Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-07-31
THEATRICAL ADJUSTMENTS.

The puzzle is where to find the &C
tress for the stepmother.
THEATRICAL ADJUSTMENTS.
George W. Monroe will star next
season in ''Her Majesty, the Cook" a
new farce by William F. Carroll.
Ida Mule will play the title role in
the New England Opera Company's
production of THE Little Trooper"
"a Gallant Surrender" new war
play by Edward Kidder, was acted by
the Frawley Company in Frisco last
week.
Sousa and Klein's new opera, "The
Charlatan," will be sung by the De
Wolf Hopper Company in New York
on September 5.
Sir Henry Irving has gone on a tour,
playing the small suburban theatres,
as we'll as the big provincial ones.
This is departure for Sir Henry. He
has never deigned to play in smas
houses before.
Mason Mitchell, the well-known ac-
tor, a member of Roosevelt's Rough
Riders, who was wounded near Santi-
ago, ddlu Is uOW III NEW LII n III q
furlough. recovering from his injuries,
will probably fill few weeks in vaude-
vile before he returns to his regi-
ment.
Edna Wallace Hopper donned tights
for Yankee Doodle Dandy Leander
Richardson declares that the costume
| CD is 1.-The most candid and unreserved
betrayal of physical charms that has
been seen on the New York stage in
very long time"
Extensive preparations are now
being made at the Madison Square
Garden, New York, for the great Kill
rally spectacle, which will open there
en- August l. One hundred carpenters
are now engaged in building an i'm
mense tank which will hold 1,000,0
gallons of water. The show will be
representative in miniature of the navy
off Key West and in action at Manila,
and at Santiago. A great amount of
scenery will be used in the different
panoramic views. The ships which
compose the navy have arrived from
| London, where the exhibition has been
an immense success at Earls Court.
The acquisition Of Cuba by the Unit
| ed States will turn the attention OF
managers to that territory. Undoubl-
| eddy, Havana is destined to be included
in the itinerary of certain companies
visiting the South. 1t is within easy
reach of Tampa and New Orleans is a
convenient sea trip. When the Paris
of the Antilles" falls into Uncle Sam S
hands, grand and comic opera COM
panies. vaudeville and minstrel trOupes
musical comedies and magicians will
find it a profitable place TO visit, but
there will be little field for serious
plays in English. The Tacon Theatre
in Havana is enc of the noted opera
houses of the world. 1t compares
favorably with La Scala, of Milan. Its
| seating capacity is about 1000. The
other principal theatres are the Albisu
and Jane, while there are several min
or places. including couple Of yaude-
vile houses. Performances are not
usually given on consecutive nights,
three or four a week being the usual
number The bill is changed each
time. the repertoire idea finding most
! favor with Havanese playgCers. The
| first night l attended performance
| In Havana I was astonis'hed to find
| that it was the custom-imported from
| Spain-to buy your seats for a single
act. At the conclusion the tickets
were taken up by ushers and the en-
| tire audience went into the neighbor-
| ing parks and cafes The extra acts
were prodigiously long. If you liked
| the piece and wanted to see more OF
| it, you bought seats for another act
and so On to the end-Harrison Grey
Fiske. in Dramatic Mirror"
This theatrical syndicate is nothing
more nor less than a gigantic and
princely monopoly, which Mr.. Fiske
considers, both presently and prospec-
| lively, seriously menacing to theatre
| cal affairs as commercial property, to
| the drama as an art, and to the rank
| and file of the profession. There can
| not be the slightest doubt that there Is
| no one man in a better position &c
| judge of the foregoing than Mr.. Fiske
I have not the pleasure of his ac-
| quaintance. hence cannot be accused
| Of espousing his side of the argument
| Much conversation at various times
! with various members Of the profes-
| sion. CT more or less prominence
strengthens me in the belief, however
| that. from Mr.. Fishes standpoint a;
| editor of the most influential dramatic
| publica ton on this Continent, profess
| ing to voice the sentiments and cham
| pion the cause Of the profession al
! large, he is seriously and honestly In
earnest in his belief that this nonopo
| ly, like all monopolies, engenders tbs
| accumulations Of the rich and foster:
| the impoverishment of the poor. From
my position. devoted directly to the in.
| terests Of the public while / have NJ
reason to take sides in the matter.
| firmly believe that Mr.. Fishes crusade
| against the theatrical syndicate is ac-
| celebrating the resumption of the stock
| company system as being the legiti-
| mate and natural outcome of the oper-
| ations Of the monopoly, of any kind
whatsoever, at any period whatsoever
| in any country whatsoever, has passed
through any but this one experience
| the generation OF unexpected and IN
| prepared-for results Mr. Fishes lone
| and successful association with the
stage and his exhaustive journalistic
| devotion to the profession entitle him
| to be regarded as superior to any ma.
| licious intentions respecting those who
| constitute the syndicate. The uiti-
mate destruction of the syndicate is in
| evitable Baltimore Herald
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