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Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-01-27

lift, by the way, OF the time worn farce
'Who Killed Cock Robin?" During
the following season he did character
work with George v. Lederer's stock
comedians. He then joined the ''Glor-
lana" company, playing the light COM
edy part. His next engagement was
with Marie Jansen in Glen MacDon-
ough's "Delmonico's at Six" and Miss
Dynamite" In both these plays he
introduced speciality on the piano. In
1895 Mr.. Norris was member OF the
E. NJ. G Joseph Holland company in
''The Social lHighwayman" and "a
Man With a Past" He then was en-
gagged for the role of BERTHE Nizril, the
fop, in Thoroughbred" after which
he went into burlesque, appearing as
the original polite lunatic in THE
Belle of New York" at the Casino in
this city. Returning after road tour
in that play, he enacted the role of
Muscadel in "a Normandy Wedding"
with Thomas @. Seabrooke. Succeed
ing brief experience in the i'll fated
''The Chorus Grip in Boston, Mr.. Nor
ris made his first incursion into vaude-
vile in a sketch written by himself.
During the seasons of 1889 he was
member of the Little Miss Nobody"
company, appearing later in "a Dan
gerous Maid and His Excellency the
Governor" the latter at the Empire
theater, New York. Mr.. Norris then
severed his relations with Mr.. Charles
Frohman and joined Liebler & Co.'s
forces, playing Melchitsedek Pinchas
in Children of the Ghetto" and later
Adonis, .-e kings jester, in I'm the
Palace of the King" Besides these
creations, he also originated during the
summer the role of Peter Stuyvesant
in 1.-THE Burgomaster," in which Henry
E.. DiXey is now appearing.
There are those who are of the opin-
ion that it will be but a short time be-
fore some shrewd manager will send
Mr.. Norris out as a star in some good
character part like that which he is at
present enacting in ''In the Palace of
the King" He certainly is more worthy
of stellarhood than many PLAYERS. male
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-01-27
John Hare's story.

Mr.. Joan Hare. the present Lord
Quex, is a merry hearted, affable. little
ola English gentleman upon whom sit
lightly the honors Of 40 years service
in the field of the drama as actor and
actor manager. He tells story well
ana has quite a number at his COM
mand. He unbelted recently at gath
ering of American actors and told the
following, which was voted not half
bad:
Several years ago England was visit
ed by a spiritualistic craze that swept
all circles, from the nobility to the
eoster fraternity. Nearly everybody
took an interest in the affairs Of the
folk who had passed over and we're in
the other world, and the spiritualists
reaped harvest while the fad was on.
Among those who we're tempted 70
squander hard earned shillings on the
medium then most popular in London
was a coster whose wife had been bu-
ried only a short time before. AIRY
had been told OF the wonders of the
seance conducted by one medium in
particular. and he held out enough
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-01-27
THEATRICAL ADJUSTMENTS.

Russia is to hear Robin Hood"
Virginia Harmed is to play Camille
Corse Payton has amassed 100000.
Lytton's "Rienzi'' has been drama
tized.
Mrs. Langtry is to do "a Great
Lady"
The Mascotte" has been revived in
Paris.
Hugh Morton is to write a comedy
drama.
Sam Bernard has rejoined Weber &
Fields.
Sadie Martinez is to appear in The
Marriage Game
Several stock companies have pro-
duced "L'Aiglon.
Shore Asres Herne has been on the
stage forty years.
D'Ennery's "Nartyre" has been re-
suscitated in Paris.
TO Have and To Hold cast will
include Isabelle Irving.
Gertrude Elliott's husband is to
lease a London theatre.
Grip disabled Marie DRESSER and
Edna May. Theatres closed.
[ There are to be no more speeches
before the curtain in the Berlin thea
tres.
The Jungle Play" is the title of
Kipling's dramatlzation of his jungle
stories.
Paul Kauvar" has been acted the
past two weeks by a Boston stock
company.
H. Grattan Donnelly's The Tri-
umph of Hope" is to be produced in
New York this season.
Sir Henry Irving has engaged the
American actor, James Young. for
Juvenile lead parts.
Hilda Clark injured her knee at
Kansas City, and was unable to APP
pear with the Bostonians for week.
About 100 actors and actresses &C
cepted Beerbohm Trees hospitality al
the professional matinee OF "Herod'
in London.
Theresa Vaughan is in a sanitarium.
The New York Telegraph says the
once popular mezzo is weak mentally
and physically.
The fact that May Irwin intends to
build an apartment house in New
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-01-27

