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

play "a Stranger in New York." open
ing on December 20><
A lion tanner named Kolberg, after
giving performance at village near
Koyno, in Russian Poland, was set
upon by the lions and killed before
help could be given. A panic took
place among the audience, eight per-
sons being crushed to death, and others
seriously injured.
Miss Mnther has plan of taking an
American company to Honolulu, Japan,
Australia, India and London. The in
tention is to stay three months in
Japan, and Miss Mather is now arrang-
ing to engage a japanese scholar to
teach herself and her company the Jap
that Shakespeare is not likely to be
played in the Japanese language.
The Christmas Dramatic Mirror is
nearing completion, and it will be thor
oughly representative Of the American
stage in every department. Among the
notably Interesting features will be a
hitherto unpublished article Of the early
days of the drama in California by one
of the Forty miners, long identified with
the stage. This article will be illus
furnish valuable addition to stage
history.
He'en Ccprage, the large. stout lady
who has come from out of the West
with the expressed determination of
outfasting Succi, receives $500 week
for each week of the forty-day limit,
every additional day of fasting. And
vet thoy GOV Monde Adoy,oc
only $500 a week, Who would be a
Of Coppage to spur us on to greater
graph
A newspaper Of superficial grasp
noting that last year there were $40 per-
formances of Shakespeare in Germany
representing twenty-three Of his dramas
makes the erroneous statement that the
PRODUCTION of Hamlet In London by
Forbes Robertson, was looked upon as
exceptional in that metropolis because
it was profitable. When did any one Of
Henry Irving's Shakespearean produc-
tons prove to be Improbable? And
when did any one of Augustin Days
productions of Shakespeare in this city
lack profit? Many foolish statements
made by persons who evidently do not
know much about the subject.-Harri-
son Gray Fiske, in Dramatic Mirror.
Ada Rehan and Joseph Jefferson are
the only players in the country who
have stood UP for the best expression of
comedy without losing popularity dur
ing two decades. jefferson, however
would scarcely dare to undertake what
Rehan has accomplished, to hold the
uninterrupted centre of a fashionable
metropolitan stage. 1t requires some
thing more than art to do that. Edwin
Eocth possessed the finest art ever
known in this country. Yet he fell out
of favor in New York Lester Wallack
was a delightful ccmediana and the last
of famous family, yet he went into
bankruptcy. Rose Coghlan, long the
mcs. distinguished of leading women
has fallen from her high estate into
melo-drama. clara Morris, once the
idol CT the to n is now in vaudeville
Lillian Russell for many a year the
prima donnaj assoluta Of comic opera
has at last commenced vulgar fractions
and is now bne-third of triplets. May
IRWIN has Unlocked out Dixey and Maud
Adams hasI displaced Modjeska. Our
public is constant to nobody except
Rehan. How is this? Is It the lovely
Ada herself or is 1t the spell of that
silent mceician Of art Augustin Daily
Hillary Bel, in New York Press.
Silver Novelties, attractive, stylish
and up-to-date at McNamee's, 1907
Market street.