Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-03-22
ACTORS, FEET.
Humber Two. lust the Thing for
:; Fascinating Females.
Some Of the Many Stories Told In Green
Rooms About the Shoes and Slip
pes That Stars Wear
PATHS Nervous Foot.

New YoRx, March 2l.-"Heavens, what
foot" was q common exclamation at the
Old Bowery when J. B. StudleJ used to
play there. he divided the honors with
Edward Eddy, the trsgedisn who died IN
Jamaica of yellow fever o few years ago),
upon the score of big feet" The members
| OF the company playing with Studley were
given to saying when he was on, There
NO standing room for any one else on the
stage" EDDY wore No. IL OF the very
! widest make and Studley's number was
equal il not above it. The feet OF lady
actors gil quite an interesting nook in the
speculation of modern audiences. Some
are we'll enough posted to know that certain
styles Of shoes and slippers materially SPOIL
or improve the appearance OF feet that walk
The stage. Long pointed silk or satin slip
uers without straps give any foot long,
awkward appearance, while the shorter make
| a really bad shaped foot look pretty.
Bonfanti has a tiny foot, even as dancer,
and dancing spreads and ruins the major
| ity; dancing slippers that are made OF satin,
six, &c, give the muscles free action, but
naturally allow the foot to widen and some
times TO swell dreadfully. Bonfanti wears
@ one and half slipper. Lydia Thompson
has a firm, finely formed, but not small
foot. 1t takes number three. tits claim
| Cd that blondes are famous for large feet
aud busts. Sara Alexander, q Western
| comedy artist and professional danseuse,
has one of the smallest pair of feet on the
American stage. She was once mendlpg
q pair Of dancing slippers, and lady, pick
Jog up one of then, asked:
"Do you wear this as charm on your
watch cbainf'
Verona Jarbeau outrivals the majority
Of actresses in the shape and smallness OF
Ter feet A pretty foot and pretty girl
should be synonymous. In this case they
are. Verona wears ones and misses thir-
teens, and they don't hurt her a Bit she
says.
Club feet that means the short, vide
stumpy, jelly-6sh sort Of feet-do not
abound among actors. Robson, Gus Viii
Eams Owens and few others have them to
a marked degree; still they carry their
owners around pretty gracefully
Mrs. Tom Thumb without argument pos
81 sses the smallest foot on the stage, and no
one is disposed to doubt her claims.
For several years before Charles Thorne
died he suffered hundred deaths on &C
count Of diseased feet Mrs. Thorne was
h constant attendant at the theatre, doing
:" crythiug possible to alleviate his distress,
| u#Cn bathing them in soothing lotions,
While lie fairly groaned aloud between the
| aI;s.
FOR 'slop sided go-asyou.plcase foot
II be & lock at The pair belonging to Mr..
| Farres, leading man at the Union Square
II eatre. There can be no doubt about his
| footsteps where an impression can be made.
Sara Jcwett, concerning whom everybody
wants to say something or know something,
wears number two shoe. During the run
| Of Three Wives" che wore satin slipper
that completely changed the natural ap-
rcarance of her feet, and it was at once
IL ade known through the newspapers that
she had a very ugly foot.
Clara Louise Kellogg has fascinating
ioot-small, higharched flexible and plump.
In walking Clara Louise Kellogg can show
deal OF grace in the manner of setting
down her feet. Naude Granger has the 80.
called modelled feet; the instep is high and
curved, as if TO the purple born, and she
Alga Brandon, she of the glorious mid
night eyes, has also lovely feet.
English actors, particularly the gentle
men, bring the best shaped but the biggest
feet 10 the American stage to be seen here
Erglish sense will not tolerate high heels
ard narrow sole5. English feat will be
comfortable at all hazards, and they present
| 70 ou- footlights naturally formed though
large appearing feet. An instance is cited
of an eminent foreign star whose elegance
Of wardrobe captivated all New York and
sc. her name upon several articles Of dry
goods as an attraction, whose feet seldom
knew the luxury Of clean hose or whole
psir eitEer, but on several occasions two
rair of silk stockings were worn for the pur-
pose of hiding the ventilation spots Of the
urder pair.
Mary Anderson has handsome foot for
ere that takes O two.srd-ahalf size. She
injured one of these members once, and for
wonder the incident has never been given
in print. She was playing Parthenia and
in the forest scene, while uttering an impss-
stoned speech, accidentally thrust the spear
lead deeply into her foot, nearly pinuing it
10 the stage. She Was idle and i'll for some
tin e after the accident, and the wound left
81 Ugly scar.
td%iu Booth can boast ola very shapely
Iarr oF feet that can wear number sevens
Tie trageGisn is so utterly Indifferent TO his
erS, nality, that il is doubtful if he ever
klew What sort OF an appearance his feet
Il; &c in sock snd busking
John Mccullough feet were 2, afflicted
With corns and bunioDs twenty wears ago
that they caused his heavy. farmcr-like gait
50 Characteristic Of him row in later life.
Charlotte Cushman had foot Of her
own in size, and generally wore tours, but
could crowd into three and half on "a
tight squeeze One night soon after re-
covering from a severve attack of inRsm-
mstory rheumatism she was wearing pair
of slippers much TOO small for her Dart
ing behind the wings, between scenes, she
snatched them off and threw them as far as
she could, exclsiming: "Ye Gods some
body lend me pair Of slippers, or I'll 60
on in my stockings!
What number do You wear? asked q
young actor, ready TO help her in the emer-
gency.
oh, never mind the number, anything
from FIVE to twenty she replied,
James Lewis, ;thi5 e0Giedian. get, around
On pair Of very small, well.lorm5a ieet,
and he appears TO be aware Of the fact.
Emily Rigl never knows what to do with
the feet that used to dance 80 gracefully be-
fore she commenced playing in the regular
drama. A very pert answer she gave to q
friend when she and her sister Betty were
new corners and could scarcely speak
dozen words in English. They were dan.
cling in the Black Crook at Niblo's, aud
Emily Was particularly enterprising in pick
ing up all the slang phrases and hackneyed
sayings Of the people around the stage She
was told one day that abe WAS not doing
we'll; that what she Was learning and trying
to cay was neither proper nor good English;
to which she'natively responded: "Oh, no
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