Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-12-04

| .'Christ's Triumph. =
| Nat Go0dwin's brother made his
vaudeville debut at Keith's. New York,
last week. His speciality consists OF
limitations Of Nat Goodwin, Lawrence
| Barrett, John Mccullough and Stuart
| Robson. Marguerite Sylvia, OF the
Alice Nelson. Opera Company. will
| make her vaudeville debut tomorrow,
| at the Boston branch of the Keith
| Quadruple circuit Of theatres.
| Verdi completed the eighty-frst
year of his age some four week ago,
and to celebrate the event newspaper
| published special number On green
paper-verdo meaning green in Ital-
ian-and printed with green ink! Mas
cagni, Leoncayalla, Puccini, Bovio,
Massenet, Pougin, Claretie, all contri-
buted to it, and, moreover, it gave il
| lustrations of the house wherein Verdi
was born. his villa of Santa Agatha,
pictures of Rigolette and Faistaff, and
portraits Of Verdi from babyhood till
now.
The show at the theatre in Dawson
| City is continuous performance, be-
| ginning at 8 p. NJ, and Swimming along
| for about seventeen hours. The price
| of seat is $3.50, and there are no re-
| however, and the playgoers there are
| generally thirsty, so that the principal
| profit in the show business is in the
sale of drinks. Beer costs S. bottle;
wine, $40 pint bottle. Whisky can
be had Tor 80 cents drink, and rat
| Ting good cigar can be bought for rs
| cents.
Within brief period-hardly more
than a year-the American stage has
| lost Couldock, Mrs. John Drew, Thorn
as Keene, Joseph Proctor, Thomas
Whiffen Joseph w. Shannon, Charles
| T. Parsole, w. ]. Scanlon, John Wild,
Harry Meredith, Charlotte Thompson,
Margaret Mather, Carrie Turner, and
others who adorned it. The deaths Of
| these actors says Harrison Grey Fiske
sum up a great public loss, but the loss
to the profession is even greater, for
among those who have departed were
| artists whose work was an education
| to the rising generation of players who
| in time must take their places.
! The twenty-first year of Gilbert and
-Sullivan's comic opera THE Sorcer-
&Nr," has just been celebrated at the
| Savoy Theatre. London, and II Is said
| that during this period the British pub
| lie has paid some S15,000,000 to wit
ness performances of the works of
| these authors The American public
| has also during this period paid snug
sum to enjoy Gilbert and Sullivans
works: but in recent seasons, says the
Dramatic Mirror, there has been
| growth here of native production, and
| there are one or two American comic
| opera partnerships that twenty years
| from now may make a showing that
will parallel that noted of the English
collaborators.
Julia Arthur played Rosalind for the
| first time in New York lat week. Says
! the Evening Sun: Miss Arthur's Ros-
| alind, taken as whole, is more sat
| isfactory performance than her Par
| thenia This actress, in choosing these
| two characters, has strayed entirely
| out of her line There is no character
| in Shakespeare, with the possible ex-
| ception of Beatrice, which could have
shown that actress weak points so
completely. AS soon as she persuades
herself that as an actress OF passion
ate roles a fine future lies before her,
and renounces once and for all the
idea of being a coincidence, then Miss
Arthur will find that critics and public
alike will join again in that chorus OF
praise which was brought about by her
performances of Mercedes and Clio
Wildairs."
The season of grand opera at the
Metropolitan Opera House opened
Tuesday night last with great eclat.
The performance-"Ta was
interesting artistically for the New
York debut of NJ. Van Dycke, one of
Europe's famous tenors, and for the
temperance of Mines. Eames and
Nordica. NJ Van Dyckes rendering of
the title role made an agreeable i'm
preston. In a certain sense it was a
premiere for Nine. Eames, too, as it
was the first time she sung Elizabeth
here in German. She was as charming
as ever in the role; while Nine. Nordi-
cas- was as finely dramatic Venus as
heretofore. One of the pleasant sur
prises of the evening was the VOL
fran Of NJ. Albers, who took Mr.. Bisp-
hams place. The list of operas at the
Metropolitan this week will be as fol-
lows: Monday, La Traviata," with
Nine. Sembrich in the cast; Wednesday
the Marriage of Figaro" with Nine.
Sembrich, Mile. Zelie de Lussan, Nine.
Eames and Edouard de Reszke; Fri
day, Tannhauser," with Nine Games,
Nine. Nordica and M. Van Dycke; Sat
urday afternoon, The barber OF Sc
ville," and Saturday evening, III Tro-
vatore."
Two Italian plays recently acted with
success shows the curious tendency Of
that country's theatre to-day. The
Sour was tried in Turin, and the aud
fence was informed that to it had
been awarded the prize in the competi-
ton opened at the recent theatrical
exposition in Turin. 1t was written by
the wife of a famous Italian patriot.
The heroine is cast of by man who
married a girl that makes his life mis-
cradle. His former mistress becomes
the wife CT an honest man and lives
happily. Her Old lover tries to win
her back, but she scorns him. In de-
spair he shoots himself. In After
ward" by Auguste Novelli, husband
returns to his home to find his wife
with her lover, and he kills her He
is acquitted of the crime by we courts,
but his children will not forgive him.
His daughter refuses 10 speak to him,
and he finds in her room a picture of
his murdered wife surrounded by flow
ers. Driven TO despair, he raises his
hand tn strike the daughter With tho