Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-07-15
to the best possible performance of
some Of the masters least known

some Of the masters least known
works.
Edna Mays plans are not announc-
ed, but there is something pathetic in
her present predicament The APP
plause and attention which were once
hers are now conspicuous for their alb
sence From remarkable popularity
she has suddenly deteriorated to al
most nonentity in the London oper-
attic field.-London Letter in New
York World.
M. Regis, the second tenor at the
Opera Comique, Paris, has been fined
100 francs and 200 francs indemnity to
/ be paid to M. Cherubini, musical con-
ductor of the Opera Comique. NJ. Regis
1 failed to appear at the fiale of the
! first act of lie Songe dune mutt
u'ete" CA Midsummer Nights DreamJ,
| and the conductor was compelled to
| sing his part.
] Continuous performances, like
! Death, gather everybody in eventual
ly. One by one the bravest names of
i the drama have succumbed to the al
! lurements of Mr.. Keith, and in due
/ time we shall see Maude Adams pay
ing the mortgage off her house by
! following trained monkeys, and find
! Sir Henry Irving sandwiched between
a tight rope and trapeze bar. Hi
larry Bell in New York Press.
Mrs. Leslie Carter would seem his
| ironically destined to impersonate
ladies of more or less shady kind In
addition to Zaza she is now booked to
play the very bold model in Ibsen's
| latest domestic problem play, When
| the Dead Awaken and also, as you
know, the character of Madame Du
Barry in a play written around that
! naughty damoiselle and adapted by
David Belasco "Zaza" finishes at the
London Garrick on July %.
| We do not knoW-or care-who mar
kets the paintings of Bridgeman, Wy
ant, Martin, or Ranger, nor is it like
ly that the dealers who handle them
derive any further note than comes
from association with celebrated ar
fists as their agents, or greater profit
| than is involved in their commissions.
Why should we be expected to consider
tie coterie that speculate in the ar
lists of the stage as of more import
ance than the dealers that sell the
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Dramatic Mirror.
Said Frohman: "Ellaline Terris and
Seymour Hicks and their company re-
turn to America in September. open,
ing in Brooklyn. | am now having the
novel, distress Penwick, dramatized
for them, and the play will be pro-
duced in New York. The company for
Arthur Sullivan and Basil Hoods
opera, The Rose of Persia which be-
gins the coming season at Days the
atre, is being formed l have already
engaged sixty people, and will take
the new organization to America in
tact"
The scene of Mascagni's "Vestilla"
is laid in Rome in the time of Tiber-
ius. The heroine who bears the name
of the opera, is the wife Of an officer
who coquets with a Roman volup
tuary while her husband is fighting in
Germania She is compelled by her
conscience to repulse her lover, but
weakens and goes with him to cele-
brate the rites of Bacchus. The tenn
pie is seized by the people and the
woman is given as prize to the glad
iators to punish her unfaithfulness.
She dies of modification. The text OF
! the work is written in hexameters
| Among the brightest women writers
in New York-as Dramatic Mirror
readers KNOWS Kate Masterson. Her
humor is original and her style-is up
| to-date. Mrs Henderson is the Gre
ator Of "The Dobleys" who have fig
ured conspicuously on Sundays for
many months in one of our leading
dailies. These amusing papers have
enjoyed a pronounced success, and
| there has come a spontaneous demand
for their production in book form.
The l. w. Dillingham; Company has
signed a contract with their author,
and the book will be out next month.
! If everybody who reads and swears
/ by "The Matinee Girl" gets 'The
Bobleys" it will require several edi-
tons to meet the demand.