Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-05-14
THEATRICAL ADJUSTMENTS.
]. II. Sothern Is 80 wears old.

~. Fl. SOCAern is 81 years OlQ.
Mrs. Leslie Carter will take cara
to London next spring.
Joseph HawOr. n will start next season
in play by Ernest Lacy
Rhea, who is dying, made her debut
when she was Is years of age.
Next season Maude Adams will con-
tinue to present THE Little Minister
Cissie Lotus has been engaged for
the Keith quadruple circuit of theatres.
Janauschek will enact Meg Merrilies
in fresh dramatization of Guy Man
nering.'
Julia Arthur will offer productions OF
Romeo and Juliet" and More Than
Queen
The New York Times says that the
new melodrama, Eve 'Uns OF Tennes-
see,' will not go.
Robert Drouet has been engaged to
support Viola Allen in 1.-THE Christian"
next season.
Helena Modjeska will use next season
a new play by Clinton Stuart, with
Marie Antoinette as its chief person
age.
Romeo and Juliet" "Adonis" and
two '.Uncle Toms Cabin companies
were among the New York attractions
last week.
Audran's lies Soeurs Gandichard"
has been secured for the Casino by
George w. Lederer This is the latest
of the Audran musical comedies.
Maurice Grau has sent Calve an offer
of $4,000 to sing here next year. He
has agreed to contract for sixty per-
formances at 81 500 a performance.
Sousa may lease Roster & Balls. 1t
will be called the Sousa Theatre and
all his operas will be sung there. His
band will play its New York engage
ment there.
In the vaudeville house Minnie Sell
lyman will appear in a one-act play
called "Therese." ''Therese" has not
been seen in America. 1t is French
play and has been done in Europe by
sara Berthardt.
Maude Adams will give twelve per-
formances of Romeo and Juliet in
New York this week. Next season she
will be seen in Twelfth Night or AS
You, Like It."
The telegram announcing the death
of Henry Miller's father was handed to
him just as he was about to go upon
the stage for the first performance OF
Hamlet" in Albany.
Frederick Warde will make an elab-
crate revival of Macbeth" the fea-
ture of his next seasons repertoire,
which will include 1.-The Merchant of
Venice" "The Lions Mouth" and prob
ably Francesca da Rimini.
Paderewski has nearly completed the
opera on which he has been working
for a long time. He announces that it
will be produced in Dresden next fall.
The subject of the opera is a score of
romantic gypsy life in the Carpathian
Mountains.
A new farcical comedy, entitled, His
Japanese Wife, by Clay M. Greene,
was given it's first production on any
stage, at the Alcazar Theatre, in San
Francisco, on Monday night. The play
deals with the subject of contract mar
riages in Japan.
A London musical comedy company
visiting Russia includes in its roper
toire "a Runaway Girl" "a Gaiety
Girl THE Shop Girl" "The Circus
Girl 'The Girl from Paris" can Art
lists Model and I'm TOWN. bunch
of girls. The players number seventy,
and they arrived in st. Petersburg with
eight and a half tons of scenery and
dresses.
.Maude Adams says Hillary Bell,
'is the first actress of note who has at
tempted to lend the charm of youth to
the character. We have had all sorts
of Juliets except young ones. Helen
Modjeska made her a grandmother.
Ellen Terry made her the possessor of
four husbands and Romeo as the fifth,
seemed to have an anxiety quite super
fuous in the circumstances. She was
eight and forty with Nine Pattie, forty
with Nine. Melba, over thirty with
Al mil I,
Nine. Sembrich, five and thirty with
Margaret Mather, thirty-eight with
Mrs. Potter and eight years younger
with Julia Marlowe. Maude Adams
has rescued Juliet from the white wo-
mans burden and placed Romeo's lady
at the sweet girl graduates period,
when her infatuation for him is reason
able"
Less than a dozen years ago the play
bills distributed to audiences in attend
ance on the performances given by the
RentZ- Santley organization in the
Grand Central Theatre-the house that
occupied the site of The Auditorium of
to-day-contained the name of George
w. Lederer as business manager, treas
urer, stage manager, lbrettist and
composer to the company In those
days the Rentz-Santley knew few RI
walls in its immediate line and was
easily the most distinguished and pop
ular of the so-called ''burlesque
troupes" which are legion in these
lays. And the managing, bust
ness-directing, money taking, libretto-
writing and music-composing Lederer
of that performance to-day is the pre-
ing genius of the Casino plays and the
best stage manager of extravaganza
in two continents. The writer's who
argue that the stage debases the pub
lie, rather than the public debases the
stage, are fond of holding Lederer up
to scorn as the impresario of The Ten
derloin; but he has been successful,
solely because he has given the public
what the public has wanted.-F. J.
Donaghey, in Philadelphia Item.
L haven't much faith as a general
thing in the loyalty of the American
public to its stage favorties l have
seen SO many instances where these
persons after few years of retirement
have undertaken to return to their call
ing, only to find themselves utterly for
gotten by their old admirers, that | am
NOT easily converted 10