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Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-11-04

has just invented curtain which
makes it possible to conceal the great
stage in the arena during the inter-
missions
In 'sGarret O'Magh," Chauncey Oh
colt is to play young Irishman who
returns to Ireland from America to
claim the colleen he adores and lays
riches at her feet.
Paul Kester's version of when
Knighthood Was In Flower" is to be
81, the same night as Sweet Nell. +"
Kester who is but 80 years of age. has
written 40 plays.
Robert of Sicily" the new play in
which Joseph Haworth is to star this
season, is romantic legendary drama
based on Longfellow's poem of that
name. The dramatization has been
made by Grace Livingston Furniss.
Stansilaus Strange has decided to
call his newly made dramatization OF
the latest novel by author of Quo
Vadis," "'Twixt Cross and Sword
no relation, mind you, to "'Twixt Ak
and Crown
For dime one of the best reserved
seats at the Chicago Haymarket The
atre may be occupied any afternoon.
Last weeks 16-act bill included Lottie
ellison, Genaro & Bailey, Juggling
Johnstons, Grant and Norton and w.
C. Fields.
The singing of Charlotte Wyns is
said to have been the most agreeable
feature of the open-air performance
nf 800 ot pounnn0 Union tho
bull refused to fight The arena held
5000 persons, but she made herself
heard in every part of the opera.
Ruggeiro Lecancvavallos ''Zaza" is
to be ready for production at Milan
during the second week in November.
He is to compose requiem mass
which will be sung first on the ami
versary of Humbert's assassination.
His Roland of berlin" is to be ready
in the autumn of 1901.
OF the twenty-five London West End
theatres now open, the Drury Lane
and the Lyceum are devoted to drama;
the Criterion and the Duke of York
and The Avenue, modern comedy; the
st. James, the Garrick, the Royalty,
and Wyndham's to serious plays; the
Strand, the Vaudeville and the Great
Queen Street, to farce; Her Majesty's,
Wales and the Haymarket, the cos
tune comedy The Gaiety, the Savoy
Days, the Lyric, the Shaftesbury and
Terry's are occupied by musical plays.
The Globe is the only theatre where
a costumed drama is on.
In New York, on October 26, Mrs.
LIE Moyne and Otis Skinner will APP
pear in Brownings 'In a Balcony"
On the evening of October %, Mrs. lie
Moyne will give the initial perform
ance of play in one act by Israel
Zanugwill, entitled "The Moment of
Death; or the Never, Never Land"
Goethe's seldom played "Egmont"
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crudities, but it would be false to say
that Of Mistress Nell 1t has as few
rough edges as any play in New York,
and fewer than the unquestionable hit
of the season. ARIZONA" Legitimate
", Mistress Nell ought to be good
for an entire season in this city.
Whether or not it will make that re-
cord no one. of course, can say, in view
OF the untoward circumstances in
which it was first presented and after
ward continued here.
The cast is as follows:
King Charles II....Mr. Aubrey Boucicault
James, duke Of York. Mr.. James A. Keene
luke OF buckingham. - Mr. Geoffrey Stein
Earl of Rochester
Mr. Herman Herschberg
JACK tCharlesl Hart. actor manager of
Kings theater.- Mr.. Hallett Thompson
strings, an old fiddler. formerly of the
Kings theater orchestra.
commence Mr.. William Herbert
DICK, callboy at the King s-........-..-
Mr., Theodore Thompson
swallow. his majesty's constable-.-...-
..-..- Mr.. Edward Fowler
Buzzard. ..-........Mr James F. Jennings
Landlord Of the Blue Boar Inn..........
.-.....................M Mr.. T. j. Mccarthy
Ofhcer .....-.-....-...M Mr. Louis +. Mintz
rage ..-.:.-,.-......-... MISS cara Lima
Lazy Hamilton. Miss tlOra Morgan
Louise, duchess of Portsmouth.
........-,-.......Mi Miss Adelaide F'itzallan
Moll, an orange girl. Miss Nellie Hancock
Nell Gwynn, actress at the Kings the
alter. Henrietta CrosSman
ARTHUR CRISPIN
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Blotz, q restaurant keeper. Emil Hoch
Oscar, the Queens page. Samuel Mcaelson
Werner, workingman ............,......
,......................B Bert w. Parmenter
Waiter .........................P James
Messenger .................,.......T. Troy
The first act of Her Majesty" shows
the throne-room of the royal palace of
Rappolstein in the evening; act two
gives us a view of the front of Blotz's
restaurant in the town of Geroldseck,
also in the evening; act three exploits
the guardroom of the citadel at night,
and in act four we go back to the
throne-room the next morning.
1t may be said at the beginning that
Grace George would probably never
have been dreamed of as a star at this
particular stage of her career were she
not the wife of William A. Brady a
prominent manager who possesses
greater facilities than the ordinary
theatrical man for exploiting a new
stellar light, inasmuch as he is one Of
the proprietors of the Manhattan thea
ire in this city, where Her Majesty"
is now the attraction. Still it should
not be assumed that Miss George is
not worthy of starhood. She is dis
tinctly clever, with an ingenious man
Aer that is at all times charming, and
there are flashes of ability in the
stronger scenes which augrr we'll for
the future of this young actress
1t has been said in many quarters
that Miss George lacks dignity as the
girl queen; that no woman who is a
queen would behave so much like the
ordinary girl of the middle classes AS
a fact, this argument will not hold wa
ter, for, according to the play, Miss
George has just emerged from a con-
vent to assume the duties of royalty.
Besides, as throughout the four acts
the fact is constantly impressed on
the auditor that she is a girl of an in
vestigating turn of mind. with deeper
thoughts than usually occupy the
minds of maidens of her age, it is not
at all surprising that she should be I'M
familiar with the strained formality of
court life. Withal, during the mo-
ments when she is the queen, she is as
dignified as one would wish, though in
the scenes before the saloon and in
the prison she might. perhaps with adj
vantage, add suggestion of the vague
something which is the inevitable ac-
compartment of consciousness of
power. BY such a course l think her
representation would be vastly bene-
fitted.
If Mr.. Brady should not lose conf
dence in his wife's ability. she is des-
tined to develop into a recognized star.
especially if he should at the same
time have the good fortune to find a
play exactly suited to her style of work.
Such a play, in my opinion, is "A Royal
Family" in which Annie Russell is now
appearing as a star at the Lyceum the
alter in this city. 1t would, however,
be false to say that Miss George, as she
appears In Her Majesty, Z can be con-
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THEATRICAL ADJUSTMENTS.

