Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-12-10

What Did Tomkins Do" is TO be
produced by Harry Corson Clarke.
Ben Hur" will run for a year in
New York. For gallery admission
spectators are exacting $l.50.
Kyrle Bellew has acquired the entire
rights of Harry Hamilton's dramati-
zation of Monte Cristo."
William H. Crane. the actor, and
Mr.. Joseph Brooke, his manager, will
dissolve partnership at the end of the
present season.
Kate Davis, of "The Chinese Ro-
nance company, was stricken with
paralysis while alone in her room at
Washington the other night. The stroke
is believed to be the result of a fall
from street car.
"a Warm Baby" in which Hope
Booth is to go starring next season,
is the work of Charles E. Blaney and
Charles A. Taylor. Taylor Is the au-
thor of that stirring epic, THE King
of the Opium Ring"
Della Fox last week had the first
reading Of her new play, and she was
much pleased with it. She has shown
unexpected recuperative powers, G1d is
anxious to get to work again as soon
as possible.
The Ehzabethan Stage Society acted
Richard the Second" The characters
were dressed in Elizabethan costume
and the performance followed the de-
scriptions contained in contemporaries
Gus records.
Mrs. George Gould edith Kingdom
is to return to the stage. She will APP
pear in private theatricals, for which
elaborate preparations are making.
There will be a very clever leading man
in these plays in the person OF the
Duke of Manchester. who WILL of
course, be one of the guests.
Send Her Victorious" is the latest
British melodrama founded on the
Transvaal war. The spectacular climax
of the piece is an attack by the Beers
on an armored train. The same incl
dent is used in "Sons of the Empire,
which deals also with the Transvaal
war.
1t is said Mr.. Mansfield wanted Ada
Rehan to become a co-joint star with
him. or, perhaps, more correctly, his
leading lady. But it was not to be.
Miss Rehan could not see it in that
light. Hence the drop Of the curtain
in the midst of Miss Gray's most ef-
fective scene-New York Telegraph.
Solaret, the dancer. will not go to
the Klondike. She recently received
an offer of a very large salary, to-
gether with the payment of transpor-
tation out and back. But when she
discovered that she would have to walk
over about five hundred miles of the
distance she concluded to remain in
America.
The Prince of Wales is said to have
objected to nothing in Captain Mar
shall's "a Royal Family" but the wear
ing Of the Order of the Garter by the
queen-mother in the play Queen Vie
toria Is the only woman who wears that
order and the Prince is said to have
considered the realism unnecessary.
On Thursday last Anzengruber's play,
Der Pfarrer Won Kirchfeld." was pre-
scented at the Irving Place Theatre,
New York. The performance was CIV
en- in commemoration Of the tenth an
niversary of the death Of the Austrian
poet, and a part of the receipts will
be turned over TO a fund for erecting
a monument on his grave
R. D. Johnston, who is organizing
company to support Miss Mary Sanders
in Little Nell and the Warehouses"
a dramatization of Dickens "Old Curl
osity Shop" announces that he has en-
gagged for the cast Harry Lacy, Felix
Morris, William Seymoure, Miss Maud
Banks, Miss Lily Eldridge. Miss Flora
Fairchild, Junius Brutus Booth, Chas.
Stanley and Augustus Anderson.
The claQue seems as strongly en-
frenrhed as ever in Paris deSDite the
frequent reports that it is to be abol-
ished Everybody connected with the
theatres there. from the managers
down to the least important actors, de-
nounces the institution, but it survives
all attacks. One of the chiefs recently
declared that the actors were indebted
to the claque for calling attention to
their best efforts. and that the drama
fists most stirring scenes would fall
Dat without the applause OF the claQue