Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-10-09
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Arthur Orispll Hevisps keSsu4 Products
lons-The Remarkahle SUCCESS ~ Francis
Aliens PIans.
Copyright. 1880
Sporting Life" an English mHlo-
Hrama in which Leonard Boyue starred
successfully In London and in the Brit
tah provinces, was produced recently
ct the Academy Of Music in this city
On ! scale Of magnificenc$ never before
attempted here, at least in melodrama.
The clientele OF the Academy Of Music
Is one to which entertainments of this
sort appeal with peculiar force, and it
q practically certain that Managers
Jacob Lift and A. w. Dingwall have
found In Sporting Life a veritable
fhkatrfcal Klondike. AT any rate, they
have done everything that could be ac-
c0mplished by the unlimited use of
brains and money to insure the success
Of this latest English melodrama
The cast of Sporting Life" is as no
table as the scenery and accessories
employed in its production. 1t is as
follows:
John Earl of Woodstock, Second Life
60dAQS s..IlopCIl I1liAAdl u
Sir Charles Braybourne, Second Life
guards ......... .Beresford Webb
The Hon. Dudley Stanhope, Second
Life guards ....... II. Gttus Lonsdale
General Reginald Molyrieux, retired,
Charles Walcot
$sidore Andread, money lender 49,.
r. Frank Burbeck
Sergeant Dan Doxey, Metropolitan
police -. $50. R. A. Roberts
Godfrey Pilgrim, a bookmaker's
tout. 49,. -. =. Robert Patton Gibbs
Joe Lee. young puglist. William Bonelli
George Gale. a commissioner agent.
A. w. Moore
Malet de Carteret, financier. ........
Frazer Coulter
Miles Cavanaugh. trainer. ........
Joseph Wheelock
Philip, his son.. Charles F. Gotthold
Jordan, Cavanagh's head lad. IS.
Fred w. Strong
Mayor, an old huntsman... ....John Ince
Burton, Andreads servant III. X. Childs
Crake, a pugilist ...... William Elmer
Mason, Woodstock's servant .........
Charles Harris
Red Mike, a gypsy -. ....E w. Caldwell
Joe Spratt, stable lad. Harry McArdle
Jim, a stable lad ............George Wilcox
Norah Cavanagh... .....Jeannette Lowrie
Kitty Cavanagh ......... ...Adielipe Adler
Clara ............ ......... -. Marie Cahill
Jessie - - Mabel Norton
Olive de Carteret 49,. ..Elita Proctor Otis
The story of Sporting Life" is more
interesting than would be ordinarily
expected in this form of entertain
ment, and it contains some unconven-
tional surprises that are extremely
pleasing.
Brify, it lies in the headlong extrav-
agances of John, Earl of Woodstock, a
young English gentleman of a thor
Oughly insuiar type, good hearted, open
handed and born sportsman. Wood
GAck's passion for sport, however, has
his ruin, for a bad week On the
bas deprived him of fortune and
home. In the second act We
having recourse to an oft tried
Andread, money lender, with
Ebject of tiding over his difficulties
Derby race day, when there is
y prospect Of a victory for his
se, Lady LoveA He is unexpectedly
bfronted with bill for 96,OCG in his
me, forged by his( sweethearts
c(tVlfsgh, TTzft mo-
I'd Finfatuation for and al the in
et3sation of Olive de Carteret, 4 heart
aess and scheming woman. She and
her husband, Malet de Carteret, finan-
\ciers constitute the evil genduses of the
play
RATHER than bring dishonor on
nS1ir,se A., U-no9~,tooly all
yes the bill and is of course, plunged
further into debt, which is only
by Aaldread Offering to take a lien
the mare until after the Derby
dread seems remorseless, and the
ltlook for Woodstock both as regards
lis public reputation as an honorable
sportsman and his private pocket is
dark indeed. In the following scene
he is seen taking his farewell of his
retainers, friends, home and the mare
Lady Love, when De Carteret, who has
already incensed Lord Woodstock by
a proposal to purchase the Derby favor
lite, with the object of selling" the
zee, comes forward with the inteu-
of making another bid for her,
arrives only to be checkmated
ubOHey ieHu6l, VINO UoC4GitS tudL
all offers Lady Love will still
I the Derby and will be run in his
khip's name.
This is an obvious triumph for the
money lender, and, in. fact, Andread's
subsequent relations with the Earl are
OF SO cordial nature as to constitute
"a complete vindication of the charac-
ter of the usurer as found in modern
melodrama. This of itself is sufficient
to give to Sporting Life" a distinc-
tion all its own. A series of exciting
incidents follows, such as the denMnci-
alton by the Earl of Olive de Carteret
and her husband. Ia fitting climax of
the whole is when Lady Love romps
home first in the Derby and wins for
the Earl fame and fortune. A pretty
love story runs through the play, and
there is no lack of humorous elements.
De Wolf Hopper's engagement at the
Knickerbocker theatre in "The Charla-
tan" was not the phenomenal success
anticipated by the admirers of Charles