Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-02-25


''McSorley's Imitation" and aNugent the
Rubber together with condensed
version Of "Old Lavender" The COM
Merritt and David Braham, Jr.
When not actively engaged in ham
ding the affairs of "Sapho" for the
road, in addition to shaping the desti-
MES of Hello Bill!" ]. ]. Rosenthal
is making arrangements to send out a
big farce comedy company next season
embracing the services OF two promi-
nent vaudeville teams to be jointly
starred.
Thomas Wise, who has scored a
very strong personal success in London
in THE Wrong Mr.. Wright" is now
reading play that has been written
for him by Justin Huntly Mccarthy.
De Wolf Hopper will be In America
this week, his London season having
lately been proftlesS. THE Queen OF
Spain" is the title of his new opera for
next season.
The condition of affairs in connec-
ton with theatrical life in England is
shown by the statement that over forty
touring companies have been with
drawn from their regular spring visits
to the provinces. The South African
war is responsible for all this.
Mrs. Langtry has parted with
Eleanor Moretti, the only high-priceo
member of her company, and she goes
to Philadelphia with a cast that is a
marvel in cheapness. Beyond ques-
ton the expenses of The Degenerates"
do not amount to $1,000 week, yet
she will take in receipts of probably
$4,000 vocabulary Bell in New
York Press.
When Maude Adams closes her sea-
son May she will not again appear in
public until October %. This will give
her five months vacation, longer
consecutive period of rest than she
has enjoyed during the past eight
years. In fact, she has never before
devoted more than two and one-half
months of time to the pursuit of en-
joyment. She has been playing one
character for three years, with the ex-
ception of her short experience last
spring with Romeo and Juliet" Next
fall she will have a new play.
No stage performance is more pure
ly fake" than that given by so-called
"ventriloquists Generations of thes
individuals, aided and abetted by their
press agents, have succeeded in con-
vincing the public that their labor Is
the "art" of throwing the voice to the
figure with which they work. AS a
matter of fact, no such thing is posi-
BILE. The effect is produced simply by
alterning the tone. and at the same
time directing the attention of the
spectator to some prominent object.
The imagination of the auditor does
the rest.-Washington Times.
Merri Osborne has replaced Joseph
inc Hall in 1.-THE Girl from Maxim S. !"
David Belasco is an engenious adj
vertiser. He recently announced that
he was engaged in dramatiZing a nov
ell whose story was laid in Japan. One
night recently he said that he was go
ing on a visit to Washington for the
purpose of consulting the stage man
ager of Japanese troupe of players
relative to the business and action
necessary to his play. This stage
managers name was given as Ythguan
Ynohtna, and to make sure of its pro-
per announcement in the papers Mr..
Belasco spelled it out carefully to each
of the news chroniclers. Next morn
ing the New York journals gravely
published the intelligence of the dra-
matist's intended visit to Ythguan
Ynohtna the Japanese stage manager
at Washington This OrientaPs name
was merely Naughty Anthony" re-
versed in spelling.
The extraordinary spectacle is again
presented of a man (Edwd. E. Rce)
who has swept the country with dozens
of successes, who has had in his en-
ploy pretty nearly every star who now
treads the boards at some period or
another, and yet who, after a quarter
of a century of managing really big
things, is SO poor that he is compelled
to appeal to the sympathy of his for
mer employees to help him out of the
hole of financial desuetude. This man
has in his lifetime spent over a mil
lion dollars on scenery alone, not to
speak of salaries, costumes and rail-
road fares, which would very easily
amount to three millions more, and yet
not dollar of it all has chung to his
own hands. Is it not a sad comment
on the whole business that, toward
the close of his life, Abbey had to
take a beneit-that Lester Wallack
took one also after so years of work,
and that even Maurice Grau had one
last season? Yet these are all the
biggest men we have had-always
handling huge sums of money, and dy-
ing as poor as Jobs turkey.-Brook-
Ign Citizen.
what Happened to Jones" has been
shown in Cairo, Egypt.