Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-02-10


vived in London.
A benefit was rendered Billy Elmer
son at cincinnati.
What Happened to Jones" has
scored hit in Paris.
Harry B. Smith and Gustav Kerker
have agreed to collaborate.
Buffalo Bill is to he one of the Pam
American Exposition attractions.
Gabrette D'Annunzio has written a
tragedy on FRANCESCA da Rimini.
"The Cadet Girl and "a Female
Drummer" have given up the ghost.
Living pictures are to be the feature
of Keith's New York bill indefinitely.
Pauline Hall is to head the Wilbur
Opera Company during its New York
run.
Hillary Bell says that Puccini's la
Tosca" is not the equal of la
Boheme'
Marie Van Zandt returned to the
stage recently at charity concert
given in Moscow.
The Four Cohans began their star
ring tour in 1.-The Governors Son."
at New Haven last week.
Frank Perley will produce 1.-THE
Chaperones, musical comedy by
Fred. Rankin and Isadore Whitmark
Siegfried Wagner's new opera,
Duke Wildfang," will be sung first
in Munich at the Court Theatre in
February.
LilIi Lehman is to sing Donna
Anna at Monte Carlo this winter in
performance of Don Giovanni" or
ganized by Victor Maurel.
Eddie Foy, Albert Hart and Henry
Bergman will be seen in Daughters
Delightful" new opera by George
V. Hobart and A. Baldwin Sloane.
Henrietta Crosmau was co-star with
! Charles Dickson in Mistakes Will
Happen, during the season of 1S9S-99.
THE King of the Huguenots" has
been produced in London. Its theme
is the massacre of st. Bartholomew,
which is also to be the basis of play
to be acted by Irving.
Beerbohm Trees version of Twelfth
Night" for his London theatre, the
name of which may now be changed
to His Majesty's, is divided into three
acts and twelve scenes.
Dan DAILY is to join Edna Mays
company, THE Girl From Up There, "
taking the places of Otis Harlan and
Harry Kelly, whose two roles have
| now been combined in one.
Alice Nelson, according to latest re-
port, may not go to- London this year
after all. A new opera is being writ
ten for her by Victor Herbert, Harry
d. Smith and Leo Ditrichstein.
The home" for old and poor musi-
clans which was founded in Milan by
the late Giuseppe Verdi was fortunate
ly completed a few weeks before the
great composers death.
The Clayton White-Marie Stuart
company will probably produce
''Dickey" in London. 1t has been play
ed in New York twelve weeks this sea-
son. Mr.. White has been asked, it is
said, to star next season.
! lKrasa, who had been a member of
| the Royal Opera at Berlin for years
recently shot himself through the eye
while cleaning a revolver He will be
compelled to wear a glass eye on the
stage in the future.
French opera has supplanted the
| Italian at the Khedival Theatre in
Cairo and the Artistic Society of Egypt
has just got the lease for three years
on the condition that the opera shall
| be sung there in the French language.
| The Government gives an annual sub
sidy of $4,000.
! There is a marked tendency now in
Italy to return to the historic drama.
The public is becoming tired of adul-
teries and psychological subjects. 1t
asks to think more and better, instead
| of laughing at betrayed husbands, or
weeping at unholy passions.-Rome
letter in Dramatic Mirror
| The five hundredth performance of
/ Moniuszko's ''Halka" was recently CIV
| en- under festal circumstances at the
! Opera House in Warsaw. mis- is the
most popular of all Polish operas, and
| its composer is the most liked of all
Polish composers. The event was
maze a national celebration, and the
receipts went to the family of the Mo-
| niusZko, which is in poverty.
| Richard Wagner was represented
| thirty-nine times in 1880 on the pro-
| examiners Of the Opera in Paris His
works were popular in this order:
iannhauser, with sixteen represen-
tations; 'Lohengriu," with ten; Die
| Walkure, with seven; and Die Meis-
tersinger," with six. Other popular
operas during ,Ae year We're Gounod's
Faust with twenty eight represen-
tations; Les Itlguenots," with nine;
lie Prophetic with twenty-five, and
Samson ct ,Dalila,' with eighteen.
Four plays by Clyde Fitch are being
acted now in New York. Fitch's adap-
tation of "Sapho" is still luridly ex-
tant, while his Nathan Hale" has late
ly been acted in small cities with How
ard Kyle as the Spy. His Moth and
the Flame is in the general repertorv
OF the cheap stock companies. and Mr..
Mansfield has by no means shelved
Beau Brummell," which was written
by Fitch upon a scenario devised nv
Mansfield, and at least served to intro