Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-05-20

plates starring again IN his old and
greatest success, Jean Vatican" a
dramatization of Les Miserables."
Miss Marie Tempest expects to have
music for spoken comedy in order to
appear as Nell Gwynne in Anthony
Hope and Edward Roses adaptation
Of the Hope novel. Simon Dale"
Duse has received higher prices than
n actress who ever lived, for, in her
W Italy, she was paid $1,000 a night,
n when she plays in Paris people
willingly pay $40 a seat to see her.
In New York Ben Hur" has been
played 1914 times to audiences which
aggregated over 400, 900 people. The
largest receipts for any one week were
taken the first week of this year
1 9,015.60.
A good scene painter may get any
where from $500 to 5 1000 for a scene.
The average price paid to the best
half dozen scene painters for a scene
is $500. But there are a great many
more scene painted for 500 than for
$500.
Ellen Berry, daughter of Sir William
Berry, former Premier of Victoria, has
Joined Nance O'Neil's company. Miss
ONeil began a five weeks engagement
at Her Majesty's theater, Sydney, on
April IA. Among the plays she will
produce will be Giacomette's Eliza
beth"
Mrs. Fishes season of thirty-four
weeks in Becky Sharp ended in Phila-
delphia- She played fifteen weeks in
New York and visited ten other cities.
The tour was enormously successful,
the gross receipts ag~gregating more
than 100000. Mrs. Fishes next tour
will begin in October.
The Passion play is to be performed
this summer. 1t is acted thrice a week
during the summer, as a rule on Sun
days, Mondays and Fridays. Oberam-
mergau is in Bavaria, about two hours
south of Munich. From Paris the trip
takes about eighteen hours; from Co
logne the same.
A London dramatic journal says
that the duke and duchess OF York
have now an electrophone communi-
cation between York house, st. James
palace and the leading London thea
tiers and concert halls, in order that
their royal ~highnesses may listen TO
the various entertainments, including
the opera performance at Covent
Garden"
From all recent accounts, and I have
met several people who saw 1t in Lon
don, the American Beauty" has made a
worse fizzle than had ever been supposed
there. They speculated upon the success
Of 1.-THE Belle of New York" and popu-
larity of Edna May. But London, like
our blessed town, does not stick by a
reigning beauty very long. It has now
taken up old, wrinkled Mrs. Leslie Car
ter, who in spite OF her years. has for the
time being done up the 24-years-old Edna
May to death. You would hardly believe
that Carter is the senior of Modjeska, but
the latter started as a child While Carter
went on the stage as a matured married
woman, and is o the mother OF a man
of 26-the one whom David Belasco refer
red to on the first night of "Zaza'' as her
dear little red-headed boy As a mat
ter of fact, he is nearly six feet tall. and
very freckled. Charles Alfred Byrne, in
Brooklyn Citizen.
There have been many explanations as
to just why when an actress or chorus
girl became ttached to a Harvard
youth it has always been as hard for him
to sever the connection as for a shaggy
haired dog to rid himself of a burr. OF
course. in some cases, such as that of
which Boston has just had an instance,
there is probably real love on both sides
as a mutually attractive magnet, but in
many others there seems no doubt that
the Cambridge boys are the victims of a
species of blackmail. The young theatre
person, finding that her charms have
lured on the young man, takes pains to
ascertain the fnancial standing of his
relatives, and if this side of the deal is
satisfactory, she awaits the opportunity
to bring things to such a point that she
asks a Observation-Disclosures she will sue
for breach of promise. and no one knows
how much money has gone over TO those
young. bedizened and dazzling ladies
whose alleged characters were supposedly
injured.-Boston Post.
Eleonora Duse and Sarah Bernhard
had husbands who were no benefit 10
them socially or financially. Lillian Rus
sells three husbands were poor men.
Julia Marlowe seems 10 ave lost rather
thar gained by her marriage, and in addi-
ton to this disappointment she was knee
beaten by her husband. so she says. Ada
Rehan, once the most famous beauty on
the stage, and the most gifted, never
found a husband. Georgia Cayvan was
leading woman at two Of our chief thea
tiers, yet she is a spinster. So is Maud
Adams, although her graces as Lady Bah
bic touched every heart. Viola Allen re-
mains unmarried, yet she is a beautiful
and gifted young woman. Annie Russell
married a stage manager, and, being d.
vorced, has continued in widows weeds.
Mary Mannering married an actor. Mar
garet Mather paused in her triumphant
career as Juliet to marry a fiddler. Lii
liam Russell's beauty is famous in two
continents, yet her first two husbands
were musicians and her third is a tenor.
Anna Held married her manager. Kath-
crime Florence married a character come
dian. Isabelle Irving. John Drew's lead
ing woman. and universally admired. not
only for her good looks but for her tai
ent, married w. H. Thompson. notable as
a performer OF yillains.-Hilary Bell in
New York Press.
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