Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-08-12
D'Arville, II shall give up the stage
for good"

D'Arville, 81 shall give up the stage
for good"
Henry Irving proposes to produce
nagnifcently and play Lord Byron's
| Manfred"
Olga Nethersole will star the season
after next in new version of I'm
der Two Flags"
Louise Thorndyke Boucicault will be
seen in Tim Murphy's production of
"A Bachelors Romance.
George Cohan is writing sketch fer
the Russell Brothers, who have been
doing their Irish Servant Girls spe-
cialty for 100 years.
John e. Kellerd in The Cipher
Code by Charles Klein, VIII show the
intricacies of the Secret Service Blu
reau at Washington.
Mrs. 7. P OConnor is to shortly
disclose play written around the Gu
rious life of Charles Stewart Parnell,
and the composition bears the excel
lent title The Lost Leader
Emma Calye has received from
Queen Victoria diamond brooch;
Mancinetti a gold cigarette case; Sa-
lea an inkstand; De Lucia a dia-
mond pin, and Plon a scarfpin
| If Kate Claxton will consent to d.
vorce or separation from Charles Ste
venson, Mrs. Leslie Carter will shortly
| confront the altar again in the char
| acter OF an orange-crowned and lace
yelled bride.
Next Season Gillette will play for
only about thirty weeks and visiting
six or possibly seven cities. His sea-
| son will close April II, and he will
| rest until September, when he is to
produce Sherlock Holmes"
| hear that a we'll known star medi-
tates a production of Sudermann's Jo-
| hannes next season. 1t is a strong but
gloomy play of fine literary quality,
having four powerful roles in John the
| Baptist Herod, Herodias, and Salome
Harrison Grey Fiske in Dramatic
| Mirror.
Mr.. Willard opens at the fremont
Boston, on November IL, and afterward
visits New York. Chicago, etc, and
finishes at Toronto in May, 1901. His
repertoire will include THE Middle
| man." The Professors Love Story"
| David Garrick." Tom Punch" and
| new plays by Mr. H. l.. Barrow and
Mr.. Louis n. Parker respectively.
A very few years ago John ]. Nolan,
who is said to own something like so
per cent. OF the enterprise, BLACK
PATHS Company, was the press agent
| at Hammerstein's Olympia, drawing a
not very dazzling stipend, and sup
| posedly not man Of wealth. His
| friends insist that he is now worth up
ward of 100000.
| The Lord Chamberlain refused to IL
cense two plays this week One was
| full of Biblical illusions, containing
| such characters as Mary Magdalen,
| Pontius PLATE and Barrabas. The
other bore the alluring title, The wo-
men of London" 1t was not permitted
because 1T presented a scene in a Lon
| don massage room.--London Letter in
! N. Y. Telegraph,
| "The first piece l ever had published
| paid for" Bandmaster Sousa is cred
| tied with saying to writer in Aims
| lees Magazine. 1T cost me S25. At
ter awhile l sold my compositions for
what | could get, anything from s. up
TO $25. The Washington Post March
and the High School Cadet March |
| sold for S35 each. They made an in
dependent fortune for the publisher,
| Coleman, of Philadelphia.
1t was matter of common report BE-
| fore the "Zaza" company went to Lon
| don that Mrs. Carter and Mr.. Stevenson
| had discovered a mutual affinity" and
| were very busy in cherishing it. From
| the British metropolis came other
! stories descriptive of a romance in
| which these two people of ripe years
and experience were outplaying the
| youthful love pranks OF Romeo and
Juliet.-New York Telegraph.
| Seven new women stars will grace the
dramatic stage the coming season. In
! all seventeen new stars will appear on the
| theatrical horizon, for ten leading men
also will venture 10 tread in the paths
of illustrious predecessors. The women
ere Grace George, Mary Mannering, Ger
J trude Cohhlan, Belle Archer Henrietta
Crossman, Marie Burroughs and Minnie
| SeligInan The men include Maclyn Ar
| buckle, AL. H. Wilson. John E. Kellerd,
Henry Jewett. Wilton Lackaye. Bob Hill
lard. Henry d. Dixey, Richard Golden
and Peter F. Daley.
| To tell of the many vicissitudes in a life
| so far out of the ordinary as that Of Char
| ley Hoyts would require a volume OF
many pages. His first marriage, like his
second, was a very romantic one. and,
| though in these latter days Of trouble and
deep mental distress he has said very lit
tie concerning this one love of his youth.
/ those who know him best are cognizanr
of the fact that he still grieves for poor
| little Flora Walsh. whose sudden and I'M
timely death produced a shock from
which he never thoroughly recovered
Montgomery Phister. in Cincinnati Com
merciai Tribune
| Mr.. a1ansfiela's production OF Henry
Y" In New York There wiz be nearly ff-