Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1893-02-19

Opera House this week, and Mr. David
Henderson's famous American Extrava-
ganza Company came In for good deal
of e.-Philadelphia, like New YORK
is sometimes prone to look upon west
ern production as "wild and wooliy,
but David Henderson's productions, put
together by the very best OF European
designers, costumers and property peo-
Pile, famous in their particular hnes'
have given Chicago. so far as spectacu-
| lar productions are concerned, stand
ing second to no place In America
Ex-Gov. Crittenden, of Missouri, tells
good story. He gave box party the
other evening at the Coates Opera
House in Kansas City, In honor OF MISS
| SeIena Fetter, the well-known actress
of whom Kentucklans are SO proud.
The party was limited to Kentuckians
and legal lights, and contained the Chlef
| Justice, the Clerk OF the District Court,
/ and the Judge Of the United States Cir
cult Court. There is powerful scene
| in the play Friends" where the hero
discovers the father Of the heroine, who
has been abducted and drugged with
whiskey and opium. The hero seizes
] the tell-tale decanter containing whis-
key and empties IL hurriedly into the
cuspidor, and is usuelly rewarded by
| a burst OF applause from the excited
audience. Gov. Crittenden, however,
tells the story, thatn whe that decanter
was being emptied, every Kentuckian
held onto his seat and with one accord
exclaimed: my God! what waste OF
the material wealth of the country?
Edwin Milton Royle's comedy drama
'Friends" caused veritable sensation
| in Denver last week. On the opening
night Governor Waite and his staff, to-
gether with the Judges Of the Supreme
Court and members of the Colorado Leg
islature, were present, and the local 400
rurned out in evening dress, giving the
theatre a gala appearance. The play
was pronounced the best ever seen In
Denver, and played to crawded houses
each. night-T. Henry French has
gone to Europe Will A. Nc
Connell has named his new Booking
Agency THE American Theatrical Ex-
change" and has secured offices at l1S0
Broadway, n. Y.-Charles Alfred
Byrne has not sold his newest opera,
''Venus," to George w. Lederer, as re-
ported.
Gus Heege, the successful young
author of the Anglo-SwediSh comedy,
lyon Yonson," is made Of that purely
American material which fills presden-
tial chairs. He began life as a news
boy and between the ages of nine and
fifteen arose every morning at three
o'clock and sold papers until school
time, his earnings being expended In
clothing him and paying his board while
he acquired the training which has
since helped to make him famous
J. X. Emmet's advertising bill in Chi
cago last Sunday amounted to Sl,2sO,
and he took In more than that sum on
Sunday evening.
"The Hustler" took nearly $4,000 last
week at the Walnut Street Theatre,
Philadelphia. 1t was the largest re-
ceipts OF the season at that venerable
PLAYHOUSE Berlin musical crit
les. not easily nor usually misled. have
gone into ecstasies OF praise over the
first appearance Of new pianist named
Rosenthal. Beckett"
was produced by Henry Irving at the
London Lyceum on Monday. II is in
blank verse, which once or twice touch
es the point of sublimity, and more fire.
ouently Just misses dramatic grandeur.
In many places, however, the drama
shows weakness.
Eleanora Duse, the Italian actress Is
still at the New York Fifth Avenue
Theatre, but if half dozen barn
on,nadu pOm ma Mas
the road had half the money this gifted
foreigner is losing for her managers
they would be rich.-w"The Span OF
Life" is the biggest melo-dramatlc sue
cess OF the season.--'(Ilen-da
has been q great money loser at the
New York Fourteenth Street Theatre
and will be removed this week.
1.-THE Fencing Master" and It's stupid
thereto is petering out and will soon
leave the New York Casino for the road.
There has been more bluff about this
opera than any other production this
season. 1t was a tuneful, trashy but
we'll mounted failure from the first and
when its tooters said IL would run Tor
two or three years at least" they did
| their level best TO kill 1t.
Thomas w. Keene, the great TRACE
dian, and the only eminent one on the
road this season, is this week playing In
the largest town In Ohio this week, and
at each point his reception is nothing
short of q triumph and ovation. Not
since the time Of Edwin Forrest have
the people Of Ohio paid so marked at
tention to an actor.
! And now St. Louis chimes In with the
rest In saying that Emily Lytton, OF j.
X. Emmett Fritz In Ireland" company.
Is the prettiest actress on the stage TO-
day. Darkest Russia" is the title OF
new romantic play to be produced Aext
season, under the personal management
of Sidney r. Ellis.
"His Wedding Day." new three-act
comedy by II. Graham, was produced
by one OF Charles Frohmsn's companies
at Trenton, n. j., on Tuesday, and
made decided hit.
The prospect for the successful reor-
Ranization Of the New York Metropoli-
tan Opera House and the rebuilding OF
The splendid theatre are growing
brighter every day.
! Edith Kenward, the nrst kangaroo
dancer in .'Dr. Bill. fell from an attack
OF heart disease on the stage at Grand