Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-04-14
THEATRICAL NOTES.

| Merchant OF Venice" Will DeSln April
23d.
The Girl From Up There company
sailed for London on the Germanlc
last Wednesday morning.
Captain Rush, father of lsadore
| Rush, died of pneumonia Monday morn
ing at New York, at the home OF the
late Roland Reed.
James Young's impersOnation OF Lo-
| renzo in "The Merchant of Venice
| with Sir Henry Irving, has won espe-
| cially high praise FROM the English dra-
matte critics.
Arizona" win play a return engage
| metn in Wheeling on the 23d inst.
William F~aversham's stellar debut
next season will be made in Captain
Marshall's comedy, The Second in
Command"
Olga Nethersole, who recently under
went an operation in London, is re-
| ported to be recovering rapidly.
1t is said that E. NJ. Holland will be
seen next season in the title role OF a
dramatization of "Eben Holden
Mabel Blake, who originated last sea-
| son the part of Parthenia Peckover in
| Rose Melville's sis Hopkins" is the
| Madame ~Seraphine in Thomas Q. Sea-
brooks The Founders this season.
Cecilia Lotus has been chosen as E.
| H. Sothern's leading woman for next
season, as successor to Virginia Har-
! ned, who begins a starring tour Of her
own.
A window. placed in the Episcopal
church at Larchmont as a memorial to
the late Mrs. John Drew, was dedicated
on Sunday. Mrs. Drew was a worship
er at the church during her residence
at Larchmont.
Sarah Bernhard and NJ. Coquelin
and their company visited Niagara
| Falls last Tuesday. Madame Bern
hardt gave a breakfast to her associates
at he Prospect House that cost $500.
A cab, in which Ethel and John Bar
rymore were returning from a visit to
their father, Maurice Barrymore, at
Bellevue Hospital, April l, was run
into by a truck and the cab driver was
thrown from his seat. The Barrymores
were not injured.
Marie George was knocked down by a
runaway cab horse in London last Fri
day. Her skirt caught in the cabs
step, and only the prompt action of a
man in stopping the animal saved Miss
George from serious injury.
Julia Marlowe will spend the summer
in Germany, returning in september to
open her neXt season at the Criterion
with When Knighthood was in Flower.
After a brief tour she will reappear at
the Criterion in a new play.
Florence Kahn, who distinguished
herself in the course of literary plays at
the Carnegie Lyceum last year, and
who is at present a member of Richard
Mansfield's company, has been engaged
by r. l.. Giffen to play leading roles
with James K. Hackett next season.
The production of The Prima Donna
at the Herald Square, that has had two
postponements because of the illness Of
Mabelle Gilman, is now set for April
Is. AS Miss Gilman probably will rot
be able to appear for some time, Lulu
CHASER read the title part, and probably
will assume it in Miss Gilman's stead.
Il. S. Northup is now playing James
Sinclair, the heavy, in Richard Savage
with Henry Miller. Last season Mr..
Northup played the leading juvenile
Earts with e. H. Sothern. He has Just
closed for next season and the season
following as leading man with Mary
Mannering.
The Sultan of Turkey has prohibited
the theatres in Constantinople from
performing tragedies because because
they agitate and sadden the public
mind, which should be calm and cheer
full" Accordingly, comedies, farces and
burlesques are the only forms of enter
tainment permitted. There seems to
be an analogy between the dramatic
opinions of this Oriental potentate and
those of our Oriental theatrical trust.
James A. Herne retired from the cast
of Sag Harbor in Chicago last week
n will rest for the remainder of the
season. The company will continue its
tour to the Pacific coast, with George
woodward in Mr.. Hearne's role. Mr..
Hearne has returned to his home.
His retirement was made necessary by
a disease of the throat that has been
aggravated by an attack of the grip.
1t is his intention to open his next
season, under the management of Leb-
Ter and Company, at the Boston thea
ire in September. He will appear in
: Sag Harbor, and later may present a
new play, on which he is now at work.
The team of white horses that draws
the barouche in Uncle Toms Cabin at
the Academy of Music became excited
at a broken trace last Tuesday even
ing and jumped over the footlights into
the orchestra pit. The driver, David
Peyser, sustained slight injuries. John
e. Kellerd, the Uncle Tom; Annie Yea
mans, the Aunt Ophelia, and George
Florence dip, the Little Eva, were
seated in the barouche, that vas
dragged part way off the stage. They
| were not hurt. The musicians also es-
capped injury by jumping out of the path
Of the horses. A panic sarted in the
audience, but it was quieted when the
horses had been brought under control.
Maude Odell has made a series of
notable successes this season, first with
the Imperial Stock Company, St Louis,
and then with the nBaldwin~Melville
Stock Company ne Grand Opera
House. New Orleal rot 70 men1ion !