Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-07-17

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Ackors aa1xrieg are
cent lower for the comih
ever before known, said
Brown, who has been IN Ia
agency business for Is years
ously.
The play upon which James
is to pin his faith next season Is
sepn Hanon's When Greek M
Greek" produced in a few Of cur citiS
by Olga Nethersole. under the title, x
Daughter OF France"
Little die May Irwin think on the
first night CT ''Courted tn.o Court" ..hat
the choral finale which she Introduced
into The second act of thai farce wonid
be the cheering strain that welcomed
our troops on the shores of Cuba.
Strangely enough in this campaign.
Sousas msrehers, one of which led the
first regiment in the parade or the
Queens Jubilee, have apparently fallen
out of favor with cur boys in Cuba.
Santiago was invaded and Slboney
fought to the tune of THE Star Spang-
led Banner and "Theren Be a Hot
Time in the Old Town Tonight.
At Keith's Philadelphia Vaudeville
Theatre last week Robert Downing ana
four members Of his company acted the
flower scene of Ingomar. Mr. Down
ing will resume his starring tour ABOUT
October /, playing his usual repertoire
of plays and producing new one from
the pen of Mr.. A. d. Hall, entitled "A
True Knight" His repertoire will con-
sist OF julius Caesar. Ingomar, Glad
istCr. Virginus, Cchello. samson, RICH
ard HI. and A True knight. MI. Do"h-
ing has been on the stage twenty-five
years and has appeared IN over iou,
hundred plays. He has supported
Booth. Barrett, fletcher, Lotta' NC
Cullough and other famous players
Louisa Moore (Mrs. Cook. VINO late-
" died in London, is we'll rememoefeu
in this country as leading lazy ae
Wallacks' in the same season that Chas'
Wvrdham played principal roles there,
Miss Moore was then "youngish'
blonde and pretty, and her facility IN
making the tears come caused her u
ha good humoredly dubbed by the the
atrical scribblers the weeper. IN
Icndon she was the original actress
of Blanche Haye in Robertson $
"Ours" but Clement Scott says she VIII
be best remembered perhaps IN the
history of the stage by her perlofiii-
ance of the boy Josephs, in Charles
Reade's Its Never Too Late 10
N-end." Hiss Louisa Moore's last APP
nearapces in England were as Myrrha
in Lord Byrons "Sardanapalus' on
tour with Charles Calvert She retired
from the stage on her marriage with
Mr. Cook. an accomplished scholar.
we'll known in Paris, where they liNeu
for many years.
H. f. Blai.'s amusement enter
prises of next season Will be second
only to these of the theatrical syhal-
cate. Milton Aborr who VIII De the
general manager, viii probably never
ie seen on the boards again. MT.
Aborn has appeared in over 100 operas,
The organizations that will be directed
nv Mr. Aborn include the Royal Italian
Opera Company. the Imperial English
Onera Company in La Boheme.' New
m gland Comic Opera Company. New
England stock Dramatic Company,
Boston Lyric Opera Company, and a
company that will interpret His I'M
nerial Eighness," a new opera by Chas.
Kline.
Besides sardou's "Robespierre' ph7~,
Sir Henry Irving win produce next sea-
son Shakespeare's Richard III" in
which his portrayal of the vacillating
monarch ought 10 be profoundly inter-
cstirg. This character vas acted-hY
Macrcady. Charles Kean, Samuel
Phelps and Edwin Booth, but the play
has never been popular. Irving will
make Ct it a superb historical spectacle.
Previously to the advent of Gillette,
American triumphs on the English stage
had been won easily by our most prom
nent players: anG it is not on record that
such invas ons Of England. even when our