Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-09-04


and Ell Caney. Some stereopticon
views from special photographs will
add to the interest of the lecture.
The list Of vaudeville stars continues
to grow. Harry Lacy is to begin his
season in Brooklyn, September 3, in a
sketch of his own writing. another
debut that will take place week later
is that of Isabelle EvessOn, whom Mr.,
Grau has booked over the Keith and
Western circuits. Camilla Urso's de-
but takes place September IL, at
Keith's. Cora Tanner will inaUgurate
her first regular season in vaudeville
September ).
The new Drury Lane melodrama to
be produced early in Sepknber is to
be called The Great Rub~ II Is by
Cecil Raleigh and Henry Hamilton, and
is in four acts and twelve scenes. In
the first act the very valuable jewel
upon which the story hinges is stolen
from a jewelers. shop, and ii is traced
through all the succeeding scenes 10
the time Of it's final recovery. The
great scenes Of the play, from a spec
tacular point Of view. Will be cricket
match, balloon ascension and mill
tary tournament There are nearly
one hundred speaking parts in the
play.
Has anybody seen or heard anything
of Georgia Cayvan lately? SO far as |
am personally aware, she seems to
have disappeared as completely as If
the earth had opened a sufficiently
wide tissure to take her in, and had
swallowed her up-whiCh you will ad-
nit would have been quite mouthful.
When Miss Cayvan left the Lyceum
Theatre Stock Company she started
out to become a star, and appeared TO
have every confidence In the successful
outcome of her venture. But the king
bolt broke, or the coupling pin fell out
or something happened Of that general
nature, and Miss Cayvsn's apple cart
tipped up. Like Mr. Edwin Foy's fab
led brother who 1T the fire with ben
zine, She amt benzine since,' and II
Just occurred to me that perhaps some
explorer might have run across her
trail out somewhere in the tall timber,
New York Telegraph.
Much speculation has been INDUCED
In regarding the plot Of Charles Cogh-
lans new play. 1t Is an accepted fact
by many that the play Is to be dra-
matization of Dickens Tale Of TWO
Cities" AS matter OF fact, Mr. Cogh-
Ian has preserved his secret so well
| that even his managers are unacquaint-
ed with the plot All they know Is that
the plav deals with the French Revo-
| luton. and that the principal scene Is
taken from a celebrated painting. All
stage precedents are TO be upset when
| julia Arthur appears as Rosalind
| Everybody will remember that in the
| last act the heroine Of AS You Lake
| II suddenly changes from d1ublet and
! hose TO a swell court dress, which
seems sadly out Of place in the forest
Miss Arthur has concluded that Rosa
| lind had no court dress with Ter In
her ran;bles through the which
| seems highly probable Therefore in
changing ftm male 10 female dress
tthe actress will don q peasant gown
borrowed. presumably. from some rus
tic. II may rot " pretty, but 1t Will
| be more natural.
Tho definite announcement made by
Stanley Jones in his special cable u
| the Sunday Telegraph Is the first Sa'
statement 81 the separation between
Sir Henry Irving and Ellen Terry. The
/ facts have been. quite naturally, con-
cealed by Irving. for the withdrawal oi
Miss Terry from his immediate atmC
sphere will mean a great deal to him
not alone In the matter Of the monetary
receipts. but also in prestige In fact
( il has been long held by many pers rs
| regarded a. among the shrewdest bus
| mess men in the theatrical world that
without Miss Terry the Irving profits
| would fall to the ground entirely. Sew
! eral seasons ago theatrical mana
! ger who may be regarded as one Ct the
J foremost il, indeed. he is not abso-
| lute,y the leading spirit in American
! amusements. offered Miss Terry $50
| OCO in cash FOR 80 weeks season. and
also proposed to furnish private car
/ for her use and to pay all her living
| and travelling expenses. Miss Terry
al that time. could not be induced IL
| see any reason why ii would be ad-
| vantageous FOR her 30 tear herself away
frCm Irving. although, as matters have
| Turned out. she could scarcely have
| failed to benefit by cutting out on hel
! own hook, so TO speak. For II Is quiY
| clear that Irving IL on the da~n gradt
and that only some daring specula ti1l
| or some lucky fuke can save him IRON
/. disaster. He has made failure afY.r
failure during the past two or thfee
years. and seems to be utterly at sea
over the future. Failures TO Irving
mean a great deal for the reasq bat
| they al lentail an enormous outla and
ech Of them cuts down the stren4 h OF
| his position before the public Beer
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