Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-05-05
THEATRICAL NOTES.

will play in Wheeling on the 18th inst.
William Gillette will play Sherlock
Holmes in London next summer
James K. Hackett is still i'll in Phila-
delphia, but his physicians expect that
he will be able to leave there soon.
Tim" Murphy announced in Wash
ington Saturday that he would be
known hereafter as Timothy Lawrence
Murphy. .-
Eugene Blair and her company
opened a summer stock season at the
Yyceum, Cleveland, O., April % in "a
Lady of Quality" and were well re-
ceived.
H. S. Northrop has been re-engaged
by Henry Miller to play the juvenile
roles in his special company in San
Francisco this summer. Next season
Mr.. Winthrop will play Lord Cloves.
the heavy role in Janice Meredith, with
Mary Mannering.
The Girl From Up There was present
ed at the Duke of Yorks Theatre, Lon
don, April %, and doesn't seem to have
set the Thames on fire. Even the cable
dispatches, at usually praise every
thing, had to admit that part of the au-
dience 'boo-ed' ardently.
Ward and Vokes are said to have
their brightest vehicle for fun purposes
in their new laugh producer The Head
WATERS. The scenery, music and cos
tumning are ahead of their former eff
forts. Ward and Vokes are at the -reat
Northern Theatre, Chicago, for a short
spring engagement.
Ethel Barrymore frequently visits her
father, Maurice Barrymore, at the Home
for the Insane at Amityville, l.. l., and
is a great source of comfort to him.
Miss Barrymore tainted, for the sixth
time this season, during the perform
ance of Captain Jinks of the Horse
Marines, at the Garrick, last Thursday.
Weber and Fields, with their all-star
combination, will play two nights at the
Alvin Theatre, Pittsburg, the dates hav-
ing finally been decided, May 81 and
June 1. DeWolf Hopper, Lillian Rus
sell, Fay Templeton, David Warield and
the two German comedians, who head
the show, will all be there with the ia
nous Weber-Field chorus intact. The
bill which is to be presented includes
''Fiddle-de-dee" and burlesques on "The
Gay Lord Quex" and "A Royal Family. .
The latter play was there only week
ago, and a burlesque of it will be par
ticularly interesting.
The Il layers had its annual ladies'
day last Tuesday. and, as usual, the fair
sex turned out in force and made the
club house in Gramercy Square, New
York, a garden of beauty. The ladies
heard an impromptu address by Joseph
Jefferson, then a delicious luncheon was
served and the rest Of the afternoon was
devoted to an inspection of the build
ing. Among the women of the stage
that attended were ulia Marlowe, HiIda
Spong, Bertha Galland, Jessie Millward,
Ethel Hornick, Beatrice Morgan, Eliza
beth I'yree. Margaret Anglin, Mrs Thos,
Whiffen. Louise Eldridge and Lilly Ell
bridge.
Thomas @. Seabrooke is not in favor
IN Detroit. A newspaper had criticised
him for kissing offensnvely the shaul-
der Of Jeanette Lowrie, whereupon he
made speech before the curtain. in
which he said that Brtha Walzinger.
who had been in the company, had
commented unfavorably on the same
subject, that she was no lady, that the
critic was no gentleman, and that the
audience was so chilling that he would
have 10 take an extra bracer" TO
warm up. Mr.. Whitney, manager of
the theater, publishes the promise that
Mr.. Seabrooke shall never appear on
that stage again.
Ada Rehan has gone abroad, closing
her season earlier than was contem-
plated because of i'll health. She will
not return to America till next Septem-
Der. Martha Morton has contracted