Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-04-21

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Chauncey OJeott Was obliged, owing
to Illness to miss one performance at
the Fourteenth Street Theatre, New
York. The audience was dismissed.
Mr., Olcott has now completely recover-
ed from his ailment, which was a Sc
we're cold.
Three men who wanted to see Flora
dora for nothing tried to enter the Ca
sine via a fire escape during Tuesday
nights performance. Manager John G.
Fisher nabbed them and collected 6 for
three orchestra seats.
Jessie Miilward is to star in England
under Arthur Collins management in
In the Palace of the King" the En-
glish rights to which have been jointly
purchased by Mn. Collins and Miss Mill
ward.
Emily Wakeman, who has made a hit
as Molly Mealy in Lovers Lane" has
been selected by Clyde Fitch for a pro-
minent role in n Of his new plays
for next season.
Eugene Blair and her daughter, ac-
companied by her manager, Henri
Gressitt, are in Cleveland, resting, pre-
paratory to opening the Summer sea-
son at the Lyceum Theatre. "A Lady
OF Quality" will be the initial produc-
ton. The company has been strength
ened considerably in anticipation of the
engagement.
The Maurice Grau Opera company
and the acknowledgements company
will make their farewell New York ap-
pearanee this season in a double per-
Torrance at the Metropolitan Opera
House April 20, when both companies
Will take part in a special programme.
The Spring tour OF Otis Skinner, Mrs.
LIE Moyne and Eleanor Robson in spe-
cial performance of In a Balcony" will
begin with a matinee at the Knicker-
hooker Theatre, New York, May 6. Only
one performance will be given in each
city visited, except Boston and Chica-
go, where two matinees will be played.
Richard Mansfield is in the second
and last week of his stay at the Hollis
Theatre in Boston with Henry "" A
Bostonian critic was sharp enough to
discover an anachronism in the stage
settings, and wonders why the lion and
the unicorn appeared in the decora-
lions a century before the union of
Scotland and England. Mr. Mansfield
has not yet explained.
dorothy Morton has been especially
engaged to play Lady Francis Hopes
GMay Yoho) original role in the forth
coming Boston engagement of THE
Giddy Throng.' WiAen this assignment
Is done Miss Morton will play twelve
weeks in opera at Duquesne Gardens,
Pittsburg, with Chicago dates to follow.
Corinne's pet cat swallowed a dia-
mond brooch belonging to the actress
at Buffalo week before last. The jew
els were missed just at the time the
avaricious feline swelled up and died,
and an autopsy revealed the precious
stones.
James K. Hackett is still lying i'll at
the private hospital of DR.. ]. Madison
Taylor in Philadelphia. DIR, Taylor's
observation Of his case has more than
verified the diagnosis of the Cincinna-
ii physicians, who first declared the ne
cessity of a month of rest at least for
Mr.. Hackett. The actor, in spite of re-
peated warnings, pluekily undertook to
continue in his work, and, ~collapsing
completely, went to join his wife, Mary
Mannering, in Philadelphia.
The summer tour in which Cecilia
Lotus will take her farewell of yau-
deyille has been arranged with much
ingenuity by the managers, Robert
Grau and Emanuel Warner. Miss LOT
tus will be seen in seventeen cities in
tw%enty-one days, and all of these, with
the exception of Washington, will see
her for the first time. Such cities as
Baltimore and Pittsburg will have the
dignity of one-night stands. Wash
ington gets .wo nights, and all the
rest one night, except Montreal, where
three nights and one matinee will be
given. At Ottawa Miss Lotus will ap-
pear under patronage of the Governor
General, and in Saratoga at the Car
Builders Convention. Besides her i'm
presentations the famous little woman
will be seen in Undine, a one-act play.