actresses must die of the plague. They
poison art and make it impossible,
We should return to the Greeks and
play in the open air. Boxes, stalls,
evening dress and late dinners kill the
drama. Since Shakespeare and the
Greeks there have been no dramatists.
-Duse
Miss NethersOle unfortunately jabbed
her big toe with a pen knife. and Is
she was mindful of the serious conse-
Quences to E. H. Sothern because he
did not take speedy care of the wound
inflicted on his toe by a sword thrust
in Hamlet" she closed the theat5r
rather than run the risk Of having
blood poisoning develop.
Apparently David Belasco is making
a corner on American dramatists. He
is spending some of his time working
on play by Lee Arthur, after having
accepted one piece from him. H. J. w.
Damn is collaborating with him on
Madame Du Barry" for Mrs. Carriers
use next season. BeIasco is also inter
ested in Paul Potter's Under Two
Flags" He has given advice TO w. l.
Boddington, who has dramatized ITO
Have and to Hold and he is collab-
Grating on a drama with Charles
Klein.
Ada Rehan was devotedly attached
to her parents, yet fate has permitted
her to be with neither of them in their
last hours. Her father died fourteen
years ago, suddenly and tragically.
Miss Rehan, then in the heyday Of her
glory, was playing Peggy Thrift in
The Country Girl" By Mr.. Daily 5
wise orders she was not informed 0.
her loss until after the performance.
and the theater was ringing with
laughter over the hu-nor Of the daugh-
ter while her father lay dying. She
was i'll with grip at the moment when
her mother was stricken. Again the
sorrowful news was kept from her. this
time by order of the doctor. and she
knew nothing of her mothers indispo-
sition until it terminated fatally.
In one way and another. the hoodIum
contingent manages to get into the
first night performances of English the
atres. The managers try in all ways
+. to keep them out, but when the curtain
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-01-27

coin from q late Saturday night de-
lbauph to purchase FIVE minutes con-
versation with MS late wife.
The coster was put through the us
ual formalities AMI was finally told
that his wife stood before him. AIRY
could see only dim. misty looking
figure before him. but he took the me-
dium's word for the ghosts identity.
Is that you, 'Arriet?' asked the cos
ter.
Yes, it's me, AIRY" said the spirit.
Are you Apply, 'Arriet?" he Queried.
Quite Apply, AIRY" came the an
swer in feeble voice Irom the visitant
from the other world.
Happier than you was when you
was livin' with me. Arriet?'' asked
AIRY, almos-s in tears at meeting his
late helpmeet.
Much 'appier. AIRY" answer the
apparition
Then where be We. 'Arriee?"
In AIDES, AIRY"
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-01-27
EDNA MAY rs r STAR.

e "A few years ago, and not so very
many years either, there was in the
front line of the chorus at the Casino
In this city a young woman named
Edna May, the wife of Fred Titus,
the bicycle rider, through the influ-
ence ofwhose sister, it is said, she first
obtained part upon the stage. One
night the prima donna, as a result of
some misunderstanding with the man
ager, left the company, and Miss May
was drafted to take her place for. the
time being. The piece was The Belle
Of New York and the character in
which Miss May made her first serious
essay as an actress was that of the Sal
walton Army lassie. The next morning
the New York papers were ringing
with the praises of the hitherto I'M
known girl who had made the work of
her predecessor appear almost dull and
uninteresting by comparison. She was
hailed as find, and when THE Belle
of New York. company, incluaing Miss
May. went to London little later she
1t was who, to a greater extent than
any other member of the cast, was re-
Bponsible for the phenomenal popular
ity of the piece N the British capital.
Miss May was petted and feted, and all
sorts of fabulous salaries were offered
her to leave THE Belle of New York"
But the manager of that organization,
with commendable foresight, had Ia
ken the pjrecaution during the early
days of Miss Mays success to get the
young lady to sign a long term con-
tract, which, it may be remarked in
passing, she was only too glad to do.
Therefore, while she was temporarily
unable to accept any of the many fiat
tering offers made her, the end came
in time, and Miss May was promptly
signed by Mr.. Charles F'rohman to star
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-01-27

rises they are on hand just the same,
in spite of the surveillance at the
ticket Office. The hoodlums, who oc-
cupy the very cheapest seats, have a
most disagreeable way of announcing
their displeasure in bowls. caterwaul
ing and 'booing," as it is termed there.
The air is filed with the hideous sound
while the heart of the actor is filled
with a suffocating discomfort. 1t is
often the custom of this disrespectful
part of the audience to encourage the
star with deiusive applause when he
has been called before the curtain for
a speech-then as soon as he opens his
mouth to speedily" they drown his
voice with their detestable booing.-
New York Clipper.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-01-27

