Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-11-13

AUk9, 66mUI1cQ mas TWO SONS.
Lillian Russell weighs $50 pounds.
Nellie McHenry made her vaudeville
debut last week.
James O'Niell presented Monte
Cristo" in New York.
At two Philadelphia theatres on
election night the performance began
at 1880.
The Castle Square Opera Company
has thus far given 800 performances in
New York
Joseph Jefferson, owing to illness,
did not act last week, and they say he
may never appear again.
1t is announced that there is a new
law in Paris making it compulsory for
every theatre to provide an attending
physician and surgeon.
Anthony Hopes play, "Phroso,'
from his own novel of that name, will
be produced by the Empire Theatre
Company on November % in Boston.
The actress of Louise in 1.-The Two
Orphans" fell Ill at Elmira, and the
audience enjoyed the homogeneous sight
OF a supposedly blind girl reading her
lines from manuscript.
"A Dangerous Maid" was produced
at the New York Casino last (Satur-
day. night. A sensation scene is a
duel between Laura Burt and Madge
Leasing, both ladies disrobing to the
extent shown in famous picture.
The reports that Marie Dressler had
been compelled to resign from a fash
ionable New York gymnasium because
the other women members objected to
bathing in the same tank with an
anfrpCc hn1fouad To h<
Sol Smith Russell will produce his
new piece, Hon. John Grissby," at the
Broad Street Theatre, in Philadelphia,
November Fl. THIS is the first time
when Mr.. Russell has been compelled
to put forward second play in any
single season.
Having booked two shows for the
same evening, Utica manager was
forced to give both entertainments.
One began at II p. N. The novelty
attracted an immense audience, both
performances being furnished for one
admission. The attractions were Elm
negans Ball" and "All Aboard"
MT. DAILY announces that he will be-
gin the twentieth regular dramatic
season at his theatre on, Saturday
evening, November 10, producing The
Merchant Of Venice" with Ada Rehan
as Portia, and Mr. Sidney Herbert as
Shylock. "a Runaway Girl will be
transferred to the Fifth Avenue The
atre on November 21.
Two actresses, at one time asso-
ciated in the support of Daniel Band
mann, are now in Broadway theatres.
Louise Beaudet, who stepped from
comic opera into heavy Shakespeare
roles in the Anglo-German tragedi-
ans companies, is Mile, Fiji, in 1.-THE
Belle OF New York" Julia Arthur,
who was accustomed to assume lighter
roles with Bandmann, is a star at
Wallacks.
"1ndiscriminate puffery," said B. F.
Keith, the vaudeville king, is disas-
trous alike for the newspaper and the
theatre. The theatre-golng public of
this country are intelligent and dis
eliminating, and are quick to estimate
at its true value-or rather to recog-
nize the utter lack OF value in the So
called opinion OF newspaper that ap-
parently finds every theatrical per-
Torrance whatever worthy of the most
eXtravagant praise. The readers Of
such papers have no confidence what
ever in its criticisms, and the theatre
suffers just as much as does the pa
per- On the other hand, even a Sc
we're roast as you newspaper men
term it, often leads the public to go
to show just to see whether it is
quite as bad as described, while the
opinion OF newspaper whose reviews
always reflect sincerity Of purpose,
honesty towards both readers and per-
formers and ability to detect varying
degrees Of merit, has an immense
weight with the public, and a word
Of conservative praise from such a pa
per is worth hundreds of dollars to the
management, where the laudatory gush
OF one Of the other class Of papers Is
worse than yalueless -injurlous to an
extent not always realized by mana
gers themselves"
The thin, nervous woman is the wo-
man who wins renown in dramatic art
Sarah Bernhardt's slenderness has
long been theme for the wits. Flo
nora Duse is a rack of bones, Nine
Rejane is slender. Jane Harding has
the figure of young girl, Ellen Terry
is devoid of fat, Julia Arthur and
Julia Marlowe are thin women, Maude
AudlllS 10 tlIdCldleu anu Aullle huSScll
is first cousin to the living skeleton,
Minnie Madden is nothing but skin
and bones and genius, and Mrs. Leslie
Carter and Mrs. Cora Potter are
diaphanous, Viola Allen, although not
thin, is slender, and Jessie Millward,
her successor, as leading woman of the
Empire, is by no means plump, Marie
Burroughs is thin and thin also is Fife
Shannon. So long as she kept her figure
Georgia Cayvan remained in high IA
vor at the Lyceum, but when she took
to flesh and showed it in THE ANA
IONS" trouble awaited her Virginia
Harmed has a well-rounded form, but
she is married to Mr.. Sothen and in
order to enjoy him we must accept
her if she were double the weight
Richard Mansfield always insists on
thin leading women. His very oppo-
sites, tombstone Bennett, Emma Sheri-
dan, Beatrice Cameron and now Mar
garet Anglin, are sylphs. Ada Rehan
is our only star actress who has the
courage to put on flesh, yet in this
freedom she is fortified by the ex-
ample of Mrs. Kendall, who weighs one
hundred and eighty and is not ashamed
Of an ounce OF it.-Hilary Bell, in New
York Press.
Nobody I. bored by Rip Van Wrinkle,
Nobody hears in 1t the shrill tones of the
Pharisee calling upon him to Shun the