Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-02-06

the heroine in Mancinellis Hero and
Leander."
Margaret Mather will revive "a
Winters Tale"
Monte Carlo" is a musical comedy
to be produced by E. E. Rice.
Ada Rehan played Peggy Thrift in
THE Country Girl" last week.
Agnes Huntington witnessed Paul
Jones' in New York Monday night.
jeff DeAngelis will star next season
in a new opera by Strange and Ed
wards.
Wilton Lackaye will act next in a
play made from Levers Charles
O'Malley."
Clyde Fitch calls his play for Efie
Shannon and Herbert Kelley Reap
ing the WhirIwind."
Frances Leigh is to star in an opera
by Oscar Hammerstein.
Susie Kirwin discharged her under
study at Savannah because, it is al
legged, Miss Poole received too much
applause.
Looking like a ghost of her former
self Bettina Girard is daily seen
around the New York theatrical agen-
cies seeking an engagement.
The arrangement of Thackeray's
Henry Esmond," which Glen McDon-
ough and Louis Shipman had made for
Edward Scthern, is named The Head
Of the House
Shakespeare's Anthony and Cleo
patra'' was acted at Madrid recently
as cleopatra" and was fasco in
spite of the fact that it was played by
one Of the best known Spanish ac-
tresses and produced with great splen-
dor.
Joseph Jefferson has arranged for
the production next year OF The Ri
vals,' with Elsie Leslie, who will make
her temperance. Overtures have
been made to Louis James and Rose
Coghlan to become members of the
cast.
Berlin is shortly to hear the 9G0th
performance Of Strauss Die Fielder
maus." Streitman, the tenor, who sang
here in comic opera with Lillian Rus
sci, has become a member of the I'M
perial Opera House Company in vi
enDa.
The theatre in Marseilles to which
a subvention as large as the Socialists
thought the town should give has been
refused, was opened few weeks ago,
but the public refused to allow the
performance to proceed. After sew
eral efforts the curtain was lowered.
Frau Cosima Wagner has in her pos
session, according to Wagner's friend,
Herr Heckel, four unpublished COM
pleted plays by her husband, entitled,
Luther Frederick the Great"
"Hans Sachs's Second Marriage and
Duke Bernhard of Sake Weimar."
Irving will shelve Peter the Great"
The cost of maintaining the Hofburg
Theatre of Vienna, which is paid out
of the Emperor's private purse, grows
greater every year. He has threaten
ed to rent the theatre to a private
manager unless it's atfaas improve.
Dramatic art says Sardou, con-
sists less in the choice Of subject than
in the original treatment by which
the subject is rejuvenated, and that
there never were two dramatic works
of which criticism could say that they
sprang fully from their authors brain
and owed nothing to anybody eise.'
Next season James X. Hackett will
star in The Tree of knowledge"
Mary Mannering Mrs. Hackett) was
injured last Thursday while playing in
"The Tree Of knowledge" at the New
York Lyceum. Edward J. Morgan
struck a hairpin so forcibly that it
was driven into the actress head.
Miss Mannering was overcome and
the curtain was lowered.
Not long ago." says May Irwin,
my older boy asked me if he might
bring a girl friend whom he met some
months ago when he was at school at
Sing Sing. That was the first I had
heard about that interesting young
person. l made a few Inquiries aud
found that it was all right, SO | secur-
ed a box for him and invited some Of
her friends for the same evening"
ssWhy is it that the study of lingerie
seems such an absorbing one 70 the
modern man? Why don't the colleges
take it up and add it to the currl-
culum? Men would be sent out from
our universities with a thorough
knowledge of a subject which IS such
an engrossing one with them that they
spend whole afternoons at a theatre
studying the matter. -Matinee Glrl
in Dramatic Mirror
We have seen says Hillary Bell,
how Shakespeare used the Italian.
French and English legends; how
Wagner used Rhine lore; how houei-
eault used Colleen Bawn; no" Viz
ginius" and Lucknow became new
" effective in THE Girl l Left Be
hind Me-" how "Curfew Shall Noe
Ring Tonight" was employed ny
Belasco in The Heart OF Maryland.
how De Koven resurreeted Old Eng
lish melodies in robin Hood and
THE Highwayman." Which OF US
would not rather watch a play IN
which the borrowed materials are well