Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-06-17

was wounded during the war. The sur
gson found it necessary to remove his
knee-cap. blood poison has set In, ana
Mr. Mestayer may lose his limb.
Buffalo Bills Wild West is drawing
immense crowds at Ambrose Park,
South Brooklyn.
America offers prodigious possioili-
ties to the effete people OF Europe.
For instance, q German theatre In
New York mum bers among its ushers
two barons, lieutenant and lawyer.
Official returns to the French govern
ment show that while the receipts OF
the opera, the Coincide Franchise and
other renowned houses in Paris have
year by year diminished, the profits oil
music halls have largely increased.
An organist says that cow moos in
pefect fifth, octave or tenth; dog
barks in a nth or fourth; a donkey
brays in a perfect octave, and horse
neighs in a descent on the chromatlc
scale. Now he should tell US the tonal
technique OF the backyard feline.
An English music-hall singer has Sc
cured one OF the late Lord Ailesoury
remarkable check suits, and is having
an appropriate song written for 1t.
The report that James 7. Powers was
to take Fred Lennox's place in the cast
OF "Princess Bonnie" was premature.
Jacob Lift has gone to Europe to look
II he can find good melodrama.
Frank De Fonteney and Miss lizzie
Macron, both OF Abbey's company, were
married recently and are spending their
honeymoon at Lakewood.
Fred Peel, who IL himself the original
around whom Gus Heege built Col. Rush
of Rush City" went to England re-
Gently.
Vernona Jarbeau, who has probably
the best figure Of any actress on the
American stage, has made hit at the
Casino in THE Passing Show" She
will head a burlesque company OF her
owl. pext season.
Tom" Davis, formerly of Lit &
Davis, will put four new companies on
the road next season, and the many
"boys" on the road to whom TON"
promised mice" places are sharpening
their pencils.
Clement Scott, the eminent London
critic, says "he believes that Eleonora
Duse never really feels the scenes and
situations in which she Is engaged. She
does not say 10 ; sself, Who and what
is Margaret Gautler? What kind of a
woman is she? How would she behave
In this Sc OF thatp How would she
be stirred by this or that train OF cir
cumstances? She seems to me to say,
How can / play Margaret Gautier"
unlike any other actress that ever
lived?' The war that Eleonora Duse is
| carving on is the war that several oil
our leaders Of dramatic thought are In
| effectually carrying on-that Is TO say,
| the war against all that is theatrically
effective In art If EleonorA Duse had
the emotional power OF a Rachel,
| Desclee, a Favart or a Bernhard, she
would be the greatest actress who ever
( lived; as it Is, she is the greatest and
| coolest stage scholar"
Few managers OF the theatre are oil
the opinion that theatrical trust like
Interstate Amusement Company, re-
Gently Incorporated in Illinois, has any
chance for long life. The drama is no,
a commodity like cordage, whisky OF
coal. 1t depends upon the caprice oil
it's customers, and 1t cannot be forced
upon the market for the reason that the
market can be closed II the ware doe:
not suit. The assertions that gain o.
60 per cent. in theatrical management
can be made by the proposed system il
secuted by practical managers who
claim there already is minimum rate
on necessary articles, such as posters
tickets, ETC., based on the cost Of pro
duction. Good productions are so few
aud theatres are so numerous that com
petition among managers is too stronf
to permit coalition.