Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-08-18
THEATRICAL NOTES.

virginia Earle is to be leading wo-
man with Dan DAILY this season.
Effie Ellsler will play Priscilla in The
| Woong Of Priscilla this season.
Adelaide Prince will not accompany
Creston Clarke upon his tour this sea-
son, she having decided to remain in
New York
Dan DAILY is to start this season in a
new musical comedy by George w. Ho-
bart and Glen McDonough.
Beatrice Fairfax, who is to support
Richard Mansfield this season, will sail
from England on the Servia August 20
for New York.
Blanche Walsh and Maude Feely are
to be co-2tars this season, it is said, in
a production of Romeo and Juliet.
! Isadore Rush has been engaged to
play Lady Holyrood in one of the
Florodora road companies this season.
A dress rehearsal of Don Caesars Re-
| turn in which James X. Hackett is to
appear, will be held at Wallack's thea
tire, New York, on August II.
A son was born to Mr.. and Mrs. Jul
| liam Mitchell Bessie Clayton on Au-
gust 6, at Norwood Park, L. |.
Sadie Martinot's production of The
Marriage Game, by Clyde Fitch, will
occur at the Broad Street theatre, Phil
adelphia, on September %.
La Belle Otero, the Partisan dancer,
recently was awarded the decision in
suit brought by her dressmaker to re-
cover the cost of gown that was not
| delivered on time.
Early in November Mrs. James
Brown Potter will produce in London a
new play by Charles Bradley and Ed
ward Paulton entitled The Mills of the
| Gods
| Lewis Morrison was attacked by
highwaymen in San Francisco on the
i night of August s. He was robbed and
left lying unconscious on the pavement.
| Alberta Gallatin has accepted for
! production this season a new play by
Edwin Ogden Child, entitled A Game
of Destiny, the plot Of which is said to
be extremely novel and interesting.
j. M. Barrie's new play that will be
used by Maude Adams this season, has
been named Quality Street. Mr.. Bar
RE will attend the rehearsals to be held
in New York City in September.
Everett King, who won distinction
last winter as Hamlet, Shylock, Rich
ard Third, and in other classic roles,
has been engaged to play the leading
role of John Alden in The Wooing Of
Priscilla this season.
Sadie Martinez has received tie man
uscript of The Queens Necklace. which
was produced by Mrs. Langtry in Lon
don, and will probably present it after
her season in The Marriage Game.
Annie Russell will return to New
York this week from her country house
at Pemaquid Harbor. Me-, where she
passed the summer. Next Monday she
| will begin rehearsals in A Royal Fam
lly and will open her season in that
play at San Francisco on September 5.
Her supporting company will include
Mrs Gilbert, Orrin johnson. w. II.
Thompson and Lawrence D'Orsay.
Howard Kyle secured an injunction
| last Friday to prevent his late manager
William M. Wilkinson, from present.
ing Nathan Hale, claiming that Man
ager Wilkinson, who took the rights
to the play out in his own name, was
but an agent for him.
Adele Richie, who is spending the
summer at Asbury Park. was injured
slightly in runaway accident on Sun
day. Her horse bolted overturning the
carriage. Miss Richie was thrown to
the ground and sustained several
scratches and bruises. She soon recov-
cred from the shock after being taken
to her hotel.
Edna May. before appearing in the
leading role in the production of Three
Little Maids in London. will probably
take part in the production in that city
of new musical piece, entitled Kitty
Grey.
May Irwin returned from the Thou
sand Islands last week to organize her
: company for the coming season. She
will begin her tour at Salem, Miss. on
October 20, and will appear in New
York in November.
Joseph F. Sheehan returned from
Europe last Friday. He will again be a
member of Henry w. Savage's opera
company and will appear on the night
of the opening of the company in Aida
at the Broadway theatre, New York
City, on September 10.
Kathryn Kidder returned from Eu-
rope last Saturday. She will start this
season under the management of Del
cher and Brennan in new play by
Glen MacDonough entitled Molly
Pitcher.
II. ii. SOlnern DeSdu Ieuedi sails VI
Lawrence Irving's play. Richard Love-
lace, Monday at the Garden theatre.
New York City. Cecilia Lotus, who is
to be Mr.. Sothern's leading woman in
the production, arrived from England
on the Umbria last Saturday.
Mabel Morrison, daughter of Lewis
Morrison who is summering at Asbury
Park, took an overdose Of nux vomica
by mistake last Wednesday and mar
rowly escaped fatal consequences. A
physician was promptly summoned and
within the day brought Miss Morrison
out of danger.
Marcella Sembrich has Cancelled an
engagement at Warsaw in order to sail
for America on September 19. She will
sing fifty-two performances with the
Maurice Grau Opera Company, and will
also give six recitals, principally in
New York City, under her own direc-
ton.
n. Skinner arrived last Thursday in
Chicago with his wife, Maude Durbin,
from their shack in Wisconsin, and
will soon be deep in the rehearsals of
Francesca. Mrs. Skinner will not be
in the cast, but will assist in the stag
ing of the production.