Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1889-03-03

I lido. got Miss BrethertOn to talk to me
about her Jamaica career. She inside IA
al lsugh with her accounts Of the blood
and thunder pieces IN which the audiences
of the Kingston theatre reveled. She seems
generally to have played the Bandit 9
I Daughter, the 'Smugg'er's Wife, or
. The Eur pean Damsel Carried on by In
dams, OF some other thrilling elemental
parsonage Of the kind. Toe White Lady
was. apparently, her first introduction to a
more complicated order of play. 10 10
/ extraordinary, when one comes TO think OF
/ TO- how little positive dramatic knowledge
/ she must have She knows some Shake
speare, I think-at least she mentions two
or thr,e plays-and I gather from some
I thing size said that she is now making the
7 inevitable study OF Juliet that every &C
I tress makes sooner or later; but Sheridan
/ Goldsmith, and, of coarse, all the French
people are mere names 90 her. When /
think of the minute exhaustive training
cur Paris actors 50 through and compare
IL with such stats OF nature as hers. am
amazed at what she has Gore. For, after
an, you know, she must be able to act to
some extent; she must know great deal
more Of her b1siueSs than y0u and l sUs-
psct, or she could not re. en- at ALL
August is.
SIT Is almost q week, l see, since / wrote
TO You last During that time We have
seen q great deal more of Miss Bre.hertOn,
sometimcs in company with her belong
ings, sometimes wi,hou. them, aud my im-
/ pressions of her have Iipened very fas'.
Oh, my dear Eustace, You have been ha7iy
all The world has been hasty. Isabel
BrethsrtOa's real self Is now coming to the
front, and il is self which, as I soy 10
myself with establishment, not even orr
keen ewes have ever seeD-hardly suspect
ed evsn should I, myself q woman, have
been as blind 20 woman's capabilities,
woudsr? Very likely These Sudden
rich developments of youth ara often be
. You'd all calculation.
"Mr Wallacs's attitude makes M real
izs more than I otherwise could the past
end present condition of things he
f comes aud talks to me with Gmazsuelt OF
the changes in her tone and outlook, OF
tbe girls sharpening intellect and grow
ing sers.Iveness, and ss he recalls Incl
dents aud traits of the London season
confessions and judgments or blundeTs OF
heIs, and puts them beside the impression
which ne sees her to be making on Paul
and myself begin to understand from
his talk snd his bewilderment sOmathing
or the real nature of the case. Intellectu-
silly, IL has been the ugly duckipg' over
gain. Under all the crude, unhedged
impeiiection Of her young performance,
you people who have watched her with
Your trained critical eyes seem 10 ne
never 90 have suspected the coming wings,
/ the strange nascent power, which Is only
new asserting itself IN the light of day.
"What has Eustace been abOut?' said
Paul 20 me last night, after We had all re-
turned from rambling round the mOonht
plaza, and he had been describing to me
MS talk with her He ought 10 hsvs seen
further ahead. That creature is only Just
beginning 20 live, and it Will be a life
worth having. He has kiudled il TOO, as
much as anybody. OF course, we have
not seen her act yet, asd ignOrant-yes,
she is certainly ignorant-tsough not so
much as I imagined But as for natural
power aud dehcacy Of mind, there can be
no question at all about themn
"I dom know that Eustace did qGas-
ton them, I said. He thought simply
that she had no conception Of what her
SIT really required Of her, and never would
/ have because other popularity
TO which Paul replied that as iaras be
could make cut, nobody thought mcrs
meanly of her popularity than she did. and
be has been talking great deal 10 her
/ about her season.
II never saw awOmau alta more critical
or interesting point of Development he
exlcaimed 40 last, stridirg up AID down,
and so absorbed IN the subject that l could
2 have almost laughed at his eagerne,
, Something or other luckily for her, SCI
I her on the right track three months ago,
aud it is apparently nature on which
b |r0,hing is lost. one can see it In the way
? in which she takes Venice; there isn't q
' scrap of her. little SIS She knows about IT,
20 that isn't keen and Interested and wide
{ awake
well after sn, reminded him IS he
: was se.tling down 20 Els books, we know
nothing about her ss an actress.
We shall see, he said; 4 VIII find ou
a sumo NAAA. ANNAt .Aa- -N'r N- N-O ANAlss
aud so be has,
August 17-19.
"Paul has heen devoting himself moI'
+. and more to the beauty, Mr.. Wallace anC
- looking on with considerable amusement
r ard interest; and this sfternoon, finding il
i1tolsratla tina. Miss Bratherton has MOI
= even bowiDg scquaiLtlnoe with sny o
bis taycrite plays, Angler, Dumas, Victor
( Hugo ~ anything else, he has been read
o. ing aloud % us in the garden, running or
from sc5ue 10 scene and speech to speech
trsaslatiug as be Weut-.he In Tapt atten
ton, and be gesiculatng and spout
F iug, and, except for an occasional Queei
rendering that made rs laugh, getting
on c3pitally with his English. SIT
was encnanttd; the novelty and The excite
/ ment of itabs1rbed her; and every rOF and
then she would stop Paul with a little i'm
peliocs wave o. hsr hand, and repeat the
/ substance Of a speech after him with an
/ impetuous elan, an energy Of comprehen
sion. which drew little ncds of satistac-
ton out Of hin. and sonetimfs produced
a strong and startling effect upon myself
and Mr.. Wallace. However, Mr.. Wallace
might stare as he liked; ths two people