At the Opera House January 81.
Thursday, matinee and night, Hoyt's
"a Texas Steer" will appear. Almost
every theatre goer throughout the
length and breadth of the land is &C
quainted with the mirth-proxoking
qualities of this famous satire on
American politics, from the pen of
Chas. Hoyts Maverick Brander, cat
tie king, who owns eighty thousand
head of steers and daughter called
'Bossy," who us dearer to him than
the whole drove. The family lives in
four-room cottage, and the old mans
simple costume is supplemented by
whiskey bottle and an enormous revolt
yer. Major YeN. one of the widest
and wooliest Texans in the State, is
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-01-27

in a piece specially written for her by
Hugh Morton and Gustave Kerker, re-
spectively author and composer of
The Belle of New York
The result was a musical comedy in
three acts, entitled The Girl From Up
There" which, after a preliminary
canter upon the road, was brought
into the Herald Square theater in this
city, where it now is. Mr.. Charles
Frohman never does things by halves,
and when he sets out to make a new
star he gives her the best that money
can provide in the way of play, cos
tunes, scenery and cast. That the
cast of "ine Girl From Up There" is
really a notable one will be seen at
glance
King Flash of West Polaria. Harry Kelly
King Flush of East Polaria. Otis Harlan
BERTHE Tappertit, captain of the Royal
An aards pickles aafry Dasfnporf
Colonel Marcellus Whizzle. L. S. A.,
an inyentSr. Charles w Young
Captain Hiram Hardtack. ALT C. Wheelan
Jack Hemingway, young explorer.
skeets. burglar. -. Charles r Aldrich
Solomon Scarlet, pirate chief.
David Montgomery
Christopher Grunt, one of the pirate
Binks. an irrnkeeper.. Lawrence Wheat
Olga. the Ice maiden. .......... Edna May
Phrynette. prirna donna of the Aurora
Borealis Opera Company Virginia Earle
M4argop. Grace Belmont
a~--->S 81
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-01-27

The theatrical offerings by Manager
Feinler during the past week were ex-
ceptionally. good, and the bookings
for the coming week are among the
best of the season. The keystone
Company, which filled in a week of re-
pertoire at the Grand, is one of the
strongest dramatic organizations play
ing at popular prices which have been
seen here this season. Under the
Red Robe gave general satisfaction
at the lower house. Nathan Hale"
met with the chilly reception always
accorded to new and unknown plays
by Wheeling audiences. The aud
fence Friday night made up in evil
dences of appreciation what was lack
ing in numbers, and the good impress
sion left by the admirable production
resulted in better patronage yesterday.
Manager Feinler's bookings for the
coming week at both houses are excel
lent. Miss Hobbs" "A Texas Steer"
and "Zaza," will each give matinee
performances, and ali are meritorious
productions.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-01-27

There" where it is necessary to act in
order to make d hit, she falls fiat. In
one part of this musical comedy Miss
May is given the opportunity to do the
demure act, and she avails herself of it
to the fullest extent possible. But
even then. as the innocence is known
by the audience to be merely assumed
and the vivacity is allowed TO crCp
out at frequent intervals, she is moth
ing like so good as she was in The
Belle of New York"
Miss May. may or may not be a pc
cuniary success as a star; that has
nothing to do with the case. The main
point is that her stellar pretensfons are
nothing less than laughable.
One of the greatest personal success
es made in New York this season has
been scored by William Norris. who
enacts the role of the kings fool in
Lorimer Stoddard's dramatization of
F. Marion Crawford's novel. In the
Palace of the King" in which Viola
Allen is starring in the Republic
theater. Mr.. Norris is by no means
an accident. however, inasmuch as the
wide diversity of roles in which he has
appeared supplies ample warrant for
his present success. He became a
member of the profession about
nine years ago, when he appeared at
the old Standard theater (now the
Manhattan) in this city in "A Girl
From Mexico" which was practical
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-01-27

progressing woman who has abnor-
NAL ideas on the subject of marriage,
and believes 1t to be her duty not only
to remain single herself. but TO warn
ala the members of her sex against en-
tering the matrimonial states. In her
efforts to carry out this self-imposed
mission she meets young man who
convinces her of her error. Miss
Hobbs" is a moral play. BY this it is
not meant that it is a goody- goody, or
anything like that. but it is wholesome
and honest. Its people do not live in
hot house of pleasure that has vice
for its atmosphere, but they breathe
the fresh, pure air of decency, and re-
spect one another, as pure women and
manly men do.
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finish and the pathetic humanity OF it's
story. Those who came to scott re-
manned to be impressed and when the
tension was over and the painful still
ness of an unbroken silence was at an
end the house expressed its pleasure
and admiration with undivided voice.
Nothing could have been more spon-
taneous and sincere. The man who
misses 'Zaza' should never be allow
ed to enter the theatre again for the
remainder of his natural life Mr..
Frohman has given the piece a produc-
ton worthy of his artistic reputation.
Miss Blanche Hall will be seen in the
title role
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-01-27

