Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-03-24
THEATRICAL ATTRACTIONS.

Rogers Brothers may so to London.
New York has ten vaudeville houses.
Sadie Martinez is starring in
"Sapno.'
Mrs. Langtry's leading man is Rob-
ertaTabor.
Eddie Foy is to appear in the Keith
vaudeville houses.
Victor Maurel is soon to appear as
an actor in Paris.
Lederer is to employ Corinne in a
London pantomime.
Raymond Hitchcock will star next
season in Prince Pops"
Henry e. Dixie may be given Sea-
brooke's place in The. Rounders."
Charles Dickson is to star in The
Girl We Love-" a comedy of Virginia
fife.
Sir Henry Irving said: IF the the
atre does not succeed as a business it
will fail as an art
&c. Whitney will star Lulu Chaser,
and her tour will embrace the United
States and Australia.
Jessie Millward, who will retire from
the Frohman company, is to star in
the British provinces.
Report declares that Uncle Toms
Cabin is taking in something like
$1,000 a night at the Academy.
The Mrs. Blakely Hall who is now
figuring in the Gilman case was an
actress in the Rosina Vokes company.
". and Mrs. Sidman will produce
".vrk State Folks" which will enlist
the. services of sixty people, on Sep
TENDER 9.
The Alice Nelson Opera Company
sail for London on Wednesday next.
Klaw & Granger will probably man
age Miss Nelson next season, Il Vic
tor Herbert is to supply a few new
operas.
A check for $500 for an orchestra
| seat was received the other day by
Charles Burnham, secretary of the
testimonial to be given to Nine. jan
| auschek on April II, at Wallack's The
! atre, New York.
Edward Germans work on the score
of the opera, THE Emerald Isle
| which was left in an incomplete state
by the late Sir Arthur Sullivan, con-
sists of eight songs and the complete
orchestration of the work with the ex-
| ception of the three numbers which
Sir Arthur had scored.
Mrs. Patrick Campbell has bought
an English version of Sundermann's
play, "Johannisfeuer," by F. D. Byrne.
1t deals with the German festival Of
St. Johns Night, when it is the Ger
| man fashion to light fires in the open
| air, and its title in English, as at
| present arranged, will be Bonfire
Night
that the people in a company all
know each other we'll and hob-nob
while together in the same play, is a
belief entertained by the general pub
lie. In reality, many play weeks to-
| gether seeing each other only at times
when they are dressed for the char
acters upon the stage.-Josephine Gro,
in New York Clipper.
Among those who have volunteered
their services are Julia Marlowe and
company. amelia Bingham, Blanche
Bates and Campbell Gollan in a new
one-act play. Lillian Russell and De
| Wolfe Hopper. ]. H. Stoddardt and
Maude .HirrisoR in One Touch of Ma
ture." Weber and Fields and David
Warfeld. James T. Powers. William
Collier, J. E. Dodson, Annie Irish and
Robert Edeson. in a one-act play. An
ME YeamanS and Viola Allen and COM
pany.
Herr Neumann is to travel through
Europe with a company of singers or
ganized to give the finest possible rep
reservations to eight operas of the late
Giuseppe Verdi. It's repertoire is to
include "Ermani." ~"Rigoletto.' al Tro-
-o{or1 ~ sy n T-o,;- >, aDollo T. NJ
ehera,' Aida" "Otello." "Falstaf"
and the Manzoni Requiem. Nine Sem
brich is asked to appear according to
Herr Neumann's plans as Elvira, Gilda.
Amalia, Violetta. Mrs. Ford and Des-
demona. Francisco Tamago and Vic
tor Maurel are to be members of the
company. which. beginning the season
next autumn in London. will give nine
performances in Paris. Berlin. Vienna.
BUDAPEST, Moscow and st. Petersburg.
The chorus. orchestra, costumes. seen
cry. and all paraphernalia needed for
the representations will be carried with
the company.
The central p~ersonages in The
Prince of Peace" a Drury Lane meIo-
drama disclosed in New York last
week, is a heroic and imprisoned
cabinet Minister who shoots and kills
the villain who tries to injure him So
cia1ly and politically. Later he falls
| dead on the floor of the House of Com
mons after an imprisoned speech. in
which he defends himself. But there
are plenty of p~ersonages left to carry
on the action This is one of Cecil
Raleigh's plays. and the list of dra-
| mats personae is formidable There
are pictures of the river terrace of the
| parliamentary buildings. with the traf-
| &c OF Westminster bridge in the back
ground; q skating carnival in a big
Frphman, the smaller its dramatic