Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-02-27
of this week.
THEATRICAL AMITSE,Nf FNTS


Corinne has joined the Wilbur Opera
Company.
Mansfield's wife, Beatrice Cameron, has
retired.
Marie Laurent, a Paris actress, is Il
years old
Henry Irving will appear in sCyrano de
Bergerac"
Robert Drouet has joined st. Louis
stock company
Fanny Mcintyre is a member of a Bos-
ton stock company
Camille De Awhile will be seen in king
Dodo" next season.
Five actors are now travelling at the
heads of companies in Shakesperean
plays
An American theatre viii be among the
attractions at the Paris exposition in 1900
Charles Ross, of Ross & Fenton. will
star next season in John Drew comedy.
j. Is Murray and Clara Lane will star
in an opera by Victor Herbert and Chas.
Klein
The Eden Musee, New York, is now ex-
hiniting new wax figure of Capt. Sigs-
bee. of the Maine
The Yankee Cruiser an opera by
Fred Miller, Jr.. is to be produced in
Cleveland, on February rs. Miller wrote
Ship Alloy"
AT least four playwrights in New York
are straining nerves to get out plays with
the Maine horror as the neutral point Of
interest.
Bernhard will probably put a play
drawn from George Sands novel Ca
priel." by Henri Annie and Maurice Bern
hardt, on the stage next year.
The first act of La Poupee" was played
twice in an English city recently. Many
people did not secure admittancec until
the act was nearly over and they de-
manded that the act be repeated
The city of New York. with nearly s.
500 600 inhabitants. is without first-class
permanent orchestra, and it is proposed
to raise 100000 to establish such an or
ganization.
John II. Stoddart, Louise Thorndyke
Boucicault Cora Tanner Beatrice More
land and Ethel Kendall, daughter of the
Kendals, are among the latest recruits to
vaudeville
The first act of THE Moth and the Cam
die which was acted last week by Effie
Shannon and Herbert Kelcey in Philadel-
phia, represents a fancy dress ball in
which all the characters wear children s
clothes
The runror that Virginia Harmed would
| next year act alone in The Adventures
of Lady Ursula" led to the surmse that
Daniel Frohman, with another married
| couple in his ranks, had decided to sepa-
rate Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Sothern.
| In the piece which is to follow THE
Geisha,' in London, Lefty Lind and Hay
| den Coffin will appear as Greek slaves,
! Marie Tempest a Persian girl. and Hill
| da Moody as "a Roman princess. The ac-
| ton takes place in Rome in the year so A.
! d.
| Milton Aborn, of the Boston Lyric OPP
! era. Company, will be stage manager and
! comedian of the opera companies that
| will play at Cleveland and Cincinnati the
| coming summer. Comedian Aborn has
appeared in over 100 operas and is said to
be the best stage manager in America. No
comedian has larger following in Phila-
! delphia than has Mr.. Aborn.
| Marie Geistinger, who is now singing in
| opera comique at Berlin, has found it ne
| cessary TO publish her certificate of bap-
tism as the Berlin papers were making
! her out much older than she really is.
| She was born at Graz, in Austria, July
| 26 1885, was chrstened, as a Catholic, to
the names of Maria Charlotte Cecilia.
Her father was Nicholas Geistinger, ac-
tor. drawing a pension from Russia.
There is wide and melancholy
difference between Modjeska's work
and that of her younger contem-
poraries-the difference between genu-
inc acting, such as hers, the thought
full production of different charac-
ters and the modern counterfeit, which
is nothing but the damnable iteration in
perpetuity. with scarcely a pretense of
disguise of the players own insignificant
Observation-Disclosures York Evening Post.
In May. shortly before his departure for
Europe. Sousa will give a grand spectac-
uar production in New York under the
title of THE Trooping of the Colors.' The
flags of nearly every nation will be repre-
scented in it, and it will be one of the most
elaborate affairs of the kind ever produc-
ed i'll this country. The company, mclud-
ing chorus, band and soldiers. will num-
Der over 800 persons.
Isabella Urquhart produced "a Strange
Bamy'' at a New York vaudeville theatre
last week Once the particular star of
the Casino galaxy of beauties, Miss Urqu-
hart has had little professional luck for
many a year. Her departure from Mr..
Aronson's company was caused by
quarrel with Lillian Russell, and they say
that Isatella's plump and snowy shout
ders stin bear so plainly the imprint of
the golden dlva's hand that chropodist
can read the lines of Mrs. Perugini's palm
by studying Miss Urquharts back
A Russian prince, who is fond of Verdi's
music has spent $4,000 to enable himself
to hear "Rigoietto" whenever he pleases
in his palace at St. Petersburg. The OPP
era is acted by life-sized puppets whose
acting is regulated by machinery, and the
singing is done by photograph. The own
or has secured photographic reproduce
lions OF the principal arts as sung by the
principal artists of Europe, and changes
his east to suit himself After putting the
cylinders in place the owner presses but
tom and the opera proceeds automatically,
so saws Independence Beige.
In Paris. says Life, young girl may
not 90 TO the theatre, even with her own
narents. The nature of the stage produc-
tions is such that no decent woman may
u,itness them and preserve her reputation
for innocence Happily. that is not the
casa in America. Young girls may go in
SQUADS to the matiness OF Inc conquer
ore, and ..The Tree of knowledge, pro-
videG1 they have the price OF ADMISSION, OF
IN the evening performances as the guests
af ,.opng men They may witness choice
.ooy,ae If debauchery depicted with per-
$50 aaaldtv ana with no details omitted.
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