Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-10-14

pIafts, twisted into a shining coronet
above her snowy brow, after the
manner of novel heroines from time
immemorial.
James H. Hackett and his lovely
wife, Mary Mannering, have deter
mnied to play together in London next
summer and then return to this coun-
try and appear under a new manager,
whose name, fer prudential reasons. is
withheld.
Sir Arthur Sullivan has completed
his new operetta. 1t is on an Irish SUBJ
ject dealing with the rebellion of '98.
/ Meanwhile 'sThe Pirates of Penzance'
is attracting such large audiences at
the Savoy Theatre that there is no
need to hasten the production of the
new work.
Two tenors have recently given up
their contemplated work as impre-
sarlos. Jean de Reszke is not to I'M
Hertake the production of Tristan
und Isolde" in German at the Chat
elet in Paris, and Fernando de Lucia
has already handed over the San Car
10 in Naples to the direction OF a
committee organized for that purpose.
The boycott of ene new Majestic the
alter, in Utica, by the labor unions
seems to be having a serious effect.
Committees take down the names of
patrons, and If they are merchants the
unicnists refuse to buy of them. Crowds
hang around the stage entrance and
shout "Scab" to the actors when they
go in.
1t has become a certainty of late
That a girl has only to be thin to make
a hit with the New York public. All
the big successes have been made by
the little girls within the last few
seasons. There's Maude Adams, with
a throat like a fashion poster, and An
ME Russell, equally sylph-like, and
now Miss Conquest, who is like an
English wafer.-Matinee Girl, in ORA
matte Mirror.
The Trades Assembly and Building
Trades Council have concluded to
build another theater in Utica. At
frst 1t was intended to raise the money
necessary by subscription, but a prop
ccltlon has since been made by George
E. Carter, Jr., of New York, to son.
struct a play house in Utica to run in
opposition to the Majestic, and this
is now under considera tion.-Dramatic
Mirror.
1t looks very much as though all the
leading English playwrights will black-ball
Miss Evelyn Willard, Charles Frohman's
e~x-leading woman, because of her refusal
to appear in THE Lackeys' Carnival" in
view of the dialogue allotted to her. r. C.
Carton, Cecil Raleigh, A. w. Pinero and
Henry Arthur, the last of whom wrote the
lines Miss Willard dislikes, have clauses
in all their contracts with managers
wherein it is, stipulated that they shall
have a voice in casting their characters,
and that under no circumstances shall
words be added to or subtracted from one
of their plays.
Eduard Strauss, who will appear in New
York with his orchestra on Oct. 20, is the
youngest of three brothers Johann, Josef
and Eduardo, sons of the Johann Strauss
who died in Vienna in the year 1S49. The
father was the founder of the Strauss or
chestra 1929 and was distinguished by
the Emperor of Austria with the title of
Imperial and Royal Court Ball Music Di-
rector of Austr:a-Hungary. Making his
debut as leader of the Strauss orchestra
in 1S62( he has conducted successive or
chestras for a period of thirty-eight years.
He and his orchestra have given concerts
at fourteen international eXpositions as
well as at the principal courts of Europe.
To sum up, Eduard Strauss has in the last
twenty-five years, visited over 800 cities
in two hemispheres. He Is commander,
officer or knight of twelve orders and pos
sesses valuable presents from t~hirty-two
different rlIIprS UIn hos hold tha nnSitio,
of Imperial and Royal Court Ball Music
Director of Austria-Hungary since 1872 and
of the American orders since 1886. He has
published over 800 of his own compositions,
besides over 200 arrangements of operas,
concert pieces and songs.
The fact is, that never was the Ameri-
can drama at so low an ebb as now. More
American plays were produced twenty-five
years ago when less than one-half the
theatres were in existence. You may quote
Arizona and Say Harbor'' as American
plays, but the first has been written for
many years and the other is only a re-
vamp of Hearts of Oak" which was it
self taken by Belasco and Herne from old
English melodrama without acknowledge
ment of it's source. l do believe, however.
that the Octopus Syndicate is largely re-
sponsible for this state of affairs. The
journeymen and ex-ticket sells who run
that institution look upon the drama pure
ly from a commercial standpoint. This
may be all right from one point of view;
nevertheless a national demand cannot be
built that way, and never was. The syn
dictate is undoubtedly sitting legitimate
aspiration and working from the most sor-
did motives. Managers and authors and
actors are boycotted if they do not hap
pen to possess the favor of the institu-
ton, and so Americans are forced to go
into other pursuits, while the English
come over to capture our wealth and a
kindnes which we do not extend to our
own.-Charles Alfred Byrne, in Brooklyn
Citizen.
FIGHTING THE CASE.