Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-05-26
THEATRICAL.

Katherine Germaine, of The High
wayman, is i'll in Minneapolis from the
effects Of an overdose of ~strychnine.
Arrangements were completed last
week by which Kirke La ShelIe's seem
ic production of Arizona will go on at
the Academy of Music on August 18th
for a run.
It is announced that this years
Drury Lane extravaganza, The Sleep
ing Beauty and the Beast, will be pro-
duced here next season.
The Irish drama promises to make
an onslaught on Broadway next sea-
son. 1t is understood that Chauncey
Olcott will appear at the Broadway
Theatre. while Andrew Mack will play
at the Herald Square.
A theatre managed by and catering
to negroes, with a negro stock company
is talked CT in Chicago.
Anna Held presented a bear cub, that
she has had as a pet, 10 the Central
Park menagerie last week.
The Earl of Yarmouth, professionally
known as Eric Hope, recovered, on
May IA, a verdict Of 81, in his suit
for $25,000 damages for libel against
the Morning Telegraph, of this city.
Frank L. Pedley has sold the Eng
fish provincial and colonial rights to
The Fortune Teller and The Singing
Girl to George Musgrove, who will
send The Fortune Teller on tour at
once.
Maude Adams sailed for Europe last
Wednesday and will spend the sum-
mer in the South of France.
Rumor last week had Julia Marlowe
and Richard Mansfield as co-stars in a
special production next spring of
Macbeth or Much Ado About Nothing.
The appearance CT Miss Marlowe and
John Drew in Much Ado also was given
as an equally vague possibility.
Mr. and Mrs. William Winter Jeffer-
son Christie MacDonald) sailed for Eu-
rope last Thursday on their wedding
tour. Mrs. Jefferson will appear next
season in a play by Augustus Tomas.
When Joseph Jefferson closed his sea-
son at Boston he was called out TOR a
speech before the curtain, and he gave
tne good news that he had no intention
OF retiring from the stage, but would ap-
pear again next season in his well
known plays.
A cable dispatch from London reports
that Joseph Cawthorn, of the Alice Mel
sen opera company, slipped on the side
walk while on his way to the Shaftes-
bury Theatre Saturday night and broke
his knee cap, The surgeon who attend
ed him stated, according to the cable,
that Mr.. Cawthorn viii be lame for
life,
Mr.. and Mrs. James X. Hackett MARY
Mannering) will sail on the Dominion
Line steamship Commonwealth on June
5 for England, where they will spend
the summer. Mr.. Hackett returned to
the ely on May 13, and began prepare
tlons for his next seasons production
of Don Caesars Return.
Walker Whiteside's latest play. Heart
and Sword, a romantic comedy, has
made such a hit with the public and
managers, and the demand for it is such
that Shlpman Brothers, Mr.. Whiteside's
managers, have decided to open the sea-
son with it. The present tour South OF
ten weeks, ending May %, has been very
successful. Mr.. Whiteside's company ia
said to be exceptionally capable, and
the play is reported to have fine lines.
interesting situations and stirring eli
makes. Heart and Sword will be staged
with new and effective scenery and set
itlngs 1t will occupy the boards until
January. after which time Mr.. White
side will carry out his already nnoun
ed project of producing Richard III. up
on an elaborate scale.
The Indianapolis News says: 1T is
doubtful whether there has ever been a
liner production of the Merchant of Ven
Ice so far as a stage spectacle is con-
cerned; it contains picture after picture
OF surprising beauty. rich in color; ar
tistic for the most part, in spite OF their
barbaric richness, the stage architecture
helped out wonderfully by a variety OF
costumes of every shaoe of color and
gorgeous in texture. In fact, one could
scarcely praise the stage spectacle pre-
scented last night too highly. but--it ~
not Shakespeare! Nor must NJ. 0ood-
vim nor Messrs. Klaw nd Erl&nH1r Nv
cetve what praise r due ~ TIE lf(d0e.