Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-07-08

formances, and the critics are perfectly
right in their reproaches "
| The hundredth anniversary OF Sc
| biller's Marie Stuart is to be ceIe-
brated at Weimar in advance of the
actual date, as the theatre Will be
closed at that time. The play was
| given first on June IA, 1900, in the
ninth year of Goethe's control of the
theatre. For this work Schiller receiv-
ed the same sum that was paid to him
for Don Carlos and "Wallenstein
This was s1125O.
| Vienna is to have an independent
| theatre, the Probatorium, for Enacted
| plays of unknown authors PERMITS
!, sion was given by the authorities on
the condition that members of the So
ciety draw no money from the per-
formances. Vienna already has three
OF these free stages. 1t was one of the
! last European cities to adopt this
| phase of theatricals, but the new in
situations flourish. They have given
several plays to the regular stage.
Free concerts of classical music for
the working classes have met with
great success in Germany. Since East
er day, 1895, twenty-four concerts have
been given before about $4,000 hear
ers, who were almost entirely working
men. In Liepsic, Hamburg, Cologne,
Frankfort, Vienna and other cities the
scheme was a complete success. In
those hours iii which Beethoven or
Haendel speaks to him, there comes to
the laboring man the idea that there
is force which cannot be estimated
in wages and a labor not to be paid for
by the hour
George V. Hobart, the playwright,
will have seven plays and adaptations
produced on Broadway next winter
He has finished his work and is ready
for his vacation Hobart's works are
The Military Maid" for Josephine
Hall; Hodge, Podge & Co.," an adap-
tation for Peter Daley; Helen PRINT"
for Marie Dressler; "a Million Dol
lars a collaboration, at the New
York; Mrs. Black is Back" May Ir
wins new play; Commodore Cupid"
which he is writing with Stanislaus
Strange and Reginald De Koven and
THE Daughters Delightful"
Giuseppe Gieacosa, Marco Praga, Lu
igi Illica, Roberto Bracceo and the
other conspicuous Italian dramatists
are to appear as actors in a perform
ance in Milan for the family of Libero
Photo, who died recently. Photo be-
gan as a wandering actor in a vaga
bond troupe to which Eleonora Duse
belonged. She was then a child, but
acted leading roles. Once he and the
now famous actress were to appear in
Romeo and Juliet" but she was so
weak from lack of food that she could
not speak. So the two robbed the lar
der of a good-natured peasant land
lord and were forgiven by him when he
learned their plight.
George Clarke is the newest of yau-
deville recruits. At the mere hint of
this Augustin Daily must turn anew in
his uneasy grave. For five and TWEEN
ty years Mr.. Clarke was not only the
pop and mainstay, but the chief dig
nity of Daly's Theatre. There was, in
deed, brief interrognum, when this ac
tor found the starring bee in his bon
net and invested all his savings in
melodrama which he wrote, produced
and performed in the Bowery. 1t was
Mr. Days memorable law never to take
back any actor who had voluntarily
left his company-Such impertinent
conduct being sure proof to the man
ager that his disloyal employee was
stark, staring mad and better fitted
for an asylum than the stage. This
rule was relaxed, however, for George
Clarke, who after his starring bubble
had burst in disaster, applied for re-
admission to the sacred circle of Days
company and was forgiven as a brand
saved from the burning. That hap
pened eighteen years ago, and since
then George Clarke hac carried him
self with a. proper air, as fallen angel
Tho had been restored to paradise. The
dignity of Days and it's traditions
were centred in this actor. The man
sger might wear an old hat, but
George Clarke always had a new one:
Ada Rehan might give an indifferent
performance on certain occasions, but
George Clarke still was reliable; John
Drew might desert to the enemy, but
the Frohmans despaired of George
Clarke. That this Admirable Crchton
has fallen from his once high estate
as the guide, counselor and friend of
-Augustin Daily into doing "a turn" be-
tween trained monkeys and a clog
dancer is the most convincing of mod
err instances of the power of vaude-
vile. Mr. Keith may now set his trap
for Joseph Jefferson, may engage
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