Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-05-31
DRAMATTC NOTES.

per on public singing tor the NORTH
american ReUiew.
The Lynchburg Tirgjnia1 says that
*Pinafore" IS the only play that has
ever paid at second performance in
that city.
ONCE Booth was to play, and in a
scene where~a bier was to be brought
on Booth reminded Stetson that there
was bier in certain act, and he must
not fail to have it on hand. Just be-
fore the curtain went up Booth looked
about and said: Mr. Stetson, where
is that bier I told you wanted?" Stet-
son turned to one of his walters and
said: eco across the street and get
two bottles of pale ale, that beats beer
all to thunder. John Mccullough.
THERE is a good storY-now for the
first time in print-of Nat Goodwin's
experience at the Cincinnati festival
All the other actors were growing in
regard to stage business and the like,
when he, affecting anger, stepped for
ward, saying: "pm going to kick, too!'
why, what's the matter with you?" he
was asked by Mr.. Miles, the manager.
"What's the matter?" Goodwin ex-
claimed: whats the matter? Don't
you see that the color Of the fringe UP
there over the stage doesn't match the
shade of my tights.
A CoLORED woman named Henrietta
Vinton Davis, of Washington, has
great dramatic power, and wants to APP
pear on the stage. We should think
they might arrange it. Let the play
Of Othello be rewritten, so Desdemona
viii be as black as Othello. It has al
ways seemed to us to be an outrage to
see Othello, black as the ace of spades,
marrying white woman, and audiences
are apt to pity the poor girl Give us
colored Mrs. Othello, and give the
colored girl chance.-Peck'S SaI7o.
Miss MARY ANDERSON has long a thin
foot, something like her general ply
sique. 1t does not occur to one to look
at her feet much, perhaps because there
is such distance between them and her
head, which is so finely chiseIed. But
it is q peculiar foot, full of character
and evident determination, from the way
she plants it on the stage, firmly and
unfinchingly. Sara Jewett used to wear
. No. 2, but now wears a No. 3. Lolita
wears a No. II, but then she is a very
small woman. Miss Maud Harrison,
who is plump and pretty, wears q No. 3,
and often 81, for she seems to take no
particular pains with her feet, though
hey are pretty ones.
The news that Lolita is obliged to re-
tire from the stage for two years, if not
forever, is sad. No actress holds a
warmer place in the hearts Of the
American people than the pretty and
yivacious little woman who has danced
and sung before them for so many years.
Her reputation has never been sInirched
and her charities are known the world
over. She is as light and sunny in dis
position off the stage as she is or. and
bears the loss Of her voice with her
usual iollity. She hopes to get it back
again, but it IS the opinion Of many dis
tinguished American practitioners that
she viii never be able to act again. She
will be two years under physicians care
in Europe, and has hopes OF a speedy
recovery.-BrOokly71 Eagle.
WHILE wonderfully effective in action
and manner, ModJeskas acting is married
by her pronunciation. There is no
marked improvement since her last visit
to America. In pronouncing sentences
composed almost exclusively Of words
of one and two syllables, a student
might fancy that she was scanning lines
in Virgil. Much Of this is doubtless
due to the use of the French, Polish,
and other languages by the Countess in
her representations on the European
continent. / cannot, however, detract
from her praise to print list of words
in which her pronunciation is at fault
Years. 800. ..Yiss You.......... Yuh
VAS. Nass Notice ...... .Noarice
Not...... Nut Forbid. Forbeed
JIG
Skip............ .Skeep Forgive. Forget
Wisdom. 49,. Weesdom Love. Loaf
Sister,. .Seester. Things. Thinks
Enjoy yourself. .Enchoy ewerself
These are random words spoken in q
voice so musical that the defect is
readily overlooked; but, frequently re-
peated, it becomes monotonous, and at
times unpleasant. -NeaU York Sun.
Mr.. WILLIAM CONNER, manager for
John Mccullough, said in a recent
talk: John Mccullough was, I think