Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-05-16
Theatrical AmusementS.


the road next season.
Wilson Barrett revived "Virginus" in
London last week.
Lost in New York" was recently
given in Dublin, Ireland.
Mansfield will add "Timon of Athens"
to his repertoire.
D'Oyley Carte wants Lillian Russell
for this summer in London.
Modjeska has invited Barrymore to
be her leading man next season.
Jarbeau will star in De Koven and
Smiths new opera, "A Paris DOLL"
The Bostonians have purchased the
right to play Rob Roy" hereafter.
Marie Wainwright and her two
daughters will sail for Europe this
week.
The Geisha" has passed its 375th
performance at Days London Theatre.
The city fathers of Aix-la-Chapelle
have prohibited the performance of Of
fenbachs "Orphie aux Enters" for NOR
al reasons.
Messrs. Jefferson. Klaw & Erlanger
have decided to erect two new theatres
in New Orleans.
In Nat Goodwin's production of the
Tanning of the Shrew' Maxine Elliott
will play Katherine.
Sir Henry Irving will unveil the stat
ute to Mrs. Slddons on Paddington
Green at noon on June 14th.
Grace Golden sang the title role in
the Washington Castle Square Com
pany's production of "Erminie.'
AT Chicago, May Z, Laura Joyce-Bell
celebrated her birthday, and the TWEEN
tieth anniversary of her debut.
Look out for Della Fox in vaudeville.
The Russel-FoX-De ANGELS combina-
ton will probably not be in existence
next season.
Villa Knox. the prima donna of the
Lyric Opera Company, takes her name
by transposing the words of her native
town, Knoxville, Tenn.
Clara Morris made her vaudeville
debut at Gilmore's Auditorium, Phila-
delphia. last week Fanny Mcintyre
will appear at that house this week.
Edgar Smith and Herman Perlet have
completed new opera that has not yet
been named but which will be produced
in Kansas City in June.
Sarah Bernhard has recently given
her annual performance to the stu
dents of Paris" La Tosca" was the
play. There were no women and no
baldheads present.
Thomas w. Keene has received a
flattering offer TO enter vaudeville. If
he does appear in The Continuous it
will be in a condensed version of
Drink"
Two dramatic efforts of the Queen
of Roumania. who writes under the non
de plume Of Carmen Sylvia, have re-
Gently been produced at the Royal The
atre at Bucharest.
The French government ordered all
of the subsidized theatres of France to
be closed until Saturday of last week
because of the great national calamity
in the burning of the Charity Bazaar.
What is known of the normal pitch"
(diapason normaD is making such head
way in European countries that foreign
musical journals express the hope that
it will soon be known as the interna-
tional pitch"
The Russian traveller, Obrutscheff,
speaks admiringly of the arial concerts !
made by pigeons in the Celestial King
dom. It seems that a sort of aolian
harp is attached TO each pigeon, either
to make music or to brighten away birds
of prey.
For a nickel at a Chicago theatre last |
week one could witness a vaudeville |
programme headed by Maurice Barry
more in "A Man of the World and in
Guiding Hutch and Clifford and other !
first-class people.
William Mullaney, the critic Of the
Albany Express, has secured a continu-
alton Of the injunction restraining F.
F. Proctor and his managers from
keeping him out of the Leland Opera
House in that city.
There are several Uncle Tom COM I
panies on the road. The first dramati-
cation of "Uncle Toms Cabin" was pro-
duced at Welch's National Theatre,
PHILADELPHIA. Pa. in 1852. The copy
right on the novel expired in 1892, and
anybody has a right to dramatic 1t
now.
A story comes from the Pacific Coast
TO the effect that De Wolf Hopper and
his wife, Edna Wallace Hopper, have
decided to separate The trouble, 1t Is
said. arises from an idea on the part OF
the genial comedian that his wife has
too many and too devoted admirers, and
that she has accepted too many pres
ents.-New York Mercury.
Hepburn Johns declares that Shore
Acres" is the best American play yet
written. and one of the gravest the
world has ever known. The only draw
hack the success of Shore Acres" en-
tails is that it is keeping Mr.. Hearne
from putting on a new play. MI.
Hearne has completed at least one dra-
ma Of as great importance as Shore
Acres"
Eugene Cowles. the basso Of the Bos-
tonian Opera Company, is now on the
rack answering suit for separation in
the New York Supreme Court, brought
bv his wife for incompatibllity of tenn
per. Mr.. and Mrs. Cowles have been
married fourteen years. and have one
child. a son. who lives with his mother
in Harlem.
Mark Twain says he is going to write
a plav. II Is a fair surmise that it will
he stage version of his "A Connecticut
Yankee at King Arthur's Court. Mark
Twain is the only American writer Of
books who has drawn a fortune from
the use of his matter in theatres. Mrs
Harriet Beecher Stowe would have
been enriched if she had protected her
dramatic right in uncle Toms Cabin.
Edward Harrigan, in a series Of local
sketches. under the management OF VII.
liam J. Gilmore. will appear next season
at the Philadelphia Auditorium for
long engagement Il is more than like
" that many prominent stars of the
theatrical profession will appear at this