Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-02-12

| huOWu quite ldfoFdDly III the VauQ6-
vile theatres as Melville and Stetson,
also drew apart. News comes to me
from St. Louis, says Leander Richard
son, that Hopkins and Gumpertz have
settled their differences, and that Mel
vile and Stetson will again return to
the variety theatres, beginning with
the Hopkins circuit. Hopkins and
Gumpertz will shortly go into business
again as partners and will probably
have theatre in st. Louis. Gumpertz
is at present managing the Imperial
Theatre in the city named, where he
has a strong stock company.
The theatrical business, not only in
| New York, but all around the country,
continues to be literally enormous,
and it is evident that present season
will be quite the greatest on record
in this or any other country. 1t may
be indeed that if the prosperous condi-
tons which now characterize the
United States are maintained, the thea
tire tariff will be advanced in all the
best theatres of all the leading cities
1t would not surprise me at all if in the
course of the next very few years the
best seats in the New York theatres
should command $3.50 apiece, which is
the price of stalls in the first-class
London playhouses.-L Richard
son in New York Telegraph.
Louis James daughter is member
of Frohman Catherine company.
Andrew Mack is to have a drama by
Franklin Fyles. Rich & Harris have
| signed a contract with the playwright,
providing for a spectacular production
early next year. Meanwhile Mr.. Mack
will appear this spring in The Last Of
the Rohans,' by Ramsay Morris.
The Paris Opera House has 2,166
| seats.
John Oliver Hobbs (Mrs. Craigie),
author of THE Ambassador" is writ.
ing a new comedy.
! Beatrice Harraden, author CT Ships
That Pass in the Night has caught
the prevailing fever and is writing a
| play.
Charles Frohman has secured the
English and American rights to the
! latest successful Partisan farce, Georges
/ Feydeau's La Dame Ches Maxims.'
| Nine enths OF an actors life, says
George Moore, must be given up to
rubbish; rubbish is the fare OF the
multitude, and it is the multitude that
enables the actor to keep the roof over
| his head; but he should reserve tenth
part OF his life for himself-for his art
! LOie Fuller is in London. ....
| Nethersole is to appear in Budapest
Vienna, Berlin and St. Petersburg.
| Time was when beauty of PERSON was
not less essential to the leading man
than to the leading woman of the play
Lester Wallace, Edwin Booth, Harry
Montague, Osmond Tearle, Herbert
Kelley, Robert Mantell, Henry Miller,
and Kyrle BelleW were famous for their
good looks. The ladies loved those
| actors tenderly and bought tickets to
see them enthusiastically, and during
| several decades the drama was cele-
| brated for its natural as we'll as artis-
| tic graces. Nowadays handsome men
draw no higher salaries than are paid
| to their less fortunate fellows. The
| Empire Theatre dropped Henry Miller,
| who was q professional beauty, and &C.
| cepted as his successor William Faver-
| sham, who is a hOmely man. Herbert
| Kelley long renowned as the chief or
nameEt Of the Lyceum, gave place to
| Mr.. Hackett, WHO is not beauty, and
| that actor in turn was succeeded by
Edward Morgan, who is by no means
an Apollo. THE Turtle" ran for nearly
two hundred nights, although its lead
/ ing man, w. J. Ferguson, is positively
| hOmely, and John Drew, equally bar
ren Of physical charms, remains a pop
ular star.-Hillary Bell in New York
! Press.
Next Wednesday evening, on the &C.
casion of the one hundredth perform
ance of ''Trelawney of the Wells" at
| the Lyceum Theatre, New York, Man
ager Daniel Frohman will present to
each woman in the audience a hand
somely bound and illustrated copy of
the acting edition Of Mr.. PinerO's COM
edy. There are about dozen ilustra-
lions, with a cOlored vignette of Miss
Mannering as Rose Trelawney.
E. J. Malyon, who arrived on the
steamship St Louis Sunday, under
contract to Liebler & Co., to produce
Sidney Grundy's play, The Musket-
| GERS" said last night that the play
would be presented at the Broadway
Theatre, New York, as Beerbohm Tree
is presenting it at Her Majesty's Thea
tire. The play is not divided into acts,
but is presented in ten tableaus. There
are three intermissions of ten minutes
each, and seven instantaneous dark
changes.
Messrs Brady and Ziegfeld last week
signed a contract with Aubrey Boucicault
| by which they secure the American rights
! to "A Court of Scandal" produced at the
Court Theatre London, January "a. The
! play is a romantic one adapted by Aubrey
| Boucicault and Oswald Shilingford from
| the French of MN Bayard and Dumanoir
| Its central figure is Richelieu, not as the
| grim and subtle cardinal. but as the dash
| ing lad of 10, full OF aspirations. An elab-
crate production of this comedy will be
| son, and Aubrey Boucicault who is under
! contract with Brady & Ziegfeld for a term
! Of three years will appear as the youthful
| Due de RichelielA
A fund has been started to erect a mon
ument to Beethoven at Baden near Vien-
| ma, where the master spent most of his
summers and where he wrote some of his
! greatest works.
| Siegfried Wagner's opera, 1.-THE Idler,"
was produced with success ct Munich a
| fortnight ago He is the author of the
| libretto and the composer of the score
| The work in its treatment is on the lines
established by his father in his musical
dramas. The story is that of a young
! soldier who returns from the Thirty
| Years War" and becomes disguised with
| the Indifference of his fellow citizens, ac-
cepts the offer of Satan to shovel coal