Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-04-02

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Borough Theatre; Strafford, Nos niveI1:
Capacity Of theatre, e. 1904; Sir Heury
Irving's weak, E1,5S9; THE Geisha"
week, E1,314; Mr.. ESmond's week,
6 576: The Dandy Can" week. E490;
the week before that, s 400; Mr.. Lewis
Walters week las anticipatesi), E1.500.
"Cis Hopkins Wise Child" ID the
title Of a piece in which Rose Melville
Of by the Sad Sea Waves" company,
is to star next season. Meantime, she
will appear in the Keith quadrupie cir
Gle of theatres. She is the young wo-
man who appears wearing her hair in
pigtails and who remarks, Il don't be-
lieve in dom nuthin' fer nobody what
won't do nuthin' for you. Ye can't
never make nuthin' dom nuthin' for
nobody for nuthin,"
Members of the Professional Wo-
mems League will produce THE Mus
keteers" in New York, the cast being
composed Of women exclusively. Mary
Shaw will be D'Arta gnan, Ida Jeffreys
1OO0lllCAQ do OAlAOSs LiJoo y ca I~L
des as Athos and Alice Fairbrother
Weber as Aramis will don doubiet
with hose 10 personate the doughty
three who slash their way to glory.
MAZDA Craigen is cast for the pictur-
esque and wicked Milade, and Roselie
Knott VIII make play for seductive
masculinity as the amo-ous Duke OF
buckingham. This list of stars will
be completed by Janauschek, who will
appear as Richelieu.
A traveller who has recently return
ed from the Rivieta reports meeting
E. s. Willard. the actor, there in a
rather shattered condition. Mr.. Will
lard spent the first part of the winter
in Rome, where he seemed to be max
ing rapid progress toward recovery
from his long illness, but while driv-
ing his wife about the city one day
about six weeks ago the horses bolt
ed rIr. and Mrs. Willard were both
thrown out and Mrs. Willard quite SER
iously injured. Willard himself es-
capped with some bad bruises, but he
had received such a nervous shock
from the accident that he suffered re-
lapse The English actor has aban-
doned ali ideasof returning to the stage
before late next season.
There seems TO be a rage among the
stage writers Just at present for big
casts, and it is quite as irresistible as
the effort used to be to keep the number
OF characters down to the lowest pos
sible limit. In "Robespierre, the new
drama written for Henry Irving by
Victorien Sardou, there are sixty char
acters, and the programme for the new
Charles Coghlan production at the
Fifth Avenue will contain the names OF
no less than thirty-tive persons who
have speaking parts to play. 1t is SAID
that "Tne Man in the Moon" which is
being rehearsed at the New York
Theatre, will contain not less than
seventy-fve persons with lines TO
speak. Among the members of the
Coghlan Company are Robert Drouet,
Barton Hill, Charles Stanley, Claude
Brooke, James w. Rankson, Charles
Chappelle, Frank Tannehill, Sir, Mar
garet Anglin, Rose Eytinge and some
others quite we'll known, In Coghlan
play, "Citizen Pierre" four French
singers will discourse martial music in
the prison scene, where number or
men. condemned to death, are spending
their last hours in feasting and song.
"Cyrano's" earnings continue prodig-
ious. The average receipts since the
opening night have been $1,000. The
gross receipts so far, of the season.
have passed $250,000. Richard Mans
fields income, personally, for the Win
ter must be nearly $4,000. Before the
war Viola Allen had apparently so lit
tie drawing power that MI Frohman
dropped her from the Empire Com
pany. Yet with poor sort OF play
Miss Allen has taken in almost $780,
900, an inexplicable sum to be paid for
"The Christian" Viola Aliens income
as a star this winter has been near $780,
600, although Charles Frohman paid
her less than $4,000 a year at the
Empire Maude Adams has a good
play in THE Little Minister" This
is its second year, and the novelty has
worn off Barrie's comedy; yet the earn
ings of the piece since early last fall
have reached the enormous aggregate
CT over 100000. ''Zaza," another good
play with better actress, came to us
late in the winter: yet it has already
taken in 100000. John Drew has a
foolish play in THE Liars" yet it has
poured 100000 into the box Office.
Certainly, even an enthusiast could find
little merit in Catherine, yet it has
taken in S165,000. Secret Service" is
a fine play although cid enough to be
out of public favor; yet during the sea-
son William Gillette squeezed s1S0,O0O
more out of it. During his New York
season, which ended last night, Maui
rice Grau took in a trifle over $500, 900.
His engagement in our town lasted 1O1
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