Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-10-07
THEATRICAL ADJUSTMENTS.

twenty years.
William Norris eight years ago was
a commercial drummer.
"The Girl With the Auburn Hair" is
to star in a new comic opera next
season.
Robert Hilliard econtemplates an
early appearance in London in a play
of his own writing.
Aubrey Boucicault has Joined Henri
eta Crosman to play King Charles II.
in Mistress Nell" which will be seen
next week at the Bijou theater, Pitts
burg.
The Theater Republic Is the seventh
play house Hammerstein has erected
in New York, all considerable buildings
and two Of them enormous. He owns
only one, the latest.
Mansfield is a musician, both in COM
position and performance; he is a
painter both in understanding and Gre
alton; he is a writer possessing strength
and b%rilliancy.
In Paris someone has set on foot a
project to establish a working peoples
theater, where good plays and operas
will be presented at minimized prices.
1t is said that the R~othschilds will
subscribe % 1000 francs.
1t is stated In several Italian papers
that an opera company formed in Mi
Ian that started a year ago for South
America had such bad luck that the
prima donna has taken a situation as
maid servant at an inn; and the tenor
has cast his lot with a trainer of anil
mails.
justin Humility Mccarthy is going to
write a five act tragedy, probably in
blank verse, for Suzanne Sheldon, who
Is now at the Globe as leading lady IN
Colonel Cromwell" The play is on
the subject Of Catarina Sforza. and
will show Caesar Borgia's, supposed
love for her. In character the piece
will resemble Webster's Duchess OF
Malf," and the White Devil"
The New Amsterdam Amusement
Company, Milton Aborn, Jules n
Matt Grau, directors, is to furnish OPP
era in a score OF cities next summer.
Mr.. Aborn is perhaps the best pioneer
in the business, having staged and ap-
peared in over 100 operas, while the
Graus are perhaps the most capable
of the managers of the popular price
companies.
1t is practically settled that Nine.
Eames will not return to this country
next winter. She is still in rather
poor health and she feels the need OF
a wears rest. But she will return
| early IN the following autumn to take
a preliminary tour to the Pacific Coast
with the Maurice Grau Opera Com
pany. She may sing at Monte Carlo
in March and later at Covent Garden.
Johann Strauss Cabinet Piperlin."
announced as his last work, is soon to
be sun in Berlin. AS a matter of fact,
il is one of Strauss first compositions,
and was sung as king Indigo. 1t
met with no success and was rewritten
Just before his death by the composer,
who thought it contained too much
| music of merit to be lost. The ballet
Cinderella was the only new compo-
sition on which he was engaged at the
time of his death. Abe failure of King
Indigo" was always attributed to the
poor text, and the new libretto is
adapted from the old French farce,
cabinet Piperlin."
The Athenee Theater, in Paris, is
about to inaugurate a new system of
SuUSCIIpilOH. Tol MY 1iohNo a CoA,
PAYABLE in two installments, the SUD-
soriber will be entitled to admission to
the theater at any time. The holder of
a subscription ticket will have to pro-
vide himself with a photograph at
tached to his card. The management
guarantees to produce eight new plays
a year. Manager William Foster of
Des MoineS, Ia, has devised a scheme
for selling tickets to his two theaters
In Communication books. The books con-
tain $4,000 worth of tickets and are
sold for $50. The tickets are transfer
able and can be used at either theater
Nance O'Neil is concluding her Mel
bourne season as Parthenia in lingo
mar, following the name part in
Hedda Gabler, but there is a strong
| consensus of opinion that she has been
overworking herself. and that before
the close Of the eason several weeks of
absolute rest will be advisable. AS
Tess she is regarded as taking a place
after Edith Crane, whose impersona-
ton of the character is regarded as
the best ever seen in Australia. After
| her Melbourne season Miss O'Neil pro-
eeeds to Adelaide. Her last appearance
in Melbourne will be in a series of
scenes from Ingomar. The Jewess,
Oliver Twist and Guy Mannering.
Rather too much for one night-Syd-
ney letter in Dramatic Mirror.
l think it is rather a reproach to US
the way in which England treats our
actresses. Take Ms Potter, Ellen
May, and now Mabel Gilman. They
are not only raved over by the public
and the press, but the English people
invite them to their house parties and
their teas and make much of them. 1t
is no wonder that these girls shake us
and settle down in the hospitable fast
nesses Of st. Johns Wood. 1t isn't
that they are taken up by society. but
that society runs after them and ap-
plauds and recognizes their cleverness.
At the very smartest of the social
events, the garden parties on the
house boats, at the races. the bright,
pretty women of the stage English
and American. are In evidence and