Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-09-09


accumulate in year.
Madge Leasing. one Of the Casinos
famous beauties and a sprightly and
capable little artist, has joined the
Francis Wilson Company. Mr.. Wilson
has had considerable difficulty in
filing the place made vacant by the
il is thought Miss Leasing will be a
very satisfactory substitute. The pres
ence OF Miss Leasing in the Wilson
company, however, makes it rather
plain that Pauline Hall is not to be in
Guided among its members. Miss Hall
has no love for the winsome Madge,
as all of her intimate friends know,
and since her separation from her
husband, George Mcclellan, has been
bitter in her denunciation of Miss
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bune.
Maude Jeffries, who has so long been
associated with Wilson Barrett, has
just been engaged by Beerbohm Tree
to create the part OF Marianne in Ste
phen Phillips play, ''Herod. The plot
DEALS chie1y with the insane passion
of Herod the Great for his wife MARI
anne. Herod, for certain reasons hay-
ing brought about the death OF his
wlfe's favorite brother, finds this polit-
ical move has estranged Marianne
from him. His love Tor her becomes a
madness and in the frenzy OF the mo-
ment and after much vaciilation he
orders her to be killed. But SO great
is his infatuation for her that whcE
she is dead he still continues to think
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NOR him in his delusion, for they fear
that should he once realize his wife is
dead he would certainly go mad.
The most difficult feature of the Ober-
ammergau performance Is said to be
the crucitxion, which seems almost
impossible to reproduce effectively. Yet
this scene is one OF the triumphs OF the
Passion Play. For twenty minutes the
performer of Christus hangs in view
of the audience, and the ordeal is ex-
acting in spite of all the means OF re-
lief that the machinery supplies. The
actor is placed ON the cross before it is
raised. He wears light steel corset
to which ring is attached, and rings
are on bands that go around both OF his
wrists. These are attached to the cross
and his foot rests on a small invisible
step at the lower part of the cross. 1t
takes three men to put the cross into
place after the body has been attached
TO 1t. The cross which the Cnristus car
ries is somewhat lighter, although it
is heavy enough to be task for any
man. The ascension is managed by
means OF rollers and the blood suppos-
ed to come from the wounded side
pours in reality from the head of the
spear.
Nearly every actress has her hobby,
Lillian Russell driving, Gertrude Cogh-
Ian painting, Maude Adams her library,
Viola Allen horseback riding, Jesse
Mae Hall yachting, Marie Burroughs
golhng, and Mrs. Fiske her antiques.
Guy Bates Post, we'll and favorably
known during the past several seasons
as leading man with Liebler & Co. at
fractions, severed his connections with
| that organization this season, and
signed with Delcher & Hennessy to play
| the part of Rawdon Crawley, in their
| production of Vanity Fair" with Miss
Coghlan as Becky Sharp"
! One OF the most important events OF
the coming season in dramatic inter-
! Sharp" in Charles Coghlan's dramati-
cation of Thackeray's Vanity Fair.
Delcher & Hennessy, her managers,
| have surrounded Miss Coghlan with a
brilliant company and superb scenic
accessories.
! Five scenes OF varying interest are
offered in Charles Coghlan's dramatiza-
| tion of Thackeray's Vanity Fair tO
| be seen here in few weeks with
| Gertrude Coghlan as Becky Sharp
Miss Pinkerton's Boarding School
| Miss Crawley's Mansion Park Lane, the
ball room at Brussels, Becky's home in
London, and her humble retreat in Ger
many are shown.
Thackeray with all his cynicism was
not without artifice in seeking to inter
est his readers with a striking phrase
as a substitute for some Of his works
| "A Novel Without a Hero" Is the sub
caption of Vanity Fair" perhaps the
most dramatic of all the brilliant writ
| ings of the novelist Gertrude Cogh.
! Ian is shortly to appear here as Becky
/ Sharp" in a dramatization OF the ia
nous masterpiece.
| Maude Adams has succeeded Maggie
| Mitchell, Blanche Walch recalled Fan.
ny Davenport, and Gertrude Coghlan Is
being generally proclaimed the legiti-
mate successor of Mary Anderson
whom she resembles in graceful pny.
siqle. facial loneliness and striking
| emotional power.
For quarter of century the name
! of Coghlan has been a distinguished
one in the important stage events in
America and London. No English play
| er regularly visiting our shores com
| manded the attentionaof itAe cultured
| people than Charles Coshian, His sis
| ter. Rose Ccghlan, has been with IL.