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Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-12-30

artists by saying the English stage is
deficient in feminine talent. Fitch is
perfectly right. We have little tai
ent, and it is great, but it is not
enough in volume, considering the
number of plays and theatres. Violet
and Irene Vanbrugh, Lena Ashwell
and Mrs. Cecil Raleigh are quite fine,
but there are no others like them. A
play could be cast six times in Amer
lea to once in England. Actor-mana-
gers here should be held largely re-
sponsible for this deplorable condi-
ton. They don't want talent for fear
it will take plaudits away from them
selves. These men have bottled UP tai
ent until it has become stale, fiat and
improbable. Clement Scott, in New
York Telegraph.
Here is list of plays based upon ep-
isodes of the First Empire and pre-
scented since 1890 at Partisan play
houses: In 1891, Madame la Mar
chale," at the kmbigu; in 1898, "Mme.
Sans Gene" at the Vaudeville; in
1894 Napoleon" at the Porte Saint
Martin; in 1896. LA WANDER" at the
Opera Comique; in 1896, "Le Colonel
Rochebeume, at the Porte Saint Mar
tin; in 1898, THE King of Rome" at
the Neauveau Theatre: in 1898, lies
Petites Michu,'' at the Bouffes Pari-
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in 1900, Mile George" at the Varieties.
If all goes WELL Mr.. Sothern hopes to
resume his tour next week. His indis-
position has been expensive. A statis-
tician, calculating our actors former
receipts and the time of his disability,
says that the wound in Hamlet's foot
has cost 100000. That is considerably
more than Shakespeare received for
writing the play. Indeed, it is as
much as the poet earned from Ham
let," Macbeth "Othello,'' Richard
Ill.," and Romeo and Juliet his five
greatest tragedies. "A pin prick, there
fore, surpasses in cost the greatest ira
gic works of the English drama. 1t is
averred by historians that during his
entire lifetime, Shakespeare earned
less than $4,000, or. in our money,
5000 000 After three centuries, the
annual royalties on his plays, publica-
tons and on the stage would amount
to 100000 If he had lived until our
time, William Shakespeare would be a
richer man than Rockefeller.-Hillary
Bell, in the New York Press.
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Special TO the Register.
CHARLESTON. w Va, December 90.
A Commission has been issued to Will
liam VI. o. Dawson, Secretary of State,
creating him a colonel and aide-de-
camp on the staff of that renowned
warrior, Governor George Wesley At
kinson. When Colonel Dawson dons
his fiery untamed steed, mounts his
shoulder straps and goes out for blood
it is expected that wars wrinkled front
will look like it had been starched aud
ironed, and the timid who look upon
his fearsome face will crawl under the
bed.
Ed Corder, who has been chief clerk
in the Office of the Secretary of State,
has resigned the place and E. K. Reedy,
Of Louden district, in this county, has
been appointed to succeed him. Cor
der's resignation was placed at the
service of his chief some time ago, but
there was no hurry about it's accept
ance, as Dawson seemed to need time
in which to look carefully over the
field and make what seemed to him q
good selection for his successor. Reedy
and II. Del Rummen, another local
politician here, have both been work
ing for the job, but neither one was the
man Dawson wanted. He offered the
sit to Charlie Henning, of Wheeling,
and as an extra inducement to get him
to take it promised him the fees that
come from the commissions issued to
notaries public. Henning looked into
the matter and decided that even with
the extras the Office was not rich
enough for his blood, and so declined
it. Then Reedy was appointed, and he
yesterday took his seat.
It seems to be understood that E. E.
Hood, of this place, will be chief clerk
of the House of Delegates OF the Legis-
lature, and that John T. Harris will
succeed himself as chief clerk of the
Senate. Hood was chief clerk of the
House during the session of 1897, and
| besides having the experience, he I'M
doubtedly has the necessary pull to
land the prize again. Harris also will
prabably have pretty easy time secur-
ing a reelection.
For the other Offices about the Leg
islature there will be candidates galore,
and nobody can tell who win get any
thing Every man who has served a
term in the House thinks he is the
proper thing for Speaker, and is either
an aYowed candidate or else hopes
/ there will be such tie-up as to make
! him a candidate.
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TH0MAS o .SFARRQOKE

