Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-01-08
THEATRICAL ADJUSTMENTS.

1
Paris recently witnessed the first
| performance of ten important plays in
one week.
Sandow, the strong man, who re-
| Gently discovered that he had a voice,
is now in training as basso singer
| The negro cake walk, which has
waned in favor here, is tickling Lon
don nightly in farces, extravaganzas
and vaudeville.
| The revival of Shenandoah" has
| been so successful this season for Jacob
Lift that he has determined to continue
1t next year upon the same scale of
magnificence and with big cast.
| A stage version of THE Sorrows of
| Satan, just produced in London, is
| called ''Lucifer, Son of the Morning"
1t has only three acts, and ends with
| the death of the unfaithful wife.
The latest means of advertising the
! aires and newspapers in London is to
send up stationary balloons at night
with large letters panied on the out
| side and electric lights within.
London is getting as a spectacular
feature of the Barnum & Bailey show
a representation of New York harbor
and day at Coney Island. The water
| is real and the boats are actual float
| ers.
| Otis Skinner, who is with the Jeffer-
| son comedy company will, when his
| engagement with the organization is
| completed, star in Rosemary" the
play in which John Drew and Maude
| Adams were seen two seasons ago.
| Peggy Pryde guessed at the winner of
big annual horse race at Melbourne
| Australia, in a concert hall song the
night before, and it proved a straight
| tip. The winners made tremendous
demonstration at the theatre after
| VIZ as.
Henry Irving has gone to Bourne
| mouth, health resort on the southern
| coast OF England and does not expect
to act again before March. / e hopes
TO reorganize his company then and re-
| turn to the London Lyceum for pro-
duction of "Cyrano de Bergerac."
Two actors have written plays for
their own stellar use next season.
Willie Collier has just entered the
field OF dramatic authorship, and Chas.
Coghlan has another self-produced
| manuscript lying in his trunk, which
| will come out when THE Royal Box"
has been depleted.
The latest play to fail in London was
Milford Sir Smith" 1t was the work
of no less than four men. Henri de
Gorse and Georges Elwel wrote it in
| French. Adrian Ross and George ID.
Gray put it in English. E. Jakobowski,
whom we know as the composer of
'Erminie, provided the music. Ar
thur Roberts, prime London favorite,
| had the laaHiYIor rOIo NpuOPt bo1o z
was fasco.
The Folies Bergeres, the Paris
| vaudeville theatre where American Wis
| itors are astonished to find performers
| from this country, is to be rebuilt, with
modern stage, an auditorium of I'M
usual size and a winter garden at
| ;ached.
Agnes Ethel once favorite actress
| in the companies of Palmer and Daily,
| now Mrs. Clinton Roudebush of Buff
falo, has given $500 a year to the Ac-
tors Fund and says she will do so
| once year as long as she lives
Joseph Jefferson will begin his spring
tour at Jacksonville, Fla, on April g
Meanwhile four of his sons are now en-
deavoring to fill the void caused by his
absence from rip Van Wrinkle"
tIlS MP, w lllldU the COCK
les, Charles B.. the Vedder and the
junior Joseph the Derrick. Edna
Carey and Blanche Bender, daughters
in-law OF the veteran comedian, are the
Gretchen and the Meenie. This Jeffer-
son family company played at the open
ing of the Jefferson Theatre at Port
land, Me.
Charles Hoyt will have "a Dog in
the Manager" ready to be performed in
Boston in March. 1t is said to be in
| a line with his earlier plays of rural
| life. c. M. S. Mcclellan has completed
piece named Across the Pond" 1t
will be presented simultaneously here
and in London. William Gillette has
| resumed work on a Conan Doyle detec-
tive drama. the first draft of which
| was burned in the Baldwin Hotel fire
| in San Francisco. Paul NJ. Potter is
hard at it with a piece meant for the
Empire.
| Mrs. James Brown Potter has recov-
cred from serious illness and will
! soon act again with Beerbohm Tree in
THE Three Musketeers. Sir Henry
| Irving has transferred finally to Charles
Wyndham the English rights to ICY
rano de Bergerac," as he would not
/ DS dBlS W Pr QUNS Tie play lOI some
time, and remembers the fate of Mime.
| Sans Gene which was not given in
London until three years after its first
! performance in Paris. The next play
to be done by Mr. Wyndham will be
from Haddon Chambers pen, and is
said to differ materially from all the
dramatist's previous works. 1t is to
be called THE Tyranny of Tears" and
will contain only five characters
| Mascagni's greatest passion and de-
| light is to conduct an orchestra. for
| which he himself says he has natural
| talent. But what is more interesting
| is to watch Mascagni composing his
works. His wife, Signora Lima, Mimi
! CHS eldest boy). Dino (another SOM,
| and Emilia (his little daughterl. all
| have their parts in it. When the
maestro is feverishly writing notes and
| rushing to the piano to catch an in
| spiration, his wife follows him to and
| fro, while the children climb on mis-
| knees, he unconsciously running his
fingers through their curls As spon
| as he has fixed on melody he gathers
th9 children IN his arms and they all
roll indiscriminately on the floor, the
sRputs, bumps, laughter, tears making