Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-03-12
THEATRICAL ADJUSTMENTS.
Continued from Eighth Page.

Smith are writing an opera for Angus
tin Daily.
Laura Burt has joined Nat Goodwin's
| company and will be seen in The
COWBOY and the Lady"
Merri Osborne is to play Phyllis Ran
kin's part in the London production OF
The Belle of New York"
Belle Archer's 'Contented Woman
| company was on a train that was stall
| ed curing the blizzard in Colorado.
| Belle walked to the nearest town and
bought all available food. When she
| returned Belle acted as cook and her
work is said to have been satisfactory
The cast of THE Man in the Moon
| will include Dan Daily, Sam Bernard,
| John E. Henshaw, Walter Jones, Marie
| DRESSER and Louie Freear. Dan Daily
| will appear as Sherlock Holmes, and
| Sam Bernard will play Conan Doyle
with a Dutch dialect, Daily as the de-
tective is to have a part that Will
supply great opportunities for his drol-
lery.
A year ago Rose Snyder, OF Mil
| waukee, was an unconsidered member
| of the chorus of one of Lederer's must
cal comedy companies. Lederer saw
her while rehearsing the company in
Detroit. She was sent to London with
the "BelIe of New York" She has
PLAYED Mamie Clancy and also has been
in Edna Mays role. Next season she
will play the principal part in a new
piece that will be produced by the Cas-
inc manager.
"Grierson's Way" a play by H. V.
Esmond, which has lately been pro-
duced at the Century theatre in London,
has been asked for both by Charles
Frohman and by f. II. Sothern. In
brief, the theme is this: To cover the
shame of a girl whom he loves, al old
man marries her. Both do their best
to be generous and kind in the hard
situation, with success and failure, UNI
til the lover and the real father of the
child turns up, free through the death
OF his wife. The young mothers love
conquers then and she treats her nus
hand harshly. He, urged on by "a
cynical acquaintance, dies by poison.
His wife sees that this act makes 1t inn
possible for her ever to see her lover
again.
Duse is now in Paris consulting with
the manager, Schurmann, about a great
tour of the United States, beginning
in October. Irving, Bernhard, Duse,
the Kendals and Alexander will thus
strike US almost at once. Zaccone may
come with Duse. The Italian actress,
who has been so anxious to play the
Greek drama, has had enormous sue
cess in the "Antigone33 Of Sophocles, at
Athens, Sc she is likely 80 play it on her
next American trip. 1t is also said she
will try a new d'Annunzio piece. Her
intention of playing the Greek tragedy
among the ruins of the same theatre
in which it was first produced in the
fifth century D. c. was thwarted by the
weather.
Beerbohm Tree has engaged Mrs.
James Brown Potter for another year
In London. The American actress will
have the leading role in Henry Arthur
Jon.' new play, written especially for
Mr.. Trees theatre. The scene of this
work is laid in India, and the story is
more serious than any which Mir.
Jones has recently made known. Mrs.
Potter has made a stunning success as
Miladi in THE Three Muskateers," aud
has become a very great favorite in the
British metropolis. Nobody hears very
much of Mr.. Be1lew nowadays, and it
is thought to be among the remote pos
sibilities, says Leander Richardson,
that Cora and kyrle no longer ex-
change large feeling patches OF con-
versation as they pass by.
In Montreal on Monday las. James
O'Neill was e as D'Artagnan in
The Muskateers.' Some people have
the notion that O'Neill has been the
;m~personator of the The-World-Is-
Mine Monte Cristo," and Of little else.
He made his debut al the age of II, and
at 10 was a member Of the then ia
nous stock company at HOoley's the
atre. Chicago. What a food of mem
oriea the name of Hooley conjures,"
exclaimed O'Neill the other day.
among the actors there In my time
were W. H. Crane, Harry Murdoch,
Nate Salisbury. After l had become
leading mani was 22-I had the priv
ilege of designating the piece to be
staged on Saturday nights. And so
l played The Merchant OF Venice
Hamlet 'Othello,' etc. The year fol-
lowing I went to California and many
of my companions at Hooley's went
with me. l then skipped TO the other
extreme, New York. and joined the Tn
ion Square stock company. After that
| returned TO Hooley's with Lawrence
Barrett, alternating leading roles. as /
had a few eason previous with Edwin
Booth