composed an entirely new musical set
ting in bright, tuneful measures. IN
several of the numbers it IS said he
has not only equaled but really sur
passed anything he has contributed to
the Casino productions. The Round
ers" plot is not an intricate one, but
furnishes a vehicle for many funny
situations, and the employment Of
many New York Casino favorites 1t
hinges principally on Priscilla Jean
nette Worls), the Quakeress wife Of
the gay Marquis de Baccarat (Wm T.
Terris), spending the season at Biar-
ritz, where she learns that her husband
has gone to Paris to meet noted ball
let dancer Bertha Waltzinger). The
trouble begins here. She follows him
and cures him of his infatuation by
making love, herself, to a Hibernian
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cludes Lillian Green, Edwin Foy and
Merri Osborne. Barnet perpetuated
1892"
The young woman who calls herself
Mrs. Frederick V. Bowers and Mrs
George Pullman, Jr., is to be seen in
Near the Throne"
The "Giddy Throng" cast includes
May Yoho Lady Francis Hope)
Louis Harrison, Mabel Fenton, Mamie
Gilroy and Pat Rooney.
Ada Rehan has bought the Ameri-
can and English rights to a drama
based upon the Dreyfus case and will
play the part which might be describ-
ed as Mrs. Dreyfus.
Miss Katherine Grey CMrs John
Mason) will probably return to the
stage in a month or so to act Selma
White in Leo Dietrichstein' drama
tization of Robert Grants "Unleaven-
ed Bread"
The latest report about Forbes Rob-
ertson, the English actor who has just
married Gertrude Elliott, is that he
contemplates a visit to these shores.
He has begun the right way to make
himself popular by marrying an Amer
lean.
Ethel Barrymore has finally been al
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pirated. This has just been done for
him by Elizabeth Marbury, his agent.
1t will be recalled that when "Cayal-
leria Rusticana" was first presented
here by manager who thought he
was thoroughly protected, he found
a number of rival productions right
on his heels, for the simple reason
that the opera was free to all.
jameson Lee Finney has made ia
vorable impression in Lady Hunt
worth's Experiment at Days,
through his drastic and virulent per-
Torrance of Lady Huntworth's de-
based husband, trembling on the verge
of the D. rs, who thinks he sees
spiders most of the time. 1t has been
retailed to me that Mr.. Finney owes
his present opportunity to the fact
that E. ]. Morgan, originally cast for
the role, failed to qualify for it or else
did not like it. That report recalls the
fact that Richard Mansfield secured
his first chance to "act out" because
J. H. Stoddart' considered the Baron
Cheverial in "a Partisan Romance
unworthy of his own talents.-New
York Telegraph.
Clyde Fitch has offended sensitive
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ARTHUR CRISPIN.
THEATRICAL ADJUSTMENTS.

Minneapolis is to have a music hall.
f'rOlman is to do Joan of Arc play.
The Casino Girls" London run has
terminated
Anna Held is to do 'Papa's Wife"
in London.
Jeanette Lowry is to be a prima
donna in London.
Phillis Rankin is the Lady Holly
wood in "Florodora."
E. s. Willard has shelved Elwyn A.
Barron's "Punchinello."
Zelma Rawlston is now singing Sc
lections from Carmen" in costume
John C. Rice and Sally Cohen may
star in "All the World Loves a Lover"
Fanny Rice is to do Nell Gwyn at
Keith's Philadelphia theatre to-mor-
row.
Chancey Olcott is to disclose Gar
ret OMagh' in Philadelphia this week.
Victoria Sardou is hard at work on
a new spectacular piece for the Porte
ST. Martin.
Paul Arthur has declined Weber and
Fields offer to have him join their all
star stock company.
R. A. Barnetts My Lady cast in
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lotted her leading man in Fitch's
Capt. links of the Horse Marines"
He is an Englishman. Charles Froh-
man has selected Reeves Smith for the
occupation of making stage love to
Miss Barrymore.
Mrs. James Brown Potter, who is
doing a vaudeville act at tne Palace
London, is giving Christmas recita-
tions surrounded by Christmas trees
which, during the course of her per-
Torrance, are stripped of their pres
ents, which are presented to the chill
dren in the audience
1t is said that Nine Eames refused
to join the Grau company this season
because its chief star is Nine. Melba.
1t is said that two of the principal
prima donnas no longer speak to each
other. 1t is said that one of the prima
donnas is so disgruntled by the APP
portionment of roles that she thinks
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she might get play strong enough to
draw without any special reference to
the exponent of it's principal role. If
this could be done, it was readily seen
that the prestige and recognition gain
ed by the first season of starring might
be sufficient to cause the lady to be per-
manently accepted as an Independent
attraction. This was precisely the plan
adopted by managers of Miss Viola
Allen, to whom every word written
here of Miss Mannering's initial VEN
ture as star would apply in every par
ticular.
In the case of Miss Allen her man
ayers, Liebler & Co., were fortunate to
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-12-30
A BULLETIN
of Decided Interest to Fruit and
Whent Growers.

