Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-10-03

The Reverend Father Mc11ahon wrote
for the Alliance. o.. Review. an enthu-
siastic comment upon AlGora Shem's per-
formancs Of Hamlet IN that city.
| LeonvAslos "Pagliacci'' has been pro-
1 duced in Rome without music, simply as
q drama. 1t has had such great success
that all the directors in Italy are looking
| after it.
rs it true, Mrs. Seabrooke. that you
/ are again to marry after being legally
separated from Mr.. Seabrookes'' asked a
| reporter. mo. After thirteen years
| Of married fife-mark the unlucky
number of years-I do not propose to take
another chance He must either pay the
alimony or give me work at salary
| equal to the amount of the payments or
dered by the court said Mrs. Seabrooke,
"or I will certainly hold the alimony
| matter over his head until I have had
| satisfaction. Mrs. Seabrooke will join
| the Philadelphia Castle Square Opera
| Company tomorrow night.
| AT a benefit performance at Asnieres.
! in which Reichemberg, Deina and other
| stars, as well as the principal chanson-
niers are requested to appear in bicycle
costume
| Mrs. DR.. Kayne best known under her
| stage name of Attalie Claire, has APP
| peared in London in Leonis musical
! adoption of Washington. Irving's rip
| Van Wrinkle She took the part of
| Gretchen.
1T is too often the case" says Leander
| Richardson, that strong companies are
| engaged for New York only, and that
| when the people who live in other cities
came to see the plays they have heard SO
| we'll spoken of in the metropolis, the casts
are so inadequate that the spectators are
| filled with resentment and Indignation
| We said last week that there is not
one hterate, instructed, intelligent, cul-
| tured manager of plays or playhouses in
this city,; we may add that there is not
| half a one. We say again that the
drama has been degraded to suit the
tastes of men whose minds are debauched
and women whose minds are weak; that
it is in the hands of managers" who are
conspicuously ignorant, uneducated. I'M
| cultured, coarse, vulgar and facetious nj
| sensuality..-New York Musical Courier.
The popularity of Wagner's music
Tin that of his drama 1 entirely dis
believe) is due wholly to it's pandering to
"A
singular, and yet not beyond explana-
ton, that our moral purists seem to be
completely blind to the fact that there
| is such a thing as musical indecency and
that it is to be found in the most re-
spectacle quarters. Plato was by no
means wrong when he laid it down that
| certain kinds of music should not be per-
| mitted.-Paris Figaro
| Nn u-bn
mate stage for vaudeville is so constantly
employed as is Lillian Burkhardt. Half
of last season she appeared in the Keith
theatres, and during the next three
months she will be constantly employed
in New York and Boston, Miss Burk-
hardt has appeared in no less than
seven comediettas during the past year.
The average vaudeville player uses one
sketch for seven years. This beautiful
young woman is the wife of Charles
Dickson, of 'Incog" fam.
Tuesdays New York Herald saws.
"Merode, the beauty, had come seen and
conquered. Merode, the ballerina. had
fallen as fiat as the pretty braids over
her ears. The joke seems to be- on the
| papers that have piled Pelions of false
| praise upon Ossas of Misconception.
''She seemed says the Tribune 80 pa
thetically inadequate, so woefully ins1g-
nificant in the midst of all the gorgeous
stage setting that every one felt sorry
! for her. There was hardly ripple of an
plause On the whole, the attempt to
make stor out of the chorus girl results
in a ludicrous performance, and it is only
accumulated by the gorgeous stage pic
| ture."
In London, Melba received this season
for new performance during the jubilee
Sleo0 each, the highest price she ever re-
celved in England. Here she charges two
and half times as much, and it will
make no difference to her whether her
managers become bankrupt or not. She
will not bankrupt Continental managers,
neither will Reszke. The Continental
managers manage to keep these people
down to a reasonable level, 5000 to $500
night each; not 81 500 to $1,000 a night
each, like here. Hence no bankruptcy
there; hence failure here. Hence a great
opportunity for nativ artists there; hence
no chance for native artists here.-Musi-
cal Courier
Eugene Cowles, who is now divorced,
was bank clerk in Canada before he
went on the stage, and he was married
When very young man. Subsequently
ne moved to Chicago and worked in a
bank there. singing only as an amateur
| The chance for his professional debut
came about in the usually accidental way.
and not until he was suddenly called upon
to take the place of one of the
singers in the Bostonions, who was laid
up by sickness, did he realize the posi-
b1llties of his success on the stage Mrs.
| Cowles, who has just got a divorce. found
| theatrical life extremely distasteful to
| her from the outset, and she could never
| become reconcied to it. Her opposition
to her husbands appearance as a pro-
| fessional was never decreased by his
| success, and their ultimate inability to
| agree has always been looked upon os
the result of their wholly different views
of professional life. Eugene Cowles is
a man of great simplicity and modesty of
manner. ell is one of the best paid
singers on the comic stage to-day. He
is said to get over $500 a week.
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