Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-04-16

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odsfts Iyler VA seen - Juliet r.
\ New York lat week.
Ledlerer's The Man In the Moon"
VIII have 4 red headed ballet.
Olga Nethersole revived Plneros
The Pronigate," in New York last
u week.
Laura Joyce Bell is presenting Rosina
Vokes' Wig and Gown" in the vaude-
VILE houses.
Dorothy Morton is to appear IN Da-
vid HendersOns production OF An
4 Arabian Girl and Forty Thieves.
A spectator in Japanese theatre, on
payment of q small fee, is permitted To-
stand up, and the person behind MIN
cannot object.
Jacob Lit has leased the Broadway
Theatre, New York. He used to pc an
usher in a theatre in Minneapolis. NOW
he is worth 100000.
Louise Thorndike Bouclcault VIII
blay the title role.in Zeigfeid & Brady's
production Of 1.-THE Manicure. the
American name of La Culotte.
4 Lillian Russell, Francis Wilson and
De Wolf Hopper may play Erminie.
Cadeaux and Ravennes in revival OF
ssErminie' at the New York Casino.
Mrs. Navarro-or Mary Anderson, as
her admirers still love to call hers
devout Roman Catholic. Her sister,
who is known as Mother Dominica, is
nun at the Convent of the Assump-
ton. in Kensingtop Square, London.
It is quite likely that when Lord
Rosslyn comes over for four weeks
engagement at the New York Lyceum
Theatre in His Excellency, the Gov
ernor," he may be accompanied by
three or four of his aristocratic associ-
ates.
j Gustav Salvini, son of the famous
Tomasso, and brother of the late Alex
ander, has been making success In
Italy lately in Shakespearan roles.
personal letter to the Mirrors Usher
describes his hits in Hamlet" 'The
Tanning of the Shrew," and episodes
from the plays of "Sophocies," both in
Florence and Milan.
1t is an odd coincidence that the en-
>sgagements of Stuart Robson and Will
liam H. Crane at Wallack's Theatre,
New York, next season follow one upon
the other. Mr.. Robson will come in
first, with his new play, "The Rogues
and a Romance" and Mr.. Crane will
succeed him with a freshly written
work by Bronson Howard and Brander
Matthews, with old New York as its
scene.
AS an instance of the financial value
of play here is our new sensation,
sZaza. Money is being turned away
every night at the Garrick, and tickets
for the performances are now sold for
the middle of April. The play is good
for two years with Mrs Carter, and
when she grows tired of it, actresses
of less quality will find it valuable
medium Leslie Carter can crowd the
Garrick until the weather grows as
hot as the play. She will then tour
the country to undoubtedly enormous
business. Next spring our actress and
ssZaza" will beyond peradventure win
the applause of London, and on her
return, Mrs. Carter will play another
season in the drama. 1t is not too
much to assume that with the two
years of it's use by Mrs. Carter "ZaZa"
may earn 100000 at the box office,
sum which, after the payment of sal
aries and all expenses, must leave a
liberal amount in the pocket of its
manager and adapter. How valuable
good play is may be known from the
fact that during the first week at the
Garrick, David Belasco received an
offer of $4,000 for his half share in
ssZaza." That estimate would make
the play worth almost 5000, 900. Be
lascO believes it is worth more, and he
refused the proposal to buy his inter-
est This illustrates anew the acc1-
dents that govern fortune in the the
atre The original 'Zaza" seemed to
three of our most successful dramatists
entirely impracticable for the Ameri-
can stage Charles Frohman, who
owned the English speaking rights,
gave the manuscript at different
times to Henry Guy Carleton, Paul
Potter and William Gillette, and each
playwright abandoned in despair the
task of adapting .Zaza" to suit our
audiences. The original, in which
Mime Rejane pleased Paris, was filthy
beyond expression in the relations of
the characters, the dialogue, the argu-
ment and the business employed by
Rejane. Belasco finally agreed to
make decent drama out of it, and for
! his services he received a half-share
of the new version.-Hilliary Bell, in
New York Press.
Osman Edwards, who has been sew
eral years in Japan, gives some partic-
uldTS dUOuL luc tucdlIcS lucIc. he says
that the stranger in Toxic must not
commit the mistake of getting his
tickets at the box Office. They should
be secured at a fashionable tea house,
of which there are always several in
. the neighborhood of theatre, where
\ you procure not only box for the play,
but attendance during it's performance
as we'll. You leave your watch, pock-
etbook and valuables in charge of the
proprietor of the tea house. In olden
times the performances began at dawn,
but the government now limits them to
eight hours, during which time two
long pieces and a short one are pre-
scented. HaR-past ten in the morning
is a good time for curiosity seeker
to arrive. Having left your shoes at
the door and received heavy wooden
check in exchange you follow the at
tendant, who carries your cushion and
tobacco box. You take your seat in
what is literally box without a lid,
and lined with mating. 1t is supposed
to hold five persons, but three are I'M
comfortably crowded. The prices are
moderate. For a box in the gallery,
the choice place, you pay about SO, in
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