Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-06-11


A play running iust now in Paris has
the odd spectacle of grandmother and
granddaughter acting in the same piece.
The former is MINNIE. Marie Laurent.
the original Nine. Raquin in Zola's
"Therese Raquin."
Miss Nellie Victoria Parker and Miss
Sadie Kirby will be seen soon in a new
sketch by Joseph Standish entitled
Teaching Him a Lesson" 1t is said
to be a musical novelty. They will
present it in the leading vaudeville
houses.
Another Chinese melodrama will be
before the public early in the coming
season. II is- called TINE queen Vi
Chinatown" and will have its first pro-
duction in New York August 81. The
play will be produced by Samuel Blair,
and Albert "A. Lovett has been engaged
as business manager.
Some one writes to ask If the actress
who took off her shoes and stockings
in "Weuns of Tennessee" and waded
the mountain brook actually barred
her extremeities or did she wear flesh
ings? The souorette was real and
earnest. The feet and upward that she
showed were her own. Her loyalty to
her role was complete, and, besides,
they were not such members as would
Shrink from publicity for lack OF con-
fidence in themselves.-New York Sun.
D'Ennerty's real name was Jacob.
He was a semi-Jew, and the son OF a
dealer in old clothes. His mother
was the grand daughter of an Irish
volunteer named Henry, who probably
gave the rough pronunciation to his
name adopted by the unedueated Irish,
and made it lHennery. He wrote 200
plays, including 1.-THE Two Orphans"
Lizzie Creese, mother OF Victory
Bateman, died at New York on Monday
last. She was to have played in Too
Much Johnson" at the Star last night
Her part was taken by Marie Haynes.
Lizzie Creese was the wife of John
Burke, an actor. She had been on the
stage for thirty-fve years, appearing
with Mary Anderson, Mrs. John Drew
and many other famous players.
Joseph Herbert, the comedian, sailed
on the st. Paul last week to complete
arrangements with Frank Williams for
the production OF his play, THE Man
From Borneo,' in London. Mr.. Her
bert will play here again next autumn
in Alice Nelson's company.
De Wolf Hopper may present "El
Captain" in London.
Nethersole earned S4S,000 the past
season. Frederick de Relieville may be
seen in her production of "Sappho.'
L The cast of Wild Oats" the musical
farce from the French, by Henry B.
x.yil1 IL m, nalr Mol.
Gilman. Harry Davenport, Phyllis Ran
kin, Marie George, Joseph Carthorne
and Thomas @, Seabrooke.
Manager Ambefg has arranged for
the return to New York next season Of
Marie Geistinger, who will appear for
the first time in many years in serious
roles. She will play "Adrienne Le-
couvreur,' Deborah" Marie Stuart"
and Elizaheth in Graf Essex"
Otis Harlanis father used to be post
master at GAINESVILLE, O.
Alb, Wilbur paid $4,000 in cash for
the Peoples Theatre, Toledo.
Close resemblance have already
been found between Sardous Robe
sphere" and "Thermidor," which has
not yet been given in England So
nearly alike are the two plays that the
author is said to have used freely parts
of the earlier work. which will proba
bly, never be given in England.
New York has six roof gardens.
"Charley's Aunt" has been played
400 times in Paris.
Kyrle Bellew and Mrs. Potter acted
together for the first time in months at
charity matinee in London the other
day. They save the balcony scene
from Romeo and Juliet
Anent "The Belle of New York" a
Melbourne (Australia) critic says:
Australians don't liks American
plays, American artists, American hui
NOR, nor much of anything in any
shape that is American"
The bid of 10000 of Blanche Walsh
for the jewels of the late Fanny Daven-
port has been accepted by the execu-
tors of the actress estate
At the Fete of Flowers. held in Paris
last Sunday, gold medal was pre-
scented to Anna Held, as reward for
her conduct in being the most beautiful
woman in France.
At the Actors Fund yesterday it was
said that Florrie West was in no dan
ger of becoming insane. She had been
undergoing treatment for a tumor of
the brain that rendered her forgetful,
butt 1T was hoped she would be all
right again in few months. She will
probably be taken to Stamford, Conn,
to spend the summer. New York Her
aid.
Domestic infelicity," sayes A. H.
Hummel, the New York lawyer. lis as
rare among actors and actresses as in
the most secluded and conservative So
ciety. My experience has proven to me
that there is more virtue in the theat-
rlcal profession and less cause for dis
order among actors than there are in
the ranks of the wealthy society peo-
pie. OF course it must be conceded
that woman on the stage is more ex-
posed to temptation than her sisters in
private life, and also that the nomadic
character of their lives makes home
lie the exception. But actors and act
resses work hard. Their time is pretty
fully taken up with their profession
and they have no time to think of
amours and intrigues."
1t is said that Francis Wilson will
appear in comic musical version of
"Cyrano de Bergerac."
William P. Carleton. son of William
7. Carleton, recently married Miss
Toby Claude, who Is playing Fiji in
the London cast Of THE Belle of New
York"
A negro used to stand in the lobby os