Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-10-30
ON SUNDAYS:
LONDON STAGE BEAUTIES.
Dorothy Dene, Kate Vaughan and Othe
Queens of the Footlghts.

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Tue beauty actresses of London are IN
couniable. Every year AIDES to their nun
Der, for thu stage is beauty mart, where
comsliness brir gs its price. We have the
highest artistic assurance that Dorothy
Deue is q beauty. Sir Frederick leighton
bss painted her, and that is the equivalent
OF a proauucismsnto of loneliness from tie
President Of the Royal Academy. Miss
Dens is rather below the medium height,
ami somewta. b7cally built, although she
is thin. Her face is childish, with lsrge
gray eyes; light brown hair, cut short,
cnrls prettily all over her poll. Her EFFORTS
~ an actress are more Indicative OF DE-
sire 90 7 lease than of sn assured skill IN do
ing 60; but professional sb'h.y will come
with the ripening cf her still Immature
beauty.
If at tie leading theatres of London
beauty in thu actresses employed is the
rule and net the exception, what shall
say of the miner plsy-houses whsre per
sonai comeliness is sine qua non? Toe
burle<uue s:ages Of London exhibit such
paJs xies of loyslineas as no her cay lie l.
sucse II or modern, has ever before ST owr
ia it's theatres. The SUPP ly Of this srti9lei
beautiful wolep, as paid commodity, sc
greatly exceeds the demand for il, that ths
prcc.as Ct selection reduces the chosen to
troors of Hebes whom Jupiter would have
sGOred.
Loag burlesque queer, but now an as
pirsns for cOmedy boncrs in the manner
of Mrs. Bancroft, is Kate Vaughan, the
losting, fairy-lise danseuse, who cap
tursd the heart ard wears tbs Wedding
riug of Colonel, the Honorable Fredeilcs
Wellesley, son Of Earl CaWley. This mar
risgs created come consterns'loD, as the
y,nersl impression WIS that Col. Welles'
lev was the heir to the dukedcm OF Wei
lir gson. ard IL e prospects OF tu lesqns
dancer figuring IS duchess Ct Wellington
rather shocked thu sensibiiities OF the
British taxpayer. The two Welltsls J
familcI though consarquiuous, ale dis
net, however, and tine Vaughan has NJ
roOsplc's of wearing a strawberry lea
coronet. Another blrles9ue beauty
Phyllis Broughton, has just oaght sui
for breach of pIOmIe against VNcouo
Dangan who, oddly enough, is nepte
of Col. Wellesley.
One of the mos. widely discussed Lon
don bur'esque beauties is Constance Gii
christ, Little Coanie, who skipped int
fame aud fortune. with her skipping rtpe
fr,m of the boards Of tae Oxford Musi
Hall. Tais is no pla,e to discuss tn
lUue,tion wbsther Miss Gilehrist is, CT
no., the favoiite of one CT Eugisnd,s mos
puissant dukes. Suffice 1t to ssy taat ID
girl is, as Perys says Of Nell GWynne'
mighty pretty creature; and Who adcs I
bec beauty of persol an unexpected Oh
t,n-t;o1, even hauteur Of manner, whlc
shows in her a remarkable aptitude
liza what is bsst in the aristocratic msl
society she frsQuenss.
The names I have mentioned ere on
those of q few Of the comparatively prom
uent beauty players Of Lordou-tho:e WI
have more or less claim to be considers
entitled to distinct N ty reason OF the
artistic standing. have made no euoi
to catalogue tbs hundreds upon hnnarec
of men and women, beauties vino ae
tistjcalIy insignificant. If / were asse
what ia ths best "a sport to London fave
on the dramatic stage / should untesit
ugly answer "eeau.y." The beau' y Gu
tus is the uaaddest passion in Londcn .
day. 1t has been g7oniog for ten year
aud il now wildly raging. A fscins'n
Tsce will achieve dramatic ePsring, W
.e:urs $ psssiansts alteration IL all cia s;'
Of spects'o .. of a SORT which Sarah elS
dons or Ovid GsIrick would fail TO con
msTd, I'D that mother and fa'n-r
Eurlish ;rlst dy revisit the scenes OF ine
foTmer irlumphs. The players Of 10 "a!
male or fe uale, may or may not % or
ms,icslly gifted; he or she must d pay
cally 6ne. Iftfe Loadon sp C. ttor ns
20 choose bets cen re illus and btauty' the
is every il dication TO p owe thft be wou
select beauty and let Sc Illus Co.