Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-05-07

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year.
Miss Pillar NORM will begin her starr
ing tour in Ma Cousine" in Washing
ton, D. c., on May p.
Trilby' was played in German in
New York last week.
Marion Manola last week brought
legal action against John Mason. She
declares a wealthy widow has alienated
his affections.
! pastoral play by j. C. Nugent, call
ed Just a Common Man. has been
accepted by Robert Downing.
Ellie Fay. daughter of Hugh Fay.
and Charlie Barry, son of the late
William Barry. hare concluded TO join
forces and do an act in the vaudeville
| business.
The Flying Jordan show are in Man.
ia. They have played Burmah, Pen
ang, Sumatra and Singapore. From
Manila they go to Siam. This com
! pany started from the United States 10
go around the world
Edwin Milton Royle and Selma Fet-
ter Royle have signed contract to APP
| pear exclusively in the Keith houses In
| the cities where Mr.. Keith has theatres
during the years of 1899 and 1900.
THE Kings Outcast" is the latest
Dickens play to be announced in Lon
/ den. 1t is dramatic version of Great
Expectations Wilson Barrett is to
/ occupy the Lyceum Theatre during
| Henry Irving's tour in this country and
! will produce there a melodrama of Lon
don life written by him and L. n. Par
/, ker, as well as a Biblical play called
Pharaoh" described as a great success
in this country.
! Coquelin's father was baker in Bou-
logne, and his highest ambition was 10
| see his son an honest tradesman like
himself. Coquelin was made a societaire
two years after he gained his Conserva-
toire prize and first made himself I'M
popular in the Coincide Franchise by
his extreme industry. He would insist
upon giving special performances in
the provinces, and once when he had
announced a Sunday evening appear
ance at Rouen a matinee was given at
the Franchise in order to thwart him.
But he acted in Paris. took the express
for Rouen and kept his engagement
there that night.
A prominent soubrette playing in one
of the Western cities was bewailing the
fact that she had no diamonds. The
few tina. i had" she remarked discon-
solately, were hooked that time | was
laid up with peritonitas in Pittsburg.
"Oh, WELL. encouragingly ventured a
sister in art. don't worry about that.
You know what Charlotte Cushman
said when some one was admiring her
/ jewels?' No; what did she say?"
Miss Cushman acknowledged their
| beauty, but said she priced them cheif-
/ ly because she had honestly earned
every cent that went to pay for them. :"
IN. Y. Telegraph.
The next ballet to be given at the
| Grand Opera House in Paris is to be
] called 1.-The Dance of the Jewels"
/ In one scene the dancing will not be
/ done by living beings, but by mani
mate objects representing various pre-
! cious stones, and illuminated by cleo
tricity. The mechanism devised to
manipulate these is said to be the most
! ingenious. Any ballet given at the
| Paris Opera is certain to be we'll done.
1t is, in fact the only place where bal
| lets with story and original music are
| given, and where the enhancing, lovely
| dance can be seen according to the
!, traditions Of art. 1.-THE Dance of the
| Jewels will not be merely spectacu-
| lar There will be point and plot to
/ the scenes, and the music has been
! written by a composer worthy of the
| Grand Opera. After seeing the real
! Paris Opera ballet, Americans always
! say, "Oh, why can't we have this in
! Boston," New York, Chicago, or wher-
| ever they hail from. We have every
| thing in or out of skirt dances, but the
| real ballet of European theatres, and
| to say they cannot be given with profit
| here seems an imputation on the pub
| lies taste. Some day we shall get back
! to this ideal form of the old dance.
/ How truly perfect grace and its witch
| cry of movement are appreciated Is
| evident when such lovely little dancer
| as Papinta is upon the stage. She new
er fails to win the plaudits of all spec
| tators. and when she floats across the
stage at Keith's it is like the passing
| Of vision Of jewels and flowers. While
we have little Papinta to bewitch us
We must be coItent.-Boston Herald.
Gustave Salyini, son of the great
| Tommaso Salvini, is now in Rome
with his classic repertoire. Tommaso
k9cilN III, w Lo hhO8S " iiht ilC 10 1tty III 8,
/ is of the opinion that his son, Gustive,
is better fitted for the classic drama
than any other Italian actor In fact,
| Gustave Salvini is classic himself in
| his tall, stately person. his Greek pro-
| file, and all his synpathies are for the
classics. as he has told me in a short
| visit | have lately had from him. Lat
terly he played Saul-one of his faith
ers greatest parts-and his father gave
him his support by playing David to
| his Saul, and their point success sur
passed all expectations. This was In
Florence, but the performance Is to be
| repeated here very soon. You will
be surprised to see my father" said
| Gustave Salvini to me. He does not
| look more than thirty years of age as
David, while | look his father as
| Saul" Oedipus, however. is Gustive's
pet play, and he has achieved an ex-
traordinary success in it here In
Rome. Gustive Salvni is not nov
ice. He appeared in Rome some years
ago. when quite young man, and even
then was successful. But now he has
come to us as a star with a repertoire
| comprising Hamlet. Othello, Oedipus
The Tanning of the Shrew, Romeo and
Juliet. Restes. Tartuffe, Nero, Kean and