Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-09-09

| American type. Due she HAS UOt liu-
proved To the extent that vas expected,
the confidence Of the public that they
are gazing on q woman whose name is
pure enough to interpret "kvadne,"
Juliet" and such parts, gives her a
social and moral support which much
greater talent, as in tn case of Adelaide
Nelson, would not procure. l think
that Nelson is regarded rs the most re-
maIkable union of talent and beauty
/ hat has been seen i'll this generation
On the stage.
| SAW, last summer,
Ellen ferry,
who supports Irving in his Shakes
pearean reproductions, and, while she
has energy anu acts with spirit up 10
her master, she does not possess the
| delicacy of form and shade, the extreme
sweetness and the pathOS and piquancy
together that Nelson had. When
| Nelson came To this country, society
took hold of her, AMI in Brooklyn,
which is the New England side of New
\ urk, she was a character equal TO her
talent aud appearance. Last summer
/ crossed the ocean on the same ship
with l. tia. She drew in the cOntitenre
at all the passengers a. a woman NOR
ally deserving Of her wealth and poPu-
!arity.
having married, and being 4 mother
arl Keeping her own bone at Long
Branch, Is popular with her profession,
and has the regard Of virtuOu5 men and
women.
Fannie kemble, coming from a great
dramatic family whose founder took
rank with Kean, Macready aud Gar
rick, is, perhaps, the greatest woman in
a union ofmind and beauty the English
race has presented on the stage. Her
poems, chiefly on American subjects,
rank up to those of Mrs. Norton and
Mrs. HemaRS, and her remarkable in
dependence, which rebelled ven
against the martial yoke To the extent
| OF critici,iug her husbands slavery prop
erty and estates, gave her something OF
| the character of Madam De Stael. She
/ suffered a usual fate with beautiful wO-
men on the stage whose social rank is
/ equal u their talent, that of marrying
| amrrriy rich man, ~ whom she bore
two children, and who was ingulfed i'll
the viri-situdes of the rebellion, where
IN she, bis divorced wife, was 4 warm
advocate OF the union cause.
Among men on the stage ut present
John Gilbert is very highly considered
socially, and has nearly a. great u hold
on the local public here a. his name
sake Sr John Gilbert, the designer and
artist, has in London.
Edwin Booth
was, ten OF fifteen years ago, a great
favurite, nUt only in New FORK, u IN
several other prominent cities, like BOS-
ton and Chicago. | doubt il his rank
in this country il quite rs high as 1t
was, though he still leads all our native
~tragedianS.
The connection ofhis brother, Wilkes
Booth, with the bloody events Of the
war did Edwin Booth no injury, but
rather intellectually benefited him, as
he had been during the war a firm
union man, and suffered exceedingly on
the score of his brothers act. \ prOmi-
neut once told me that when
ever the Booth episode was revived in
the newspapers on account OF somenew
coincidence or event bringing II forth,
Edwin Booth was taken with a tit Of
deSpondeucy which almost prevented
him from playing.
John Mccullough
also hSd a strong following throughout
the | pited states. As a business man,
he has tact and industry. His face Is a
fine one. and his physique has been
maintained in spite of his arduOuS la
bCrS, while that OS Booth has run down
somewhat through dyspepsia and other
troubles. Mccullough is called by many
the embodiment Ofthe old heroic acting
which he deriyed from his master, For
rest, many of whose pieces he alone pOr-
trays, There is an element among the
public which criticiseS his understand
lug and absorption, particularly of his
~hakuspearau parts, and some say that
his growth Is very slow, yet on the
whole he is well established, at least in
tins country,a as a bright, picturesque rep
resentor of what he undertakes to do.
Mr.. Barrett
also has q following, and | sometimes
lind a the4tre-gOer who prefers him to
both Booth and Mccullough. When
Mccullough was quite n boy he mar
RED in Philadelphia. At that time he
was an apprentice to a chair-maker.
Ills remarkable career pushed his do
nestle life into the background, but he
has a son who must be now nearly
grown, and whom lac has taken care Of
very faithfully. He and Barrett are
both, l think, Irish boys. Booth be-
longs to the third generation of Ameri-
cans In his family. When his father
had become established in this country
be sent to England for his father Rich
ard Booth. who lived on his farm near
Bel Air, Maryland, and is buriedI |
think, with the rest of the family in
Baltimore.
In some respects the head of the
American stage just now IS
Lester WaIIack.
The Jewish element is in this family as
in the Booths, though there il but q
touch Ufit, l think in the Booths, while
WallaCk Is considered = Jewish name.
| WIS once talking to Dug Wallsek, the
founder of the Washington Star, and
) brother of a deceased mayor of Wash
iugton CITY, Richard Wallack, and in
auvertently / asked him what race he
came of, %supposing it might be from
[ Germany or WallaChia. He replied
very frankly: Sew, sir. My father
T was known in Boston as Wallack the
Jew. The father of Lester Wallack
came to this country from England and
established a theater, OF which he vas
an ornament, both on the stage and in
the management, and he left his son at
cast the good will OF this theatre, and
10Y iHuhSN OSSlueS. Lester w Al
lack has built two theatres since that
time, moving with the fashionable axis
oLthe town, and he now possesses one
/ OF the most perfect theatres in the
J world, and holds that ancient audience
which delighted to attend his fathers
theatre and which Is now almost an an
eestral audience. 1t has been the cus-
I tom for years for the regular theatra.
: goers TO assemble at Wallack's theatre
on Saturday nights, and there may be
. seen merchants, brokers, bankers and
sclons of the successful mercantile and