Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1889-12-29
RIVALS IN BEAUTY.
THE FIERCE CONTEST BETWEEN LILLIAN
RUSSELL AND PAULINE HALL.
Both the Prima Donnas hercely Jsalous-General
Dramatic News-The Latest Tendency
IN Skirt Dancing-A New
Funny SOrg

Special Correspondence Of the Sunday Register.
NEW YORK, December 27.-Lillian Rus-
sell's beauty continues to be as prouOuced
and as much admired as ever, and her
managers cay that it's preservation Is en-
tirely due to the extraordinary care which
the singer takes of herself. Her food at
the hotels where she stops on the road is
selscted with an amount of care that re-
calls Nine. PATHS extraordinary precau-
tions in this respect, and she sticks to a
settled regime in the matter OF food. This
is not only designed to keep down her
weight, but also to preserve the voice, the
purity of which, it would seem, depends a
great deal upon what is eaten. Whenever
there are any long jumps to be made in
the course of the tour, Miss Russell takes
TWO or three days in which to make the
Journey, and she retires to bed promptly
at 1880 every night. Tbe.cOmpetitiOn be-
tween the rival leading women Of the Ca
sine forces, Lillian Russell and Pauline
Hall, is so sharp that neither one of them
INDUCES in any of the ordinary fun and
iollity of p1ima dOnnas. They live after
the fashion of athletes in training.
The Philadelphia Record says: Miss
Marlowe closed her brilliant engagement at
the Broad Street Theatre last evening in
'Iugomar." Her Parthenia was tx
tremely charming, and the large audience
vas enthusiastic in it's applause. At the
end of the play Manager Barney was COM
PEELED to come out and make a brief
speech of acknowledgement which be &C.
cOmplished with excellent wit and good
taste.
The author of the "Razzle Dazzle" song
has written another called THE Wild
Man of Borneo," which is said to be as
funny as its predecessor.
Skirt dancing, says the SUM- is gradually |
being pushed by daring managers to a
point that borders on the indecent. The
process is simple. A skirt dancer is theo- |
retically within the bounds of propriety,
because her garments are sewn together in
such fashion that anything approaching
an exposure is impossible, and hence the
public sanctions very wild and vivacious
frisking on the part of the young woman.
The new departure leans in the direction
Of the gown. The skirts are gradually
heightened and heightened, until when the
dancer is in repose her skirts are within a
few inches of the floor.
Kate Forsythe is thinking of starring
igsin in a new play.
"Erminie" will be finally shelvsd in
New York by the Aronsons after it shall
lave ended its present run at the Casino,
IN January A. 1t will then have been per-
formed 1850 times.
Here is a little sketch Of life in the wild
and woolly West, from the ChicogO Her
nd. "Mme. Patti, the famous diva, occu-
pies a suite of apartments away up on the
fifth floor of the Hotel Richelieu. Usually
the distinguished guests occupy rooms on
The parlor floor, but this elevation location
was Mime. PATHS own choice. She pre-.
ferred to be away from the noise Of the
street and the impure air of a second floor.
During her stay she has bsen greatly i'm
pressed by the apparent sffluencs and
of the hotel bell-boys. When
hey call in response to her ring they
wear diamonds and rare jewelry. This
Is explained by the desire Of rich young
floods to see the fair cantatrice in
ler own apartments. When she
-ings these sWells are ready to
Ion bell boys Jacket and answer the
all, but they have neglected to hide their
inc apparel and Jewels. They enter the
looms, take the msdame's order, glsncing Z
around the while, and then they go down
stairs and have this order filed by the reg
1lsr bell-bOy whose insignia they have
borrowed. 1t is a joint scheme to reach
The elbow of the world-renowned song
bird"
Miss Hosmer, an actress formerly we'll
known, says that she never knew Edwin
Booth to Joke but once, and that was when
ne played in 1.-The Tanning Of the Shrew"
With her. He colored his mustlche with :
oft black paint, and when he kissed her
The had big black streak on her upper
ip. The audience roared. ii