of Decided Interest to Fruit and
Whent Growers.
We learn from the Bulletin, No 68, OF
the West Virginia Agricultural Exper-
iment Station, just received, that the
Periodical Cicada. or Seventeenth year
locust. will swarm next May and June
over a large part OF the Southern por-
ton of the State, and that fruit growers
are warned of the danger of losing fruit
trees planted next spring within this
area. The author, DR.. A. y. Hopkins,
gives a full account Of the insect and
shows on maps OF the State the known
distribution of the eight or ten known
broods. or swarms, which appear in
different years and in different sections
Of the State. Instructions are also Civ
en- for preventing losses from the in
juries by this pest to recently planted
fruit and other trees. The bulletin con-
tains much matter of general interest
and information, in addition to the val
liable and practical suggestions and adj
vice.
Bulletin No. So by the same author
is also before us. It is a supplement
to Bulletin No. 67-"The Hessian Fly
in West ViTginia''-and includes a re-
port on the examination Of over 5000
specimens Of wheat stubble from "a cor
respondents in rs counties of the State.
with tables of results. Notice of the
destructive rayages of the joint worm
On wheat in the Northern section Of the
State is also given in this bulletin. with
suggestions and recommendations for
preventing losses.
These are both valuable contribu-
tiors from the results of original in
yestig cations by the Entomologist Of the
Experiment Station, and are mailed
free by the station to any one request
ing them.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-12-30

What has the next hundred years
in store for this world of ours!
Pause for moment and try to real
lie the abundant potentialities of the
coming century whose dawn we can
now discern through dark and wintry
skies AS the nineteenth century ad-
vanced mankind toward emancipation
and freedom, so it is the hope of US
all that the twentieth century VIII
dawn with right promises of help Tor
the cause Of humanity; that, by the
infinite goodness and mercy of the
Almighty Father, all strife and wars
may cease and that we may bring
ourselves to realize the highest value
in the arts of peace as opposed to the
bitter uselessness of the arts of war
is the earnest prayer of all who are
invested with love and affection for
humanity. OLGA NETHERSOLE.
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Rose. The piece, which is in four acts,
is now on view at Wallack's theatre
in this city, where it has apparently
caught on, judged by the only standard
for which managers care a rap-the
box Office receipts.
1t is improbable that there was any
one in or out of the profession who,
when the announcement of Miss Man
nerings intention to star was made
some months ago, did not wish the
lovely little woman well The more
thoughtful ones, however. realized that
it was little less than laughabie to re-
gard Miss Mannering as star solely
upon her own merits, and that the best
that could be hoped for would be that
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company, is in the little company.

company, is in the little company.
BeIasco is to produce Paul M. Pot
ter's dramatization of Under Two
Flags" The part Miss Bates will
have is the pathetic and intensely
emotional vagabond and camp follow
er, Cigarette, whose soul consum-
ing love for the stalwart and pic
turesque BERTHE Cecil of the Guards
eventually makes him forget the
wrenches his heart has received from
letting it mingle with high society.
Mr.. Potter's drama is in FIVE acts and
nine scenes
The new opera by Mascagni is called
lie Maschere." tits in prologue and
three acts, and what means much
more than this to Mascagni is that he
has been clever enough this time to
have his work copyrighted in the
United States SO that it cannot be
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-12-30

