The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1885-03-17

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A Observation-Disclosures AL
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An Adxanee = gent y wives Some Memories
- efthe Long Age. 81
Everybody Of the present generate ion res
members tie stock company fI,at opened
nars' q, Il IN :, m ,,a,nsnt
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ottJemes tttzslmmotis ana they must also
remember the manager as well as the
company /; not that the company WIS bet
III am III 81 4, Z ! scer, Inf M F;,gsin,.
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that madett resemble the balancing pole
OF o tightrrope walker. Every now and
then some member Of this stock company
drifts around this way and recalls the
good old LINES when, that superb array OF
actors used 70 tread the boards Of the Opera
House: Last evening re eas1ref o. me
Eitzstmmons Stock company, hr. 4. r. 3:
Wheeler, drop ped into TINS Office, and an:
tounced himself 90 one q the ghosts q.
the past and immed lately revived old
memories. Mr.. wheeler doesn't LOOK
day older than when ne presided Of the
box office IN sl3-.twelyeI tieeting years
agoa He lis now the advance agent 81
"only5 Farmers Daughter Company, Z
and ai.rtght good agent too. he says
among other things he has managed 9
ballet troupe, but the llnxuriant growth Oh
hair on, his head beles his Words There
Is one thing, ihoWeyerThe' pleads not
guilty OF one Sgreat crime, andEthat - nc
has never been managersyof o skating
rink. "Punch" Wheeler-why they
called nun 80 y NOT known v. IN the diagrams
t1fnishe dTleit before tltzsimmons gave
mp the House, and went to California Wlth
the Chapman sisters, well known 70
Wheeling theateE goers, and clever artists
inthe line Of burlesque opera. &, II
But Of the company that used to delight
Wheeling audiences! y was / aekn 4 .a' !;
edged to. have been one OF the finest and
most Intelligent company q artists eyer y,
congte gated on any pro itncial Stage. MIL
ton y ob!es, the leading man, after sever
ing his connection with the company,
started out as Q star, and the public Is IA
miliat with his career since then, "the VII
lain still pursuing her. with financial sue
cess. Miss Mary stephens, the handsome
and talented leading lady, died some years
ago. gThe,darce OF Jenny Lind, that
used 70 be played semi.weekIy by Harry
Clifford and Fanny Psesage, the comedian
and soubrette of the company, made
many hundreds laugh. Poor Harry GUS
ford, the ttnimitapler dled somenme ago IN
Baltimore, while EauAy Prestige, his CO.
ad1utor 10 tun, IS as Lively as OF yore on
the variety stage. NY. duncan, who, Tnlle
here, took lessons IN elocutton OIL frot.
Kidd at the Seminary, 70 IN q prosperous
company play ing good parts. Hew the
ladies' beau.ideal. 9l'. h 81. =.
Tom Coleman, one q the comedians, Is
nov rapning skasi5g THE az y1 M%aal
British Columbia, ana as E9nch Y meet .s1,.
Ier says, It is open for Cinnamon only.
"Mike.,g,well, everybody used 70 Know
mike" the famous stage door:keeper.
The genial Michael is now "one OF the
finest on the Brooklyn police torce. me
leader Of the orchestra, Jean Maqssey,
who used to play the bars tor Jenny
Lind'sp song, tried to commit suicide
lbyes'eatihg eighteen weiner wursts
In succession in Milwaukee recently,
while the patient trombone player, rroi.
Gebhardt, isnow q tattoed man in g dime
museum. James and William Fitzsim-
mons now own several silver mines at
etennta, fldaho, anu are worm ABOUT