Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-12-26

of the wiCoWBJ
beat crew who had yuu
through the overturning
when they were pushing Uo
wreck off Margate. One of the Ia
fated crew named Brockman years ago
swam against Terriss for the cham
pionship at the Margate regetta.
When Nathaniel Goodwin acts in
Clyde Fiteh's play, based on the life of
Nathan Hale, he will supply it with
elaborate scenery and make what is
technically known as "a production" Of
it. The hero is hanged ct the close of
the player, to speak more accurate
ly, is just about to be hanged as tne
curtain falls On The last act Of the
drama. This will be ore CT the most
earnest efforts to win favor as serious
actor that Mr.. Goodwin has ever made.
Sir Squire Bancroft, who is to come
to New York in February, has long
been one Of the best known actors in
England, although since his retirement
from the siege five years ago, he has
been rarely seen in public, and then
only a reader for charity. Sir Squire
Bancroft and Sir Henry Irving are the
only English actors with titles, and
fey were knighted at the same time
His wife, who was for many years
popular actress, win accompany him to
this country.
Mrs. Potter and Kyrle Bellew begin
an engagement at the Court theatre,
Dresden, January 10, with Romeo and
Juliet" Tuesday, LA Tosca;" Wed
nesday, THE School for Scandal"
Thursday, "As You Like It," Friday,
Camille" Saturday, "Francillon;"
Sunday matinee, Romeo and Juliet"
Sunday night, Camille" The second
week will be but with Hamlet"
Charlotte Corday," "The Merchant Of
Venice "The Lady of Lyons and
''She Sleeps to Conquer
The women of the stage require no
defense against the alleged attack CT
Clement Scott. TIE life Of the green
room is life unknown in this coun-
try, where green rooms do not exist,
and where the foreign practice of ad-
hitting behind the scenes friends of
the management has never been toler-
ated. The talk about the temptations
CT stage life is always ridiculous. To a
virtuous woman taere is no more temp
tation to be wicked On the stage than
there is il any other walk of life
Harrison Grey Fiske, in Dramatic Mir
rCr.
THAT the dramatic profession is full
CT trials and temptations for women is
true" says Margaret Mather, F'for ac-
tresses are as a class far above the ay-
erage of feminine beauty. They are
also emotional, and therefore are more
sensitive to their surroundings, and
are the constant recipientlcf praise and
adulation. AS whole, however, they
resist-ell the Temptations thrown N
Stheir way, and many CT them are so
<Sure-minded that they never even see
,'fhe possibility of vice In no other
class, I believe, can more of simple,
earnest goodness be found than among
stage women"
D'Annunzio. the famous author Of
CITE Triumph of Death" has written
a play which was to have been pro-
Guced simultaneously by Bernhard
and Duse in Paris and Milan. 1t was
originally intended that both produc-
tons should occur on kprecisely the
same night, one in tn u new theatre
which Duse and the poet are building
Oh the banks OF the lake Albano, but
the impetuous Sarah could not wait,
ard hence there will be a slight differ
ence in the time for beginning. The
poets other works are so popular in
France that there is great interest in
his first play, which is called ga Citta
Merit
Julia Marlowe recently acquired by
purchase a letter written bv Edwin
Booth about fifteen years ago to the
editor Of New York paper, Who had
requested from him an article on the
drama. Having no literary ability
whatever" WROTE the great tragedian,
81 must decline your fattering invita-
ton; nor do | know how to aid the
worthy cause you advocate. Could I
Go so, be assured it should be fully
Gone. Ny knowledge Of the modern
dram is so very meagre that | never
permit my wife and daughter to wit
ness a play without previously ascer-
tanning it's character. This is tae meth
Cd | pursue / can suggest no other,
unless it might be by means of a fdra-
matte censor whose taste or judg-
ment might, however, be frequently at
fault. If the management Of theatres
could be denied to spectators and
placed in the hands Of actors who value
TIER rel ltation and respect their call
ing, the stage would, at least, afford a
healthy recreation. if not, indeed, a
wholesome stimulus to the exercise Of
noble sentiments. But while the thea
ire is permitted to be mere shop for
sain--open to every huckster of immo-
raj gim-cracks-there is no other way
to discriminate between tae pure and
base than through the experience of
others."