Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-10-01
Opening Tuesday. swabacksr's.
THEATRICAL ADJUSTMENTS.

Media is to sing in Berlin.
Gus Williams has been on the stage
So years.
New York was crowded last week;
theatres deserted
Nine and Augustin Melville have
filed a petition in bankruptcy.
Robert Downing produced "An In
diana Romance" in Washington on
Monday last. The Times says it is "a
typical one-night-stand play"
In a recent programme at the Ber-
lin Germany kindergarten were
Daisy Mayer, Amelia Stone, Wood &
Sheppard and the Sisters Hengler.
lice cream matinees" are announced
at a Kansas City theatre, where every
purchaser of q 25-cent ticket not only
sees phe show. but receives an order
for plate OF ice cream.
In London the best theatres are ex-
pensiye. Stalls, corresponding to our
orchestra, not less than 'ften and six, !"
about $3.50; dress circle, our first bal
cony, seven and six aobout $1.S5;
pit, 60 cents; top gallery, Is cents.
In many it is necessary to pay six
pence (12 cents) for a programme, and
the same for care of wraps.
Robert Hilliard is to be seen in Froh-
mans production of Wheels Within
Wheels"
Rolr~n will she.ve "The Gladly" and
Francis Wilson will make "Cyrano"
less serious.
De Wolf Hopper has cancelled Amer
lean dates and will remain in Europe
a year longer.
Dewey stockings-all over American
eagles and embroidered with Olym-
pias flags aond pennants. and, in some
cases, with Olympia herself-are the
latest expansiosists fad, and every
body Is wearing them, including Lii
liam Russell, Minnie Seligman, Marie
Burroughs. Christie Mcdonald and Luz
lu Glaser.-New York Telegraph.
A member Of the London Belle Of
New York" company writes: I'VE are
still doing a land Office business, re-
gardless Of the fact that Edna May has
been out CT the cast on her vacation
for the past two weeks. 1t looks 10
me now as though The Belle" viii be
ringing straight along till next spring.
We celebrate the six nundredth per-
formance in London On October 8. at
which time the entire company will
display new costumes and the stage an
entirely new set OF scenery.
Heigho, have We all run to tragedy
and tears in this great year of general
prosperity? 1t really seems SO. |
went along Broadway the ether night
and saw nothing but death-grim,
wretched, unpleasant death, staring me
in the face. and it was all crowded.
Look at the lists along the great street
-.s,Tbe Ghetto" at the Broadway
tears with the children of the same 70
follow somewhere-tears. The Odiy
Wav'' at the Herald Square--ears.
Becky Sharp at the Fifth avenue
tears. and Stuart Robson, come
dian in The Gladly ''-tears-C Charles
Alfred Byrne in Brooklyn Citizen.
The author of Lady Windefmere's
Fam once the N III brilliant, prosper
ous and envied IF British playwrlghts,
is NV eking or 4 meagre existence
as occasional contribute 10 o'se OF the
boulevard sheets-a lower form OF
newspaper work .han even Yellow
Journalism. InaxmEca as he had not
rbe moor sort of courage necessary for
suicide. some day 3 fat person viii &c
founG dead BY absInshe in a Paris gar
ret-and that will re he end OF Oscar
Wilde Hillary Bel.
Peter Stuyyesant, Governor OF New
Amsterdam, q play By Branden Ma
thews and Bronson Howard. was pro-
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