Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-11-28

Digby Bell will be seen in the Pa
cific Mail"
Jim Hoey, who was seriously i'll. has
| recovered.
Beerbohm Tree will play Marc An
| tony in Julius Caesar"
Burt Haverly and Laura Bigger will
star in "A Close Call"
Louis N. Parker's "a Happy Life"
will shortly be produced in London.
| The Castle Square Company will
| open its season at Chicago with Ell
mimic
Eleanor Duse will give series of
| performances at Monte Carlo during
| the winter.
| Mrs. Bernard Reere will return to
| the London stage in one-act play
| from the French.
Robert Sherman has completed new
| four-act character play, my Friend
from Arkansas"
| Elvia Croix Seabrooke has decided to
go into vaudeville. She will be assist
ed by Billy West.
| The Hengler Sisters are the topliners
| at the Berlin kindergarten, and their
| neat turn has caught on.
CCrse Payton has secured the right
to play "Only a Farmers Daughter
| through the present season.
| Jesse Bartlett Davis will have at
least two operas in her repertoire when
| she become star next season.
Charles Henry MeltZer and A. e. Ian
| caster have written a new three-act far
| cical comedy for William H. Crane.
| Helen Bertram has been engaged to
| replace Florence ST. John in la Peri
choe' at the Garrick Theatre, London.
This year Sydney will have three, if
not four pantomimes, Melbourne TWo,
| and Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth one
| each
This season Augustin DAILY will pro-
duce "The Tanning of the Shrew,'
Number Nine" and "The Merchant OF
| Venice"
| Sydney, Australia, has three cheap the
| atres-12 cents, "a cents and 4S cents
the Lyceum Opera House and Stand
ard also the Gaiety, II cents.
! Julia Marlowe has been obliged to
| set. Miss Marlowe, by the way, is dill
| igently rehearsing new play, the
name and story of which are kept d
profound secret.
| 1t is stated upon good authority that
but one other attraction seen in Pitts
burg this season in any theatre, has en-
| joyed a patronage as large as that given
to Mrs. Fiske.
A few years ago Willie Collier was
| the call boy at Days Theatre in New
York at a salary of five dollars per
week. Now, he is receiving couple of
hundred per from Smyth and Rice.
Sardou's tragedy, Theodore, is about
to be adapted for opera. The compost
| ton Of the music will either be under
/ h. 20;
| is to be completed in two years and
produced at the Berlin Opera House.
A comic opera founded on Chester
Bailey Fernalds "The Cat and the
| Cherub," will be produced in Vienna.
Mr.. Fernald has dramatized his latest
tale, "The Cherub Among the Gods, ~
sequel to his famous story and play.
The name of Anthony Hopes new
play for e. H. Sothern is The Adven-
! ture of Lady Ursula" 1t will be pre-
scented for the first time in Philadelphia
next week Henry Esmond" Eill re-
ceive its first production a few weeks
| later in Chicago
David Biers, manager of "The Isle Of
| Champagne" has just closed a contract
to produce in this country an opera
called Mr. Hoffman's Story" This
| opera is now running in Vienna, hav-
ing been On the boards there for the
past twelve months.
Julia Marlowe is considering an ap-
pearancs as Nero in new play, based
upon the early days of the vicious en-
| peror. Charles B. Dillingham;, Miss
Marlowes new manager, brought the
play from Europe, and Sarah Bern
| hardt is said to hold it's French rights.
| DeKoven and Smiths ''Highwayman"
was presented by the Broadway Thea
| tire Opera Company at the Star Theatre
in Buffalo on November II. The en-
tire house was taken by the faculty
and students of the University of Buff
falo with the exception of twentyfour
seats reserved for the press.
The Passion Play was reproduced
| by the Cinematographe at Philadelphia
last week. Life in the Klondike will
shortly be reproduced by Lubin's
Cineograph, the inventor having sent
| party of photographers to the gold
region last spring. The pictures have
arrived at the Cineograph headquar-
tiers in Philadelphia and will be exhib-
tied about Christmas.
| Hans Richter, the orchestral and OPP
cratic conductor of Vienna Will go to
St. Petersburg to direct the cycle. of
| Wagnerian music-dramas to be given
| at the Mode theatre. He will be ac-
companied by Nine Sedlnair and
! Messrs. Reichmann, Reichenberg and
| DIPPED, of the Vienna Opera, and by
| Nine. Ltvinne and Jean and Edouard
| de Reszke.
There will be four big masquerade
balls at the Madison Square Garden,
! New York, during the present season,
under the direction of William A.
| Brady. They are to be conducted up
on the system which was so successful
ly followed by the late Augustus Har-
! ris at Covent Garden, in London.
| Prizes will be given for the most
| striking costume, the best dancers, the
most beautiful woman, and SO forth
| and so on.
| Julia Marlowe has been obliged TO set
at rest the silly and persistent rumors
that have been circulated alleging do
nestle dissension between herself and
her husband, Mr.. Taber In the west
the other day she gave out statement
| in which she said: "Our separation is
! entirely professional, and it was ar
| ranged because we considered it to be
for the best professional interests Of us
| both. | hope and believe that we shall
be together again professionally by and