Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-03-05

latest guesses are as follows: Jean de
Reszke, $4,000; Lilli lehman, 81 ,250;
Sembrich, SLIGO; Edouard de Reszke,
$500; Nordica, $500; Eames, $500, and
Plancon, 5000. These figures are pro-
badly incorrect.
| am studying now role in a new
play of Barrie's, called 1.-TWO Kinds of
Women" The one I'm to play is the
other kind. I've always played women
Of the right kind hitherto; this one is
| woman OF the wrong kind. Oh, she is
such a tremendous creature. | feel that
in her can let loose the strength that
has always been depressed. No, she's
not so very bad. She's just wrong
headed, that's ALL and she has to pay
penalties. l hope l car do it. l want
10 succeed with it. The story is so
powerful-Annie Russell, in Washing
ton Post.
One Of the veteran chorus girls at
Weber G Fields had a birthday last
week. Her official statement on the
occasion was that it was her twenty
ninth anniversary, but this remark
was met with some scepticism on the
part of her sister artists. Finally ore
Daily, who, in his costume of the
Duchess Lemoyne, was preening him
self in the wings. Il say, Pete" quer
led this young person, "how old do you
suppose she is anyway" We'll" re-
piled the Duchess, with one of his fin
est Catherine wheel gestures, Il should
net like to say SO for publication, but
just between us girls, don't you know,
| think she must be just about three
blocks above the Grand Central Depot.
New York Sun.
After three more weeks ". H. Gil
lette will retire from the cast OF
Secret Service" for the remainder of
the present season, and the play will
go or without him. In fact, it il
doubtful if he is ever again seen in
this drama, unless fer some special oc-
casiCn, as arrangements have already
been made to keep Secret Service
on the road next season, with a cast
that does net contemplate a star. Nj.
Gillette's forthcoming withdrawal viii
be made purely for the purpose Of
enabling him to devote himself without
interruption or distraction to the task
of dramatizing Conan Doyle's "Sher-
lock Holmes" 1t is expected that the
new Gillette work on this theme will
be ready for Use in the early autumn,
Gillette himself appearing as the
sleuth Of DR.. Doyles fervid fancy.
At the Chestnut Street Opera House
the past week we have had a. new play
called "The Last Chapter" 1t is we'll
named, because it is that, telling its
final words in its title. In the COM
pany playing there was Ellie Wilton,
lady Of ripening years, with a per-
/ scnal and peculiar degree Of interest.
She wasryesrs ago the leading woman
at the California Theatre, when John
Mccullough and Lawrence Barrett were
it's managers. She never was a good
actress nor even a pretty woman, but
she went about the business of the
stage in calm, practical way that
laid cool finger On the feverish pulse
Of that wild city, and more than the
sermons preached there held in check
is mad inclinations. 1t was a strange
position to occupy, and it GefieS the
contrasts that imagination can con-
ceive for purposes used in fiction. Il
the earlier days she saw at her feet
bags of gold dust, and in one of Bret
Harte'S stories she is the woman on
the stage in just such q scene. In the
company with her were many actors
famous then or afterward. J. c. viii.
Hanson and his wife, Maggie Moore;
Lewis Morrison, Thomas Keene, the
whole Thorne family, including the
Jordans and Mrs. judah, Frank Rea,
Sedley Smith, Joseph Grismer-well
who were not of the company? My
impression is that the woman played
everything from Lady Macbeth ana
Juliet to the farce parts in the farce
comedies like the big Bonanza" for
in those days San Francisco was a
spot on the globe, not a way station
from the capital to our eastern possess
sions. In other words, the railways
had not destroyed its individuality, |
and the city was the capital Of coun-
try which stood alone richer than any
other community of equal population
the world has ever known. 1t is. |
therefore, not strange that Ellie Will
ton wore stage dresses of greater cost
than any seen in the East, and used a |
basket to carry her diamonds. When |
and gold to buy their clothes in the |
East, and thereby get them on the |
coast before the Eastern fashions |
know local expiry, these men CT |
opulence gratified their liking for art |
of ali kinds elsewhere than in San |
Francisco, and Miss Wilton took her |
pace, too, and came East. In "The |
Last Chapter she played mother. |
Fancy. and to few who knew he
years ago and saw her now the swim
of years took a quicker beat and thed
fecouections q stronger Erast