Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-07-22
THEATRICAL ADJUSTMENTS.

! There will he five "Quo Vadis'' compan-
les next season.
Gillette is to present Sherlock Holmes
in London in September
Harry Conor, who has been absent in
Australia for full year is in New York
Madaline Lycette Ryley has returned to
the boards in musical piece called MY
Lady Dainty"
| Evangeline Dixey, seventeen-year- oil
| daughter of Adonis Dixey, is to appear in
vaudeville.
| Edna Mays London boom, says the
New York Telegraph, is becoming a fast
facing Renaissance.
| 81 am to wed" declares Berugini 1.-THE
! most charming of her sex hat the happy
event is not to take place for some time"
Grace Filkins is having an ideal vaca-
tioa aaoat. Miss Filkins, who Is the wife
OF Commander Mark, L. S. N. is helping
her husband inspect Uncle Sans light
houses from Chesapeake Bay to New
! York
! Louise Willis Hepner last week stole a
march on her husband, William Hepner,
by serving papers on him for divorce
when she become satisfied that he was
making efforts to get his case for divorce
into the courts.
| 1t is inevitable. yet still a pity for
| reputable actresses. that bad behavior
| is chronicled and good behavior is not
| There is more ado just now over three
| stage women VIGOROUSLY reformed than
three thousand who have not needed to-
The New York Sun
| The cast of THE Cadet Girl" which is
to be produced in New York on July 90
| includes Dan DAILY, Joseph Miron, D. L.
Don. William P. Carleton. Charles Dandy,
| Charles H. Bowers, Virginia Earle. Adele
Ritchie Toby Claude, Adele harrington
and Hattie Moore.
| plays that are wholesome" says the
New York Sun, thrive better and live
! longer than those that are not. These
! facts are plain, simple and easy to find
out. Nevertheless carpers set them aside
and go right on with fallacies about a
suppositious degeneracy of the drama
! The two great theatrical successes of
| the London season have been 'Zaza,"
written by David Belasco and Madame
Butterfly" The latter is to be played
shortly in Paris, Brussels and distant
Vienna. The Countess Kinsey. a great
Viennese artist, has taken a great fancy
to Madame Butterfly and wants to in
troduce it to Vienna and Buda Pesth.
Rejane, the popular French actress
was originally Reju. The name seemed
unattractive. Early in her career her
friend, Alexander Dumas, suggested
| that she should manufacture a new one
Regille, Rejalle, and Rejolle were all
| tried and rejected. Finally she hit upon
Rejane, under which her fame has been
made. She studied at the Conservatoire
under Regnier.
/ There is a possibility" says Leander
Richardson, that Robert Mantell, long
exiled from New York excepting ON Sun
days and holidays, may be again permit
ted to saunter up and down Broadway
without the lurking thought that an off,
Ger is about to nail him for an indefinite
residence in Ludlow street Jail The
courts long ago conveyed to the
| first Mrs. Mantell the right to look to
her husband then undergoing the pro-
cess of divorce. for certain considerable
sum each week. These sums were not
paid with a regularity calling for the
commentator of justice. Mantell is at
present in Europe, and If the alimony
business is disposed of he may return by
way of New York Otherwise he will
land at Boston
The artistic fzzle and financial fiasco
of Miss Mays recent undertaking, IAN
| American Beauty" has caused the col
+, lapse of her proud pretension to lasting
London popularity. And so the curtain
falls for the present at least upon the
simple village chorus maiden from SYRIA
cuse, whose silly little feather brain has
been turned by a single chance success,
| now almost forgotten, and who assumes
| the airs and afectations of princess
born to the purple instead OF the modest
| humility becoming the plebian daughter
| of poor but honest postman Mabelle
| Gilman is at present the favorite, her
London debut in The Casino Girl hav-
ing Won the public and critics. Edna
May" says Clement Scott, was there in
a private box. OF course she received an
| ovation, and, to the surprise of every
body. bowed from her loge as If she wore
a crown on her head. Lnever saw such a
thing in all my life. Her Importance,
even in her own estimation, dwindled
greatly after the success of the big pro-
duction became known
| The other day one of the best young
| actors in the country and the son of a
great man, was compelled from pressure
| of necessity to take a stock engagement
twice day with new play every week,
| at a salary not more than two-thirds
| what he could earn couple OF years ago.
1 speak Of Aubrey Boucicault, and there
are dozens of excellent actors doing the
| same thing, and glad to get il, driven out
| of first-class employ by the octopus syn
dictate which relies on cheap people cult
waited by the so-called schools of acting
| which produce mediocrity in abundance.
bat l have yet to hear of a single case
of real talent. l do not think the pro-
fession of acting was ever at so low an
ebb as now. for we have not one great
actor or one great actress left Acting
for revenue only has been the curse OF
1t all. just as the great managers who
did something for arts sake have dis
iappeared-she waIlacks, Days. the Pal
mers. etc. To-day 1t would be impossible
- give . nrst-class performances Of .