Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-04-03
F6OTL|GHI GOSSIP.
Notes Of Intes St to Lovers and Patrons
of the Drama.

Both the Local Houses Will Be
Dark During the Coming Week
Several Good Attractions in the
Past Six Days in the Local Thea
ties-Other News Of Interest.
General Gossip Pertaining to
Plays and Players.
In Difference to the general wishes
| Of many Of their patrons, and for the
| additional reason that past experience
| with attractions during Holy Week
| has resulted in financial losses, Man
| ayers Riester and Feinler have decid-
| ed that their respective play houses
| will be dark during the coming six
| days. No attractions have been book
ed. Holy Week is dreaded by the pro-
| fesslon and many companies are idle
during that week, while those who
| fill engagements do not play to profit
| able business. While there are many
| persons who do net attach any relig-
! ious significance TO the week, the num-
| Der Of those who hold the opposite
| view. and who happen to be patrons
| of the theatres, is sufficient to cut the
( attendance down to the point where
| profits are impossible. Both opera
| houses have booked attractions until
| late in this month, and a number Of
| very strong companies will be seen be-
| fore the close of the season.
| Tt is possible, even probable. that
| another amusement enterprise will be
| launched upon the sea Of public favor
| during the early months Of the sum-
| mer A project is On the tapis for eX-
|. tensive improvements, involving an
| outlay Of about $4,000, to Seibert's
| garden, several miles east of the city
| If the scheme is realized the name Of
the resort will be changed to Lincoln
| Park, and a modern summer theatre
/ will be feature.
/ If the Lincoln Park project and the
! Belle Isle Park scheme are both real
! lied, there is danger chat Wheeling
! will be surfeited with amusement en-
terprises during the summer but II
| the gentlemen who are investing the
money are willing to assume the risk
! there will be no complaint from the
public. Wheeling and Mozart Parks
| will no doubt provide summer enter
| tainments on a more elaborate scale
| than heretofore 1t is whispered about
! that with the completion and operation
| Of the new suburban electric railway,
Wheeling Park will be open evenings.
| This has heretofore been contrary to
the policy Of the management, but
there can be no doubt that such move
would yield handsome financial re-
/ turns. With reference to the Belle Isle
project, it is not likely that anything
will be done in the matter this sum
mer.
Both the local playhouses will I'M
dergo repairs after the close of the
| regular season. 1t it understood that
unless something unlocked for trans
pires in the summer, that the German
Insurance Company will continue tC
conduct the Opera House for one moro
season.
The attractions at the local houses
during the week ranged from fair t(
good. Joshua Simpkins" was on the
boards at the Grand for three nights
and a matinee, and played to fair sizec
audineces. 1t is a rural drama OF
type which is not popular with Wheel
ing theatre goers, and really cantalnS
very little to commend it to audience!
anywhere. The cast is only fair, ant
is much better than the play. he
White Slave was on the boards dur
ing the last half of the week and &
really first class production OF BARLEY
| Campbell's most successful play was
given by company under the persona
management of sons OF the famou;
playwright Chauncey Olcott pleas
ed large audience with his sweet
tenor voice Monday evening at tn;
Opera House, and on the next nigh
pagan Bob" Ingersoll waxed eloquent
over his peculiar views concerning
spiritual matters. Donnelly & Girart
and a big company in The Geezer,
closed week of good attractions al
this theatre with two splendid per
formances yes -erd3Y.
All the close of this season Donnelly
and Girard will dissolve partnership
The split between these two very clever
| comedians is a result CT a series o.
those little misunderstanding whlcf
happen so frequently in the dramatic
profession The climax to the troubles
between Donnelly and Girard is sale
/ to have occurred III NEW IhSltlt
| town. which Girard failed to reach on
account of carelessly missing a train
Donnelly went before the curtain and
I explained the situation to the audience
! TT was taken up by the newspapers in
the east and the fact extensively adj
vertised The two comedians held q
conferences ever The matter which last
ed less than five minutes and ended in
an agreement to disagree.
THEATRICAL ADJUSTMENTS.
Josef Hoffman receives $500 a night
| John A. Stevens has reviewed The
| Unk1ow
/ Kansas City hasn't seeen a grand
/ opera this season.
! Mrs. Fiske once played Ralph Rack
| straw in "Pinafore.
| Rob Roy" will be sung by the Bos-
| tonians next season.
Mr. Smooth is the name of COM
| edy by Willie Collier
Chattanooga is the title Of Lincoln
| J. Carter's new play.
A member of the company at Mum
] ich Theatre who marries without per-