Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-11-07
Harrison Power, New York business


1.-The Blue Monkey" is the title of
/ a new piece by Owen Hall, author of
"The Geisha."
Nine. Sem rich will be seen in ''The
Barber of Seville "Somnambula' and
''Nozzi di Figaro"
| Anna Held has left the cast of La
Z, Poupee' and will be seen in a New
/ York music hall this week.
! THE Governors" Ward and Vokes'
new play, is satire on a gold mine
| speculation and woman suffrage.
/ 1t is said that the hacker of Julia
Arthur spent $4,000 before the curtain
went up at Wallack's, New York, Mon
day night
Nine. Sara Bernhard has returned to
Paris from her tour of Belgium and
Holland. She expects to visit the
United States next autumn.
In London the other day a carriage
containing Geraldine Ulman collided
with an omnibus. She sustained a
! compound fracture of the ankle.
Helene Mora, the vaudeville singer,
purposes giving the closet scene from
Hamlet" in the vaudeville theaters.
Miss Mora will essay the Dane.
Wilson Barrett has sailed for Aus
tralia, via New York. He takes with
him some electrical stage inventions,
and hopes to float them in America.
The report that Charles e. Evans,
Minnie French and Anna Held intend
to play for a few weeks in "A Parlor
Match" has been denied by Mr.. Evans.
The theater managers of New York
are making arrangements for benefit
to be rendered the widow and the
mother Of William F. Hoey, better
| known as the "Old Hoss."
William Gillette has just finished
an adaptation of a French face. His
| trip to London in the spring has been
abandoned and an English company
will give TOO Much Johnson"
The Highwayman, the new opera
which is shortly to be produced at the
| Broadway Theater, New York, was
played for copyright purposes at the
, Gai>y Theater, London, the day before
| its production in this country.
! Williamson & Musgrove are trying
! to induce Henry Irving to make tour
| Of Australia. 1t is reported that their
efforts are likely to meet with sue
cess, as Sir Henry is giving the matter
! his serious consideration.
Lewis Morrison produced 'Freder-
| lex the Great" last week. The scenes
are laid in POtsdam, and 1882 is the
period. The story deals largely with
| the trials of a young soldier, who is
| desperately in love with the Kings
ward, with whom he became acauaint-
ed quite by chance
Composers, as a rule, have been re-
! mark hiN 1nnO-iiuO6 Handel
years of age when he died, Lalande
was 70, Bach was IS years, Scarlitta
/ was &C. Haydn was II, Palestrina 20,
Spohr rs, Marcello SO, Gluck 70, Paisil-
! 10 Is, ROssini rs, Picinni 72, Cherubini
| 81, Beethoven 81, Meyerbeer 20.
Charles F'rohman has four plays in
| preparation for production this month.
They are "A Marriage for Conven-
! ience," for John Drew's temperance
at the Empire; ''The White Heather
| for his annual melOdrama at the Acad-
envy; The Circus Girl" for tour, and
, The Salt of the Earth in which An
ME Russell will be conspicuous.
Verdi, who objects to hand organs,
| has an effective, though expensive, way
of suppressing them at Moncalieri,
| where he spends his summers He
! hires all the organs in the district for
| the season and stores them in his
! house. A reporter of LIE Figaro count
| ed 50 instruments, and the composer
| told him it cost him $500 a year to sup
press them.
Nellie Sylvester, than whom there is
no more popular actress in burlesque,
will join the Rentz-Stanley company
at Albany tomorrow night. Miss Syl-
! vester, who is a southern girl has
been on the boards but two years. She
was an artists model in New York,
when a prominent manager discovered
that i'll addition to a faultless figure
and beautiful voice, she possessed a
voice. Her coon" songs invariably
arounse great enthusiasm. Miss Syl-
vester will star next season.
There is no love between Augustin
Daily and Charles Frohman, that is
sure, and it is feared that something
like hatred is felt by those rival man
| ayers. Mr.. DAILY owns the rights in
The Circus Girl for this city and
Mr. Frohman for the rest of the United
States. May Young, who had a role in
the piece at Days, made an engage
ment to go on the tour of the Froh-
man company, and for doing that Mr.
Daily dismissed her a week ago.
The stock company at the Lyceum
| Theatre, Baltimore, is attracting i'm
mense audiences and its clientele is al
| ready larger than that of any house in
the Monumental City. The plays to
be produced by this organization in
clude Nancy & Co." Captain Swift,
"Incog," The Ironmaster," DIR. Bill,
| Held by the Enemy" "All the Com
forts of Home" Shenandoah" "Di-
plomacy,' The Amazons," Jim the
Penman," The Wife The Charity
Ball Sweet Lavender" "A Scrap OF
Paper" Confusion Still Water
Runs Deep" Ours" Trenton" and
The Bankers Daughter"
1t is surprising, l confess, that with
all the discussion caused by "A Lady
of Quality first as a book and now as
play, no one has yet pointed out
that the melodramatic device that ha;
really made the fame of the story is &
palpable copy of one that has figured
in a French drama-twice adapted
into English l refer to the scene
wherein the heroine kills Sir John anC
then conceals him under the divan. l
was in Victoria Sardou's lie Maisor
Nepfe" that such a proceeding frs
took place, and MIR. Clyde Fitch, IL
THE Social Swim" presented it TO thu
English and American stage respect
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