Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-06-16
THETRICAL NOTES.

Five hundred Siwash Indians gave q
Passion Play at Chilliwacke, B. c.,
June 8. The performance was under
the direction of Roman Catholic mis-
siolaries.
Walter Hale, who will play Col. Jack
Brereton in support of Mary Manner
ing in Janice Meredith" next season,
will spend the summer at -Siasconset,
Nantucket island, Massachusetts.
Richard Mansf1eld's season closed at
Lowell, Mass, June 8. His next tour
will open in Brooklyn early in October.
with Monsieur Beaucarie. that will be
his principal bill. Occasional perfor-
mances of Herod also will be given.
Nixon & Zimmerman's production of
The Messenger Boy" is to be staged
by Ben Teal, who has engaged George
de Long of the "Fleradora" company
to play the "Comte de tleury' In the
new musical comedy. Advices from
London, where this production is now
running, indicate that James r. Powers
will have in the leading role the best
part in his entire career.
The statistician of ben Hur' states
that this attraction has been PLAYED in
but Jour theatres In three cities since
its production at the Broadway in New
York W years ago: that it has been
presented sixty-one weeks, or 10. times.
that its average receipts were over
$4,000. Ben Hur' holds the record
for the largest attendance and receipts
at the prices in the history OF either
the European or American stage.
Announcement was made last week
that Louis Nethersole, brother and
manager of Olga Nethersole, had been
married in New York City May 9th to
Sadie Martinez, who succeeded Miss
Nethersole as Sapho when that actress
was taken i'll last winter. Mr.. and Mrs.
Nethersole will summer in the Catskills
Next season Mrs. Nethersole will star
IN a new play under her husbands
management.
b.. +. Keith will endeayor to make his
New York theatre in Union SQUARE the
coolest place in town this summer
This week the interior OF the theatre
donned its summer suit OF draperies
and furnishings. On the root Mr.. Keith
mas mad placed the largest suction fan
IN New York city, and as the hot air
rises and is sucked out through The
dome, hundreds Of small revolving cleo
trio fans will force iced air into the
theatre from every direction. Every
detail OF the arrangement has been fig
ured u by experts. and patrons viii
not be exposed to the danger of catch
Ing cold, as the direction of each Air
current has been gagged accurately
The theatre will prove a popular Mace
TO retreat from the scorching ravs of
the sun these hot summer afternoons
N Z. Goodwin and Maxine Elliott
closed their special tour in "The Mer-
chant OF Venice" under the direction
OF klaw & Erlanger, at the Hollis Street
Iheater IN Boston last Saturday even
ing June u. Wednesday they sailed
Tor London The public liked their
Snylock and Portia, ever if some of the
critics did o In every city where
they appeared more than once their re-
ceipts increased at each performance
notably in New York. Chicago and Bos-
ton, Financially, they played to more
money at the prices than was ever be-
fore recorded in connection with any
S~hakespearean production. Their re-
celpts the first week were over s12,oo
the second, $4,000: the third, 49, 900;
and the fourth, $4,000. In twenty
eight performances they played to over
$4,000.
Shakespeare, were he living. could
secure a few apt answers to his world
famous question, What's in a name?''
by applying TO Charles H. Prince, one
OF the members OF the Kings Carnival
company, nov PLAYING at the New York
Theater. A few days ago the rumor
was current in the highways and by
ways f~requented by the theatrical world
that Charles PrinceDwas a happy faith
er. This was true, but the Charles
Prince referred to was another thezt-
real NAN, engaged as musical director
By q photograph compeny with onces
"a RrDadnay. ~ Aresult qf the ru-
NOR Al Eorts q iufant outhts. from tny