Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-06-09
THEATRICAL NOTES.

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Otis Skinner will star next season in
The Hereto, a drama written by himself
and Ernest F. Roddington.
Hamilton Revelle has been engaged
as leading man for Mrs. Leslie Carter
/ next season.
Heinrich Conried and Mr.. and Mrs.
Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr., (Anna Held
were, passengers on the Kaiser Wilhelm
der Crosse, that sailed for Europe May
90.
Julia Marlowe, during her engagement
at the Criterion Theatre in New York
next February, intends to revive Romeo
and Juliet and to produce several mod
ern plays.
Andrew Mack will open an engage
ment at the Herald Square Theatre in
New York September 3, presenting The
odore Burt Sayre's play, Tom Moore, for
the first time in that city.
Ignace Paderewskis opera Manru,
was produced at Dresden May %. Next
| Spring it will be sung in London and
Paris, and later it may be heard here.
The dramatic rights to Winston
! Churchill's novel. THE Crisis" have
been secured by James X. Haekett. Mr..
Churchill will make the dramatization
i that Mr.. Hackett will produce next sea-
son.
Maize toilette has brought suit
against Lulu Chaser in the Supreme
! Court for $4,000 damages for alleged
| defamation of character. Miss Toilette
declares that Miss Chaser caused her
discharge from the Prima Donna Com
! pany by a wrongful assertion that she
had been flirting with men in the audi
ence.
Marcia Van Dresser, h played the
role of the Princess of Eboli in In the
Palace OF the King with Viola Allen
this season, will sail for London on Sat
urday. She will spend the summer in
England and the Continent and may
possibly accept an English engagement
for next season.
B. T. Keith is said to have secured
the Eichbaum property in Fifth Avenue,
P%ittsburg; and the ~suppositlon is that
he means to build a vaudeville house
there. No verifcation can now be had
from the Keith people, although the
story has been printed already in two
daily papers. Just why there should be
any secrecy about the move is, of
CUulSS. q mystery.
Mildred Holland, who brought a
highly successful season to a close at
Bridgeport, Conn, May 18th, expects
to spend her summer vacation on her
houseboat Aria" which is moored on
the Thames in England, just below
Windsor. Miss Holland will return to
America early in August, beginn ng
her next seasons tour September 18th.
Inspired no doubt by the prosperity
of William A. Brady's re rival of I'm
Gle Toms Cabin, Weber and Fields de-
cided last week That they would put
on a burlesque of this immoral work
next Autumn. Edgar Smith is already
dallying with the dialogue, and john
StrOmbey is said to be immensely de-
lighted by the practically unlimited
opportunity for appropriate oon
songs. The cast will be a formidable
one, and, as thus far announced will
present De Wolf Hopper as Uncle Tom,
Joseph Webbey as Simon Legree, John
T. Kelly as Marks, George Ali as a
bloodhound. Lillian Russell as Eva,
and Fay Templeton as Eliza. Lou
Fields is reported to be still wonder
ing which part is best adapted to his
style of art, and his attention is re-
spectfully directed to the fact that
Topsy is an admirable role. Bonnie
Maginn, Belle Robinson, Allie Gilbert,
and the Hengler Sisters probably will
be cast for the angels of the apotheo-
sis. Sam Bernard and Fritz Williams
are said to be worrying lest they be
enrolled as cakes of ice in the escape
scene.
"Mr. James A. Herne's death leaves
a gap in the ranks of the American
stage. He was a man of strong aims,
tixity of purpose, ana fine mentality.
He was a pioneer in stage natural
ism in this country, and he exercised
considerable influence in breaking down
the artificialities and conventions, that
until a comparatively short time ago
reigned here. sometimes he erred in
ic~onoclastic tendencies, mistaking
commonplace for realism: but on the
whole his work was progressive and
c~ommendable.
Shore Acres, Margaret Fleming and
Griffith Davenport were Mr.. Herne's
best plays, as we'll as the most charac-
t~eristic of his tastes and s~ympathies.
Shore Acres was the most successful of
the three p~ecuniarily because it pos
sessed the elements that give a play
popularity with all classes of playgo-
ers; but Margaret Fleming was a work
of finer quality and deeper purpose
Dramatic Mirror.
The stage hands and other prominent
citizens of Hartford, Conn, are chuck
ling over a new indication, displayed
IN their town, of the eccentricity of
Richard Mansfeld's genius. In his mag
nificent production of Henry V. 1t will
be remembered that Mr.. Mansfield
makes his triumphal entry into London
Town astride of a great gray street-car
horse. In New York such mounts may
be easily obtained, but in many Of the
smaller cities where electric cars are
used exclusively the tramway charger
has become almost obsolete. Mr.. Mans
field knew this condition and guarded
himself against disappointment by en-
gaging a horse for the season and pro-
viding for Its transportation from place
to place. then he was quartered in a
livery stable not far from the theatre,
and orders were given to the grooms
to escort him to the stage door prompt
ly at ten o'clock in the evening. Short
| ly after eight a light rain began to fall.
| Nj. Mansfield leard it pattering on the
tin roof of his dressing room. He be-
| came ervous, sent messengers con-