Fayne Moore is to star.
Melba is wearing a hoopskirt.
Loie Fuller is dancing in London.
Louise Baudet is to star in bur-
letta.
Effie Ellsler is to appear in Barbara
Freitchie.
Mrs. Bandmann Palmer has acted
Hamlet over 800 times
Mary Anderson donated $50 to the
London Galveston benefit.
Victoria Sardoqis t supply the
text for the "Barbarians.
"Richelieu's Strategem" is the title
of ]. E. Dodson's vaudeville play.
Mrs. Fiske is to produce a new play
in Chicago at the end of December.
Sherrie Matthews and Norma Whal-
ley were married in Chicago on Oc-
tober 10.
On Verdi's recent birthday his operas
were sung in nearly all of the Italian
cities.
Roland Reeds relapse gives his
Southern territory to Thomas Q. Sea-
brooke
The ballet cinderella" found among
the late Johann Strauss effects, will
be given in Berlin in November.
"The Emerald Isle is the title of
the new operetta for which Sir Arthur
Sullivan is composing the music.
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It is always a pleasure to chronicle
the success of a worthy artist who has
long struggled against exasperatfngly
adverse circumstances as Henrietta
Crosmanl has done. for the past few
years. When Miss Crosman accepted
Mistress Nell" by George c. Hazel
ton, Jr., Philadelphia lawyer who is
unknown as dramatic writer, and an
nounced her intention to produce the
piece, her friends were dismayed. Tney
were all aware of the fact that the the
atrical syndicate contemplated sendlng
Ada Rehan out in one of these Nell
Gwynn plays, and it seemed inevltable
that Miss Crosman would have dlfhcul-
ty in securing the desired time. am
not in a position to state this positively,
but have it on what ought to be good
authority that this difficulty was expe-
reinced in a most marked degree, and
that the coming to New York was not
due to desire on the part or MISS
Crosman and her husband and man
ager, Maurice Campbell, but to the fact
that it was practically impossible to
get desirable bookings in any portion OF
the country So Mistress NelP' was
shunted into the little Bijou theatre IN
this city, which is supposed to be the
home of the May Irwin type of farce
and the May Irwin type of coon songs.
No one expected that Mistress Nell
would do more than fill out in desul-
tory manner the two or three weeks
intervening before the beginning OF
Miss Twins annual engagement at the
Bijou. Instead of that, however, the
piece made the biggest sort OF a hit,
and if arrangements could possibly
have been made for an extension of the
engagement, Miss Crosman would
probably have remained at the little
Broadway playhouse during the greater
portion of the season. AS it is, how
ever, it has been necessary for her to
go to the Savoy theatre formerly the
Schley) vaudeville and burlesque
house which has up to the present time
had anything but a prosperous career.
/; 1t now remains to be seen whether the
talented and vivacious star and the
exceedingly brilliant play will make a
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eaoTo sY.sARoHY. ~

