Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-08-05

LONDON, August lady Henry
Somerset, who, by the way, leaves
Southampton for New York by the
steamship Paris to-day. visited the Pal
ace Theatre recently. Since then Lady
Somerset has written a letter 10 the
newspapers declaring that in the tab
ieaux vivants az that establishment,
petticoats, bodices land ALI, are FRANK
ly dispensed with for the first time in a
Christian country, and yet all are bid
pen to assist 1T this exhibition OF I'M
clothed women" Lady Somerset adds:
This letting women making public
merchandise OF the beauty OF their
bodies Is the greatest insult aud dis
honor put upou our women In this time.
l claim English subjects are accom- plices
in the degradation OF these girls" and
she demands to know "why the court
does not intercede." Whether the let
ter will have any effect beyond being a
splendid advertise for the Palace Tne-
atre is more than doubtful.
Miss Hope Booths negotiations for
the lease OF the Garrick theater are of.
Miss Booth and Mr. Hare were unable
TO agree as TO the terms OF the lease and
so l.. 5. Willard will take the house for
a short season and produce Hstton's
John Needham's Double" 1t is pity
Miss Booth was not able TO obtain the
Garrick, as powerful cast had been
engaged for her American play, Little
Miss Cute" including Rob HARDWOOD.
Albert Sims, Allen AyneSworth. Mrs.
Herbert Wsring, Fannie Ward and
Alexis Sleighton. Little Miss Cute"
was to be preceded by new farce by
Fred Horner, entitled "0n Toast"
Miss Booth will probably be more sue
cessiull In the fall.
Royalty is increasing its devotion TO
the theatre. Last Saturday was the
Duchess Of York's first appearance in
public since her recovery when she went
TO see Rejane, in mime. Sans Gene"
On Monday 9he Duke and Duchess OF
York aud the Prince and Princess OF
Wales were present 81 Covent Garden.
Trebeli is TO undertake a series OF
concerts in the United States next
spring, singing in Cincinnati, Spring
field, Indianapolis and Columbus At the
musical festivals TO be held in those
ClblOss AWSl sNdu bOHAs hdfo oNNb
anged also for Ben Davies. Lloyd Wat
kin Mills, Paderewski, Ysaze. Loczalskl
and HOLMAN. Ia addition Nine. Neva-
da is arranging tour and will sing in
WaGner's opera The FAIRIES"
With the exception OF 1.-THE Profess
sor's Love Story" at the Comedy, which
has still a week longer to run, bur
lesque, farce and melodrama will have
IL all TO themselves during the dog-days,
a significant fact, as showing the true
tastes OF what Beerbohm Tree has called
the "bear-eyed majority"
"The Gentleman Whip" now being
played in front of "The New Boy" at
the Vaudeville, will be replaced next
Thursday by Loyal" a one act play by
Il. Johnson, the editor Of Fun. Loyal"
treats OF an episode In the life OF
Charles H.. and the heroine, a kind OF
modern Imogene, will be played by
-Esme Ber.ager, who acts so amusingly
as the servant girl in 1.-THE New Boy"
II circumstances prove propitious,
Fanny Brough. who is at once q clever
actress and first rate business woman,
will shortly take the management OF a
London theater. She says with regard
TO her plans, "there is very likely
probability that my name will be associ-
ated with management late In the COM
ing autumn, but the great difficulty Is
to get a desirable theater. have al
ready three good places OF which hope
one, at least, will surely take public
taste. II the managerial scheme falls
through / shall most likely go 10 Amer
lea and Australia next year. | have
already received excellent offers for
both. but would not accept them this
year"
There are probably only two Englis b
actresses capable Of touching the part
OF "La Tosca"-Miss Olga Brandon and
Mrs. Patrick Campbell. The first named
has formed a company for the purpose
OF taking Sardou's play on tour from the
middle of Septic NJ Der, and an interesting
feature Ia connection with the tour will
be that Miss Brandon will visit the towns
at which Sarah Bernhardt recently ap-
peared In the same character. Mrs. Lu-
cas-, who, before her divorce from Mr..
Govett, her first husband, was well
known in the best Bohemian society, will
play the Queen, and the cast will include
Charles Irby, who was responsible for
the production OF "The Blackmalers,"
the work OF two Oscar Wilde lodgings.
Henry Irving has received many an
onymous presents during his tenancy OF
the Lyceum, but none surprised him
more than gift lately sent MIN from
the village OF Haslemere, In Surrey.
Two small children belonging to what
is known as the Pollock set-that Is, the
friends OF Sir Frederick and Lady Pol
lock-were taken 10 the Lyceum. and