/. The closing century has been a Won
derful one Tor the history of my art,
and all of US stage folk feel that
this remarkable epoch should al
ways retain its interest to us. A
hundred years ago Janice Meredith
might have been to see Mr.. and
Mrs. Hodgkinson produce THE Mys-
terious Monk; or, Ribbemoth, the
Feudal Baron" or perhaps their sec
ceSsful farce, "Doldrum. which
treated of a man who slept from 1896
to 1903 and was much surprised on
awakening to see the changes about
him, thus anticipating Rip VanWinkle."
Personally | am glad L am playing
at the beginning OF the twentieth CEN
fury, for 1 have at hand a letter
from this same John Hodgkinson in
which he says, q have engaged Mr..
and Mrs. Collins, the terms being $2S
a week. she finding her own ward
robe, which I think cheap" Remark
able, isn't it? But as he closes the
letter with the remark. My balance
in hand at present is $7G0, so you see
l have enough for every purpose
things seem to have been on a simpler
scale even for managers.
MARY MANNERING.
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hardly know what to say that is ''ap-
prOpriate to the twentieth century" I'M
less it be a few words congratulatng
my fellow artists upon the great improve
ment that a hundred years have work.
ed in their standing socially and artisti-
cally. At the beginning of the nineteenth
century it was anything but n sinecure
to be an actor, while to-day the profess
sion is full of highly educated ladies and
gentlemen, college men predominatng.
The same law courts which might d hum
dredyears ago have sentenced the friend
less ''strolling player" to sit in the stocks
for some slight offense are to-day fully
protecting his rights, while socially the
successful stage artist has the entree of
the drawing rooms of the world. If
some slight prejudices still eXist-in far
off rural corners Of the earth-against
the profession. or 1 prefer to say the art
of acting, the beginning century will soon
brush them away, and the actor win. at
last, be Ike other men in the eyes of the
world. Personally ! hope that the TWEEN
tieth century Will do another great SER
vice for the stage. ] hope it will make
the production of dirty plays impossible
and insist upon clean and wholesome
pieces. JAMES K. IIACKETT.
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secure Hall Gaines own dramatization
of his phenomenally popular novel,
"The Christian. The piece drew like
a house afre, and that despite the fact
that in the role of Glory Quayle Miss
Allen was never brilliant and during
several of the acts was decidedly COM
monplace. Nevertheless she was one
of the most profitable attractions in
this country. She may lay the flatter-
Ing JUNCTION to her soul that it was her
Individuality or ability which brought
hbout this result, though she is too
clever a woman probably to harbor any
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Mannering argued that if Viola Allen
were good enough to star, she also
should be. OF course, this story is not
based on firm premises, but that makes
no difference in the show business.
Besides, Miss Mannering also had be-
fore her the example of her husband,
James K. Hackett, who was making all
kinds OF money as star in a very alb
surd connection, "The Pride of Jenni-
co." which for some reason seems to
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such stupid sentiment. That it was
the piece, and not Miss Allen, which
drew the money was amply evidenced
by the success which Ellie Ellsler won
in the role of Glory Quayle at the same
time on the road. Besides, the play is
still drawing large receipts everywhere,
despite the fact that the company now
interpreting it cannot by any stretch
of even the managerial imagination be
said to compare with the original COM
pany at the Knickerbocker Theatre in
this city.
1t is more than probable that Miss
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do not last long enough l am unable to
say, but certain it is that Janice Mere
dith" does not grip one in manner
to suggest permanent success. 1t is
possible that the course of Miss Man
nering's management in practically,
slavishly initiating the method adopt
ed by ,rrsu lidoraWr famhfrmfmfmfm
ed to start Viola Allen as star, even
to the point of securing for her play
made from popular novel, shows
marked retrogression from that to
which she occasionally treated us in
the early days at the Lyceum and even
later at Daly's. The supporting COM
Dany, headed by Robert Drouet, was
competent.
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The Christmas week bills at the
local theatres were far above the av-
erage Of holiday attractions, and the
same thing will be true of New Years.
Creston Clarke and Company held the
boards at the lower house and gave
two really excellent performances Of
legitimate comedy. The Aubrey Com
pany at the Grand proved exceptionally
strong from an acting standpoint, and
the repertoire of plays was of high
pclas5, embracing such productions as
"Sappho," Faust" and I'VE 'Uns Of
Tennessee" 1t was the banner roper
toire week at. the Grand, from box
office standpoint Lafayette, entertain
er, gave four excellent performances
at the Opera House. There are but
two really first-class acts in the bill,
however, and Lafayette is SO far ahead
of anything else in the entertainment
that it is in some respects disappoint-
ing
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Thos. @. Seabrook's newest New
York Casino success, The FOUNDERS"
is listed here for New Years Day mat
inee and night at the Opera House,
with the famous star at the head OF the
big Metropolitan organization. Com
edian Seabrooke packed the big New
York Casino for 202 nights last season
with the gaiety. The management
calls the play French vaudeville, by
Harry B. Smith; Ludwig EnSlandcr
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of returning Immediately to Europe.
The vaudeville comedy hit of the
year has been scored by Clayton
White and Marie Stuart in skiI
called "Dickey" Mr.. White was in
Frohman's Cuckoo" and Surprises
of Love" productions. "Dickey' has
been played thus far 12O consecutive
times in the Keith theatres. Belle
Darcy, formerly OF Augustin Days
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MARY MANNERING
AS A STAR.

