Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-03-13

ana so 1t goes. II is rarely, however,
that an author loses confidence in his
play. The average author, until he
has acquired recognition, must live
entirely off his never falling supply OF
self-confidence Singularly enough
Lincoln j. Carter, author and owner
of "Under the Dome" which comes to
the Grand Opera House the last half of
this week, had almost no faith in it
before its production and stood ready
to shelve it at once. 1t has proven by
all odds to be the greatest success he
has ever scored and is said to be not
only a magnificent production scenic
ally, but to be wonderfully cleverly
written and highly interesting play.
THEATRICAL ADJUSTMENTS.
Yvette Guilbert was shop girl.
Rernhardt will produce "LAttentat.
Patti is dressed in the deepest mourn
ing.
New York"
Lilliputian Franz Ebert is to marry
Midget Elsie Lau.
The Hawthorne Sisters will return to
American next month.
in the BLACK Crook.
lillian Burkhart smokes a pipe IN the
Lady of the Rowan Tree
Whitney has produced an opera called
Papa Chrysanthemum.
Edie Fey Will star ne Xt season IN new
farce adapted from the French.
The author of What Happened to
Jones' has written ''The Last Chapter"
In April eight of the IL theatres in Phil
adelphia will have stock companies
Al Candy will produc enext season a
comedy called Who Killed Cog Robin?'
Katherine Germaine submitted to sur
gical operation in New York the othef
Wilson Barrett's repertoire in Austria
liza includes "Virginius" and The Manx-
Augustin DAILY will produce the "oueen.
of the Ballet" a piece by the author Of
1892"
benefit on March Il will include Money"
Much Ado About Nothing" and Trial
The new play by Bronson Howard and
Charles Klein is a comedy of Washing
ton manners Of to-day, with a dramatic
background.
Jean de Rezke in Tristan and Isolde"
This will be the official end of the now
historic squabble between the two emf
nent artists.
judith Berolde will star under Frank
Perley's management next season. Per-
ley will have four big enterprises next
season, used TO be, press agent for the
on Monday night last at the Four
teenth Street Theatre New York, the
playing of The Star spangled Banner
chorus with wild enthusiasm.
In India the religious drama is the chief
educator of the people. The two great
plays have been presented every day for
more than 1000 years. There is no box
office, no programme. no salary.
"Cyrano de Bergerac" the most ire
mendous success that has been recorded
in Paris in very many years, has been
purchased for the United States by Rich
ard Mansfield, ana for England by Sir
Henry Irving.
When she first joined Days company
Ada Rehan stood in the wings while the
centre of the stage was resplendantly
filed by Catherine Lewis. AT present
Miss Rehan is the leading lady and Miss
Lewis supports her.
.Verdrs latest composition, "stabat
Mater for chorus and orchestra, Il
voices, and a tie Deum" for chorus and
orchestra, will be performed for the first
time during Holy Week al the Paris
How would you like to sleep in about
60 different hotels, good, bad and indiffer-
emit in six months, eat as many different
travel several thousand miles, playing
sometimes weeks of one night stands?
And yet some people are stage struck
Plttsburg Evening Post.
We shall not be embarrassed by too
many foreign attractions next season, at
an events. The only stars now booked
ter of 1889 are Olgo Nethersole and i. S.
Willard. neither of whom can be looked
upon as q novelty. There is bare pos
sibility that Sarah Bernhard may come
over for three months tour, beginning
about January !.
Stories of inordinate appetite, amorous
mschance. carnal delirium. slaughter
and sudden death, whether in novels or
in plays are, says William Winter, cheap
and nasty, and to persons VINO possess
good health and good taste. their EXPOSE
ton upon the Stage is a repulsiVe bore
The purpose of art should be beauty not
deformity-the exhibition Of an ideal to
the excitement of noble emotion, not Of
disgust.
Modjeska is quoted as saying this bit
OF sense about the attack on benefits:
The actress. as a rule, has little money
and no time for charity. but she can lend
her talents now and then without harm
to herself. or anyone else. II they can
appear twice day, as they do in vaude-
ville what they do for charity won't
hurt them Besides. in some countries
actors are taxed heavily. Here they are
something for the public that does SO
much for them.
Sir Squire Bancroft. now in New York,
speaks OF the first performance of Our
American Cousin" which he Witnessed
$. sothern, Joseph Jefferson, Laura
in the cast Mr.. Vary is not the only
one Of these actors now before the pub
lie Mrs. Stevens is acting the mother in
Way Down East. " ne IA, Ma III
ration for the actors of that earlier
school
Plunket Greene. who sings several hun
dred songs from memory. has a peculiar
reason for never singing from note His
audiences have often noticed that he
seems afflicted with nervousness, and
have wondered that so experienced q
singer should show so much trepd2tion.
This nervous affection IS due TO an aeci-
dent he met with when boy While
skating he fell and struck the back of his
head on the ice. His nerves have never
recovered from the shock. Were he TO
sing from notes the tremor of his hands
would cause the music to shake so That
the effect of his fine singing would be
sadly married.
Actors have compensation in rlpenlnS.
like good wine, with old age. We have
wearying Of him. Ten years ago Ada
Rehan played The Country Girl" and
she plays it still with undiminished ap-
piause. Age cannot stale nor custom