Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-04-29
THEATRICAL ADJUSTMENTS

| Close CALI has been acted eight con-
| secutive weeks in the Keith quadr.lple
! circuit of theatres. A rooster fight IS
one OF it's incidents. Mr.. Hart is writ
ing new play called Winning a
Widow" the incidents Of which occur
| In a brokers' Office.
Pugilist Jeftries vii. iE.personate an
Arizona sheriff IN new melodranla
by Clay n. Greene.
New oYrA prohibited production
of the Passion play by Italians.
A dozen cities this week will wit
ness Quo ,adis."
When" says joseph jefferson,
"Garrick and Barry were playing
Romeo in London the city WAS divided
as to which one was the best Romeo.
Each actor had widely different con-
ception of the part. Finally the ques-
ton was left to an actress who had
played Juliet to both Garricil and Bar
rvs Romeo. She answered by saying:
In the balcony scene Garrlck shows
so much feeling and is so earnest that
| am always afraid he will spring UP
into the balcony after me. With Barry,
he is so fascinating fear that l shall
jump down where he is
Joseph Jefferson has been on the
stage sixty years.
"Old Jed Prouty" will be revived
next season by Richard Golden.
Sir Robert Peel, grandson of the
great Peel, is going on the stage.
Eddie Fox will star in Troubles
of His Own
The central idea in Hanlon Bros.
"A Lively Legacy is the requirement
of a will that certain benefciaries
must be married in bathing suits in
the ocean in the middle OF January.
Laura Joyce Bell is in the cast
AS an illustration of the efforts put
forth by the Keith Theatre manage
ment to restore articles left behind by
absent-minded patrons, the following
is printed in a New York paper: "On
February IA last card case was pick
ed up in the auditorium of the Union
Square Theatre containing $50 in cash,
with cards bearing the name of o. T.
Behymer, but no address. Three tele-
phone calls were. made in New York,
five cities adjacent were searched and
thirteen letters written, and finally, af-
ter forty-three days, the owner was
located in Terre Haute, Ind. The case
and money were returned to him March
28 by registered letter"
Boito has promised to present
Nero" at La Scala, Milan, some time
during 1902. The libretto is in five
acts One act is in Simon .Mago's
house, another is in the circus, two
are during the fire of Rome, and the
last represents Nero's flight. The acts
are short and in Greek metre.
The production of "Quo Vadis" in
San Francisco has brought out some
interesting facts relative to Henry
Sienkiewicz the author. The Polish
novelist wrote the book while poor and
in distressed circumstances in San
Francisco a correspondent writes me.
Indeed, so poor was he that large
portion OF the manuscript was written
on bag paper, old scraps and old ledger
Sheets. Paderewski, Sienkiewicz's
countryman and schoolmate, corrobor-
ates this story. 1t was in San Fran
cisco, by the way, that Miss elders
authorized dramatization of QUO
Vadis" was first produced. 1t has met
with great success and is still running
to crowded houses.-Dramatic Mirror.
Langdon Mitchell has rich field for
vi dHldliZdllOi III LIS ldlutI SuCCCSS-
full novel, The Adventures OF Fran
co.'s which is to be produced next
season by Liebler & Co.
Nellie McHenry is to star in
Miss"
Walter Damrosch is to conduct the
German operas at the metropolitan
Opera House next winter IL place of
Emil Paur
Viola Allen. at thc beginning of
next season, will have FOUR plays
available to the decentralization which
Lorimcr Stoddard is making of +.
Marion Crawfords latest story, "In
The Palace of the King and THE
Mantle Of Elijah" which Israel Gang
will is writing with her in mind Miss
Allen has secured an option on Len
chantment," which Jane Harding will
produce at the Odeon, in Paris. on
May i. The fourth play is the one by
Leo Ditrichstein, as yet unnamed.
which Miss Allen will produce in Chi
cago in 4 few weeks.
Fanny Rice has contracted to ap-
pear in vaudeville for four weeks in
the Keith circuit of theatres. After
this engagement She will go TO the
Paris Exposition and resume her star
ring tour III this country in the Ros-
inc Voiles plays on October l.
Tom and Hattie Nawn will star next
season in Pat and the Genii.'
Alexander Clark and Richard Lee
are engaged upon d condensed version
of Taylor's Still Waters Run Deep"
They propose to bring it down to
twenty-minutc sketch and play the
vaudeville houses during the coming
summer
Sam and Dick Bernard will star in
new play by JOHN McNally
Clara Lipman has just finished q
dramatization OF the popular novel,
Lady Barbarity." 1t will in all prob
ability be included in Mr.. Mann's and
Miss Lipman's repertoire next year.
Three religious plays are now run
ming at New York theatres.
Suggestive or indecent plays may
draw for while smarter looking audi
ences, more in accord with metropoli-
tan ideas of what a fashionable the
atre gathering should be, but the relig-
ious play possesses more enduring pow
ers OF drawing the public.-New York
Sun.
Mrs. James Brown Potter. who is as
much as ever the fashion in London,
has been using her influence there to
secure as much social entertainment
as possible for Mrs. Leslie Carter, an
other woman who has been called a
society actress on account OF the fact
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