The Eleventh Houi" will open at
the Grand Monday night. This is the
new play by Lincoln J. Carter and is
justly considered by many to be his
best. The scenes of THE Eleventh
Hour" are taken from the vicinity of
Chicago, and are exciting ana full OF
heart interest; clean, with plenty of
action, keeping the audience SPELL
bound, while the story of how right is
compensated and wrong brought to
justice, Is unfolded. During the third
act, the working of the Block Sys-
TEN" is shown. just as used on all rail-
reads. The last act shows the draw
ing room of one of Chicagos multi
millionaires, reproduced from photo
graphs of the original; it Is in this act
that the terrific struggle for life oc-
ours. While the two men strive for
mastery. they break. smash and SEEM
ingly destroy all the beautiful furni-
ture, bric-a-brac and furnishings.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-01-27

Mr.. Charles Frohman's company,
presenting David Belasco's "Zaza" will
again be the offering at the Opera
House for two performances Saturday,
February End. 1t is hardly necessary
to more than announce it's appearance
here. Concerning Belasco's play,
"Zaza," the New York Herald says:
"a more remarkable play has not been
seen in New York for many year.
1t defies the ordinary standard of con-
siderations; it makes such an attack
upon the emotions that only a stole
could behold it unmoved." "Zaza'
won it's way to unanimous favor by the
reality of its toucn, the charm Of its
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-01-27
PLAYS and PLAY-G)ERS.
CHAT ABOUT CURRENT AND COMING
ATTRACTIONS IN THE LOCAL
e THEATRES.
SOME EXCELLENT BOOKINGS
For the Coming Week-Strong Attrac-
lions in Both Opera Houses During
the Past Six Days-"Miss HObbs'
and "a Texas Steer"-TheatricaI
Amusements.

GRAND OPERA HOUSE-First half of
next week, "Elevelth Hour" last half of
week, Where Is Cobb"
OPERA HOUSE@We dnesday, matinee
and night, Miss Hobbs" Thursday, mat
inee and night, "A Texas Steer" Satur-
day, matinee and night, .Zaza."
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-01-27

House. For nearly six months it
played to the capacity of that theatre,
and later on when Miss Hobbs was
produced in London at the Duke Of
York's theatre, it at once duplicated
its New York success and ran there
the entire season. The story of the
play briefly told is that Of . young and
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-01-27

a local politician, who proposes to run
old Brander for congress, but Brander
runs away and threatens to shoot If he
Is elected. The campaign is a success
and Brander is compelled to accept at
the muZzle of all the shooting irons in
town. A young captain OF the regular
army has become engaged to Bossy
while stationed in her vicinity, but
when the family arrives in Washing
ton and Bossy swells out in barbarous
splendor. with a half peck of jewels on
her person, Captain Bright is Mortified.
He finds it impossible to reason with
her or tone down her extravaganza.
and at the same time mother Brander
is making herself fright and the old
man appears like monkey in lift
ting garments, intended to be civiliz-
ed. Bossy discovers that her lover IS
ashamed of her appearance, and breaks
the engagement, sending him from the
house, and she and her mother put in
some hard study on a book of ETH
quette Old Brander gets on amazing
ly in the role of a congressman, and
avoids fatal shooting scrapes, while he
is initiated into the ways of state
craft by Brassy Gall, an accomplished
and utterly unprincipled lobbyist.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-01-27

A uniformly enjoyable evening is
what theater- goers are looking forward
to when Elmer Walters Where is
Cob" will be presented at the Grand
Opera House next Thursday. Friday
and Saturday, with the usual Saturday
matinee. The farce seems to be win
ming deserved success and is at least
doing a most wonderful business for so
new an attraction. Where is Cobb"
is said to be a mixture of burlesque
situations and natural comedy business
and promises to be in the hands of
most expert entertainers. Adequate
scenery is employed as we'll as some
handsome gowns and bright vaudeville
that is pleasing.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-01-27

