Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-07-05

Havre.
Maggie Mitchell drives abousLong Branch
in . dog cart.
John 7. Malone is summering and study
ing at Bye Beach.
Robert Johnson's History Of the Amer
can Stage" is in the press.
Gus Levick has been engaged to support
T, w. Keene next season.
Katie Putnam has married q member OF
her own company named d. B. Emery.
Roland Reed begins his season in st.
Paul. August 3lst. Lawrence Barrett will
also open in the same city on the same
night.
Mrs. DR.. Major Mary Walker, after ut
full fitting among the Dime Museums as .
'freas," goes to her home in Oswego Tor the
summer.
Blanche Curtiss, the stage name OF q
handsome Vassar girl, who has recently
adopted the profession, is to be the attrac,
ton in "Only a Farmers Daughter next
season.
Dan Sully, lately with "The Corner
Grocery" and who is being sued BY his wife
for divorce, is about leasing Tony Pastors
Theatre, as that gentleman is anxious to re-
tire.
It is rumored that Miss May Fielding, late
Of Austin Days company, now with the
Carleton Opera Troupe. is soon to marry
Sig. A. LIE Campo, recently with the Fedora
Combination.
The skull used in Hamlet" by Henry
Irving during his American tour is q lit
erary curiosity, and worth mere than when
it had brains within =. The forehead Of
this old "~knccriedge box" bears lrvings
autograph nnder those Of Keene, Msoready'
Forrest and Booth.
Boucicault, whose hot blood boils with
matrimonial intent at sixty. three, Is going
10 marry one of his charming young girl
s~upports in the person Of Miss Louise Thorn
dyke, the tall, graceful and willowy young
Californian actress, who has been on the
Eastern stage for some two years past.
How she writes her name: Mary An
derrvs eisus herself like q woman who
was ambitious Of distinction. She begin,
by making q wild dash at the NJ, hurrieI
over 10 the big A, tangles that up in q
may sort of way with the first syllable o.
her last name, and then finishes the sigma
ture with an impulsive flourish that par
alyzes the reader. 1t is not easily inter
preted. One would take it for the sigma
ture Of a man who wanted to be original
and was making o terrible attempt to &C
complish something in that direction.
Harry Langdon, the veteran stock actor
who goes with Robson and Crane mex
season, speaking Of FIRST nights" says;
Sometimes q play will run late IN the night
of the fist production, and after that be
played in G much shorter time, although
NOT a line nay haze been cut out Of it
This is due to the actors, who on the first
Hishtt 7arE feeling hhsiF wsy- WIN the pub
lie They know what they are about aud
what they have TO do but what they do not
know, is how the public is going to receive
the play, utere the audience will applaud
and where cry or laugh, as the case may be
II lie q fac that on q second night the play
will talk fully fifteen minutes quicker than
on the first and not a line be cut out"
A correspondent of the New York ORA
matte News says: Joe Jefferson, | see, i:
taking things easy in Bullfnch Place, where
he makes his Boston headquarters. One
of my p%leasantest recoliections of the Huh
involves o visit to The quaint and coy re
treat Rip dreams some Of his idle days
away so pleasantly. The house is well
known to certain members of the PROBES
sion as Miss Fishers, and he began to fire.
guent it thirty-fve years ago. 1t is an odd
old. fashioned place, and on its odd, old
fashioned second.hoor front, Joe has a lier
which he every year renews. lie and viii
lam Warren are the lions Of the house, and
it is Warren's apartments which he share;
when he is at home" in Bullinch Place
The rooms are hung with pictures painted
and trophies gathered by him in his wander
ings.
A stage-struck girl wrote to Betsy B."
Of the San Francisco Argonaut, to know
the necessary qualifications for the stage,
and got the following list by way Of an.
swer: A strong physique, an uniulpsired
digestion, a slender figure, a marked face,
strong features, a carrying voice, q lack oil
real feeling, an abundance Of pretended
feeling, much magnetism, great fascination
OF manner, purity of speech. elecutory, a
ROOu BCHcldl CuuSdbAOut u kCucIdi huOWt
edge Of costuming, q practical knowledge oil
economy in dress, al artistic knowledge oil
the effects of distance, considerable bust.
ness faculty, u~nffsgging industry, undsunt.
ed ambition, an utter lack OF sensitiveness
q capacity for taking pains, IN absolute and
undlsputed devotion to the theatre, an I'm.
welded life, an ability to distinguish crit
cism from abuse or fulsome gush, q resdi.
mess to profit thereby, some genius at adver-
Using, a q~uickness at Selling opportunities,
an adept at making yourself necessary, a
well-dcfre ed specially, o good memory, quick
study, good luck, iaL mt.
Catbsrine Cole. in the New Orleans Plea.
yupe: Sometimes there comes before the
public a laxative, consequential. conceited
young mar who is a most unmitigated bore.
He is the young man who dotes on Shakes.
peare, and who wants 10 act at amateur per
formances He is constantly on a stilLhunt
for something to play for, and positively lies
in wait for needy orphans Of murdered men.
He buys sh the dramatic papers, and his
constant talk is of actors end play acting.
He believes implicitly in tie Bethel variety
performances, and never says no when DR..
Witherspcon-always on the hunt for the.
atrical ard oratorical tslent-asks him 10
act. He is grand, gloomy and peculiar o.
Hamlet or Macbeth, and will boldly tell you
wherein his interpretations differ from
Irving, or Barrett, or Booth. About the
first of May he joins all the benevolent asso.
Citations that are liable to give amateur per.
formances Oh heavy tragedies during the
dog days. Strange to say, he has no ambi.
ton for the professional stage. He pre-
fers the easier honors Of a leading amateur
actor-to GIL up gaps at evening parties with
Hamlet's soliloguy; in fact, when there's
the smallest possibility Of o recitation being
needed there you will find, primedand ready
to go off int blank verse, this deadly bore,
he amateur young man who wants to act.
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