Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-10-08

Mr. Knapp was formerly stage manager
for an opera company.
Graus Metropolitan Opera Company
will produce in New York Massenets
"Herodiade," "Falstaff," merry Wives
of Windsor" "The Magic Flute" and
Aida" The company includes Calves,
Sembrich, Eames. Zelie de Lussan,
Mantelli, Plancon, Edonard De Reszke,
DIPPED and Susanna Adams. Jean De
Reszke will not sing here this year, be-
cause his wife cannot stand the Toy-
age
THE Elder Miss Blossom which Is
, to be acted for the first time in Amer
lea at Philadelphia tomorrow night, IS
by two young Englishmen, who were
unknown to fame before the Kendals
staged this piece for them. 1t gives the
Mother of the English Stage an oppor-
tunity to impersonate an old maid, VINO
is overjoyed for While in the mis-
taken notion that man of the world
wants to marry her, whereas in reality
he wants to marry her niece.
Aft. Whelan has replaced Edwin
Stevens in Friscos Tivoli Opera Com
pany.
Of "The Dagger and the Cross"
which Mantell produced in Milwaukee
last week, the Sentinel says: Mr..
Hatton's novel is stupid enough with
its endless descriptions and prosy NOR
alizations, but the play which W. A.
Tremayne has built upon it is just as
bad, even with the descriptions all left
out and most Of the moralizatlons cut
off
There is a good, big scandal preparing
in London Just now between we'll known
American comedian and his wifer 1t is
not time yet to give names, Sut they are
being banded about among the cognos-
cent? 1t seems that dear little woman
has got between the comedian and his
wife-that the comedian has given every
thing in the world he possesses to his Wife
and that she is letting him go his pace
without so much as murmur-1ust be-
cause she has the good sense to appreciate
the fact that it is all hers anyway, and
in the meantime, he has been making her
of much Importance professionally by
starring her as she never had been before.
These things will happen, won't they? and
not always in the theatrical profession at
that.-Charles Alfred Byrne, in Brooklyn
Citizen.
Dewey killed the theatrical business for
a week in New York, when, says Le-
amber Richardson, "these i'll tempered. i'll
favored, i'll dressed and i'll hammered rab-
Bile come to New York, the persons who
live here year in and year out stay at
home. and the merchants, theatre man
ayers and others who depend upon resi-
dent patrons. lose their trade and get lit
tie or nothing from the visitors. Twenty
five cents for theatre ticket Is about the
mia ga fa tnF
20 90. 1t isn't because they are poor. mind
YOU. fer in that case they would be nat
urally exempt from criticism. 1t Is sim
ply because they are mean, sordid, narrow,
miserly. stingy. avaricious and contempu-
bic. That it has been obliged TO rub up
against an ignoble. baseborn, unworthy,
paltry mob is unfortunate and unpleasant,
and IL is impossible not 10 feel a deep and
abiding sense of relief that the tension is
over"
John Carter. Of Creston Clarke's com
panv. is 50 years old. His father witnessed
the burial of Richard Brinsley Sheridan,
author of The School for Scandal" Its
going on to seventy years now since first
stepped. on the stage TO play said he TO a
| Washington Post man. Seventy long
wears. and yet 1t seems hardly a fortnight
! since I had TO study dozen parts a week.
/ Now don't take up a book once a month
] 10 study. I have not studied a Shakesper-
can part in 80 years, and I believe / have
! PLAYED nearly every character in every
play that Shakespeare wrote. Yes, ! be-
| lieve I am the Oldest actor in the world to-
day now acting. And I am more. / am
/ the Oldest railway traveller. / sat on
| George Stephenson's knee when he took
/ his first locomotive from Darlington 70
+! Stockton. in England" He has acted in
| companies headed by Maeready. Forrest
! Irving, Booth. Charlotte Cushman and
! Keane; the latter two. he says. we're the
greatest players he ever saw.