was revived at New York last reek BY
Herr Conreidps company.
The weekly bill for supers in Mans
fields Henry "" is said to be 81, 400,
and as there are, according TO the
super masters statement, three hun
dred and fifty people on the stage at
one time, this sum does not sound abb
surd.
t'Pilate and Ovid's Doughter." which
was so blssphemous that the London
censor refused to grant a license for
the play, has been cut so much he has
finally passed upon it The new YER
sion is by Mrs. French Sheldon, the
American authoress.
NJ Rostand's drama. "LAiglon," is
in six acts. and Ii took six hours to play
it when first produced In Paris at the
Theater Sarah Bernhard on the 18th OF
last March. 4dr. Louis n. Parker. who
is responsible for this English adapta-
ton, has compressed the six acts into
| I'VE. and shortened the time OF their
presentation by something like one
third.
Hilda C1sxk Is III.
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The opening night receipts of Mis-
tress Nell' amounted to SCI, and on
the following Saturday Henrietta
Crossman closed to 81, 100.
'sDie Meistersinger' was recently
given with Dutch text in Amsterdam
for the first time. 1t was received
win great enthusiasm.
Camille Saint-Saens is at work on
an opera called The Barbarians,"
which will be sung next Summer in
the antique theatre at Orange
Digby Bell has been especially en-
gagged to sing the role of Koko M the
coming production of The Miksdo'
at the Metropolitan Opera House
At one time Irish melodrama, now
confined to cheap houses, was the
chief attraction at wallaeks, then the
most fashionable theatre In the coun-
try.
Anniversary performances in honor
OF Ssanisias Moniuszko are soon to be
given in Warsaw. None OF his operas
has been heard outside Of Russia and
Poland
Pedro Gaihard. Of the Paris Opera.
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OIL NEWS.

Special TO the Register.
CADIZ, o., November s--In the
Bowerston oil field in Monroe town
ship, another we'll is in on the Nc
Kean farm, which makes seventeen on
that placs Cadwallader and Palmer
home added two more good wells to
their large group of fair producers.
The George Brown well is expected
in any day. Much depends on this
well, as it is considered very import
ant location.
Ward from Sherrodsville is 20 the eff
feet tNat the test well near that place
is a failure.
In the Cadiz field the E. Thompson
and the s. B. Porter wells have been
plugged. The National Oil Co. is sink
ing their No. IA, three hundred fees
west of No. Is Bricker. Near Upda-
graf, Mt Pleasant parties are drilling
on the j. II. Johnson farm,
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SITUATION IN HARRISON.

Special to the Register.
HARRISBURG, w. Va, November 8.
"A large crowd of people is In this
city to-day. and for the first time tho
politicians are at work striving TO SEQ
that their fences are secure, The Re-
publicans have good organization,
while 1t is admitted that the Democrats
are not as well organized. nor have
they the money. The Democrats are
concentrating their efforts 10 elec2
the sheriff and prosecuting attorney.
Every indication is that there will 10
a battle royal and that the whole vote
will be out. except in the smallpox
quarantine boundary.
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ARTHUR CR|SP|NS CHAT.
PLAYS IN THE GREAT
METROPOLIS.
BRADY EXPLOITS HIS WIFE,
: Who is Grace George, as Star In a
New Play - Henrietta CrOssman
Made a Pronounced and Unexpect-
ed Hit Under Most Unfavorable
Circumstances.

