
during his late eventful engagement in
that city. First he was tossed high in
the air, bundled into sleigh and drag
ged to his hotel amid pyrotechnic dis
play and the explosion Of giant crack
ers On the last night Of his appearance
he was assisted" in the performance OF
Hamlet" by the students, who gave d
farce-comedy complexion TO the TRACE
dy Of the Melancholy Dane,to the great
delight or the public and OF Manager
Rogers, who was overwhelmed with the
receipts and the popular demonstration
in favor OF his star and company.
Sprightly Nellie McHenry drew N ore
money last week with "A Night at the
Circus" than she has ever previously
made in New York. At present she Is
the greatest soubrette favorte in the
metropolis. Albert Bruning is putting
out "Clemenceau Case" company No.
.. The No. company has been very
successful. - Samuel Prosperous Cox
will produce q new Natural Gas" at
Chicago next week with Donnelly and
Girard as the principal manufacturers.
Smart Robson is presenting Buck
stones juicy comedy Of married
Life" with tremendous success in the
Northwest, In spite OF the cold wave.
Old comedy, artistically warmed over,
is a palatable novelty fer theatre-goers
who have been gorged with operate
hash and corrections OF farce and va
riety in lieu of good, wholesome, SUBJ
stantial dishes of well-cooked and we'll
cooked and well-serYed dramatic meats.
Mr.. Robson is doing good missionary
work on the road.
Extensive alterations will be made In
the Boston Museum during the coming
summer. The auditorium will be low
cred 10 the street Vane (Lilla
Lively has settled her claim against
the estate of Samuel Prett King, who
left 500, 900 to her by his will, but con-
siderably below that sum.
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