Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-11-19
CLARA MORRIS.
AStar of the First Magnitude Com
Ing to Wheeling.
interesting interview With Her Manager,
Mr.. Frank A. mall..-Yesterday's
0peras---Coming Opera
House Attractions.

Clara Morris, whom sll acknowledge the
greatest of American artistes, and who has
no peer as an emotional actress, will play
The New Magdalen" at the Opera House
next Wednesday night. Mr.. Frank A.
Small. agent for Miss Morris, is in the city
and is in high feather" over the large |
business Of the season. He says q bad
house is something Miss Norris never has,
and if all the seats are not sold the com.
psny at once imagine that something bad
is going to happen. Mercy Merrick is
probably the greatest and, to the audiences,
the most satisfactory of all her perform
snces and for this reason no one else at
tempts to play
"THE NAGDALEN"
as long as it is in her repertoire.
Speaking concerning Miss Morris lite
of the stage, Mr.. Small said: "She is only
seen by the public on the stage, when she
is portrsying some sad emotion. People
have no idea how cheerful, almost jolly,
abe is when she Is not at her work. / have
known her, after giving two performances
in single day and when she was thor
oughly tired, to sit and chat with friends
for an hour or two in most cheerful man
ner, and the relaxation would always ap-
pear TO do her'a great deal Of good. She
| is a witty tslker, and | know of no woman
who possesses somuch ready and general
knowledge an shs, She is great reader
She has the faculty Of reading and digest
ing book very easily and quickly, and
she peruses, on an average,
VOLUME A DAY.
She has q wonderfully rententive memory
and never iorgets character that she has
once read about nor an idea which enters
her mind. Her reading is confined, for the
most part, to polite literature. bat she de-
votes considerable time 10 the study Of
science. When at her home on the Hud-
son, she generally takes ride on horse
back in the aftsrnoon. She takes little
or no exercise when travelling, but devotes
most Of her spare time, when che is not
resting, to reading and painting"
"'Scientists have told me, said her hus.
bsnd, M 'Harriott to me at one
time, that the stage work
OF Miss Morris exhsusts her only
in physical sense. When she is playing,
you kcow, her muscles and nerves are at
thei, utmost tension and always thought
the emotional part Of her acting caused
great loss Of tissue and ne We force until,
one time, / was speaking to
CELEBRATED FRENCH NEURoIoGIsT.
int rrs gated him concerning the loss Of
nerve rec entsi'ed By the work OF an
emotional actress supposed, Ct course,
that the waste must be considerable, es-
pecially in the Gaze Of my wife. He eur
prised me BY declaring that had not con-
sidered the audience in connection with
the matter, and then he told me that when
an actress rises 10 climscteric scenes Of
grief, the sympathetic relation between
her and the audience compels the latter 10
rise to Der high plane OF feeling and she
receives a responsive current OF ma enetism
that compensstes her for the force that che
has expended. Thus, while Miss Morris
acting tires her physically, che loses no
nerve force by it, else she would not be
able to play the roles she does" Il can
assure the Wheeling public" said Mr..
Small, ss he babe the reporter sdieu,
that Miss Morris will be a genuine treat,
and those seeing her will never regret it."