Mary Mannering, the erstwhile lead
ing woman of Daniel Frohman's Ly-
ceum and Days theatre stock COM
panies. is, as all the world theatrical
now knows, a full fedged STAR The
vehicle selected for her stellar exploit
alton is dramatization Of Paul Lei
cester Ford's novel, Janice Meredith,
made by the author and by Edward q.
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siennes; in 1897 LA Legendes des Sic
cles," at the Odeon; in 1899 More
Than Queen" at the Porte Saint Mar
tin; in 1900, "L'Aiglon,' at the Thea
ire Sarah Bernhardt; in 1900, Nine
Bonaparte,' at the Folies Bergeres; in
1900, 'Sylvie," at the Vaudeville, and
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NEW MARTINSVILLE.

NEW MARTINSVnLE. w. Va, De
cember 29.-Earnest Deems, who has
been stationed at Philadelphia for the
past seven months, has returned from
that place to spend his Christmas with
his parents on the South Side on ten
days furlough.
The Terpsichoreans had dance at
McEIdowney's hall Wednesday, night.
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$50

The REGISTER will pay
ten dollars for the arrest
and conviction Of any one
caught stealing the SUN.
DAY REGISTER. The pa
irons have been so an
nOyed with missing their
paper that the manage
nlent take This method to
prevent the wholesale rob.
berry which has been going
on for the past three
months.
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to write thoughtful criticims of Jan
ice Meredith" It is full of episode
action, but the play seems, nothwith-
standing, to move slowly. Besides,
there are very few characters in the
stage work in which one takes more
than passing interest. Even the adj
ventures of the hero and heroine do
not for a moment thrill us. Whether
it is that the difficulties are too easily
overcome or that the hero's troubles
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On Times vast stage, with solemn
touch and certain,
A great, new century hand rings up
the curtain.
Score we or fail, of us may Fate
write STILL
He's played a mans part. with an
honest will.
WILLIAM FARNUM.
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1 am asked for sentiment suitable
to the new year, and the especially
interesting advent of the twentieth
century. I can think of no motto
more pregnant with meaning or po-
tent for good than a few of Norbert's
lines from Browning's beautiful poet
ic play, I'm Balcony:
81 count life just the stuff to try
the souls strength-educe the man.
Who keeps one end in view makes all
things serve"
ELEANOR ROBSON.
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Manager Feinler has abandoned his
intention to give special 1870 o'clock
performance at the Grand New Years
eve, after consultation with the man
agement of The Katzenjammer Kids"
Four complete performances in u
hours was considered too much of an
undertaking. The company will give
the regular Monday night performance
and Tuesday and Wednesday matt
nees.
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Janice Meredith. .

whole lot of money, and, after all, in
the show business as elsewhere, it is
money that articulates.
1t was not worth the space to attempt
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attract the public Mr.. Hackett is
miles away from being a great or even
a particularly good actor, though he
will probably rise in a few years to
artistic eminence if he is not spoiled
by the freedom from restraint confer
red by reason of being his own man
ager. Notwithstanding all this, the
fact remained that he was making a