Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-03-17
THEATRICAL ADJUSTMENTS.

Reiane is to tour South America.
Sybil Sanderson is to sing in PARIS.
Fritz Williams is to join weber o.
Fields Company.
Amelia Summerville is to star IN
"What Shall We Do With Herr
Mascagni may tour America next
season. heading an opera company.
Mrs. Langtry's daughter may have a
small part in a play to be produced ny
the Lily.
Don Perosi's latest o%ratorio, The
Birth of the Redeemer," has III
tie impression in Italy.
John c.. Rice and Sally Cohen nave
signed with Rich & Harris to appear
in the Lodge Brothers"
Marie Bates will be a leading mem
| Der of the company supporting DAVID
Warfeld in 'The Only Levi next
season.
Arthur Pinero's 1.-THE Second Mrs.
T%anuueray'' is the latest drama to in
spire Giuseppe Puccini. He is to COM
pose a score for the play as soon as
he has completed Nine. Butterfly"
and "Cyrano de Bergerac.
Pietro Mascagni cut the spoken pro-
logue and much of the music out OF
Il Maschefe" after the first perform
ance, and telegraphed these to the
other cities in which the opera was
simultaneously performed.
Hans Richter is to give but three
concerts in London this spring. Sir
Francis Cook, who died the other cay
in London, gave 5000, 900 when he was
knighted by Queen Victoria to found
a home for music students. Edward
Greig is going to London.
w. G. Smyth, whose management or
William Collier will terminate at the
n of this season. last week signed
contracts with r. D. MacLean n
Odette Tyler to star next season IN a
repertoire consisting of king John,
"Coriolanus," and "The School for
Scandal"
All the regimental bands in Italy
wore mourning for ten days after
Verdi's death and the proprietor OF the
Hotel Milan-who is the father-in-
law of Umbreto B%iordano, composer OF
ANDRE Chenier"-has inverted into a
museum the room which Verdi had oc-
cupied since 1857.
Grace Filkins is perhaps the only ac-
tress whose husband is not designated
by her name unless he be a greater
actor. Her husband is Commander
Mark and Miss Filkns is known IN
society, where she holds a brilliant
and enviable position as the wife OF
Commander Mark of the United
States navy.
Eduard Sanchez de Fuentes is the
name Of a Cuban composer who used
Tennyson's "Enoch Arden" as the
text Of a one-cent opera recently sung
in Havana by a company of Italians.
The hero dies at the end of the opera
instead of turning away from the
sight of the happy family. 1t is in
three scenes and possesses the newt
able intermezzo.
The earliest of America novels to be
turned into a drama was Harriet
Beecher Stoves Uncle Toms Cabin"
That wal done almost half a century
ago. The latest example of thai kind
of transfer in fiction is Mary john
sons ITO Have and to Hold" These
two plays were brought to the New
York stage last week. 1t happens that
both are tales of Southern life.
Stuart Robson is 65 years of age,
James O'Neill 52.O'Neill is playing the
youthful Edmond Dantes with as much
swagger as if he were a youth. Rob-
son is doing Tony Lumpkin with an
utter disregard of the years. Mr..
O'Neill has not tired of Dantes, al
though he has played that character
nor than 5000 times. Stuart Robson
looks forward to a revival of The
Henrietta"
do contradict my marriage; l have
not yet seen the man who can make
me forget my first bitter experience of
the happy estate Also my future
must have no 'in-laws,' no more fam
ily-l-laws' for me. George Musgrove
wants me to go to Australia and open
April IS, but nothing is decided on my
side yet. l am dying to leave the
stage, and am sick and tired of 1t. |
love my beautiful river home and
country life.-Cora Urquhart Potter in
New York Press.
A New York manager gives up this
wall: Where are next seasons plays
to come from? This is a vexatious
problem that is wrinkling the fore
head of many a dramatic producer.
Nearly everything IN book form has
been dramatized except the patent Of
fee reports and British Encyclopedia.
Even with the material at hand it is
atight squeeze to get through this sea-
son, and no end of road companies
have been called into New York to
supply yawning gaps in the bookings.
For Nat Goodwin's production of the
Merchant of Venice" this cast is an
nounced:
Shylock.................Mr. N. c.. Goodwin
Maxine Elliott
Nerlssa. Miss Annie Irish
eSSlca.- Miss Effte EllSler
Bassanio..........Mr. Aubrey Boucicault
Gratiano. ...........Mr Vincent Serrano
Father Gobbo.........Mr. W. J.. Lemoyne
Antonio. Mr.. Maclyn Arbuckle
Prince of Morocco Mr.. William Courtleish
Doge of Venice.........Mr Frank Weston
Harry Woodruff
Beerbohm Tree is to appear in a
play founded on the story of Ulysses.
Phillips is to challenge Homer on his
own ground. writing. not an archaic