Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1893-08-06
AMONG The THEATRES.
Thomas W. Keene has gone to Sara
nae Lake. in the Adirondack.


At the Chicago Opera House on Monday
before a large audience, and "Slnoad"
will not be revived until August, when
Richard Barker, whom Manager Hen
dersOn went 30 New York last week TO
engage, will come on to stage the pro-
ductiou.
A Chicago correspondent writes: 81.
NJ. Hill is here. His brothers clothing
FRO of Willoughby, Hill and Co., is in
dulging in ERE sale, and j. M. Is
notwithstanding the straw hat depart
ment temporarily. He never looked
better"
Agnes Hsrndon is seriously Ill.
Marion Booth will go a starring next
season.
The Plttsburg Duquesns Theatres
opening attraction Will be Thomas w
Keene, at the beginning Of September.
oscar Shoenfeldf one Of The best
known theatrical advertising agents in
New York was killed last week by a
railroad train at FOrdham near New
York.
Blanche Marsden is spending her sum-
mer at Glenhead, Long Island, writing
the third act Of new comedy for Rol-
aud Reed.
Magician Ksllar has closed his very
successful season at Days n. Y.
Theatre.
Alan Dale, OF the EUeniRg World, has
returned TO New YORK after brief va
cation AZ Asbury Park.
Frank Mckee weighs as much now as
Charles h. Yale.
Raoul Koczalski, called "the new
Mozart" is said to be the most wonder
full Of the child musicians. He is draw
ing crowds to ST. James Hall, London.
He is a Pole, aged eight, strong and
sturdy, and though he practices very
little, plays some OF the most difficult
pieces Of Beethoven, List, Chopin and
Rubenstein, and himself the composer
of more than fifty works, fifteen Of
which have already been published.
E.P. Simpson, for the last nine years
the manager OF the Walnut Street The
atre, Philadelphia, will leave the Quaker
City and 20 to Chicago on July 30.
There be will manage h. r. Jacobs
Academy
Judge Sedgwick last week decided
that the title "a Walf Of New York" is
common property, and he refused to
grant Katie Emmett's application for an
Injunction 70 restrain Huber and Burns
from using il.
Albert Bruning has returned from
his fishing excursion In the Rangley
Lakes as brown as berry.
Edward Bell. the actor, is taking the
gold cure at White Plains, n. Y.
IL has been discovered that Terry,
the English actor, is a churchwarden,
highly esteemed in that function.
1t Is said that a well-known theatrical
man 10 New York City recently bought
for SIS, at a pawnbroker's sale, a solid
gold cigar case, Weighing seventy penny
weights, that was presented to John
Brougham while he was playing an en-
gagement at the San Francisco theatre
In 1864.
The Fair Exchange ls No Robbery"
Theatrical Exchange has gone the way
OF all other exchanges. All the man
ayers have gone into private specs
Edgar Weir, actor, has married Lii
Ian, daughter Of the Rev. w. d. Inger-
soil, OF Brooklyn.
A theatrical agent Just from San
Francisco says that not alone is theat-
rical business dull out there, but even
the honey bees feel the general depress-
ion. He adds that there is some talk
OF crossing the bees with lightning bugs
In order that they may be able TO work
nights.
Just to keep the sacred FIRE burAing
on the altar in week where the drama
ma is at It's last flicker, Irving has re-
vived Charles l, aud "Much ADO" at
the London Lyceum.
Mrs. Kendall will play Paula in the
"SecOnd Mrs. TanQueray" during her
American tour.
Miss Nellie Farren, the burlesquer,
who made such q failure in New York,
is devoted TO pair Of canaries called
Billy and Bob. When the Gaiety com
pany visited the Antipodes, she took
them TO Austria and back.
Mrs. Brown Potter is guying the good
people of London with the story that
she has recently refused $4,000 for an
American tour Of ten weeks.
Pupils Of the late Joachim Raft are
about to erect a monument to his MEM
DRY at Frankfort-On-ths-Main.
An Indian princess will shortly be
seen on the London stage in the person
OF the Princess Ahmadi, belonging TO the
royal house Of Delhi. Queen Victoria
some time since bestowed the title Of
Lady Ali on the mother OF the Princess,
together with a pension Of $500 year.
Madame CelIini has had this young
lady's voice under her control.
Nate Salisbury, Of the Ruffalo Bill
Wild Wesi, has been in New York dur
ing the week the guest OF Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank Maeder. Mr.. Salisbury expects
10 clear $500, 600 during the present
season at the grounds near the Worlds
Fair in Chicago.
Charles P. Elliott, Of the CrawtorG
Circuit, who has been in New York for
some time, returned to ST. Joseph last
Tuesday.
II Mcssrs. Lift and Davis find the
ideal souorette for whom ts.Y are seek
ing for "In Old Kentucky. - their new
play, they will make mother fortune,
bat whers will thsy ind ths ideal SOU
brette? Yhey refused TO allow her to
dance or sieE Or wear short hair, and
.ney say san pSst be pretty, apia6le