Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-11-25

The; Bostonians Will sing Robert NJ
Sterrett's The Silver Cur"
Eleanor Robson Is to star in drama
tization of "Unleavened Bread
Freida Teendes, of the Metropolitan
Opera Company. was formerly a bar
maid.s
For the Artists Home suggested by
Rejane, $4,000 has already been donated.
Another London quasi-Scriptural drama
is entitled "Pilate and Ovids Daughter.
Adonis Dixey is to play Sir Joseph Por-
ter in. New York revival of "Pinafore
Ellen Beach Cav is to tour America
next season at the head of an opera COM
pany.
katherine Bloodgood and ]. E. Dodson
are appearing in the Keith vaudeville
houses
New people for Edna Mays company
include ALT Whelan, Edwin Stevens and
Harry Conor.
There is bare possibility that Sothern
will be unable to act for the remainder
of the season.
William H. Sloan, Alice Holbrook and
Benjamin T Dillon have decided TO enter
the vaudeville field
+AdoSc heSSihS VIII AcoNO e3iS
Wilson Company next week. Then She
viii appear in a London pantomime.
May Irwin will do ''Madge Smith, Attor-
ney,' by Remsey Morris, on December u.
She has leased and will manage the Bijou
theatre, New York.
Miss Maize Toilette, of the Weber &
Field chorus. drew the line at tights she
couldn't sit down in. She was discharged
threatens TO sue.
In Paris, Bernhardts total receipts in
"LAiglon" for 234 performances were
s450,0O0, an average of almost $4,000 per-
Torrance. Rostand received ten per cent.
royalty.
Fred Berger, manager of Tim Murphy,
is considering for use by that star a play
written by Willard Holcomb, formerly
dramatic editor of the Washington Post,
now on the business staff of Liebler & Co.
The Kansas City courts have given
Alice Nelson the right to use her stage
name as her real one. She is Alice Nent-
wig no longer. She was divorced from
Prof. Nentwig, an organist, some time
ago.
The suit, Instituted against the Orpheum
Theatre, in San Francisco, for ejecting a
man from the orchestra, was won by the
Orpheum management. 1t was decided
that the management has the right to
eject any Objectionable person.
Another great pianist is coming to
America who will contest with Paderewski
for the approval of American women He
is Sig Enrico Toselli He has long hair.
He is good looking. He frankly avows the
Inspiration of women upon his playing.
A view of Henry at the Garden the
atre strikingly illustrates the deterioration
that is steadily going on in Shakespearean
acting and defamation. 1t will not be
long before both VIII be well nigh lost
arts. There are two or three experienced
actors in the cast of Henry V who are
able to read Shakespea-e's lines ntelli-
gently, but the rest of the long cast is
grossly incompetent in this respect, from
Richard Mansfield down.-Harrison Grey
Fiske, in Dramatic Mirror.
Bernhardt's big Newfoundland dog
Boubouroche, the gift of Henry Irving is
dead. Boubouroche and his mistress had
an af1ectionate parting which was ire
mendously affecting. The actress en-
braced the head Of her great pet, sobbing
till it seemed as though sher heart would
break. The dog repliefhs with CHASTITY
bowls of desolaton. The dog never ceased
brooding since the departure of his mis-
tress. To-day he died.-Paris cable in n.
Y. World.
GcYng Thomas "Esmeralda" was pro-
duced for the first time in America at
New York On Monday last. The opera is
in four acts It's libretto was written by
Albert Randegger and Theodore Marzials,
who selected for their argument Victor
Hugos "Hunchback of Notre Dame, -
That romance has already been made into
play, in which Quasimodo affrighted