Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-02-05
THEATRICAL ADJUSTMENTS.

Olga Nethersole wants to be a
trained nurse
Harry B. Smith. the librettist, is to
write play.
Bernhardt will produce Hamlet" in
| America next season.
Neil Burgess appeared at Keith's
New York vaudeville theatre last
week.
In Gay Paree" is to BE- produced at
the New York Casino on March 6.
Alice Nelson and THE Fortune
Teller" will probably be seen in Lon
con this year.
Augrstin Daily produced "The
| Great Ruby" melodrama, in New
York last week.
Mildred Holland will star next sea-
son in Louise" an emotional drama
by Theodore Kremer.
The Man in the Moon" is the title
of new entertainment by Stanislaus
STANCE and Louis harrison.
Grace Hawthorne has produced in
England a new version Of Daudet's
| novel, "Sapho," which she calls THE
Idol of the Hour
hall announces that any one who pur-
chases a ticket for the performance
may have his or her teeth extracted
for nothing.
Nine. Jane Hading is an applicant
for the lease Of the Renaissance Thea
re, Paris, which has been occupied for
| some seasons. now by Nine. Bern
hardt.
! David Belasco's new play, the pro-
| duction of which is delayed by the
success of ''Zaza," has its scenes in
Mexico, and most of its characters
are denizens if that region.
The 250th London performance of
What Happened to Jones" was given
on Monday last at the Strand Theatre.
No other American comedy ever had
such run in England.
| Beerbohm Trees version of "The
! Three Musketeers' is to be acted in
New York by a cast including James
! ton Lackaye, S. Miller Kent, Blanche
Bates, Judith Berolr and other we'll
known players.
! Hoyt's new play, "a Dog in the
Manager" did not score a hit in Wash
/ ington. The cast includes Joseph H.
! Coyne, William Devere, George A.
| Beane, Jr., and Roselle Knott. George
| w. Leslie is disappointing as an Eng
lish Earl. Annie Wood is hit as a
| fat woman with perpetual hiccoughs.
| A decision handed down in the New
| York Appellate Division of the Su-
preme Court last week upholds the
! verdict Of $500 damages which was re-
Gently secured by Tony Pastor against
! the Rogers Brothers, now starring in
"a Reign Of Error" The opinion is
an exceedingly important one, as it is
the first decision affecting directly the
| so-called penalties" imposed by the
atrical managers when performers fail
in their contracts.
Fa-chon Thompson is a Chicago
girl Of voluptuous grace and violet
! eyes who has been making the mercu-
| rial Parisians forget Calve by an cleo
/ trifying performance of Carmen"
| Her success, which is really very
sweeping and unequiyocal, naturally
| causes other ambitious American
girls to wonder what they, too, must
| do to become equally famous in opera.
she must live like a nun"-that is
| the great cardinal truth which crops
UP over and over again in the record
of her own experience written over
her own signature.
| Julia Marlowe will Immediately be-
| gin rehearsais for the production of
! her new piece called "Colinette, !"
which will be the feature of her en-
gagement at the Knickerbocker Thea
| tire. William Beach and Ida Vernon
| will b0 To bo1, oCy,ononu ic
production- The drama chosen was
! first produced at the Odeon, in Paris
| 1t is a costume piece, laid in the per-
iod of Louis XVIII. and requiring a
quite elaborate presentment. scenical-
! ly. If "CoHnette" turns out to be the
success anticipated, the new play by
Clyde Fitch will be held over until
next season, along with the dramati-
cation of Colonel Majors novel.
A short horse is soon curried. a
shorter horse than that provided by
Messrs. Smith and DekOven for their
Three Dragons" brought forward
at the Broadway Theatre last night,
! is not often found, even in these days,
when reputable names wiil carry al
most anything, so it is dressed hand
| somely. What there is of plot in the
comic operatta was much more clear
| ~ exposed in the preliminary state
ment made in this journal on Sunday
| than could possibly be done by any
| body trying to draw it from the play
| itself. We suspect that Sundays
statement was an inspired" commu-
nication, and therefore refrain from
| disturbing impressions based upon it.
! AS for the music, it would be inter
! esting to find the person who could
| discover in it even q suspicion of the
composer of the tunes in robin
Hood" or Bob Roy"
The Three Dragons" was a disap-
pointment-New York Tribune.
This is the scene in ''Zaza" in which
Mrs. Leslie Carter. as the heroine,
reaches the highest pitch of dramatic
power, Mr.. Charles A. Stevenson play
| ing the part of Dufrene:
Dufrene-You've seen my wife?
| ZaZa-Yes.
Dufrene-Spoken to her?
Zaza-Yes.
| ne-You-you-you dared?
| Zaza-Yes. I-I-I-why not?
| Dufrene-What were you doing
| there?
Zaza-I went to find out. I heard
| there was another woman. l wanted
| to know.
! Dufrene-What did you say to her?
What did you say, you wretched girl?
Zaza-I said all l had TO say. But