Grace Georges second essay as a
star has been made in vehicle which
is described on the programme as a
new romantoc play in four acts
Her Majesty the girl queen of Nor
denmark. From the novel by Eliza
beth Gnight Tompkins. Dramatized
:. by j. /. C. Clarke" The cast of char
acters was In part as follows:
Honoria, the girl queen of Nordenmark
Observation-Disclosures. ...... Grace George
Hugo. Count waldeck. known as
Hitler .......... Frank Worthing
Baron Hausman, prime minister ......
........................ Frazer Coulter
Goldarnheim, royal chamberlain. 49,.
- Louis Payne
Prince Englebert Won Mosbach. sutton
for the Queen hand. George Osbourne
Prince Cassimfr Won Werdenberg, sutton
for the Queens hand. Ernest Hastings
Captain Jepson of the army Morton Selten
Colonel Gorda of the Bosnian guard,
Papa Schmidt, revolutionist. =.
.............. .............,.. Frank Hatch
Clara Won Eltersburg, maid of honor
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. Isabelle Bowman
Renira Won Altenheim, mistress of the
:. robes. .............. Augusta de Forrest
Sister Agatha, a Annie Mftlu
Lisa, a sewing girl. $3.50. Fernando Eliscu
Countess Sidonie Zeil-Zeil. Agnes Mccarthy
Countess Isabel Won Bassenheim.
Observation-Disclosures. .Lilyon Grant
Baroness Valerie Sanguszko. Louise Lloyd
Countess Rosa de Bassaraba. Agnes Mark
Mile Jacqueline D'Abrantes. ............
Observation-Disclosures. Berta Hobson
Countess Hermangilda Won Weld. So.
......-...................H Helen Harrington
Big Pauline, a market woman..........
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. Nora Dunblane
Marcella, a washerwoman... May Arthur
Larinda, town wife. Marion Walsh
Sergeant Brandt. Del de Lewis
Max Hartung, a henchman of Count
Hugo. .George Pauncefort
Servant .....................Ge George Canning
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es him, and then summons Hitler
whom she creates prime minister. The
rebels have meanwhile broken loose
and are attacking the public buildings.
Hitler refuses to accept the portfolio
and both he and the queen are nope
less, recognizing that she cannot marry
her subject. The queen abdicates in
order to carry out the wish of her
heart, but the German troops arrive
at this juncture, and the tables are
turned on the conspirators. The play
ends with the naive declaration by tAe
queen that she will not again take up
the duties of state unless she be ac-
cepted along with Hugo, Count Wal
deck. as king. There is a lot more
but this is the best of Her Majesty"
The play is a melodrama pure and
simple from the rise of the curtain to
its final fall, but it is well put togeth-
er, and in spots is intensely interest
ing. Its greatest fault lies in the fact
that the adventures of the queen and
the principal characters are practically
all of the same nature; in oher words,
they are all attuned to the same key,
and there is too little variation. If
some side issue bearing upon the main
one could be introduced, the piece
would be improved hundred per cent.
As it is, with the natural tinkering in
evitable to new plays and the to-be-ex-
pected consequent Improvement, Grace
George ought to go along merrily in
Her Majesty" toward the point where
she win be considered worthy of star
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Special to the Register.

Special to the Register.
PITTSBURG, Pa, November Sin
the Chester Hill oil development in
Morgan county. Shoemaker 4 Co. have
completed their No. 4 on the Parker
farm and have buster.
In the Macksburg field the Ohio Oil Co.
has completed its No. on the j. w.
McSmithson farm and has duster
At Scio, Harrison county, the Rus
sell Bros. & Co. has completed its No.
8 on the Martha Crawford farm and
have a light producer not good for
more than five barrels a day.
Near Port Homer the Columbia oil
Co. has completed test on the Mrs.
Frank Greer farm and has a duster.
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combination sufficiently strong to over
come the hoodoo which appears to how
er over this pretty little house in West
Thirty-fourth street.
Miss Crosmans work in the title role
of Mistress Nell' demonstrates that
In this line of effort she has no SUI
perior on the American stage. Had
she made such a hit ten years ago she
would now be one OF our most profita-
bic stars, but the necessity to work
regularly compelled the acceptance of
engagements with stock companies. in
which she was naturally required to do
vast range of work and in which it
was manifestly impossible to confine
herself to one branch.
When Miss Crosman succeeded Geor-
gla Drew Barrymore as the leading wo-
man OF the old Charles Frohman come
dams, of which Joseph Holland was
the leading man, many comparisons
We're made between her and her bril-
liant predecessor. In light, efferves-
cent comedy | never could see wherein
Georgia Drew was Henrietta Crosman'S
equal even in those days. but had no
ldea that any woman not engaged ex-
eiuslvely in comedy could so develop
IN this branch of work as Miss Cros-
man demonstrates as Nell Gwynn that
she has done.
Of the play it is only necessary to
state that it is brightly written and
fairly bristles with delicate satire, cut
ting repartee and biting society pleas
antries. 1t is usual in criticising a
comedy by a comparatively unknown
anthnr to say that it contains many
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si.00, CORsETs Is CENTS

