Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-09-09

Villon in play by Justin Huntley
Mccarthy.
Coquelin in Cyrano de Bergerac still
draws large audiences in Paris.
Zangwill's Mantle of Elijah" is be-
ing prepared for production by Liebler
& Co.
Maurice Barrymore has been engaged
with Marie Burroughs to head the cast
of The Battle of the Strong"
Edward e. Rice's when We Were
Twenty-one" company will be headed
by William Morris and Corona Ric1
cardo.
January IT. has been selected as the
date for the first performance of Mas
cagni's new opera, "The Masks" in
Venice, Rome, Milan and Genoa.
Francis Powers, author of the Chi
nese play, The First Born" has been
engaged by Charles Frohman for
Richard Carvel, in which John
Drew will appear this season.
Mrs. 7. ?. O'Conner's play on the
struggles of the late Charles Stewart
Parnell has been completed and is to
be produced in September as THE
Lost Leader at a London suburban
theatre.
Charles Hopper, who used to play
'Chimmie Fadden," will make his next
bid for popular recognition as Mr.. Doo-
ley In the dramatization of Finley Peter
Dunno celebrated sketches of that
name.
Germany has already thrilling melo-
drama, called The Boxers in China, =
| which has met with great popular favor.
The Yellow Terror, which deals with
the same theme, Is soon to be given in
London
Ihe season of 1S00-1801, says Hillary
Bell, had no more American players
OF quality than could be numbered on
| the fingers of one hand A century
| later finds us in possession of a thou
sand actors, certain of whom are fa-
/ nous, many of whom are wealthy and
all of whom are talented
Every theatre and entertainment hall
throughout Italy was closed from
July 80 to August II, in sign of mourn
ing for the martyred King. King
| Humbert's cruel death may retard the
performance of Mascagnis new opera
| it being essentially comic, and the
5.
die Walkuere" is to be sung this
winter at the Imperial opera house
at ST Petersburg. 1t will be given in
Russian. None of the other operas
OF the Nibelungen Ring has ever been
! heard there in Russian before Jean
i de Reszke took a German company
| to st. Petersburg in 1897 to perform
the operas OF the triology, but the ven
ture was not successful financially as
| the taste for Wagnerian music is not
! yet developed in Russia.
/ Nine. Cosmi Wagner and her son
/ Siegfried have just lost an action for
| damages brought against the manager
OF the opera house at Elberfeld, who
gave the third act of "Parsifal' in
| concert form. The court held that this
act could rightly be considered a frag-
| ment of the wofK which the manager
| had a right to perform in accordance
with his agreement with the publisher.
| The plaintiffs contented that a whole
act was not to be considered a frag-
| ment of an opera 2ii 1'i7
| In New York this season three Froh-
man plays will average sixteen scenes
| apiece, and will employ in all between
200 and 500 persons. There will be $50
| individuals in "L'Aiglon," so in Rich
| ard Carvell," between so and 20 in "a
Royal Family" 20 in The Rose of
| Persia" and 70 more in the Edna Nav
company. An odd feature about the
Royal Family" production is that
| only ten members of the company are
| seen until three minutes before the fin
! al curtain drops. There are from fifty
! TO sixty men and women whose duties
/ during the performance will be en-
braced within three minutes space.
I a proposition has been made to the
| Liebler Company TO undertake an
American production of the Passion
Play" The matter is now under con-
| sideration, although interference by
clergymen is feard. The Liebler Com
| pany has under consideration the re-
| ,vival of the Salmi Morse production
which was attempted at the Baldwin
| theatre in San Francisco in 1852. and
! afterward suppressed james ONeill.
| who was the Christus of that preduc-
! ton, is now on the Liebler lists. Other
actors who were present or were con-
cerned with the San Francisco produc-
/ ton are James A. Herne. William
| Seymour, Forest Robinson and
| Nicholas Long
While the opera that she has ordered
| from Morton and kerker is being
| written Edna May has accepted an
| engagement to sing for eight weeks in
Berlin at a salary of $1,000 a week.
She has. says Hillary Bell, no voice
worth speaking OF, yet this is higher
remuneration than can be learned bv
some of Mr. Grams singers Nina
Nordica was long day in grand opera
before she could demand 81 600 week,
and Nine. Melba has sung in Paris
for less money. 1t is better to be born
lucky than gifted. The postmans
daughter, starting three years ago at
81. : week. now earns as much in 4