Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-06-03
THEATRICAL ADJUSTMENTS.
Beerbohm Tree is to act Othello.
Kur1a Dn1lou- - - ~

~ jill llGt ID " ACT OInGlIO.
Kyrle Bellew is in Australia.
Nance O'Neill is to do Lady Mac
beth.
Harry Conor, now in South America.
is to visit South Africa.
Frohman is to produce a dramatiza-
ton of Red Pottage."
j. K. Emmett will star in a Transvaal
play, entitled, The Outpost" in which
he will impersonate a Boer hero.
B%roadhurst's new farce is called
The House that Jack Built"
Fun on the Bristol is being PLAYED
in Australia by John F. S~heridan's
J company.
Helen Bertram will be prima donna
with Jerome Sykes next season.
The Grand Duke Constantine, a Cou-
sin OF the Gar of Russia, played Ham
let in an amateur performance in st.
Petersburg.
Bernhardt made her first appearance
on LAe stage in a religious entertain
ment at a convent school when she was
ten years old. That was in 1857.
A dramatization of S~teyenson's
Prince Otto" having been successfully
produced by Otis Skinner in Chicago.
another play founded on the same
novel is now announced in London.
Julia Marlowe has accepted for pro-
duction a new play, entitled, THE
Awakening" written by Harriet Ford
and Beatrice De Mile, authors of The
Greatest Thing in the World"
Sidney Lee, who has been lecturing
lately on Shakespeare and Patriot
ISM" suggests the establishment OF an
English Nation fete day on Shakes
peare's birthday.
In the theater-going public itself
there has been little change. 1t takes
what entertainment the syndicate
chooses to give and pays what money
the syndicate chooses to ask. The pub
lies regular investment in theatrical
gold bricks lends color to the charge
that New York is the largest jay town
in the United States.-Life.
Nine. Bernhard is about to introduce a
new cinematographis effect in "L'Aaig-
lon" at her Paris theatre, and will present
it here in her performances next season
with CoQuelin. The scene is the battle
field of Wagram, whereon the Duke of
Reichstadt evokes the spirits of the SOL
diers fallen in fight, and whose bodies are
seen lying, as it were, 'in one red burial
blent." To give more reality to the evo-
cation scene the soldiers are to arise, and
this effect will be produced not only by
the living and breathing figures of super
numeraries, but also by means of the
cinematograph.
The increase in the number of stock
companies over that of a year ago is con-
siderable. To be exact, there were a year
ago Is companies. while now there are
IS. Some of the stock companies com
pete strongly with more pretentious trav-
cling companies that charge high prias.
1t cannot be questioned that the stock
company system is gaining ground
steadily. AS has been suggested. the
stock companies threaten the very exist
ence of the inferior combinations. and
their influence on the whole outside
amusement system is something that has
to be reckoned with, and it promises to be
still more potent.-Dramatic Mirror.
Senior Don Fernando Diaz de Mendosa
and wife, Sonora Maria Guerrero. who are
to the Spanish stage what Booth and
Modjeska have been TO the American
stage, arrived in St. Louis last week from
Mexico City en- route TO the Paris EXPOSE
ton. The senior and his wife travel in a
special train of eight coaches, fitted most
luXuriously. Senior Mendos and his wife
lave been on his side of the Atlantic
since December, during which time they
have played in South America and Next
co. Sonora Mendosa has with her jewels
that are almost priceless. Among them
is a diamond crown valued at 81. o0e,
which was presented to her by the Span
ish colony in Mexico City at a benefit
| given at the National Theatre a few days
before her departure.
For the present Paderewski has an
| bounced that he will evote himself to
the composition of an opsra. which he
hopes tc produce at Dresi:1 next fall.
For many years he studied and worked
in the greatest poverty. and his first wife.
] whom he married at a very early age.