$500 COHsETs IS CENTS
At the GREAT Inauguration Sale. be-
ginning saturday, November Sd. to
and including November 10th. Ev-
erythiHg at cost. Nothing reserved,
See to-nfght's Evening News for fur.
ther information.
l.. =. GOOD 4 Co.'s. NEW STORE.
1132-1I34 Main street.
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The merry melange of mirth and
music, "-,innigan's Ball." will be seen
at the Grand all this week. This is
the eighth year of "Finnigan's Ball"
but like other farce comedies, it pos
sesses that advantage which can be
found in no other style Of dramatic
performance. the advantage of being
changed from year to year, new spe-
cialties introduced, new comicalities
added. In fact, even the plot itself has
changed about and still passes as THE
Ball" So it happens that those who
have seen this famous farce before
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Bessie BonnehllPs two daughters are
in Weber & Fields company. They are
buck and wing dancers. The musical
team OF Seeley and West is composed Of
her husband and son.
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Elaborate costumes constitute one Of
the chief features OF Miss Eugene
Blair's production of "A Lady OF Quail
ity." which will be seen In this city
Thursday. matinee and night, at the
Opera House. These were made prin-
cipally by Eaves OF New York and
Van Horne, of Philadelphia. Those Of
the star surpass in grandeur any that
she has ever appeared in. Her repu-
tation for wearing handsome gowns is
familiar from the Atlantic to the Pa
cific. Those worn in "A Lady OF Quail
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Joseph Hart has secured all rights
to Foxy Grandpa, by Carl e. Schultze.
known as Bunny in his pictorial rep
reservations published during the past
year in the New York Herald.
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Manager Ghas. A. Feinler has made
arrangements for running a wire to
the stage of the Grand Opera House
Tuesday night, over which the election
returns will be received. and read to
the audience. Aside from the merit Of
the attraction. this feature should Gre
ate a necessity for the standing room
only" sign on that night.
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About one-half OF the plays put on
in London during the present season
have been either failures or dubious
value TO the man In the box Office.
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Louis James next Shakesrearean
role will be 'fCaliban in The Tempest
Kathryn Kidder will probably be the
Miranda.
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EyTIHE sToCK COsT.

ENTIRE STOCK AT COST.
Great inauguration sale of Dry
Goods, Notions. Jackets, Suits, Fine
China. etc. Mt ACTUAL COST, begin
ming Saturday, November I'D, to and
including November 10th.
L.. $. GOOD d cos. NEW STORE.
1132-1134 Main Street.
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Large Autographs of Hon. Wl1Iinm
Jennings Bryan and Hon. Adink
Ewing Stevenson for sale at the Reg
lister Ofnce. Price 10 cents each.
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Robert Grants novel "Unleavened,
Bread" Is being dramatized by Leo
Dietrichstein.
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.roNT BOTHER NE. IN Flirting WITH YoJa xsT

need not hesitate to see it again, think
ing that they are to see the same old
piece. On the contrary, it has been en-
tirely rewritten this year, and the
author OF the original piece would not
find line Of mis- work. The entire plot
OF the story mas been changed and
nothing remains OF the old production
except the title. The new piece is
bright. fresh, full OF the latest With
cisms and newest music, and goes with
a swing and dash that promises to
make its eighth edition the most sue
cessful of any that it has ever seen.
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rhc ann Mnrl.cta.

OH. CITY, Pa. November 3-Credit
balances, 81 10; certificates, no bids. Ship
ments S55l3. hbls. average, lS663 bbls.
Runs, 81, o42 bbls; average, 92.0lS bbls
Large Autographs of Hon. William
jennings Bryan and Hon. Adknk
Ewing Stevenson for sale nt the Reg
lister Office. Price 10 cents each.
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AMONG TIL Play HOUSES.
AFFEcTED BY CAMPAIGN.

Of the Play Not Being Able to
Get Away From the Music and Red
Fire and Excitement ON the Streets.
Election Returns to BE Received
at the Grand-Coming Attractions.
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ADJUSTMENTS.
OPERA HOUSE.

One solid week. commencing Monday, No
vernber 5. Matinees "wednesday and Satur-
day. Here we are again" Murray ard
Maek's comedians present that famous
farce "FINNTGAN'S BALL.
Returns Of the election Will be read from
the stage Tuesday night.
Night prices. 1bc. &c &c and 5c.
Matinee prices. Sc &c and sc.