Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-01-09
THEATRICAL ADJUSTMENTS.

Wednesday, Thursday and saturday.
THEATRICAL ADJUSTMENTS.
Alice Nelson's son is. years old.
New York's permanent circus has
failed.
Clara Morris was born on ST. Pat
rick's day.
William Winter has been a dramatic
critic for 40 years.
Laura Biggar has left her husband
and "A Railroad Ticket"
+ Next season Mark Smith will pro-
duce an opera called King Frappe.'
What Happened to Jones" is to be
given in South Africa and Australia.
Mrs Alexander Salvini MAUD Dix
on) will shortly return to the stage.
Buffalo Bills Wild West will be a
feature Of the Paris Exposition in
1900
Camille D'Arville will probably sing
the prima donna role in THE High
wayman.'
1t is said that Corinne lost $4,000 in
Lillian Russells old opera, "An Amer
lean Beauty"
Weber's "Freyschutz" has just been
performed for the 600th time at the
Berlin Royal Opera.
William Danforth and Norman
Kopp, both Of Frank Daniels Com
pany, will shortly be married
Frank James, brother of Jesse
james, is the door tender of the Stand
ard Theatre, St Louis.
With the exception of E. S. Willard,
by the way, there are no English stars
touring America this year.
Olga Ne,hersole has decided not to
return to America this spring, defer
ring her visit until next autumn.
Lost, St~ayed or Stolen" has given
up the ghost. Anna O'keefe was the
hacker, and played one of the principal
parts.
Verdi was denied admittance to the
Milan Conservatory on the ground that
he showed no special aptitude for
music
j. K Murray and Clara Lane will
star next season in plays somewhat
upon the order of those made famous
by William J. Scanlan
Pinero is now ~ years old. He was
a lawyer and an actor before he be-
came dramatist. It is said that he
was ten months writing The Princess
and the Butterfly"
Vienna is going to turn moral too
The ballet corps at the Imperial Opera
House has received orders to wear
"roomy white silk stockings" over the
tights henceforth.
Miss Marie Burroughs has decided
not to join Mr. Robert Hillyard's "A
New Yorker" company, at Hoyt's
She may possibly return to the stage
in some other play, however, before
long.
Mrs. Annie Yeamans, Johnnie Wild
and Dan Collyer are to appear at a
New York vaudeville theatre next
week in new sketch based on Chin
ME Fadden, and arranged by Edward
W. Townsend.
Siegfried Wagner is in Rome at
work on a comic opera, the book be-
ing on story of the Thirty Years
war. His music is said to be not of
the school of his father, but of that of
Humperdinck, the composer of Han
sci and Gretel"
Sixteen plays have been produced
this season that cost 100000 to meet
the initial cost. Charles Frohman
states that "A Marriage of Conven-
fence" with one scene, cost $4,000;
THE Little Minister" $4,000, and
A bill posting combination has been
turned into limited liability corpora
ton in London. with a capital Of S12,-
250,000 1t holds out as an inducement
to buy shares a number of contracts
it has for bill posting at the rate of a
penny sheet per week.
Paul Potter has written a play for
Beerbohm Tree about the Indian mu-
tiny Of the ffties, but has decided not
to use for it Mr. Kipling's title, 1.-THE
Man Who Was" Leoncavallo is setting
Potter's dramatic version of "Trilby"
to music, and Calve has promised to
sing the title role.
The year 1898 opened at the New
York theatres on Monday with the
doors closed to patrons At two
houses, an unusual thing even in the
varied record Of New York amuse-
ments, Shakespeare's LAS You Like
It. was presented 'Humpty Dump
ty" and III Trovatore' were also
among the offerings.
Sarah Bernhardt and Mile. Bartet,
of the Coincide Franchise, have been
elected vice presidents of the commit
tee in charge of class XVIII Mater
ials of Theatrical Art) of the 1900 ex-
position, of which NJ. Gailhard, direc-
tor of the Grand Opera, is president.
They are the first women chosen as
official managers on a committee not
connected with woman's work.
Julia Marlowe, says Hillary Bell,
who may be considered no longer a
wife, a maid or a widow, returns to
town this evening in the second semb-
lance. Unless matrimony has much
improved her conception Of maiden
hood, we shall little like her Rosa
lind She played the character some
years ago in the Fifth avenue and
lacked not only the physical but the
temperamental stature of Shakes
peare's heroine
However, Miss Marlowe learned a good
deal from Robert Taber, although it is
now deemed wise managerial policy to
them, and among her connubial
may be comprehension of
the essentials which infatuated Orlando
and all lovers after him.
Fred C. Whitney has paid $500 for the
privilege of a nine months option on an