Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-02-17
THEATRICAL ADJUSTMENTS.

Paris.
Joseph Murphy's season ended on Feb
ruary 1a.
Maude Adams is to tackle "As You
Like It."
Colorado" is the title of Augustus
Thomas new play.
Edward ]. Morgan may star as John
Storm next season.
f. Marion Crawford is writing a play
for Mrs. LIE Moyne.
Mansfield may do The Merchant of
Venice" next season.
Mascagni's lie Maschere" failed every
where except in Rome.
Frohman is to produce Haddon Cham.
bers' THE Awakening
James K. Hackett may use a drama
tization of The Countess Tekia."
Daniel l.. Harris THE Sacred Nugget"
was disclosed last week.
Pol Plancon says his farewell tour Of
the United States will begin in 1920.
R. N. Stephens THE Ragged Regiment
is to be produced in Washington in April.
Richard Mansfield is the Mrs. Nation of
the stage.-Matinee Girl in Dramatic Mir
TOR.
Joseph Hart will play the title role in
"Foxey's Grandpa at the Manhattan
Theatre, New York.
The Leavllls 'Tne Spider and the fly
has been highly successful in Havana.
1t will tour Mexico.
Otis Skinner will produce a play that
pertains to a plot to assassinate the En-
peror of Prussia in the days of old.
1t is said that George Morgan's John
Littlejohn of j." is being dramatized.
Librarians declare that it is always tout"
Nat c.. Goodwin has announced that his
promised production of THE Merchant of
Venice will be made on May 1.
Katharine Florence (Mrs. Fritz Wilt
ams) is to head Frohman's comedians.
Isabel Irving is to appear in ITO Have
and to Hold
1t is roughly estimated that the death of
the Queen will, for a period of three
months at least, mean a loss of quite
$1,000 per night to London theatres.
Robert Downing has in rehearsal a new
play, The Seventh Commandment writ
ten by the Rev. Edward Davis, an Oak
land, Cal. clergyman. The author will
be in the cast.
Jack FutrelI. dramatic critic of the At
M Nd, " Idt, has written a lQT6e-
act comedy called 'Who Kissed My Wife"
that will be presented by amateurs at
the Grand Opera House in that city at an
early date.
William A. Brady is to give a big pro-
duction of Uncle Toms Cabin" in New
York. Mention has been made of Wilton
Lackaye for Uncle Tom and Maude Ray
mond for Topsy, and yesterday Theodore
Roberts was secured to play the part of
the overseer.
Homer Linds forthcoming vaudeville
tour will be in a new version of Grin
goire by William Holcomb, and with bal
lads and incidental music by Julian Jews.
Whiue playing Barbara Fretchie"
through the South a few weeks ago, some
one said to Frank Weston. her husband:
Can it be possible that this is the same
Fife Ellsler who captured our hearts
, years ago in Hazel Kirke,' and who is
recapturing them in Barbara Fret
chez NO." answered Weston with a
twinkle in his eye, that was her mother"
Josephine Gro, in New York Clipper.
The Jewish King Lear was recently
revived in New York. THE Jewish King
Lear Isl not, as might be supposed, a
translation nor even an adaptation of
Shakespeare's play. 1t is, instead, a mod
ern paraphrase of that magnificent drama.
The scenes are laid in Russia, ten or hf-
teen years ago. and all of the characters
are Jews. The chief person of the play Is
David Meisheles, a wealthy rabbi.
Fully eight thousand free tickets have
been given by ]. c. Williamson. I. F.
Sheridan, Alfred Dampier, W. f. Haw-
| frey ana Here. pf1I.-z -
poor for special matinees, at which the
whoIe OF the managers. artists and the
atrical employees will give their services
free. 1t is estimated that the expenditure
on public and private amusement in sgd
ney during the first two weeks Of the new
century will exceed a half million pounds
sterling.-John Piummer's Sydney letter
in Dramatic Mirror.
Unquestionably the greatest vaudeville
card ever exploited in the United States
is The Girl With the Auburn Hair" an
act invented by J. ]. Murdoch. She viii
begin the fifth consecutive week of her
third engagement at Keith's PHILADELPHIA.
tomorrow. Over 10000 people have thus
far focked to the theatre to see and hear
this speciality. No other act ever present
I'd in variety has ever played a five
weeks engagement during its third sea-
son; no other entertainer ever presented
in the Keith international circuit of vau-
deville theatres has ever drawn audiences
so large.
There is a movement on foot in Lon
don among a certain number of the
younger generation of actors and actresses
to receive permission to enroll themselves
in a company that would be called .aTh
Kings Own Players They will also ar
range to build a theatre which they fondly
imagine they can. by bringing certain in
~1uences to bear. induce the government
to substitute. and that, In fact the whole
Of this modern organization VIII take the
form Of Drury Lane Theatre. for instance,