The New York Lyceum Theatre sue
cess, Miss Hobbs" is underlined for
a return engagement next Wednesday
matinee and night, at the Opera
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-01-27

OF the best known members of the
company, Otis Harlan, Harry Dayen-
port, Harry Conor and Virginia Earle
have either been stars or feathers" for
several years. Edna Aug has also en-
joyed a phenomenal vogue during the
past season or two, both in this coun-
try and in Europe, while David Mont
gomery and Fred Stone are one of the
best known sAetch teams in vaudeville,
and Charles 7. Aldrich Is also high
priced comic variety illusionist.
All of this is mentioned merely to
call attention to the fact that Miss May
was certainly given fair chance in her
initial starring venture. That she did
not, in the actors parlance, make
good" is putting it mildly. To state the
matter bluntly, Miss Virginia Earle
made Miss May look like the proverbial
six nickels, while there was scarcely a
member of the case filling role of the
slightest Importance who did not eX-
hibit more animation and Verve than
the star of The Girl From Up There"
Shrewd as Mr. Frohman undoubtedly
is as theatrical purveyor, he, like all
managers, is apt to be led away by a
false estimate of the esteem in which
an individual is held by the general
public. Miss May as the Salvation. Ar
my Lassie in THE Belle of New York"
was simply inimitable. Her physique,
her face and, as it now turns cut, her
lack of ability as an actress all tended
to make her an ideal representative Of
the role. In THE Girl From Up
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-01-27

and female, whose names might men
eiOn, but will not
Mrs. Danes Defence" a fashlight
photograph of which is reproduced in
the accompanying illustration, seems
destined to fill out as much of the re-
mainder CT the season at the Empire
theatre as the contracts of the man
ager, Mr.. Charles Frohman, will per-
nit him to allct to it.
Mr.. Jones comedy is said to be con-
sistently drawing the largest audiences
in the history of the Empire, and its
bright lines and witty rejoinder afford
convincing proof to carping critics that
it is not always necessary that a play
shall contain a great deal of action in
order to be successful. Mrs. Danes
Defence has a story Of absorbing in
terest. 1t is we'll told and thereto may
be attributed the great success of the
piece. ARTHUR CRISPIN.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-06-13
AUGUSTA LOCALS.
The Graduation Exercises Will Be held at City
Nall. Friday. June ~.

The graduation exercises of the Will
liams grammar school will be held at
City hall, Friday, June IA. commencing
ut p. NJ The following young ladies'
and gentlemen are members of the grad
uatinx class: Margaret Small, Rose Ina
Harvey Sadie f. Gaslin. Beulah NJ.
Ware, Bernicc A. Ware. Efiice NJ Gro
yer, Mabel o. Wilson, Elwood Pelton.
Sybil M Kittredge, r. Thad Morrissey.
Oracle McMaster. Frank Langston. The
following will be the order of exercises:
Prayer.
Music-"The Public school,"
C. NJ. vickers
welcomc-American Schools,
Neutrality-suspicious. He Saved ST. Mi
Mabel O. Wilson.
Music-"Joy, Joy, Freedom Today.
Essay-What Work Has Accomplished.
Rose ]. Harvey.
A Cantata-The Garden Lily and the
Soprano solo by Effie NJ. Grover. Beulah
NJ. Ware, Bernice A. Ware. Margaret
Small, Grace McMaster. Alto solo by
Sadie E. Gaslin. Rosie l. Harvey Hazei
Lewis.
solo-"The Heavenly song;|1
Richard Ryan.
Eeeay-A Dishonored Man.
Beulah NJ. Ware.
Piano Solo-"Little Tycoon.
Willard Spencer
Effie NJ. Grover.
Recitation-.Widow of Glencoe
Sadie f. Gasin.
Solo-"Eweet Land of Dreams.
" E. l.. Ashford
Bernice 4. Ware.
Music-"The Minuet, Philip Wolf :
Essay-Joan of Arc,
Grace McMaster.
MuSic-"NOice from the W est, -
L. b. Marshall
Duet-"Sweet Visions of Childhood
Sopranos, Grace McMaster. MarSarct
Small. Altos. Sadie E. Gaslin' Rosie l.
Harvey.
Prophecy-What the Echoes Say,
Effie M. Grover.
>,,,.;, "rbe RMeIer." G. F. Wilson
Valedictory-The Way to Success,
Margaret Small.
Presentation of Diplomas:
Glass Ode (originaD. Bernce A. "a'c