Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-06-18
THEATRICAL ADJUSTMENTS.
Modieska smokes cigarettes.
1NIOUJCohel SIIIONOo NIoNfOVtNN.
Louie Freear earns $500 a week.

Modjeska smokes cigarettes.
Louie Freear earns $500 a week.
Maude Granger is to appear in vaude
Vile
Monroe & Mack have been engaged
| for the Rogers Brothers show for next
season.
Master Joseph O'Hara, an American
boy tenor, has contracted to begin an
engagement at the Palace Theatre,
London, September 4.
The Lambardi Italian Grand Opera
Company from Milan is in Frisco. Two
| comic opera companies are there also.
Elita Proctor Otis may go starring
along toward the middle of next sea-
son.
There would be fewer wife-beaters,
fewer divorces, fewer households brok-
Ell up and fewer loving hearts cruel
| ly sundered if the women who are
wives had learned to make bread as
good as Mary Anderson's.-Albany
Knickerbocker.
An English operate trilogy is being
constructed on the legend of King Ar
thur by Mr.. Money-Coutts as poet and
Mr.. Albenir as composer. The plays
will be called Merlin, Launched
and "Guinevere."
Cissie Lotus will probably play the
leading part in the musical comedy
which is to open the New York Bijou
Theatre in August This is the piece
that is being adapted by Stanislaus
STANCE, with music by Reginald de
Koven. 1t is to be called 'The Five
Little Barnett Sisters" and will be per-
sonallv directed by George W. Led
erer.
4 Mascagni's father, who was a jour
/ neyman baker till his son wrote
i "Cavalleria Rusticana," has just died
i at Leghorn.
Augustus Thomas latest play, "Ari-
zona," acted in Chicago Monday night,
deals incidentally with the Spanish
war Its hero is young cavalry lieu
tenant stationed at Fort Grant when
hoetilitios begin.
The Kelcey-Shannon Company pro-
duced a play in San Francisco without
a name, and judging from all accounts
it suffered from other deficiencies. 1t
depicted Southern life. Effie Shannon
---ac ? wong Girl who fell in love with
Kelley, although she thought he might
possibly be her own father, who had
I disappeared many years before. But
he was in reality only an adopted son
and no relation to his betrothed.
The longest term enjoyed in New
York this year by any star and play
that of Mrs. Leslie Carter in 'Zaza,
closed last night "Zaza" contains 81
600 spoken words, and she utters 27 600
of them, often with violent physical as
we'll as mentally arduous expression.
That is a much as to deliver, with all
the stress of oratory fourteen solid
columns of this newspaper, and how
many public speakers could do that
seven times week during six months?
81 have" said David Belasco, been
quietly storing up considerable mater
ial in the way of new plays for some
time past, so that when my theatre is
ready | shall be prepared to encounter
possible failure. 1t now looks as
though the doors of this playhouse
would be thrown open early in the au-
tumn of 1900. The opening production
will be my own new play, in which
Mrs Leslie Garter will have the lead
ing character
You have often been made aware of
the carriage nuisance at theatres, the
bawling, crowding. pushing, cursing.
The basement of my house should be
a huge carriage drive The visitors
would be driven down an inclined plane
under the theatre. From there an ele-
vator would take them to any part of
the house, while the horses below
could be unhitched and put into stalls.
On wintry nights it wous<. save horses.
carriages and men. AS it is, many peo-
pie owning valualftc- horses hire others
sooner than expose their own to these
long waits in the SATISFACTORILY
Citizen.
Straight from Bunker Hill comes the
rumor that Lulu Glaser's pretty feet
have been at last caught in the net of
the snarer, and that she will shortly
| become the wife of a Boston gentle
man. Rumor furthermore particular
ICES that the happy man is very
wealthy very scholSrly, very Ply
mouth Rock as to religion and lineage,
and also (alas!D ve@S aged. can't
! quite picture the effervescent Lulu as
an old mans darling, but Cupid plays
odd tricks sometimes, and the merriest
| marks for his vagaries seem to be
prima donnas.-New York Telegraph.
81 have four librettos in the docks, .
said Hugh Morton. "Two of them be-
long to the category of light rather
than trifing pieces, and the third is of
a higher order, as least as far as in
tent is concerned Thsn have nearly
finished a comedy iTamn with an
American subject, which, I hope. will
establish me as a PLAYWRIGHT That.
| however, is quite another matter and
| belongs. as yet. in dreamland am a
bit weary of The Belle of New York.
and 1 gave hand-organ grinder sew
eral shillings only yesterday in order
to secure his promise that he would
cease playing Mr. Kerker's melodies in
! the opera Immediately under my win
dow"
1t has been whispered for some time
that the well known horseman, Colonel
! Williams. Of San Francisco. was the
hacker of pretty little Alice Nelson and
Of the opera company that goes under
her name. Unlike most outsiders who