Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-05-28
THEATRICAL ADJUSTMENTS.

Zangwill's Children of the Ghetto"
Will be acted in New York on Octo-
Der 20.
Mrs. Clifford, the novelist, has had
a play accepted by Mrs. Kendall for
production in the fall
Alice Nelson cody left an under
study in her place during half an hour
OF a performance at Chicago theater
while she went to sing at banquet
Her absence was explained to the audi
ence, but no rebate was offered.
Amy Lees mother has been admitted
to the Forrest Home.
Those who saw Annie Russell on the
steamer when she sailed for London
saw how i'll she looked 1t came as no
surprise to them that she was unable
to appear there in The Mysterious Mr.
Bugle.' She has gone to Margate,
where she will rest. When her health
is restored she will perhaps play in
London, as originally intended.
Robert Drouet will be Viola Aliens
chief companion in THE Christian"
next season.
John Drew will use "The Tyranny of
Tears" and the author, Haddin Cham
bers, may come over to see the first
performance here.
Henry Lee Will be in ben Hur."
Jerome Sykes is to be a star in
"Chris and the Wonderful Lamp" by
Broadhurst and Sousa.
Laurence Irving. Sir Henry's son,
who translated Sardou's "Robespierre,"
has been collaborating with Thomas
Hesselwood lately. A result is ''The
Lion and the Unicorn" a one-act piece,
accepted by Weeden Grossmith. The
action is in the time of Charles II in
England. They are now writing ro-
mantle historical drama designed for
Julia Marlowe-Taber and Robert
Taber The understanding in New
York, however, is that Mr. and Mrs.
Taber are not likely to ever act to-
gether again.
Winifred Arthur Jones, daughter OF
Henry Arthur Jones, played the leading
part in her fathers play, "The Man
oeuvres of Jane" at Cambridge lately.
Many London actors and managers
went by a special train to see her. The
card scene from THE Masqueraders"
was given also.
Sembrich will be heard in Faust"
"Lohengrin" and "Die Miestersinger"
next season.
Gladys Wallis, the actress, who has
been playing with William H. Crane.
was married on Tuesday last to Samuel
insult of Chicago.
Julia Marlowe will sail for England
on May 81 Mr. Taber is to remain in
Vermont until he shall have recovered
his health.
Miss Eleanor Calhoun kept Mrs Bur-
Of n5,o tx,'' 7,ryIf !,
satge six weeks.
The business of writing about the
stage and its people is irksome and
thankless, at its best, and no man can
long pursue that vocation in an intel
ligent and Independent spirit without
concentrating upon himself the ma
lignant hatred and vituperation of all
the fools, ounces. liars, and black
guards in the land.-New York Tri-
bune.
Francis Wilson has secured for his
opening attraction at the Knickerbock-
er theatre, New York, September II.
new opera, the libretto of which will be
written by Harry B. Smith, while Vic
tor Herbert viii furnish the music.
Victor Herbert will remain in New
York during the entire summer in or
der to complete the opera, and the
others which he is composing for Miss
Alice Nelson and Frank Daniels.
"A bout December" says Bernhardt.
81 hope to have 'Aiglon. Rostand's new
drama, ready for production. In that
case | expect to play it during the
exposition. OH another 'Cyrano2'
eyes. only more beautiful, more lofty,
more enthralling, for the play centres
around the son of Napoleon, the young
Due de Reichstadt, q being full of pa
thetic fascination through his youth,
his loneliness and the ruin among
which he moved"
Olga Nethersole produced "The Prof
ligate" in New York Monday last. The
evil behavior which causes the sorrows
in this play has occurred many years
before. Only the consequences are
shown TO Us. A profligate bachelor
has become a respectable husband.
His wife is an embodiment Of personal
purity. She would never have married
him If she had not thought his record
as clean as her own. But il Is smirch-
ed with disloyalty to a trustful girl.
He loves his wife fondly and is faithful
TO her. His present virtue Is sufficient
atonement, he seems TO believe, for his
past sins. But the girl has not ESCAPED
from her transgression so easily. She
suffers a while quite as though she
were deseryedly social outcast in
stead of being penitent sufferer from
one mans profligaey. After a while
she finds a refuge in the household of
that very man. This is in bis absence.
however, and neither she nor the kind
III usfa Gnar< that fha cstxxn<t1r -
portentous The girl wins the honest
love OF the wife's brother. and then.
unable to abuse the hospitality she has
enjoyed, tells her benefactress why she
is unfit TO marry the young vooer.
exposed to his wife not wittingiy b.
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