Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-04-30

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Robert Downing recently presented
an adaptation Of Dumas novel Ine
Commander
''The Sign Of the Cross" is to be
given In America next season.
Katherine Florence will be the lead
ing woman in Gillettes sherlock
Holmes"
Leipsig is to have new theatre,
with an annex for dancing and general
= entertainments.
Beerbohm Tree has revived the
Dancing Girl in London, owing 10
the failure of Henry Arthur Jones
new play.
Mason Mitchell may heaA a delega-
ton of Rough Riders during Bunaio
Bill's Wild West Paris Exposition en-
gagement-
The pensions paid to retired artists
BY the Imperial Opera OF vienna
amount to above the relatively enOr-
nous sum of 100000 francs.
It is rumored that Olga Nethersole
IS to marry Hon. Nathan Frank, form
erly a member of Congress, and now
nronrietor of the st. Louis Star.
"The Singing Girl'' is the title Sc
lected for the new comic opera in
which Alice Nelson is to appear next
season. The score will be exclusively
nv Victor Herbert, the lyrics by Harry
r, Smith and the book by Stanislaus
STANCE.
performance of Hamlet was given
recently in st. Petersburg at the palace
of the Grand Duke Constantine. The
Russian translation of the play was
made by the Grand Duke, who also APP
peared in the chief role. The Car and
Czarina and the members of the inn
periaI household saw the performance,
no one else being admitted.
Biograph pictures of the Grand Ma
tional Steeplechase, on the Aintree
course, near Liverpool, were shown in
London the same evening. The race
was finished at 3.42, and the operators
developed the pictures in a specially
equipped car attached to the afternoon
train for London.
Digby Bell is to be seen in "Ari-
IONA" Next season he will be in one
of Charles Frohman's companies.
The Chicago Post declares that Julia
Arthur is the best Juliet in America.
Next season Miss Arthur will appear in
"Plus Que Refine" In the original
presentation of the play, although Mr..
Coquelin did not make hit in the part
of Napoleon, it was the general opin-
ion that Jane Hading as the Empress,
the role which Miss Arthur will as
sumo, scored an unqualified success.
"For the next season | have three
pieces to choose FROM" said Francis
Wilson, with the chances favoring
one for which no name had yet been
chosen The book is translated by
myself from the French. The music
is written by young Toledo, Ohio,
man, Will C. Peters, who has studied
abroad The scenes are laid in the
East, and give great chance for SUI
perb stage settings and costuming.
If Nat Goodwin had been satisfied
in the early stages of his career he
would now be monologist and would
not have castle in England. If Fran
els Wilson had been contented in
times back he would now be the end
man in minstrel troupe, and many
an old book dealer would be the
poorer. ST. Louis would still possess
Mary Anderson if that lovely woman
had not discovered that she possessed
the fire of genius. Delightful Julia
Marlowe would be a member of the
marry, merry, while Margaret Mather
: would have spent her days presiding
over a news stand. By all means let
Louis Mann have a fair opportunity
to show what there is in him.-Frank
Wilstach, in Dramatic News.
OF all the vaudeville acts of the present
season none has met with more instan-
taneous and hearty approval than 1.-The
singing of old sings" by the contralto,
Maud Courtney. The simplicity and sin
certify of Miss Courtney's work have been
the contributing causes to this success.
Possibly the public has tired of the new
song. the coon song and the rag time pos
sibly memory of other days has a great
deal to do with the favor with which the
act has everywhere been received, but
whatever it may be, Miss Courtney is al
ways greeted with enthusiastic encores.
She is of winning personality, too, and
dresses with modest taste and simplicity.
These are refreshing Innovations in vaude-
VILE. Her work is fresh bright, enter
tanning, and the old songs never had
more graceful expression than by her.
Our music and drama are gradually
losing their once distinctly Gentle COM
plexion and becoming Hebraic. Rachel
was Jewess Bernhard is Jewess Ed
tied genius. Olga Nethersoe, Emma
Calve, Lilli Lehman, Anton Seidl, Mrs
James Brown Potter and Minnie Seigman
II not Jews, We're of Jewish extraction
The greatest of all impressarii, Maurice
Grau, is a Jew. The most enterprising
and powerful of modern managers, Chas.
Frohman, is Jew. The most artistic and
refined of theatrical directors, Daniel
Frohman, is Jew. The Haymans, Klaw
and Erlanger, Lederer, Nixon and Zim-
norman are Jews. Weber and Field are
Jews. Heinrich Conrad is a Jew. The
Sres are Jews. Rudolph Aronson is a
Jew. There are almost as many Jews
controlling the stage as there are en-
ployed in its performances. The Jews
are not only hard working, interchangeable
brainy managers; they are self-respecting.
Scandal, too frequent in the theatre, sell
dom assails them. Because the Jew has
refused to accept theatrical entertainment
as an art and prosecutes it as a legitimate
business, the art of acting and writing
for actors has immeasurably progressed
In America.-Hilary Bell, in New York
Press.
A mountain of spectacle and moe-hill
OF fun-that was THE Man IN the Moon,''
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