Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-04-23
the AZ ANU sEA LENTs.
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Odette Tyler played TOrsi@ - ~
York last week
The ]. Aldrich Libbey Opera Com
pany will be launched.
Charles Coghlan closed his season
in New York last week.
Hands Across the Sea" is the tilie
of Sousa's new march.
Henry Guy Carleton Is at Work upon
play for Charles Frohman.
Queenie Vassar and Laura Burt are
in the cast of 1.-THE Purple Lady.
willie Golfers eMr. Smooth was
produced in Trenton on Monday last.
Clvde Fitch has completed his
"Courtship of Barbara Frltcnle lor
Julia Marlowe.
William Gillette is making progress
upon his dramatization OF the Sherlock
Holmes series for Mr.. Frohman.
CHARLES Klein is writing an American
melodrama, the scenario of which has
been accepted by Charles Frohman.
At the Filipino theatres OF Manila IT
is the custom to show appreciation by
tossing coins on the stage in lieu OF
bouquets. y
David Belasco has completed an
original play which will be produced
early in the season with a specially
selected company.
Several vaudeville companies OF the
rougher type are ready to start TOT
Alaska with the Klondike as their OBJ
jective point.
Ramsay Morris 1.-THE Last of the
Rohans" is scheduled for presentation
at the Academy of Music, New York,
late in August.
Charles Hawtrey, the popular Eng
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lea early next season under the man.
agement of George w. Lederer.
Kate Claxton produced dramatiza-
ton of Kipling's "The Light That Fail
ed'' curtain raiser, in New York last
Margaret Anglin will be member
of the company headed by Henry Mil
Ter, that is to do a repertory of wen
known plays on the Pacific slope TINS
summer.
fOrmance of Maude Adams In Romeo
and Juliet" at the Empire Theatre,
New York city, May 8, have already
been sold.
Kyrle Bellew has been offered the
part of NAPOLEON in Julia Arthur's pro-
duction of "Plus que Reine," but has
not decided whether other engage
ments viii permit him to accept
On March 10 "Cyrano de Bergerac'
had it's four hundredth and last per-
Torrance at the Porte st. Martin, Paris.
The run of this play may well be de-
scribed as phenomenal. The total re-
ceipts are announced as $525,O0O.
Augustus Thomas is finishing COM
edy for Stuart Robson. Bronson
Howard and Brander Matthews are to
furnish play for w. H. Crane, in
which that actor will be seen as Peter
Stuyvesant, a one-legged character OF
old New York.
The New York Fifth Avenue closed
ND with a bang last Monday night just
as the audience had assembled to wit
ness the performance of Citizen
Pierre" Charles Coghlan refused to
20 on unless his manger, Mr.. J. A.
Reed, Immediately paid him the royal
ties on his play which were due.
Among the librettists Harry B. Smith
and J. Cheever Goodwin have all they
can do. Mr.. Smith is now at work on
no less than three librettos with diff
ferent composers. George H. Broad
hurst has settled down in earnest to the
book which he is writing for Mr..
Sousa's score.
Reginald De Koven has received
about SIS 900 from robin Hood" Bar
RE will probably take 100000 or more
from "The Little Minister" Bronson
Howard has had over 100000 from
shenandoah" David Belasco took
500. 900 from "The Heart of Mary
land" and beyond doubt he will earn
an equal amount in royalties from
"Zaza."
Two old men who have been rather
widely described in recent months as
being utterly broken down and at the
end of their respective careers, seem
to be very much alive at this particu-
lar moment They are Victorien Sar-
dou and Sir Henry Irving, and their
"Robespierre' seems to have made the
greatest success ever scored by Sardou
as an author or Henry Irving as an
actor.
ssBen Hur" is to be dramatized for
Klaw C Erlanger. General Wallace
has been exceedingly careful said MIR.
Brooks, that his own particular ideas
concerning the dramatization of the
story be carefully followed, and he has
spe cited by contract what parts must
not be used For instance, he is par
ticularly emphatic that the figure OF
Christ must not be used, and he de-
mands that the scenes relating to the
crucifixion be left out. The production
will be made in New York some time
next season."
We doubt not that Maude Adams will
make a charming Juliet, with this
guarded exception: She will lack the
quality that for a want of a better
name may be described as warmth of
nature Miss Adams is artistic, but
we can hardly imagine her as the rep
resentative of Shapespeares impulsive
maiden, born and ripened under Ital-
ian skies and comparable only to the
luscious fruit of that sunny cline, or to
some one of the tender colorful fow-
ers that grow only where warmest sun
light falls. Juliet is all passion. Miss
Adams will have to manufacture even
the outer fringe of this emotion as it
is given life and expression in the un-
happy daughter of the Capulets. The
genuine article is nowhere in her men,
tai or physical makeup. Or, at least,
SO far as discoverable in any of hel
previous stage work.-C. M. Bregg, In
Philadelphia Call.
No other than Spanish and native
theatricals are known as yet in Man
LA, though an English variety show is
TO omen soon. in expectation of SunnOrt