Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-08-11

tioneer" this season, has been visiting
Madame Darling, the vocal teacher, az
Atlantic City.
William Gillette and his company san
for England and the Paris on August q.
The. Summer q theater at Richiieid
Springs, N. Y, was burned Monday.
Edwin Arden has been engaged to
support Sadie Martinez In "The Mar
riage Game" ..
James X. Hackett and his company
began rehearsals of Don Caesars Re
turn at Wallack's, August /.
Henry W. Savage has bought THE
Sultan Of Sulu," an opera OF winch
George AIDE is the ibrettist
Christine Nilsson Countess u Mar
anda) is reported to be very seriously
ill at her home at Gothenburg.
Maggie Holloway Fisher will be a
member of William Fayersham's COM
pany in "A Royal Rival"
Maurice Hewlett is writing play for
Sarah Bernhard on the subject OF
Mary, Queen of Scots
Are You a Mason?" will be produced
at the Apollo theater London, August
20. Paul Arthur will have the role
taken here by Leo Ditrichstein.
Julia Marlowe, Henry e. Dixey and
Gustave Kerker were among the pas
sengers for Europe ON the steamship
Furst Bismarck, sailing last Thursday.
Saymore Stuart, Mollie Main and Dor
othy. Waters, the three English beauties
engaged by Manager John c. Fisher
Tor Pretty Maidens" in "Florodora,"
arrived from London on SATURDAY.
A performance for charity will be
given at Larchmont, N. Y. on August
10TH Isabelle Eveson, Minnie Dupree,
Belle Bucklin, j. e. Dodson and Charles
Welles are some of those that will ap-
pear.
The date of William Faversham s
opening in "a Royal Rival at the Cri-
terion has been pushed forward another
week and is now announced for August
10Th.
Victory Bateman has not signed with
the Shipman Brothers, as reported, but
is rehearsing the title role in The Nor
mon Wife, which she will play during
the New York run only at the Four
tenth Street Theatre.
Chauncey Olcott closed very sue
cessful season in San Francisco last
Saturday, and is now starting on tour
of the Northwest, in which territory
he has not appeared before. He will
play Garrett O'Magh exclusively
through the season.
e. S. Willard is to follow the exam
pie Of some other English stars by
building a theatre of his own in Lon
,t{ o t,,sD Cira,tc hos haan
selected
Corse .Payton, who has been abroad
since the closing of his season, return
ed on the Deutschland on Thursday.
He began rehearsals, leaving for Port
land, Me-, on Thursday, to fill his an
nual engagement at the Jefferson the
atre.
Sarah Bernhard is at her summer
residence, Belle Isle, France. Her
son, Maurice Bernhard, is at work on
an adaptation of Henry X. Sienkie-
VICES novel, with Fire and Sword"
that will be produced early next year..
Olga Nethersole is said to have en-
tirely, recovered from her recent III
ness She is at her country home, Nor
folk, England, for a time and will go
thence to Carlsbad and Homburg for a
rest Of several months.
James e. Sullivan, who became very
popular in London as the polite lun-
attic" in The Belle Of New York, in
tends to play starring engagement
there in "All on Account of Eliza" the
English rights to which he has bought
from Louis Mann.
SCREENINGS Banda Rosa, under the |
of Howard Pew, is said to |
have made the success OF its career this |
summer at Lake Harriet Minneapolis. !
From Minneapolis the band goes to /
Kansas City for lengthy engagement
and then to the Pittsburg Exposition. /
Maude Odell has been SO successful |
in her impersonation of the Queen in
King Dodo, at the Studebaker theatre
Chicago, that she has had several offers
to head comic opera companies. At /
the close of her season in King Dodo I
mate drama.
Charles Bradley and Edward Paul !
tons play, The Mills of the Gods, has
been accepted by Mrs. James Brown
Potter, who will produce it the coming |
season. Blanche Walsh has an OPP !
ton on the American rights. Mr..
mas also uau play dCCepleu
by H. B. Harris and is at work upon a
drama that has Christopher Marlowe
as it's central figure.
The theatrical profession is we'll rep
resented in the columns of the current
Wilton Lackeye writes on
the endowed theatre in the Theatre,
Viola Allen gives advice to stage
struck girls in the Cosmopolitan, and
Stuart Robson defends the intelligence
of the actor in the Forum.
A committee of Lambs, consisting Of
De Wolf Hopper, Digby Bell, William
H. Currie and Thomas B. Clarke, went
to Charlestown, N. H., last week to in
spect the estate left to the club by the
late Charles H. Hoyt. The committee
will make it's report to the club officers
this week, and the future use of the
property will then be decided upon.
Mary Mannering's support in ia
nice Meredith" the coming season will
be Walter Hale, Charles Cherry. Theo-
dore Marston, w. 8. Northrup, Carl
Ahrendt, Martin j. Cody, John ID.
OHara, w. D. Chalfin, Aubrey Beattie,
Charles Haskins, Sydney Mansfield, r.
r. Neill, Louis CLOSER Hale, Alice
Neal and Kate Lester.
The following players compose the
comnanv that will support Peter +.