Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-11-06

nesday night at the Matteawan Insane
| Asylum before an audience composed
almost entirely of inmates OF the insti-
tuition. The playwright, Ernest Bost-
wick, is insane, and all but three of the
| players who took part In the production
were chosen from among his brothers
| in misfortune. The drama was decied-
| ly up to the times, bearing the title
For Love and War;" and having for its
scene of action the battlefield at san
| tiago. In the dialogue were many al
| lusions to the topics of the day, and
the audience displayed wonderful acute
ness in catching the witty points and
| in approaching the thrilling situations
of the play.
Clara Thropp's starring tour col
lapsed at Frisco. NJ. B. Leavitt, who
had advanced $500 to Miss Thropp,
swore out a warrant for her arrest but
she h, left before it could be served.
Although Daniel Frohman stands en-
| record as an enemy of wedlock, many
of his best players so off and get mar
ried like ordinary folk. The Lyeeum
manager practices as he breaches, for
he is not only against matrimony IN
others, but devoted to single blessed
ness himself. A few days ago Edith
Crane and Tyrone Power got married,
so to speak, under Mr.. Frohman's nose.
He had no sooner engaged Julia Opp
than she married young Mr.. Lorraine.
He imported Mary Mannering and en-
gagged ]. K. Hackett, and they imme-
diately fell in love, and, therefore, rea-
sonably beyond romance. Mr.. LIE
Moyne became enamored of and took
to wife Sarah CoweN. Fritz Williams
and katherine Florence being lovers in
the play, became lovers in earnest and
married in fiat contradiction of their
managers principles. Young Mr. Soth-
ern fell in love with Virginia Harmed
on the Lyceum stage, and welded her,
although the heavens might fall.-New
| York Press.
Mr.. Frohman's affairs, indeed, APP
pear to be booming just now. The re-
ceipts at the Duke of York's theatre.
in London, are pushing the capacity OF
| the house; John Drew is playing to an
average business of $4,000 week at
the Empire; the Madison Square Gar
den and Garrick are up to the limit;
THE Conquerors' played last week in
Philadelphia to fully $4,000; Mande
| Adams drew almost $1l, 900 in Boston;
Julia Marlowe has had receipts run
ming between $4,000 and $4,000 week
since leaing New York; Secret Serv-
ice" has averaged $4,000 a week, and
Henry Miller has been playing to $500
night since early in August. All
these attractions represent Mr.. Froh-
mans own productions. He has had
| but one loser this season-'Little Miss
| Nobody''-and he cut that off without
any unnecessary Observation-Disclosures
Richardson in n. Y. Telegraph
Helen Faucit gained her reputation
as an actress at a time when reputation
was far less easily gained than it is at
present, for she was brought into pro-
| fessional association with men and wo-
men Of various and superb talent and
of high and watchful, and eager ambi-
| tion-presenting plays of the highest
order-and she proved and maintained
| her equality with the best of them.
! Much will be written about her acting,
| but the great illuminatlve fact which
ought especially to be observed and re-
membered is that she was always ade-
! quate to all that is essentially noble in
| woman-like character-that she could
| greatly express great and pure ideal
| This is by no means a common power,
| and at present the stage scarcely slows
trace OF 1.-THE principal tragic crea-
tons OF our time being such heroines as
! exhaust every eXpedient of bestlal
| wickedness, and at last supplement
| hideous sensuality with fantastic muir
der-sometimes welding a Ratchet and
| sometimes a hatpin.-N. Y. Tribune.
| Playwrights become great and class
| ical only after death; and Moliere and
| Leasing are higher in the temple Of
! fame to-day than they were in the
| hours of their activity. To-day Henry
| Irving is depending upon the profits of
! a tour among the rustics to enable him
| to get back to Shakespeare via King
! Richard H." Duse, the greatest artistic
| of these times, finds little encourage
ment outside of Italy. ModIeska has
made less money from Shakespeare
than Lincoln J. Carter has earned with
couple of mechanical effects" When
| ever Mansfield makes a new effort to
| please the few he is compelled to go
| into bankruptcy and revivals of Doc
| tor Jekyll and Mr.. Hyde" or "A Paris
| ian Romance" Week after week, the
| managers who have produced a dramat-
| iZatiOn of Hall Gaines THE Christian"
| publish statements of receipts that are
positively appalling in opulence-but
| Augustin Daily has made no money with
The Bard to whom he has remained
! faithful. ''The Turtle" is drawing so
much money from metropolitan thea
! tre-goers that one wonders that any is
| left for "Cyrano de Bergerac." Why,
in these circumstances, should mana
| gers be expected to devote their for
tunes and their labors to anything more
pleasing to the few than French farce,
| music-farce or extravaganza? And
| why should they be denounced for Civ
! ing the public what the public insists
! that it shall haye?-F. J. Donagbey, in
! Philadelphia Item.
! Authors of worldwide repute IN that