Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-11-20
THEATRICAL ADJUSTMENTS.
Amy Lee is to appear in vaudevill

Amy Lee is to appear in vaudeville.
The laws OF Switzerland do not per
nit the use Of stage names.
Roland Reed will produce play LOT
Joseph Hart and George Conan.
The Eumenides," a Greek play, was
given one performance in New YORK
last week.
The body of Sybil tombstone, OF
"Clemencau Case" fame, was cremated
last week.
1t is said that Lillian Russell will
play the title role in an operate version
of Nine. Sans Gene"
Mrs. Fiske has arranged for four
months time in New York next season,
intending to run Becky Sharp most
or all of the time.
Robert HiIliard will go back into the
cast of Sporting Life" tomorrow
night at the New York Academy OF
Music He has purchased an interest
in the property.
Henry Lee will return to the dra-
matte stage in Chicago to act Cyrano
de Bergerac in rivalry with M. Coque-
lin, Richard Mansfield, Jack Gilmore,
Edward MowSon, Charles Richman and
Louis Fields. Edgar L. Davenport will
be the Christian.
Stockholm has an opera house which
is said to be the finest in Europe, al
thought others have a larger seating
capacity. 1t took seven years to COM
plete it and the cost was more than
81, 900 900. Private enterprise made the
scheme possible, although the property
has already passed into the possession
of the municipality.
If Julia Arthur puts on any play
after "Ingomar" on the 21st and LAS
You Like It. on the 2Sth, it will be
"Pygmalian and Galatea." AS Gill
bert's play is short it might combine
with Mercedes, or One Touch of Ma
ture" Miss Arthur's repertory prom
ises before long to be varied and per-
manently valuable one. Camille" is
not likely to be played this year, but
she will do it some time.
Sol Smith Russell will produce in
Philadelphia tomorrow night play by
Charles Klein entitled "The Hon. John
Grigsby." The scenes are laid in lit
tie town in Illinois between the years
of 1916 and 1S4S and the title part is
that of an ambitious and hard working
country lawyer who is loaded down
with number of cases he takes to de-
fend from conscientious motives of de-
Tending the right, but in which cases
there are very few dollars for him.
A few days ago Julia Arthur made q
misstep and fell, injuring ligament.
She did not, however, remain away
from the "Ingomar" rehearsal at Wal
lacks until Tuesday last, when the in
jury became quite painful. During the
fencing scene in the first act of "A
Lady of Quality" at Wallacks, Tues
day night, Miss Arthur's foot slipped
and the sudden pain caused her to fall
on the stage in a swoon. The curtain
was rung down, but in few minutes
Miss Arthur had recovered conscious
ness and the performance continued
w. M. Wilkison's new piece, called
"a Stranger in a Strange Land" by
Sydney Wilmar and Walter Vincent,
was produced for the first time Mon
day night last, at New Haven. The
work is in three acts, and the scene is
laid in England. The piece aims to
satirize the idea entertained by many
Englishmen that wild animals may be
successfully hunted on Broadway and
in the principal streets of other lead
ing American cities. The principal
character is a Cherokee Indian, who
has been taken to England as an adver-
tisement by a quack doctor selling a
brand of bitters.
Daniel Frohman Jared so we'll with
Anthony Hopes adventure of Lady
Ursula when it received its first per-
Torrance on any stage in Philadelphia
last season that he will launch another
of Anthony Hopes plays in this city
at the Chestnut Street Theatre this
week. This is Rupert of Hentzau."
the sequel to Mr.. Hopes former most
famous play THE Prisoner of Zenda, -
to which fact is attached particular in
terest from the start James X. Hack
EFT will again appear in the dual role
of the King and the Englishman in
which he has already obtained such
distinguished success. Rupert of Hent-
Eau" is in four acts and six scenes and
will be an especially elaborate scenic
and costumed production. The play
introduces several new characters be-
sides those old favorites Col. Sapt,
Fritz Won Tarlenheim and the Princess
Flavia.
in company with her husband, R. D..
Mclean, and the former leading vii
lain of Booth and Barrett, Charles B.
Hanford. The tour will begin in the
South, probably in December. and end
with New York. Miss Tyler is so good
soubrette that it will be genuinely
interesting to see what she will do with
Juliet, the two Portals, and Desde-
mona. as the repertory includes ssRo-