Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-12-06
THEATRICAL ADJUSTMENTS.


MlS. jean &c IttSLht - Sd4N W ~ ~
years Old.
Ausustin DAILY will revive Much
Ado About Nothing
"Courted in Court. is the name OF
May Irwin new comedy.
Fred Solomon viii do musical act IN
vaudeville theatres.
Eugene Blair (Mrs. Robert Down
inc) will star in East Lynne
Nascagni is the master OF the KOS
SIM Conservatory al Pesaro.
Pauline Hall, now in vaudeville, says
that she lost $4,000 in comic opera.
Mr.. z. s. Willard has sent his check
for 800 TO the Rose Coghlan testl-
monial ,
Rev. Madison Peters reviewed The
sign OF the Cross" for the New York
World.
Mark Hanna owns Cleveland
theatre
Miss Jenreys-Lewis is member Of
a New York popular price stock com
pany.
Modieska will return to the boards in
January. Joseph HawOrth will be lead
inc man.
A Paris critic was thrashed by OPP
cratic singers whom he criticised. They
We're jailed.
MAJ Goodwin saws he has paid his
wife S15.CC0 in full settlement OF her
claims for alimony and support.
ITO succeed on the stage, ~ says Mrs.
Kendall "a woman must have the cpl
dermis of a rhincscerCs. the STRENGTH OF
a man and the feelings, say, Of a craven
image.
The Liederkranz-th German sing
ing s0ciety-Of New York will celebrate
its fftieth anniversary in 1897 by max
ing an artistic tourpee Of Germany and
Austria. The proceeds OF all its con-
certs viii be devoted to the poor OF the
town where the concert is given.
After the performance of The Sport
ing Duchess at Haverhill on Thanks
giving Day. Agnes Booth returned TO
Boston. her husband. John b. SchoeiLel
having chartered special ar and en-
CINE 50 that she might reach Boston in
time for their Thanksgiving dinner at
midnight
At the dinner to William Gillette by
the American DramatisJs' Club Albert
Ellerv Berg said that dramatists ought
not 70 be wholly dependent on mana
gers for D lductiOns. He thought the
Dramatists' Club ought to devise means
to raise q fund for trial performances.
Experimental matinees Ia London had
proved useful Many pieces thus pro-
duced went into the night bills. enjoyed
runs and were bought later for the
American markct-Dramatic Mirror.
IN musical comedy. such as The
Gaiatv Cir" and The Geisha.' Europe
is still great way ahead Of us. none of
orr composers having yet learned the
tick Of this graceful style of entertain
men-. But in comic opera, burlesqUe.
spectacle and extravaganza America
now supplies its own needs. Grand
opera is. VI course. out OF the question.
This country has produced clever
rhymesters. but nobody Of genius III for
tfe prodigious task OF writing scores
for great ingers.-IIillary Bell in New
York Press.
The subsidies granted in addition to
the salaries of the directors by the
French Government to the principal
-1era houses Of the republic are as fol-
lows: The Opera and Opera COmique,
Lyons. 100000 francs. NarseiIles. 24Q,-
GOO francs: Nantes 100000 francs; BOr-
deaux, 10000 francs, Lille, $4,000
francs: Rouen. 10000 francs. and Rem
ues. 100000 francs. In all the cities
except Paris the subsidies are said TO
be given by the different municipal
ties but they are under the direction
and made al the command of the state.
Angelina Allen is paving the penalty
for the pace she ser herself She is
raviuc maniac i'm the Retreat for the
Insane at Hartford. and the few friends
she has left are hoping death soon may
release her. She was born 10 wealth
and educated as became her station. but
her beauty was fatal TO her IL made
her sigh for @ rotoriety she mistOOk for
fame For it she left her husband. She
appeared i'm living pictures as "Aphro-
dite Rising from the Sea. Artists for
whom she posed declared her figure was
without a flaw. and SarOny said she was
/ the most perfect woman he had ever
| photographed.
"A short life and a merry one''
/ That was the motto OF p0Or. little Sadie
Macdonald. the news 0f whose death in
far off Australia has been telegraphed
10 this country. Miss Macdonald went
10 the Antiuodes 10 D,av the nrincinal
soubrette part in Charles Hoyt's a
Trim to Chinatown" and af-arvar' -
a0near in the revival of "A Milk White
Flag" She fell in love with Jack
NcAuliffe. the pugilist. and stuck 10
him. until one night in q Broadway res
taurant he boxed her ears in public, and
also i'm earnest. for having done some
thing which he did not approve.
The Ilngest journey ever made by
theatrical company 10 DIav single per-
I1rmauce is the one made by Mr. A. ".
Pa'mer's "Trilhv' company under the
direction of VIM. A. Brady They
jumped from Auckland New Zealand
20 Honolulu The receipts for the one
performance We're $500. II took if
. teen days 20 make the trip.
The agent of VIM. A. Brady's Cotton
King company received a letter from
@ bill-poster in Savannah. Ga. Offering
to- sell q lot of Cotton King" printing
cheap. As all the printing used for
/ THE Cotton King is copyrighted
+ Manager Brady is at q loss 10 know
F how IL came into the possession Of the
. Savannah bill-sticker. and has engaged
2 detectives 20 investigate the matter
II is estimated that the gross receipts
4 OF "Trilbv" since its production in Bos-
' ton sixteen months ago is over $1,000
009. "Trilby' is the greatest financial
success in the history OF the theatrical
world and interest in this piece con-
rinues undated
Diamonds OF highest grades our
/ great speciality.