Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-01-21
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Jekyll and Mr.. Hyde"
Maud Adams has played Babbie over
700 times. Seven hundred performances, at
average receipts of more than 81, 900 a per-
Torrance would leave a profit of about
$4O0, 900 to the management.
There is said Minstrel w. H. West,
nothing more healthful to the skin than
the use of black cork. 1t removes impur:-
ties and clears the complexion; blackheads
and pimples are unknown to the man who
appears in black face"
I Vaudeville possesses no more popular
act than that given by Adelaide Hermann,
widow of Hermann, the Great. No less
than 5000 people saw her duplicate Herr
mann's greatest feats at Keith's, Phila-
delphia, during a recent fortnight.
Throughout the act she does not speak and
her arms are bare; yet no male magician
has presented such a mystifying entertain
ment.
Said Henry Clay Barnabee, the Boston,
ians have developed and brought to light
more American talent than any other or
ganization in the country. We discovered
Eugene Cowles some years ago. He was
working in a hank in Chicago and singing
in a church choir. To-day he is Americas
leading basso. Alice Nielsen, Zellie De
Lussan, Jessie Bartlett Davis, Camille
De Arville and others too numerous to
mention started with US, many in the
chorus and others only in small parts.
Discussing Maud Adams New York en-
gagement, Manager Frohman said: "As
soon as Miss Adams gets settled in New
York she will begin rehearsals of Rosa
lind, in AS You Like It. which will be the
next play to be added to her repertoire,
and the one in which she will be seen In
New York after the public has had enough
of The Little Minister I also have had a
play based on the career of Peg Wellington
written for Miss Adams in its title role"
No higher than Hop-o-My-Thumb, Edna
Wallace Hopper holds the centre of the
stage with a presence apparently as COM
manding as the leader of the Amazons.
With no effort to come at the shading of
dramatic expression which is essential
even in comics. she manages by continual
hustle. movement and v~ivacity to convey
the idea that she is a gifted Coincidence.
Her voice is a mere penny whistle without
color. breadth, compass or form, yet she
goes through the motions of singing so
smartly that in choruses, when the audi
torium is full Of music, an optical delusion
RtiS0dAES Us lA1aN ACA OAkOo ELK kA6A lOA
clear and of prima donnaesque dignity.
Inasmuch as the stage is ali illusion, Edna
Wallace Hopper carries out its system
completely. She is not pretty. yet by her
adroitness in making up she 0 as
pretty as the proverbisl p'cture.-Hillary
Bell, in New York Press
Charlie Frohman and Maud Adams have
of late been assiduously reading LAS You
Like tt and Twelfth Night" with a view
to a spring production of one or the other,
after the manner of Romeo and Juliet"
last season They ave about decided
upon Twelfth Night" In which, of
course, Miss Adams will play Viola. This
is plain sailing compared with Juliet. but
how Miss Adams VIII look in tights imag-
nation refuses to wen picture in advance.
I do not think Faversham VIII be in the
bill. He got so numerically roasted for
his Romeo last season that he positively
refuses to appear In another Shakes
pearean character. In fact. he quilted the
company before the end Of the season. On