Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-12-09
ADJUSTMENTS.
JOS. MURPHY's "KERRY Cow"

JOS. MURPHY's KERRY COW"
A very tolerable audience was pres
ent at the Opera House, last night, to
witness the presentation OF the Kerry
Cow" or Village Blacksmith, JOS. Muir
phys celebrated serio-eomedy. The
play abounds with the spontaneous,
pungent witticisms, whose most familiar
home is Erin, and their effect is TO keep
an audience in a continued roar. The
stage settings are realistic, for we have
not only pump with real water aud
fully equipped blacksmith shop with
hot irons that are not painted red, but
a doye-cote with "real doves" which
actually perform an important part in
the play. The entire performance
last night was remarkably smooth
and well sustained in even
the minor roles. Mr.. Murphy gracefully
maintained the jOvisl, rOllicking Hiber-
MAN character, with dialect never at
fault, action free and natural, and man
ner both tender and strong. He intro
duced several songs, which were prompt
" and emphatically encored, and kept
up an exhilarating flow OF animal splr-
ITS. which found glowing reflection IN
the auditorium. The support Is all that
could be desired; not point is strain
ed; there are no rusty hinges,
and everything moves on with
wholesome precision. The cast included
Miss NJ. Loduski Young as Mora
Drew" Miss Charlene Wiedman as
"Alice DOYLE" Mr.. ii. Rees Davis as
"Maior Grufi," Mr.. Armstrong as Pat
rick Drew" Mr.. Sands as Raymond
Drew" Mr.. Fuller as Captain Basil
Sidney" Mr.. Murray as Valentine
Hay,j and Mr.. Martin as "Mr. ODrive," "
all OF whom contributed their full share
to a performance unusually symmetri-
cal.
Tonight will be presented the "Shaun
Rhue," companion piece to the "her-
nv Cow" and it will certainly, in the
light of last nights excellence, draw a
large audience.
MARY ANDERSON.
The advent of the beautiful Mary An
derson always creates stir. A fine
tragedian is always an object OF interest,
but when we find such superlative beau
tv united to such Consummate hlstrlonlC
art, then is the interest redoubled
Mary Anderson will be here on Friday
and Saturday and as prelude, we APP
pend the following description from the
| New York Herald:
Tall as a Grecian goddess, with limbs
marvellOusly long and as marvellousIy
proportional, a small head poised upon
a slender neck, dark gray eyes-"lrisl
eyes''-and dark brown hair, a com
plexion as clear as alabaster, and q
small, ripe, red mouth. Mary Ander'
son has such delicate features that she
appears even more lovely at a close in
spection than upon the stage. Her face
is almost aristocratic in its clear
cut profile and slightly curlint
lip. Her figure, not yet full!
developed, has the uniformed grace o
girlishness; her frank, hearty, off-hanC
manner at once captivates the inter
viewer; and, although on the stag
Mary Anderson is every inch TRACED.
queen, in a private life she is best des
cribed as representative American girl
full of life and spirit, her bright eye
dancing with fun, and her rich voic,
which brings tears 20 unaccustomeC
ewes in Meg Merriles, ready to ripple
from conversation into laughter at tn,
slightest prOvocation. Asshe stands re
pallv before us she holds in one hanC
the fragments of bisque bust, which
explain the cry that accompanied he
entrance, and she begins talking abou
the broken bust in free, unaffected
style that puts her interlocutor at hi
ease and necessitates the most rapid EN-
ployment of his shorthand pencil.
Reserved seats will be on sale n
Lucas music store, this morning.