Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-10-22
THEATRICAL ADJUSTMENTS.


| Netharsoie VIII produce "Sapho" next
| month
Paris actors win establish a dramatic
agency.
Stuart. the male Patti. is singing IN Ger
| many.
welmar, Germany. is 10 have a List
| manument.
.way Down East" has passed its 15O0th
performance.
Vienna viii have shortly a new military
| band of $50 men.
William Busnach is dramatizing zola's
lie bette Humane
The Odeon Theatre. Buenos Ayres, is
heated by electricity.
Creston Clarke is making an adaptation
of Nicholas NicSlebys
Laura Willard is to appear in Hopper's
London revival OF Wang"
]. X Emmett and Lottie Gibson are star
ring in Fritz in a Madhouse."
John Jack will play the principal role In
the new comedy, MY Son. Ben"
James A. Hearne's Sag Harbor'' win be
produced in Boston on October o.
4 Ah,7tralian attractions include the Geor-
gia aAnstrels and The War of Wealth =
Lifts production of "The Great Ruby
| did not asouse the enthusiasm of Chicago
| critics
| Kyrle BeileSv has written a four-act play
on the defeat of old age by youth in the
race for life.
| Georgia taxes circuses so heavily that
there has not been an exhibition in the
State this year.
'Matrimony," a comedy by Arthur
James Pegier, of the Minneapolis Journal,
| has scored a hit
The nlne-year-old son Of Mascagni will
make his debut as violin soloist at one of
| his fathers concerts.
| A series of performances of Wagner's
I operas in Spanish is to be given in Madrid
during the coming season.
| Audran's la Poupee." produced in Ber-
| lin, Munich and Frankfort, was not allow
/ ed to be sung in Vienna.
| Rejane's company includes her daughter;
| May Twins company possesses Flo Ir-
| WINS 17-year-old daughter.
| Cecil Raleigh, author of the latest Drury
Lane melodranra, Hearts are Trumps"
is charged with plagiarism by two authors.
new theatre in Seacombe. in Cheshire.
England, has been named after Sir Henry
Irving, who will open it before coming to
| this country.
The Flying Jordans have dishanded their
vaudeville company and will organize
three-crcus Cor tour of Siam. India.
Japan and Australia.
Jerome Sykes and Edna Wallace Hopper
will make their first appearance as joint
stars in Sousa's new opera, to be produced
at New Haven. Conn, ON October g.
A trolley line is being constructed to
connect the scene of the decennial produe-
ton of the Passion Play at Oberammer-
gau with railway some fourteen miles
distant.
The imposition of transforming ag-
gregation of soup house habitues was not
discovered until their appearance here.
The coast papers are giving them rare
roasts properly served and deserved wher-
ever they appear.-Helena Independent.
Among the scenes of the stage version
of Ben Hur' which are likely to be eff
fective may be mentioned the Mount Of
Olives with a view of Jerusalem and the
first scene Of ALL which represents the des-
ert by night, with the wise men following
the star.
Willard Holcomb will be succeeded as
dramatic editor of the Washington Post
by Mr.. VIII A. Page who began his news
paper career on the Post, and who now re-
signs the managing editorship OF the New
Haven Comm Register to return to Wash
ington.
On the advice of Sir Arthur Sullivan, the
London Crystal palace authorities have re-
solved after the next Handel festival to
lower the pitch of the great organ. This
1t is expected, will have an immense infu-
ence toward the general adoption in En-
gland of the continental pitch.
In THE Girl in the Barracks" Clara
Lipman appears as Paris chanteuse, who
to win a bet attempts to remain, in male
disguise, for twenty hours in regimentaI
barracks Mr. Mann. departing from the
German characters, with which he has
been identified, plays an elderly French
role.
1.-The Rebels" is an Irish play by J. r.
Pagan, dealing with incidents in ths tral-
bled times of '9S. Arrested, the hero Is
condemned to DEATH but with the aid OF
the prison doctor-an old college friend
he exchanges places with a CORPSE await
ing burial in a cell close by.
The late w. Shakespeare said THE
plays the thing" and here's THE Tele-
phone Girl" going about the country
drawing even larger houses than when
Louis Mann and Clara Lipnan were the
stars" Of It, individual actors don't
seem to be Indispensable when one has a
play that pleases the public.
Managing Director Brady, of Roster &
Balls, contemplates doing big thing with
his production Round New York in
Eighty Minutes" Some Of the engage
ments for it include Jeffries. sharkey. Cor
bett and John L. Sullivan. They will al
appear in the scene representing a we'll
known sporting restaurant.
In 1900 the Theatre Francois will depend
on production Of Sardou's "Patrie."
which has had two hearings in America.
Sardou himself considers the heroine the
only really naughty woman he ever put in
the centre Of a drama He once said Of
her: "Dcloris often haunts my sleep TO re-
proach me for making her SO wicked"
David Henderson. whose Arabian Girl"
collapsed in Philadelphia. used to bring out
big spectaeies in Chicago every year at a
cost Of from $1,000 to $4,000 ard coin
money on them During the Worlds Fair
! summer he made $4,000 on one piece OF
| this kind In one season a number Of
| things turned against hin 80 that In six
months he lost nearly half a million.
We suggest to the police that they ar
| rest a French female called Fougere, who
now infests the town. and that they raid a
| few of the best theatres'' as they would
any disorderIy resort. such crimes against
morality as would have landed a Billy Nc
/ Ctorv M, F}facltwaII's IStznd nor ior1 ago