Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-09-25

toris Cross" is to be acted in New
York.
/ Anna Held and Mark Smith were seen
lin "A Parlor Match" at Baltimore last
week.
Jacob Litts's production of Sporting
Life is to be revealed in New York to-
morrow night.
THE Sign of the Gross" company will
soon begin it's third season in the Unia-
ed States.
| Davis & Keogh's ION Land and Sea"
was produced for the first time III BoS-
ton Monday.
The International Opera Company's
repertoire will include Goidmark's The
Cricket ON the Hearth.
Walker Whiteside has dropped
Shakespeare and will produce The Rel
Cockade," a play that has been success
full in Paris.
Mamie Gilroy and Fannie Mcintyre
are members of the Boston stock COM
pany that produced THE Little Detect
i've" last week.
The Prince of Wales attended per-
Torrance of The Belle of New York
via telephone. He heard everything,
but saw not the girls.
| melbourne MdCDOWcll piOuuNSu
Cleopatra at Providence last week.
Fanny Davenport may not be seen on
the stage this season.
The plot Of Army and Navy, pro-
duced in Cincinnati last week, tells the
| story of the inventor of battleshlp
whom the william seeks to detraud CT
| his rights.
| Alice Nelson is assuming the guises
of Gypsy girl, school hoyden ana
Hungarian officer in The Fortune Tel
ler," the comic opera Wnlcn mas JUST
had a Canadian trial.
| Roland Reed has shelved "a Distin-
| guished Guest and will produce Made
| line Lucette Ryley's The Noyagers
Mrs. Ryley has almost completed Dor
ricoro' for Henry Miller
| Minnie Seligman heads st. Louis
stock company, and Edwin Arden may
be seen for 10 20 and 80 cents at Chi
| cago theatre A good vaudeville bill
! (1e acts) is presented in Chicago for
nickel gallery.
| Hotel Topsy Turvy" and THE Reign
of Errors" were produced for the first
time in Washington last week. Eddie
Foy, Marie DRESSER, Henry Norman
and Aubrey Boucicault appeared in the
Hotel" and the Rogers brothers play
! ed the chief roles in The Reign OF
Errors"
| W. A. Brady and Fl0renz Ziegfeld's
| big naval show was presented in Chi
cago just as it was originally done IN
Earls Court in London. Instead OF
confining the show exclusively TO q re-
production of naval battles, with mlnla-
ture warships sailing upon real water,
he has arranged to introduce in add
ton an aquatic carnival, embracing
such sports as water football, swim
ming races, river driving, etc.
Lincoln J. Carter produced "Remep-
Der the Maine" in Chicago last Sunday.
The play~Aas four acts, with about a
dozen scenes. The second act shows
Havana harbor the third shows the
I american marines in its third scene,
while the play ends with transforma-
ton scene showing Dewey and McKln-
| lev, as well as a stirring effect on the
title. The characters include Weyler,
Fitzhugh Lee aud Captain Sigsbee.
ANYBODY who has ever played the
| fascinating game Of draw poker with
Lillian Russell will not be surprised
that her husband Signor Perugini,
| chould have SO strenuously objected to
| her continuance at it. With pair Of
} deuces as starter in her hand, you
couldn't keep Lillian out Of a jack pot
with 81 600 raise. The manner in
| which Miss Russells voice has held out
| is a source OF constant surprise TO
those familiar with the number OF
times she has said, That's good. -
Leander Richardson in New York Tee
graph.
"AIistakes Will Happen" was pro-
| duced in Chicago last week The tale
the dramatst unfClds explains the diff
ficulties that confront players who
marry against the wishes of their man
ayers, fer it is a superstition among
some unenlightened managers that 1t
! INJURIES the actor with the public when
it is known the woman he is making
love to in a play is in reality his wife.
This very superstition which, by the
by. is contradicted by Daniel t'rohmau,
Charles F1ohman and others, is the
basis of the complications. Tom Geno-
win the leading man Of the Morality
| (nothing in this name) Theatre, mar
ries Miss Dorothy Maryland, the leading
woman Of the same company. Their
one aim is to keep the knowledge of
their marriage from their manager
Charles Dickson and Henrietta Cross
man are in the cast.
No less than 75000 people have seen
Papinta at Keith's Philadelphia during
the past three weeks. She has appear
ed twice daily before audiences that
have packed the theatre from pit to
dome. Understandable, without a
peer" wonderful enhancing, be-
wildering," ''Terpsichore incarnate,"
are among the newspaper comments
elected by the act "Who has not seen
the manifold, multifarious, mysterious
Papinta," says Boston Time and the
Hour, has missed a thrilling moment.
Her ministering colors are like an au-
rora Of the tropics, pulsing, throbbirg,
glowing and blending through every
brilliant transition of which the rain
bow-no longer lofty symbols