Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-10-29

time eight years ago. The play is di-
vided into four acts, the first showing
the drawing room at the LarrabeeS;
the second act, scene one, Professor
Moriarty's underground Office; scene
second, Sherlock Holmes rooms in
Baker street; third act, the Stepney
Gas Chamber, midnight; fourth act, DR..
gatson's Office The cast includes
Truce McRae as Dr. Watson, Reuben
Sfax as John Forman, George Vessels
as Professor Moriarty, Ralph Delmore
as James Larrabee, Katherine Florence
as Alice Faulkner, Jane Thomas as
Mrs. Faulkner, Judith Berolde as Madge
Larrabee, FIilda England as Therese
and Kate Ten Eyck as Mrs. Smeedley.
Mr. Gillette played the role of the great
analytical detective.
The success of the crusade against
immortality on the stage will be test
of the moral health OF New York So
ciety. In the great period Of Greek
life the theatres presented the noble
tragdies of Aeschylus, Sophocles and
Euripides The descent from that
standard to the moral sinks of Alexan-
dria and Antioch was the exact meas
ure of the descent Of the Greek race
from the age of Pericles to the age of
CLEOPATRA And when Rome ran her
course from national health and vigor
to national rottenness, her stage re-
Elected every step Of her progress.
When virtue seemed to have been for
gotten in England under Charles II, and
fashionable life became a rout of vic
ious indulgence, the shameless Restor-
alton comedy drove the stately Eliza
bethan dramatists from the stage. And
with the recovery Of health in society
came a corresponding publication OF
the theatre. We do not believe that
New York is decadent. The dramatic
immoralities that have made such mel
ancholy progress here within the past
few years are exotics that have no real
correspondence with the life Of the
pople. We know now where such
things lead, and it is our business to
step them while there is time. We
can cut out the rotten spot now and
leave a healthy society, but the longer
we wait the farther the spot will
spread. The experiment of a wide
| open" stage has been tried long
enough in New York. Let US leave
| that sort Of thing to Paris.-New York
| Journal.
There is one member Of "the ZangwiIl
plays" ('Children of the Ghetto) cast at
the Herald Square Theatre who appeared
! in an equally vulgar, irreverent and pitiful
! Jewish parody at the Star Theatre nearly
ten years ago. l refer to Miss Rosabel
Morrison, who played in that other anti
/ Semitic abonlination, The Shatchen,"
4 (narriage broker. This precious failure
/ was the work Of Henry Dobbin and
! Charles Dickson, and it introduced Mr.
| Dickson as a commercial tourist" N. B.
/ Curtis as 1.-The shatchen," Lewis Morrison
/ as a wealthy clothler." and Miss Rosa
I bel as a bankers daughter. Like tho
| ZangwiH play "The Shatchen" held up
| to ridicule the Mosaic traditions and hurl-
1 ed un-English jargon at the ears Of its au-
1 dience Its principal numor dealt with the
! furtive ham sandwich, and its comedy how
\ cred around the Deuteronomic laws Of
4 diet-laws so absolutely founded on sci
/ ence that non-Jewish medical men can be
/ found 10 uphold them to-day. The
/ shatcnen'' proved TO be wretched failure.
although, like the Zangwill play" il en-
listed the services of able people. such as
\ Lewis Morrison (of whom New York sees
/ too littleJ and Of poor Sophie Eyre But
I Messrs. Dobbin ard Dickson made no such
! vapid pretensions of Zionistic fervor as
/ the egregious Mr.. Zangwill processes.
They didn't calcium-ight themselves as a
sort Of Messiah. with the nose turned
heavenward and the hand dabbling in the
box office. They offered up their race fol-
bles for money in a candid manner. They
/ declined to pose. like Zangwin, as the
Pecksniff of Judaism. There was no 'af-
i fare Dreyfus'' upon which they could ira
peze themselves into prominence like unto
| that which the Jewish playgoers form a
f! large percentage Of the theatre-goers Of
| the metropolis. When Pecksnin Zangwill
announced that his play was the only
| thing in the city not backed BY Jewish
capital. he was uRconsciously playing into
the very hands that he attempted TO par
aiyze Alan Dale IL Nsw yssk Journal