Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-10-15
THEATRICAL ADJUSTMENTS.

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| William Winter, the distinguished
| theatrical reviewer for the New York
Tribune, writes to a Detroit friend that
| 1.-The only powerful acting now to be
seen in New York is Mrs. Fiske's
Becky Sharp
! Robert Taber (Julia Marlowe's hus-
band) will play the title role in Darcy
! of the Shipman" Mr. Taber will, of
course, take the part Of Major Darcy,
a fascinating young Irishman who
| comes to this country during the war Of
the Revolution, serves on the staff Of
| Lord CORVALLIS and falls in leve with
a Philadelphia girl.
The time for ridiculing the "ten.
twenty and thirty cents" combinations
has passed. The theater-goers are
given generous measure for their mon
ey. The repertoire of plays presented
jail have a more healthy trend than the
insidious decoctions so frequently dished
out to the higher priced theaters.-
Matelot, in Des Moines Leader.
The average negro who secures en-
| gagements on the roof gardens and in
the music halls wouldn't be endured
| for an instant If he were a white man.
| OF course it is no mans fault that he
| has been born with a black skin, but
| when he begins to wear the airs Of
vast superiority which most Of these
! coon performers perpetually display,
| the time has arrived when he ought
not alone to be no further encouraged,
| but eliminated Outright-Leander
Richardson, in New York Telegraph.
We are told that Lilly Iangtry. the
| actress" is to marry a rich man who
| is quite young enough to be her son.
] This is all right, except giving her the
| title of actress" to which she has
as much right as any well-gowned
lady super" about a theatre, and no
! more. "Actress," Why, she has never
! yet learned how to cross the stage grace
| fully, or recite her lines with an APP
| proach to true theatrical art. She is
merely a lucky adventures. endowed
with a fine animal beauty when in rest,
and an unlimited supply Of impudence.
Chattanooga Times.
In passing through London. | seized
! the opportunity to see Irving and Ellen
Terry in "Robespierre," and. notwth-
standing that SO much has been said
| in praise of Sardou's latest play, 1t is
| doubtful if full justice has been done
| to the extraordinary beauty of its
mounting, the dexterous manipulation
| Of the crowds that throng the stage and
| the skill that has blended paint, can
| vas, costumes and human beings into
a series of beautiful tableaux that are
| maryelously true to life. and to death,
| too, for the matter OF that for the
| ghosts in the prison scene seem to shape
| themselves out Of thin air. They do
not walk out from the wings. They
| simply appear; you can never tell when
they have finally passed beyond your
ken. There are scores of them, silent,
| gray shadows, that glide about in the
most uncanny fashion.-Reginald Jones
| in Philadelphia Public Ledger.
Clyde Fitch viii draw royalties this
| season from Mr. Goodwin and Miss
Nethersole. as well as from Miss Mar
lowe. Furthermore he is completing
|! his comedy drama for the Empire stock
company. His Barbara Frietchie" was
disclosed in Philadelphia on Tuesday
| last Although the period of the play
| is the same as that of Writers stir
ring poem, Mr. Fitch has written an
entirely original play, and has 50 far
| avoided tradition that he makes Bar
bara Frietchie a beautiful Southern
| girl. instead OF an old woman. He has
evolved, it is announced. most inter
esting and stirring story, combining
| the courtship Of Barbara Frietchie with
the surroundings of war. Her heart is
given to a Northern officer, and from
| that point the interest OF the play en-
anates. The climax Of the poem, when
| Barbara waves the flag, Is utilized, it
Pts said. by Mr. Fitch in novel manner.
One cannot always tell how things
may turn out. A new player is nervous
| and i'll at ease: a new author allows en-
thusiasm to outrUn discretion. The
San Francisco critics assaulted David
| Belasco when he first tried his hand
ait playwriting. Our own papers uni
I led almost unanimously in telling Mar
tha Morton that she had no brains for
the drama when her first play was pro-
duced. Writers Of all sorts advised
Mrs. Leslie Carter that she had no mes
sage for the stage, and similar counsel
was given TO Mrs. Potter. Henry W
wing was derided by the critics when
he made his debut. Richard Wagner
was scorned by the Italians. The Ger
mans Knocked at Mascagni Bizet vas
driven into his grave by the reviewers
of Carmen" A foreign actress open
ed al the rifth Avenue and the next
morning the papers. with one exception.
declared that she did not amount 70
ANYTHING. She amounted TO 20 much
that we crowded the theatre At s. a
ticket 10 watch the wonder o. her art
she was EleonoTa Duse-Hillary Bell.
in y. Y. Press.
Charles Wyndham. who is 10 produce
~Cyrano de Bergerac" IL London in a
short time. Is TO use the same transla-
ton employed BY Mansfield. the work
OF Howard Thayer Kingsbury
In BserboAm Trees pr0dsction Of