The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-11-30
UP TO DATE THEArRIoALs.

A Company of Players of VIGOROUSLY
Criminal Records Seems Mere Question
of Time.
Neic York Herald
Undoubtedly the greatest theatrical
sensation Of the coming year will be the
launching OF company of players COM
posed wholly Of people of notorious in
diviiual record. Nothing below the
grade OF murderer will be presented
in the male roles, while no woman who
has not attained an interesting no.
toriety in the diverse or criminal courts
will stand any chance OF an engagement.
The enlightened management who
have undertaken this grand modern
theatrical enterprise know just what
the people want and will give it to
them, and give it to them hot. Any
manager will tell you that all this talk
about art is pure and unadulteratod rot
yes, sir, rot. Shows are run to make
money for their managers aud hackers.
Don't you forget it. II one set OF fellows
put out prima donna instead OF fat
woman, it is because they expect to
make more money of OF woman's
throat than off OF her weight.
Everybody must nave noticed the re-
cent extraordinary success OF tue theat-
rical attractions composed OF notorious
people, without reference to either the
character OF the play or to the dramatic
excellence OF the performance. People
don't care anything about an artistic
production when they can go and gee a
prize fighter. or a scandalous woman, or
some real burglar convicts, or some
thing OF that sort. Shakespeare and
Moliere have gone out OF fashion. They
were old fogles, anyhow. and if they
had lived in this age would never have
got their manuscripts read by New
York manager. For the manager must
cater to the public taste or 60 out Of bu-
siness.
A CoILosAL COMBINATION.
Profiting by the experience OF their
predecessors, this more practical mod
ern management, under the title Of the
Up to Date Amusement Company, Linn
tied, will organize and place before an
intelligent and discriminating amuse.
ment going public collosal combina.
ton OF gtars, whose individual reputa-
tons in the training field OF dramatic
art will be the most interesting that can
be found outside the walls OF the peni-
Tertiary. The managementhaves spared
no pains and expense thus far in secur-
ing the requisite talent to carry to the
highest results the truly modern idea OF
the dramatic art.
Some difficulty was experienced in
obtaining a suitable leading man, as it
E,1k kas whiIh
posed wholly OF stars, should DO par.
ticularly strong in this feature. Opin-
ion was divided between handsome
looking gentleman, OF Montana, who
had the misfortune TO feel compelled to
carve up his second wife and to kill five
men, who undertook TO arrest him, and
a stranger recently imported by the
commissioners OF immigration. The
latter was finally chosen, provided he
would furnish the indisputabie evil
dence that he was what he was repre-.
sented TO be.
THE LEADING WOMAN.
The leading woman, who will be
choked every performance, will be
lady who poisoned two husbands-one
at a time-out in Illinois and was sent
up for ten wears for habitual grand lar.
ceuy, but was pardoned out OF Joliet
on a general petition showing she is an
anarchist. She ia also said TO have been
divorced four times and is single, beau
tiful and exceptionally fascinating in
manners.
Her appearance in the Up TO Date
combination will raise the stage per-
ceptibly. 1t is proposed to introduce n
poisoning scene in the play and she will
show delighted audiences just how she
did it. She will not, in the stricter use
OF tho term, act. She will simply DO
her own gentle, unaffected seli.
The other ladies' OF the company have
not yot been definitely selected, though
the offices OF the Up to Date Company,
Limited, are thronGed every day now
with applicants. In point Of fact, the
managers are rather embarrassed with
tho suporabundance OF material. There
are many women OF the profession who
have flied their claims, but they are
getting tritlo Hhop'worn, II 1 may
thus apply tho expression. Tho man-
ayers prefer something fresher, and, as
suggested by the name OF tho company,
d little more up to date.
They have now on their list several
ladies' who sock tho stage on tho ground
that they have committed various
olcnses against polite society, and have