Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-08-18
ney Baraclouch, who made hit in the

ney Baraclouch, who made hit in the
London production of Florodora.
At the instance of General Nelson A.
Miles an appeal was made last week TO
the Pan-American Exposition folk in
| Buffalo with a view to having the Or
iental dances on the Pans" midway
measureably modified before the West
Point cadets should see them this week.
! But the concessionaires declined to
change the entertainment, contending.
with some show of FEASIBILITY, that il
| the cadets couldn't stand the dances
as danced they were at liberty to keep
away.
David Warfield began rehearsals in
= The Auctioneer, Monday, under the di-
| rection of David Belasco. Marie Bates
| has been engaged for one of the chief
| character roles in the play. After the
company has made short tour through
New England the play will have its
| first New York presentation at the BIZ
jou theatre, September 16.
Foxy Grandpa has proved to be
great success at Atlantic City, where it
| is continued beyond the time originally
| booked. and it will next week open lor
three weeks engagement at Buffalo.
! Joseph Hart and Carrie De Mar have
excellent opportunit' es in the piece, and
are seen at their best. They are well
| supported by Nellie Yale and a clever
| company.
| William II. Crane. who has been
abroad for quite an extended tour was
| one of the passenfers ~ arrive in Bos-
ton by the New England last week. He
went directly to his summer home at
Cohasset, where Mrs. Crane was one OF
the first persons to subscribe to the
, public park project. doomed by promi-
nent citizens of the place.
Henry B. Harris, business man for
Amelia Bingham in The Climbers, will
branch out in other managerial ven
lures this season. He will produce at
the Broad street theatre, Philadelphia.
on September Leo Ditrichstein's new
play, The Last Appeal, and he is max
ing plans to send on the road also
new drama by French author and a
new American musical comedy.
Henrietta Crosman will open her sea-
son on Monday, September g. at New
Bedford, Mass, in Mistress Nell, that
she will play for three weeks in the
larger cities around Boston. She then
goes to Philadelphia, making the fifth
and final week of Mistress Nell in that
city, and thence to Chicago. where she
will be seen for the first time In
Twelfth Night, playing Viola. During
the early part of the season, Miss Cros-
man will produce Mrs. Sutherland's
Joan O. the Shoals and Mr.. Hazelton's
new play that is nearing completion.
John Philip Sousa and his band will
again go abroad this fall, sailing from
New York, September %. The band is
booked to appear in London and then
at the International Exhibition at Glas-
gov, Scotland, for four weeks. Upon
the conclusion of the Glasgow engage
ment the band will make a tour OF fve
weeks that will embrace concerts In
Edinburgh, Dundee, Newcastle, YORK,
Hull, Bradford, Leeds, Birmingham,
Manchester, Liverpool, Nottingham,
Sheffield Bath, Bristol and many other
important towns in the English prov
inces. The organization will include
fifty-five men, in addition to Dorothy
Hoyle, a violin soloist, and soprano
soloist, who has not, as yet, been Sc
lected. The band returns to America
the middle of December when it will
again be heard at the Metropolitan
Opera House, New York City.
| Leavitt and Lederer have engaged the
players for the forthcoming starring
| tour of Rose Coghlan, the season COM
mencing at the Gaiety theatre, Brook
| lyn. September 8. The following COM
pose the company: William Elton.
| Louis Massen, T. B. Ringgold, w. A.
| Brandscomb. w. J. Montgomery, Ferris
Knevitt, Walter Pleughm, Henry Buck
Ter, Frank A. Ferguson, l.. w. Cowan,
H. F. Stoddard, Minna Phillips, Agnes
Roslyn, Francis Douglass, Mary ABB
bolt, Baby Abbott, and Kate Abbott.
James w. Morrissey will be business
manager Leavitt and Lederer will
give Peg Wellington a superb produc-
| ton. During the season the new play,
| Fortunes Bridge, written for Miss
Coghlan by her brother, the late Chas.
| Coghlan, will be produced. The tour
will comprise the principal cities, late
| spring tour to the coast and during the
second season Australia will be visited.
New York and the large cities have
packed the theatres to see "The Village
Postmaster" Now Chicago has fallen
in line The now famous rural play
has lust celebrated it's one hundredth
performance there and is still drawing
enormous houses. One reason for their
liking for this quaint New England
play is apparently the restful atmo-
sphere of the simple country life which
presents such contrast to metropoh-
tan hurry and hustle. Some OF the
New York papers say 1t brought
Whit of new-mown hay and sweet
country air. At any rate it played to
large houses for long runs in New York,
aggregating 220 nights, and recently
went back for its ninth engagement in
Brooklyn and gathered in more shekels
than ever. In the matter of scenery
! and setting, it is one Of the most elab-
crate productions ever made of any ru-
raj play, which as to story and quaint
types of character. New York and Chi
cago critics call it the best ever written.
| Alice E. Ives, one Of the authors. comes
of old New England stock, and says she
drew some of the characters from real
life At any rate, they are a most
amusing collection and are very ably
interpreted by capital company of
players 1.-THE Village Postmaster will
be seen in Wheeling with its full big
production exactly as done in New
York and Chicago.
will