Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-10-16
D.Artagnan IN Henry Hamilton's new
dramatizations Of Les Trios Nous

Philadelphia, on November 2S.
| Olga Nethersole will sail from South
ampton on the steamer st. Louis No
vember 5. She doesn't intend to rely
exclusively on "The Termagant" during
her American tour.
| Jaunaschek, Marie Jansen, Amelia
Summerville (the merry mountain
maid of "Adonis") and Max Eugene
are to appear in vaudeville.
/ Henry b. Smith, Edgar Smith and
Julian Mitchell went to Providence last
week to see The Christian" which
they will burlesque for Weber & Fields
at the same time they present their
travesty upon "Cyrano de Bergerac."
Joseph Jefferson and others promi-
nent in the theatrical profession are ar
| ranging the preliminary details for
testimonial to be rendered to c. w.
Couldock, which it is expected viii take
place some time next month.
| In THE Little Host" Della Fox ap-
pears as swell youth about town in
male attire, in golf costume, and In the
raiment of her sex. The company in
cludes r. E. Graham, Eugene
| O'Rourke, John Slavin, Hugh Chivers,
Miss Mabel Bouton and Miss Alice
| Johnson.
| A son was born to Mr.. and Mrs. Ezra
| Kendall at Mount Vernon on October Z.
This is the sixth child They have
four boys and two girls. The happy
little mother is professionally known
as eJnnie Dunn. With her diminutive
brother, Arthur, who played Dick
Deadeye, she was in Haverly's Juvenile
Pinafore Company.
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| limited liability company, and through
his own doing, too. He has caused
| himself to be capitalized at 1925, 900, in
shares of S. each. His assets are
| school of physical culture, a monthly
magazine called Physical Culture, and
his physical prowess. The public has
been invited to take stock in the Or
ganiZation.
The starring tour of Melbourne Mac
lowell and Blanche Walsh, which was
| interrupted by the death OF Mrs. Mac
dowell (Fanny Davenport, will be re-
sumed at Portland Me-, next Monday.
Cleopatra will be the play. Sr
Henry Irving and Sardou, whose plays
Miss Davenport did so much to popu-
larize, have sent floral wreaths to be
placed on the actress grave.
Sir Alexander Mackenzie is compos-
ing the incidental music for Irvings
revival of Richard H." and Edwin
Abbey is designing the scenery and
dresses. Ellen Terry will play the
| Queen. She will also have promi-
nent part in the Sardou "Robespierre.
and WILL of course, be Roxane when Sir
Henry does "Cyrano de Bererac." Sir
Henry says that he and Miss Terry
| will make one more professional visit
| to this country.
For several months electrical emf
neers and constructors have been at
work underneath the stage Of the Dru
ry Lane Theatre in London putting up
| plant for the purpose of running the
stage by electricity. 1t is claimed for
the new system that when it is COM
pleted and in working order the whole
stage. no matter how great or compli
Gated the production, can be handled
by half a dozen men. At present no
less than $50 stage hands the employed
at Drury Lane In the English play
houses four men are employed to do
| one mans work. They receive some
| thing like 60 cents a night
| Sarah Bernhard now announces that
| she will open her season at the Renais-
| sance in Paris with "Medee" a new
| play written for her by Catulle Men
J DEE. She had intended to revive Oc-
tave Feuiller's Julie" but will shelve
| it for the present. Indeed, it may be
| put aside for long time to come, mas
| much as Sarah says the second work Of
! her new Partisan season will be from
| the pen of Jean Richepin. In this
| piece the leading character is a gypsy,
| whose fierce, tempestuous nature ought
| to fit Nine. Bernhard like a glove
| She and Richepin are good friends
| nowadays. Both of them, with that ex>
cess Of pliability which in persons Of
| less Importance would be called tickle
mess, have apparently forgotten all
about their little affair of the heart
which came to an end when Richepin
| shook Sarah, thus breaking all rec
ords and causing her to throw a series
OF startled and angered fits.--Leander
| Richardson in New York Telegraph.
Israel Zangwill says that since
Shakespeare's time only two great plays
have been written. These are The
School for Scandal and She Stops to
Conquer" Mr.. Zangwill found that
authors of other countries were writing
plays to-day which were encouraging to
those with the interests of the drama at
| heart. He named Ibsen, whose work
gets into the veins of his character"
Echegara, Sudermann and, curiously
enough, Rostand, who would seem to
have nothing in common with these
writer's Above all of these. men, how
ever, he places Gerhart Hauptmann as
the most significant figure among the
dramatic writers of the time. when |
want to amuse my servant girl get her
an order for a play that contains
steam engine and a snowstorm. She can
see both of them by looking cut the
window, but takes a keen delight IN
seeing them in the wrong place. The
Greek drsmatists used to pay their ac-
tors and train them. The English ac-
tors pay their dr2matists and train
them" Mr. Zangwill said that he once
asked Sarah Bernhard why she did not
act R0stand's La S3maritaine" in Lon
don. and was told that it would be for
hidden by the censor. Biblical person.
ages are n1t allowed on the stage" Mr..
Zangwiu said, except in oratorio, Eli
jah can only appear in dress suit"
Iris" Mascagnis new opera. was
produced last week. Iris, the heroine, is
a japanese maiden, who is the only
support and comfort Of her blind father