Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-07-29


seems TO suggest.
In Lo- some performers appear
| in four nllslc halls the same evening.
In New ! ork last week Pat and Mat
| tie Rooney were seen in two theatres
nightly. Three other children Katie,
Julia and Josephine-of Pat Rooney
are also popular entertainers.
Duse made Ter first bow to the public
at the age OF 3 years, and has been on
the stage ever since. At the age OF ID
years she played Francesca de Rimini,
and at ii, at Verona, the famous per-
| Torrance of Juliet that gave her the
| first breath of fame.
/ Sarah Bernhadt and COquelin viii
| be seen in New York in the French pro-
duction of .'L'Aiglon" and in Hamlet
with Coquelin as Polonius and Nine.
Bernhard as the Prince of Denmark
| In "Cyrano de Bergerac" Coquelin will
impersonate Cyrano and Nine. Bern
| hardt will be the Roxane.
| 1t is said James Thornton, when
| brought in was told by a surgeon that
! he w have to refrain from that
| oonsu on of so much liquid litho-
| fraceul or he would become blind. Mr..
Thorntcn is reported to have said: 'Oh.
well, | guess / have seen about every
thing worth looking at"
| The date for the opening of Minnie
| Seligman's starring tour in Dads
Own Girl was arranged by Manager
Fred c. Whitney yesterday for the
Broad street theatre, Philadelphia, on
September "a. John F. Kellard, in
THE CIPHER Code under the same
I crt ot tho npfrntt
house on October l.
| The Cuban teachers who are in at
tendance at the Summer school at Har-
ward College, have been invited to visit
| koith's theatre, Boston, as lone of the
sights of the city," and through Pres
| iac1. Eliot the same has been accept
ed. Beginning tomorrow (Monday)
a detachment of the teachers will visit
Ketth's each afternoon until the whole
number have inspected the model
playhouse" and enjoyed the entertain
ment therein provided.
| AN idea of Booth" says Hildebrand
| Fitzgerald, was that unless a mans
| own name was a sufficient magnet. II
did not matter how weak or strong his
supporting company might be. Booth
was often criticized for his poor sup
port. but he used 10 point, to one cir
/ cumstance as proving his views. In
l 1882 he gave way to the wishes of his
/ friends and engaged the strongest COM
r3ny that ever toured in the legitimate,
/ in this or any other country. They
opened in New Orleans and played the
l first week 10 s1i, 000. an enormous bust
/ ness for those days. Then Booths wife
/ died and he had to go 10 New York TO
/ the funeral. During his absence the
company continued playing and melted
7 1850 for the second week, a trfie over
forty dollars for each performance.
When Booth got back and saw the fig
ures he remarked that they couldn't
have played to less if he had selected
/ barn stoTmers."
Joe Jeffersons reply to the following
question concerning polite vaudeville
will be interesting to the many who
have given allegiance to this form of
/ American amusement: rs the craze
for vaudeville going to harm or create
/ interest in the legitimate stage?" Il
don't think it will have an effect either
one way or the other. The vaudeville
/ has simply cropped up because of the
/ fact that people wanted to go to the
theatre to be entertained simply for the
moment and where the curtain never
went down and they couldn't sit still
They are so engrossed nowadays in the
! business of the day that they have no
time to wait for the curtain to go down
or to sit three or four hours for play
| to be acted; they want their entertain
ment quickly and readily, and spicily
served up. l don't think it will have
any effect one way or the other. |
would not object to taking an actor
| from a vaudeville theatre if he was q
! fine one and | saw within him the
ability to play a character we'll in
| play of mine; l would take him out of
the vaudeville stage. Why shouldn't
| /? How do I know; may have to go
into 1t myself. You know what Ophe-
liza says; We know what we are, but
we know not what we may be- r."
Lolita, you know, came from the va
riety stage, and Edwin Forrest was at
one time a clown in circus. The
! Hanlons began as carpet acrobats in
| theatres of the vaudeville description.
and the great Edmund Kean, "um-
! bled" upon mats on the streets, and
dio clown and contortion acts at the
village fairs of his native England l
can recall Julia Arthur's appearance
very well when she played in Daniel
! Bandman's company in the ten, twenty
and thirty cent houses, and that not
more than seven or eight years ago.
! Fanny Davenport appeared as Carline
in one of the early Black Crook COM
panies. Thomas w. Keene was the
MONSTER lie Telescope of the Kiralfys'
"A Trip to the Moon" shortly before
Billy Hayden discovered him and
starred him with such astonishing sue
cess in Richard Ill" w. H. Crane
played small parts with the Holman
Juvenile Opera Company and Julia
| iMarlowe began her professional career
in a similar organization under the d.
rectiOn of r. E. J. Miles. Richard
| Mansfield was a comedian in Colonel
! miles Orpheus and Eurydice company
at the Bijou theatre New York, some
fifteen or sixteen years ago, and was
very we'll content to listen to the ap-
plause gained by his appearance in a
scene where a comic violin duet with
another comedian was the principal
i feature. Many of you have heard Jo-
seph Jefferson in the days gone by
sing ''Old Bob Ridley" in the charac-
ter of Asa Trenchard, in Our Amer
lean Cousin which the elder Sothern
as the star -iM0nfo0mory Phicfar IN