Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-12-13
Cushman. Thornton Vaudeville Com.

In the Paris courts will be tried next
month the cases of the prisoners ac-
cused of attempting to blackmali Yyette
Guilbert, Micheline, Lame de Pougy
and others. One of their efforts caused
the attempted suicide of Nile. de Pougy.
Years ago Philadelphia the
atre got a reputation for mice
and it was almost impossible
to persuade a woman TO enter
the doors. l can imagine no more
deadly revenge on an enemy In the the
atrical managing line than TO spread
a report that his theatre is full OF mice.
Mrs. NOrtOns experience in the Har-
lem Opera House, with a mOuseler I'M
der her skirts, was a thrilling episode.
New York Dress.
The New York houses that are max
ing money can be counted upon one
hand. Look at the failures in this
city alone since the season began.
Thousands of dollars have been eXpend-
ed in productions which managers OF
experience felt sure would be success
full. Pretty soon more than one thea
ire will have TO close its doors. On the
other hand. variety houses are doing
better business than eyer.-New York
Evening World.
There has never before been time
when the legitimate performances OF
the stage received so little encourage
ment and when the perversions of the
art were so largely sustained. The
dominating class of amusement is vau-
deville. 1t IS a significant fact that the
highest salary paid this season outside
of the Lyric stars is given an imported
music hall singer, whose stock in trade
is the vulgar suggestiyeness Of her
songs and the manner in which she
sings them.
The performance of Carmen" in
New York City Friday night publicly
united Mines. Calve and Eames after
their long separation. 1t is almost
three years since the celebrated quar-
rel Of the prima dOnnas took place, and
war. which had been growing in the
dark for some weeks, was openly de-
clared when Calve refused 10 take
Games hand in front OF the curtain.
Calye retired from the company VOW
ing she would never again sing on the
stage with her rival. In carrying out
that resolve she spent the following
year in Europe. but returned to us
again last winter on the stipulation,
IL was said that Nine. Eeames should
not be engaged.
old fogies," says Hillary Bell de
clare that art is going to the dogs but
more like it is going 10 the ladies'. No
actor in the country earns so much
money and applause as are given 20
Ada ReEan In comic opera women
are supreme, and no beautiful tenor
of this era can compare with Lillian
Russell. We observe that one
of our most prominent managers re-
Gently went to the expense and trouble
of importing a foreign leading woman
for his theatre bat any old native thing
viii DO for his leading man. In
shakespeare time no women were per
mitted on the stage We have never
found q thoroughly well equipped hero
or heroine in q woman's play and no
woman mas written a piece that con
tdirs the elements Of five years favor.
Therefore. there is still room for us at
the top of the drama, and Charles HOyt,
William Shakespeare and VicJorien
Sardou need fear no infringement OF
their exhaustive territory.
On Wednesday last Sarah Bernhard
was publicly crowned queen of the
French drama. Except in the case OF
Henry Irving no such compliment has
ever been given to an actor. No actor
has ever played before more people.
Il is not TOO much 10 say that during
her long stage career Sarah Bernhard
has caused 100000 men and women
TO weep or smile over her dramatic pOr-
rayals. During the last 30 years she
has slain on an average five men
week. every evening and at the regular
matinees. Her mother was Dutch
Jewcss. her father a French gentleman,
accomplished and of taste for the arts
Nine Bernhard brought IS children
into the world Of whom only three in
herited their fathers qualities. Regi-
IA Bernhardt was a dancer at the Op-
era Jane Bernhard was an actress at
the Vaudeville and OdeOn theatres.
Sarah Bernhard was baptized Cath
Ollie. and spent her early years in the
Convent of GrandChamp, Versailles
Hillary Bell. In New York Press.
The Reilly and Wood Company
which comes to the Grand Opera House
for a three nights engagement, be
ginning on Tuesday, December nth,
claims to have the only vaudeville or
eanization on the road in which The
Sweet Rosy O'Grady,' Rosy Posy' or
Hot Tomolly Alley are not sung.
This is indeed q novelty. as every Vau-
devile or comedy company that has
been here season has RECALLED us with
some one of those popula melodies.
The directors of the Bridgeport
Opera House deny that the Gaiety Bur
lesque Company gave an entertain
ment shocking TO refined persons.