Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-01-22

ment 81 $4,000 81 $4,000. Where.
then, does our erratic neighbor ind
proof for its mathematic calculations?
1t instances Tristan and Isolde" as a
performance costing $4,000. Let us see
about that. M. Jean, $500; Nine.
Nordica, $1,000; Nine. Brema, $500; M.
Edouard, $500; David Bispham, $3.50;
Mr.. Pringle, 500. There is 1850 for
the principals. By what system of fig
uring unknown even to Euclid can the
Herald make out that the chorus and
orchestra cost $3.50? Chorus singers
at the Metropolitan earn SIS week
and fiddlerS in the orchestra receive
from S. to 81 night. All told the
expenses of Tristan und Isolde" do not
run over $4,000. 1t draws into the box
Office $4,000 on an ayerage.-New
York Press.
Christine Nilsson recently visited
her native village. She first went TO
the little home of her father, called
Snugge, and babe all the neighborhood
to a grand entertainment CottloSa,
another village, was her next destina-
ton, and there she put up at the inn
where forty-five years ego she had
sung, barefooted child, for pennies
from the passers-by.
1t is said that Nat Goodwin is
thinking of going to England in the
spring, if Charles Frohmans theatre
can be secured. If he goes he will give
1.-The Cowboy and the Lady" by Clyde
Fitch, as the English like local Amer
lean roles, but would not care for the
plot of Nathan Hale, in which the
British are villains.
wolfe Tone new play, has scored
hit in Dublin.
beerbohm Tree thinks Of giving a
review" at the end of this season, to
mark the end of the century, to string
/ on central dramatic thread a series
of tableaux illustrating the march OF
civilization for 100 years. The cos
TUNES will probably change with the
decade.
San Lin" an opera on the subject
of the Chinese play, 1.-THE Cat and the
Cherub," the libretto of which is by
Mr.. Henry Blan and the music by Mr..
Victor. Hollaender, the conductor of
the Coronet Theatre, will be performed
for the first time at the Stadt Theatre,
Breslau, in the course of the month.
Calves mother was a dressmaker.
Madame Adelina Patti is the author
of the autobiography in a recent num-
mer of the Map" She tells us that
| the first thing she remembers doing
was saying her prayers at night, and
she adds: I'm all the years that have
| interviewed since those days-or, rather
nights, of my early memories have
never missed saying my prayers before
going to bed. Madrid was my birth
place, and my mother was we'll known
! singer, Catherine Cheisa, who, at fif-
| teen years of age, married her teacher,
M. Barilli. Her second marriage was
with my father, Salvatore Patti, a mem
Der of one of the first families of Ca
| tania, Sicily. 1t has enormously and
| constantly been stated that my father
was a professional singer by tradition
! and environment. AS matter of fact,
| his connection with the profession of
music was quite accidental; the pos
session of very beautiful voice drew
him, through the persuasion of his
| friends, to the stage, with which, how
| ever, no other member of his family
| had any association. 1t has already
! been confessed for me that Rossini is
| my favorite master, that Charles
| Dickens is the main inspiration of my
fondness for reading, and that the hui
man qualities l most admire are hon.
esty in man and faith in a woman"
| Purity" Butter is clean, wholesome
and delicious. 1t is now the most pop
I