Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-10-31

THEATRICAL ADJUSTMENTS.
There is to be a permanent circus in
London.
John B. Doris is to establish a winter
circus in New York.
Nine. Marcella Sembrick appeared
in New York last week
Charles Frohman has secured Henry
Arthur Jones' latest play, 1.-THE Liars"
The Opera of Berlin is preparing g.
model representation of the "Anneau
du Niblung."
A Brooklyn theatre refused to sell a
reserved seat to T. Thomas Fortune,
the negro newspaper man.
Liili Lehman announces she will
return to America during the winter
to give a series of song recitals.
Robert billiard will appear in a
dramatization of Robert Buchanan's
Fra Giacomo," at a New York vaude-
vile theatre this week.
Yvette Guilbert mas an engagement
with the Paris Scala till 1900, under a
contract STIMULATING for an increase of
salary of from 1900 to 5000 frances
each season.
1t is reported that Nine Modieska
expects, at the close Of her present sea-
son in the west, to open dramatic
school in ew York.
Osmond Tearle, is still starring in
the English provinces The other day
at Leicester he produced a historical
drama called Harold, the last of the
Saxons.'
The plans for the new theatre to be
built in London for Charles Wyndham
have finally been approved by the coun-
ty Council. and operations will be i'm
mediately begun.
Les Petites Femmes," by Sylvane
and Audran, produced October II at
the Bouffes Parisiens, Paris, has turned
out to be a failure. The score is de-
scribed as trivial and the book tedious.
Charles Coghlan will star in one of
his own plays. Mr.. Coshlan's play is
of an historical character, laid in Eng
land, Of the time of George ". Mr..
Coghlan expects to open his season at
the Columbia Theatre, Washington, on
November q.
The Drury Lane melodrama, "The
White Heather" which is to be pro-
duced late next month in New York,
takes its name from yacht which fig
ures largely in the story. The New
more rather than less than this sum.
Harry Gilfoil, now playing with "a
Stranger in New York." at the Garrick
Theatre, New York, signed last week
a contract with Hoyt and Mckee for
The next three years. by which he is to
be starred in a new musical comedy
written expressly for him by Charles
II. Hoyt.
no, ~ ,,Io ho
Soldier of France" which was produc-
ed in Boston last week, has not proved
the success which she anticipated. 1t
IS said that she is thinking seriously OF
presenting "Thedora" purchased by
her some years ago, and of withdraw
ing the other piece.
Members Of the dramatic profession
and by these are meant both mana
gers and actors-are proverbially thin
skinned, says Theatrical Topics. They
shrink, not from prolonged and repeat
ed adulatory messages, but the Incl
dental pin prick of criticism causes
them to howl in anguish.
1t is said that a well known opera
singer, who drew an enormous salary
in this country and yet cooked his
own bee teak and onions over the gas
IN cheap lodging, Where ne also
washed his clothes and darned his
stockings, has lost his s350,000 by rear
estate speculation in Italy.
Il have nothing TO say" said De
Wolf Hopper, "about Mrs. Hoppers
probable continuance in this company
Mrs. Hopper's engagement in this COM
pany has always been due to her tall
ents as an artist and not her relation
ship to me. That is the only thing
that woule be considered in the flu
ture. ! dot know anything about her