Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-11-25

the childhood OF many Of our dignified
citizens who now have gray in their
boards. Hillary Bell opines that It will
not duplicate its English success.
Fanchon Thompson's nose is piquant
and. by-the-way. has it ever occurred to
you that a woman with saucy nose is
invariably successful? One might point at
random to a dozen prominent actresses
by way of fllustration-Matid Adams, yir-
ginia Harmed, Julia Marlowe, Ethel Bar
rymore. Edna Wallace Hopper. Cissie
LOTUS. etc, ad lib. just make note
Of it, and If there is a girl-chiid in your
family the trend. of whose nasal organ had
occasioned you some concern, take COM
fort in the knowledge that hers. isa=the
successful nose. r-H. Leonard Knapp
in Philadelphia Inquirer.
But brilliant as sThe Gay Lord Quex,
John Hare's newest production is, as an
example of. finely spun stage literature
and faultless as it is as a cold, clear pic
ture of the life it represents, il is the most
audaciouslys wicked stage reflection of
social immortality that has, wone success
behind the footlights 1t halts almost at
nothing. 1t turns to practical dramatic
use matters which not one in one hundred
of the well-bred decent women who go TO
see, it would discuss with persons of the
opposite sex. And yet it goes ahead
heaping profiigacy upon profigacy. vice
upon vice and lust upon lust, with such
perfect assurance and splendid dramatic
technique that the very people who il
real life would be the first to shy at the
actual conditions it handles applaud il
loudest and arrange TO go to see it again.
New York World
Sarah Bernhard is now in the high seas
and, beng a bad sailor, she 3 pi obabiy
wishing she had never been born. The
poor sick lady is attended in her maritime
woes by five servants and the chief
masseur of Paris. Although a grand
mother and long past fifty, the wonderful
| Frenehwoman seems to be in the zenith
of her power. During the season that has
closed she made more money and won
more fame than in any year of her his
tory. Her Hamlet and "L'Aiglon"
. have given to her a greater reputation
than any dramas of the SarC.ou period.
Sarah Bernhard has been on the stage
for nearly forty years. During that time,
=! it is computed she has earned in salary
| more than ten million francs. Bernhardt
demands $1,000 for box during her season
at the Garden theatre, New York. That
means $3.50 for each ticket, for the boxes
hold four chairs. However, if we cannot
afford so much money there are side
boxes to be had for $500, which reduces
the cost of chairs to $500 We can have a
seat N the parquet for S2C0, but the fam
lily circle is within the reach of everybody
at $50 and $50. Nine. Sarah must have
S20o,00o in her inside pocket perore she re-
turns to France. NJ. Coquelin is more
! modest in demands, but he expects S150,010
Grand opera can be given for less money.
Hillary Bell, in New York Press
Lawn tennis players have been great
ly encouraged by recent announce
ments in connection with the game for
next season. Rumors have circulated
ever since last July that the noted Do
herty brothers, champ ons of England,
and several ether well known British
experts will play in America next sea-
son and that their appearance on this
side will be preceded by another chal-
lenge for the Davis international
trophy. Recently these reports have
received slrong confirmation from
abroad. Besides this, more excitement
in, international tennis is promised by
the announcement that Messrs Davis
and Ward, the American champions in
doubles, will most probably play in Eu-
rope next spring, especially for the all
England championship at Wimbledon,
and that Champion Whitman may also
make trip later in the season through
the British counties apu the continent.
Davis is now abroad, but expects to
return within a few weeks.
If all these plans mature, the inter