Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-09-18

a youth With equantmity. Tor 10th ~
main indifferent to hirsute changes
Miss Reham, however, stil4 wears Wiz
on the stage, while Sdgnora Duse glories
In her own hair, tinged with silver
though 1t may be- These ladies' ara
wise in their generation. Better have
gray hair than no hair; for it is to be
observed that the performers who play
tricks with their tresses eventually lose
them Sarah Beruhardt's hair. when
unlcosened, reaches no further than
her shoulders, and the golden or bronze
sheen which our fair players produce
in their tresses is invariably at the ex-
pense of the length and profuslon OF
their best adornment Ada Rehan is
to be congratulated as much for her
good sense In this particular as for her
good fortune in spending the summer
abroad instead of at Montauk Point.
She had selected site and intended
building bungalow on the spot now
known as Camp Wikoff, but happily
our Coincidence has escaped the i'll fate
that followed our soldiers. Her vaca-
ton, spent mostly on the wheel, has
brought new color into her cheeks and
new vigor to her frame. When the
stock company's season opens Miss
Rehan will give a good account of her
holiday in Mime. Sans Gene" "Adri-
enne Leconvreur" and THE Merchant
of Venice"
Maurice Grau has decided to give
in New York two series of perform
ances devoted to the triiogy and in them
ha will Io rrix baxr
in London, without cuts. This will be
the one unprecedented feature of these
performances. New York has frequent
ly heard the trilogy, but never without
the iudicious cuts which Anton Seidl
made and followed. One of the Wag-
ner cycles will be given in the after
noon and the other in the evening. The
evening performances will begin on
Thursday, Jauary II. "Das Rheingold"
will begin at $50. On the following
Tuesday, January IL, die Walkure"
will be sung, beginning at 7 O'Clock.
"Siegfried' will be sung on Thursday,
January 10, at Z o'clock, and 'Gotter-
oammerung" on Tuesday, January "a,
beginning at $50. The matinee per-
formances are to be given during the
following month, beginning on Febru-
airy Z, at BIS O'Clock. The three fol-
lowing performances will take place
on February 9, IA and 16, at lis for
die Walkure" and "Siegfried," and at
II: IS for "Gotterdammerung."
The state of the stage in Spain is
not likely to be made any worse than
it is now, if the accounts of French
Investigator do not paint its degrade
ton in colors too black for justice. He
found that the theatre had los. all in
terest in the classical drama of the
country, and the Espagnol, an institu-
tion analogous to the Francois, closed
its doors several years ago because 1t
could obtain support neither from the
State nor the public. There the best
of the modern plays, as we'll as the
works of the old Spanish playwrights,
were acted. The closing of the theatre
in 1896 acknowledged finally the indif-
ference OF the public to Spanish dramat-
ic literature and further proof came
later Maria Guerrero, who is acting
now in Italy, and has won, Continent
tai reputation, attempted to revive the
Espagnol She engaged the best actors
of the nation, and produced the best
modern plays, but her failure was SO
complete that the company had to re-
treat to South America. Sarah Bern
hardt went to Madrid to appear at the
reopening and Maria Guerrero acted
with her in THE Sphinx" Last spring
the Spanish actress was to have played
at Bernhardt's theatre in Paris, but
that proved possible, and her first
appearance outside Of her own country
is to be made in Italy. She is pupil
of Coouelin, and her husband, man
of title. lost his life in Cuba in the late
war. There are said to be some admir-
able actors in Spain, who follow closely
the methods of the French stage, but
their rewards are small. and they spend
nI3st of their time travelling through
the provincial cities. The other regu-
lar theatres in MADRID fare little better
than the rational institution did. They
subsist poorly, and see prosperity go to
the ten theatres in the city devoted to
the one style of performance which at
tracts the public That is the Zarzuela,
a mixture of farce, vaudeville, operatta
and pantomime, not unlike the Casino
reviews. A curious outcome is the in
PRODUCTION of plays in four acts, to any
one of which person is admitted at
a proportionate charge, whether it be
writter in such a way that each section
stands by itself. This has naturally
brought about the absence OF all ar
tistic form. These entertainments last
ed until such late hour that law
was recently passed compelling the the
gtres to close at / o'clock. In the MAX
ing of these pieces the works OF the
French stage are freely adapted to the
local character which the Zarzuela al
WAYS possesses. Only three theatres IN
Madrid now present plays In the usual
fashion. In spite of their low artistic
standards. the pieces are said to be elab-
crate from spectacular point OF view.
Some Of them last year, and 300 per-
formances are not unusual. They have
taken the place occupied by music mans
in other European cities. Smoking is
permitted in most of them, and their
influence has enlightened the national
tendency to regard the theatre as
mere lounging place.
On the first night of "a Brace OF Part
ridges a souvenir programme was folded
inside the regular bills, giving the casts
of the house when it opened under Daniel
Frohman's business management on rep
ruary A. 1880, and when 1t opened under
Charles Frohman in 1898. The eighteen
years that have elapsed show marked
changes in the dramatic world. steele
Mackaye, the manager, and in some sense
the builder of the Madison Square. New
York was then a figure of Importance in
our drama. His Hazel Kirke, produced
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