Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-09-23

REMARKED.
r. ]. Donaghey, who far several years
signed the caustic column. the Captious
One, in The Philadelphia Item, has
gone into theatricals, and has been
doing some brilliant advance herald
ing in Philadelphia and vicinity for
THE Adventures of Francois.
Beerbohm Tree successfully revived
Julius Caesar at Her Majesty's last
Thursday and again scored as Antony.
Lewis Waller was again a fine bold
Brutus and your Robert Taber, sue
ceeding poor Franklin McLeay. made
a striking success as the lean and
hungry Cassius. / always thought he
would.
There is rumor that Leander Rich
ardson, who recently resigned from the
staff of the New York Morning Tele-
graph, is about to establish a new Sun
day and daily newspaper, the capital
for which has been subscribed by a
syndicate of Wall street men, with a
prominent bank president at its head.
All female parts are played by men,
the representations being, however,
very natural The dramas are general
ly historical or legendary. Music is
encessant, and is played in monotonous
and discordant fashion by an invisible
orchestra of drums, gOngs and samisens
placed in a screened trellis balcony,
where the o. P tormenter ought to be,
and about six feet from the floor. The
average play lasts ten hours.-Dramatic
Mirror.
/ have seen some and heard many.
Ton q
put duty before love, and filial love be-
fore the love of sexes. Kawakami Oto-
jiro, young actor, went to Europe and
has come back and introduced some
foreign plays, A Globe Tour in Eighty
Days, and love play with battle scenes
OF the China war, and some others.
They are not art, they are specula-
ton; they teach nothing; they please
the senses, not the SOUL
Nance O'Neil's impersonation of He'd
da Gabler at charity matinee in Mel
bourne naturally attracts considerable
attention, but it is doubtful whether it
Will take other than an exceptional
place in her continually increasing rep
ertoire. Ibesen Is not a favorite with
colonial play-goers. Miss O'Neil has
achieved fresh successes as Peg Wof-
fington and Fedora, and is also to play
Tess in the dramatization of Hardy's
famous novel, At the conclusion of her
Melbourne season she will visit Ade-
lalde and Brisbane, returning to Sgd
ney to conclude her Australian tour,
which so far has been one of the most
successful on record.-Dramatic Mir
ror.
In Siberia" the wonderful plunging
horses belonging to Hengler are the
great attraction, although the actors
are by no means put into the shade
by these daring animals 1t makes
one gasp to see the riders dive into
the enormous basin of water and the
horses swim to the opposite side of
the huge tank, and when a pair OF
dashing horses attached to a Russian
sleigh leap into the water with the
man holding the reins never turning
a hair, and then clearing himself of
the sleigh swim ashore, as the seem
lngly maddened horses also do, it is
about as startling a bit of show bust
ness as one wants to witness in these
days of fearful heat that Londoners
are once more enduring, and enduring
attic News.
Although Augustin Days body lies
a-moulding in the grave, his soul goes
marching on. Two of his young ac-
tors, John Drew and Otis Skinner. are
starring in our principal theatres. Is
abel Irving, who came into attention
on his stage, is leading woman of the
Madison Square. Mrs. Gilbert, who for
many a year was one of the first ia
vorites of his company, is established
in equal prosperity at the Lyceum,
where his young pupil, Charles Rich
man, is leading actor. Ada Rehan, u
whom his death proved a blow mare
severe than was experienced by any
of her comrades, promises to resume
her ancient fortune in the new play
that Belasco is writing for her. What
with these distinguished actors, May
Irwin, Willie Collier, Mrs Yeamans,
Frank Worthing, Arthur Bourchier
and Lloyd DAubiny, the name OF
DAILY is still writ large in the art of
America.-,Hillary Bell in New York
Press
1t has always seemed to me rather
cruel that in an art which is supposed
TO mold the mirror to nature our hero
ines must always be lovely fashion
plates. 1t is the girl with the golden
glints in her hair the rose-and-alabas-
ter skin purchased or naturaD, the
swaying hips and the salient bosom
who is engaged by managers for lead
ing roles. Hundreds of untamed wo-
men, fail to reach the coveted goal be-
cause they were not born lovely. They
stink into corners, play old women, i'm
personate dowagers, or-if they are
lucky-make success in Character"
but although their souls yearn for
human work, they are rarely
able TO crafty themselves. Tell me of
one feminine star. If you can. who is as
stodgy, and unromantie to look upon as
Is Otis Skinner. And yet. in real life.
it is the squat and freckled and lanky
girl who does the noblest work: who
is the kindest and best and amiablest.
Ii is generally the weak and whimper-
ing housewife who Is turned out into
the snow with mechild. The iridescent
beauty in our midst is not the LADY to
whom We go in our troubles and our
Men may seek her and get
tired OF her. but X Is not for the sake
OF her beauty Of character.-Alan Dale.
in New York Journal