Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-03-06

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Girl, in New York on Monday last,
: Lillian Russell, Nat Goodwin, Mans
field and Sousas band will be among the
ATTRACTIONS at the American theatre at
the Paris exposition in 1860
Pays that the Elizabethean Stage Soci-
Gypsy, Fords Broken Heart" and Ben
Johnson's Sad Shepherd"
over $1,000 was taken in at the New
ork Ielegraphs benefit performance TOE
Tue WldoWs ana orphans or the victims OF
Sunday night.
Edward j. Morgan. of the Frohnman
company was married on December =, 70
adelaide Cushman. daughter OF the late
Judge, Cushman, of Detroit The fact be
came known on Monday last.
Nine. Patti has ordered a Commemora-
lIve plaque. in memory Of her husband,
Nlcollni, to be placed in the parish church
nearest her castle of Craig-y-Nos. in
NJ a. Bungert who made a great stir in
Germany not long ago. with his opera,
me Return of Ulysses has just pro-
duced the second opera of his Homerc cy-
The Secret Agent is the name of the
new musical piece which is ultimately TO
succeed La Poupee, in London 1t is
the work of the same writer and compoS-
er-OrdOnneau and Audran.
Thomas Q. Seabrook will soon bloom
forth as a manager in London, having
found a capitalist who is willing to build
a theatre for him. at which Will be pro
duced not only comic opera, but other
plays
The Fortune Teller is the name of the
opera which Herbert and Smith are writ
ing for Alice Nelson. The scene is laid in
Ifiiungary, and the plot deals with Inc
fortune teller
Very soon after the regular perform
ance at the Solodownikow Theatre, Mos
COW, where Marie Van Zandt was playing
q brilliant engagement fire broke out in
the auditorium. The stage was preserved
by means OF the iron curtain. Two fire.
Rev. DR.. McGlynn Rev. DR. McCready
ana several other clergymen witnessed
der the Red Robe at New York. Father
McGlynnfs nephew. Frank McGlynn, of
San Francisco. took a leading part
N fhe Head 5ti Of the H9pse@ dramati.
Beatrix is in love with Esmond from the
first, and the play ends with their mar
rage in, sight. There is no hint of any
love. other than the quasi-maternal Of
Beatrix 5 mother for Esmond.
The rowing life of an actor Is inimical
to domestic relationships, and that is all
there is IN his life, or his profession, that
IS prejudicial To matrimony with a nom
professional The same is true of the traV-
cling salesman. Actors, as a rule, behave
themselves quite as well as other people.
Baltimore Herald.
PATHS REIMBURSEMENT of the 500 o0O left
her by Nicolini is only piece of justice.
deserted his wife and children for the
great soprano. Patti is only doing the
right thing. BY the way, the. lady may
New York Telegraph.
Lillian Burkhart's new fairy play, THE
Lady of the Rowan Tree" has evidently
duced in the vaudeville, says the Spring
field Union. The Philadelphia papers de-
voted an unusual amount of space to
consideration of the little play. the con-
census of opinion among the critics being
of the most favorable character.
The one thouSandth number of the Ora
journals devoted to any profession of ac-
tivity and of an age represented by the
thousandth number of that paper have
achieved a success like that which the
Mirror enjoys. and it is safe to say that
no journal devoted to stage interests has
ever in a like time won a position at all
comparable with the position which the
Marie Wainwright's father was Com
mander Wainwright of the navy, who
was killed in action at Galveston, Tex;
her brother, Lieutenant j. M. VAIN
wright, was killed by pirates off the coast
of MaZatlan. sixteen years ago, and her
only remaining brother, r. p. P. Vain
wright, is a present stationed at Fort
Sheridan with the First Cavalry. of which
he is senior captain. a first cousin, Lieu
tenant Commander Wainwright, was ex-
Charged with giving an immoral show,
the nineteen men and women of the
"Black Crook company We're arrested
and placed in Jail for three hours at Mon
treal last week. The performance was
stopped after Kitty Wells completed her
turn. Complaints had been lodged by
Archbishop Bruchesi. Ada Muriars age
was given at 3. and she announced that
she was Catholic. Nine of the nineteen
are Catholics: Presbyterian, 2: Protest
ant, L. Methodist 3; Lutheran, I; Episco-
palian. |: Hebrew, ?.
The production of such tainted plays as
''Magda, Mrs. Tanqueray." "Michaels
Lost Angel" and The Tree of Knowl-
edge" has, within the last few years,
of cads and vulgarians of both sexes al
most completely alienated the better class
of people and driven them away from the
theatre. Well-bred people do not attend
the theatre for the purpose of obtaining
information as to the matrimonial adven-
lures of pimps and harlots The Ten
commandments are well known. Actors
are not expected to furnish lessons. The
province of the stage is art, and the hand
maidens of art are beauty and romance
New York Tribune.
Chirgwyn, the white-eyed Kaffir, will
make his American debut at Roster & BIZ
with cockney dialect and sings negro
songs. When questioned regarding mis-
act he said: well, have been doing
it for about twenty years. One day my
brother and I were doing a speciality per-
Torrance with BACKED faces at a country
fete in England. AS we were leaving the
grounds 1 got a cinder in my eye. 1t caus-
ed the tears to flow, and as consequence
the black around one eye was washed
away. The crowd hooted and laughed at
me, and called a white coon. and finally
a white-eyed Kaffir. This last state
ment made a great impression on me and
shortly afterward l made up in black
with a white diamond over the right eve
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