Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-12-05
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Little Minister untlI the emu VI next
season.
Richard Mansfield will shortly pro-
duce 1.-THE First Violin" and drama
| tization Of Robert Louis Stevenson's
late story, "St. Ives"
A new lnelodrama called Les
Joueuse d'Orgue" (''The Woman Organ
Grinder") was produced in Paris on
| Sunday night with enormous success.
Vagrants'') has just finished it's long
! career in Paris. where the run reached
record of Isl performances at the
Ambigu.
Billy Barlaw is to play the prin-
ciipal boy in the "Dick Wilmington"
pantomime at Newington, Eng, this
winter. The Hawthorne sisters will be
seen in the Dublin pantomime.
Julia Mackey, the American music
hall singer, has been playing an extend
ed engagement in johannesburg and the
other cities of South Africa. She is
about to return to England.
Robert N. Stephens, author of AN
Enemy to the King" has just finished
a new play of the Colonial times, the
scenes of which are laid on Manhattan
Island and contiguous parts of West
chester County.
Miss Fanny Davenport, says the
New York World has failed in her eff
forts to vitalize into a success Frances
Aymar Matthew'S drama, "The Saint
and the Fool" and on Saturday of next
week will close her season in Proy1-
dence. Her Sardou repertoire may be
revived in January.
Miss May Vokes will originate the
part of an Irish servant girl in Lieuten-
ant Allerdice's new farce, entitled,
1.-THE Old Coat" which Messrs Smyth
and Rice will produce in January.
Frederick Bond and other members OF
the company now touring the south in
my Friend from India" may be enlist
ed in the presentation. z
Colonel Robert G.. Ingersoll gave a
characteristic interview to the Cincin-
natl Enquirer last week while sOjOurn-
ing in that city, Asked as to who in
his opinion are the greatest Americans
he replied: ''In the realm of invention
Edison The best actress in modern
plays is Minnie Maddern. Fiske. The
best poet among the colOred people is
Paul Dunbar. / am not certain about
the rest
The theatrical business in New York
is the greatest that has ever been
known in this or any other city. In
London, as told yesterday through the
columns of the Sunday Telegraph,
there are just four theatres which are
doing good business at the present
time. In Paris the only houses which
are attracting the public to any extent
are the Folies Bergere and the Ambass-
adeurs. The regular theatres are starv-
ing to death. In Berlin and Vienna
there is a notable dullness. In fact,
New York is the only great city in the
world where at this moment large re-
ceipts in places of amusement are prac-
tically universal.-New York Tele-
graph.
Henry E. Dixey will appear in Lon
don in April under the joint manage
ment of Charles Frohman and Bloom.
The entertainment that Dixey will pre-
sent will be novelty in London. Ma
gicians have not hitherto appeared in
theatres in London. Hermann gave his
entertainment at the Egyptian Hall,
and | have been told that no magician
had ever been the central figure in an
entertainment given in London thea
ire proper
To-day we don't see any tomboy plays
for skittish ladies', in short skirts,
blonde wigs, and girly, girly ways. 1t
is some lime since Minnie Palmer wig
gled through three acts of ''My Sweet
heart" or since Lolita took the middle
of the stage to save her father, and
bring the curtain down. "M'liss" died
with poor Annie Pixley, and Fan
chon" ceased to attract attention when
Maggie Mitchell made up her mind that
she was old enough to know better,
and stopped dancing in the moonlight
to the shadow.
New York, with all in great interest
in the Wagner operas, never under
took to hear them in such thorough
scale as that which is projected next
season in London. "Bayreath in Lon
don" is the term by which the scheme
may best be described, and Covent Gar
den is to be the scene of the attempt
1t is now announced with a seriousness
that obviously looks for acceptance
that the performances are to begin at
5 o'clock in the afternoon, with an in
| PERMISSION of one hour between acts
| The audience will be expected to go
| home to it's dinner between the first
and second acts. For the accomplish
ment of this purpose this first inter-
mission will last one hour and half
In the new play by Mirbeau, shortly
| to be produced at the Renaissance The
atre, in Paris, Sarah Bernhard will be
seen as working girl supposed to be
only % years old. The French critics
are noticing a tendency on Nine. Bern
| hardt's part as she grows older to play
younger and younger roles, and it pro-
badly a good thing for the French stage
says Leader Richardson, that Uncle
Toms Cabin" hasn't penetrated to that
country, or we might one of these days
| find Sarah starring as little Eva. In
her new play she doesn't appear until
early in the third act, but from that
| point onward. they say, she practically
carries the whole performance.
! A sweeping change has come to the
theatres of San Francisco. Many years
ago, in the times of great gold and sill
yer prosperity on the Pacific coast, IA
mously fine and expensive stock COM
panies prospered there Even after the
audiences did not pay enough to sup