Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1889-02-03

figures hcrrying across the back Of the
stage, The moving, ghost-like workmep all
around, and in the midst that white hood.
ed, lsnguid fgurs-revi7ed in Kerdars
memory wheneve' in after DAYS bis
thoughts went wandering bscS to TIE first
moment Of real contsct betTeen his owD
personality and that of Isabel Bretherton.
CHAPTER ".
A few days after the performance of TIA
White Lady," Kendall, in the carrse az
his weekly letter TO his tister, sent her =
fairly detailed account of the evening. i9-
GLIDING the interview with her after Tho
play, which had left two Or three very
marked impressions upon him. Il wish. ),
he wrote, Il could convey to you q sefs Sc
Of her personal charm srch rs might b.l-
ance the Impression CT her artistic de-
'ec;s, which l suppcse his account
cf mine cannot bat Lave on YOU.
When l came aWsy that night of,er
our conversation with her l had e.
iir,ly forgotten her failure as an actrete.
and it is only later, since I have thought
over the evening in ds;ail, that l have re.
turned to my first stsndp0int Of woadsr at
the easy .oltratiOn of the English public.
When you ere actually with her, talking
70 her, locking ct her, Fo bes' attitude il
The only possible and reasonable oue
What does art. or cultivation, or training
mate? l found myself saying, as l
walked home, Ill echo of him-5o long as
ratu,e will Condescerd Once in hun
died years TO produce for Us q creature
50 perfect, so finely fashioned 70
all beautiful Uses! Let other pee
pie 20 through the toll to scqnire: their
ain IS tIuto; but here is eaGty iu tie quin-
tesseIc9, and what is beauty bat three
parts of truth? Beauty IS harmony with
the universal order, n revelation OF laws
aid perfec.ion7 OF which, in our common
gropiog through dali world, we find in
general TO remind us. And, If go, what
folly 10 ask of human creature thet it
shou' d be more than beautiful! It is s.
messenger from the gods, and We treat il
~ if 1t were any common traveller along
the highway of life, and c1ogsexsmire il
fjr tie credentials instesd of raiaing our
altar and sacrificing 20 it with grateful
hearts.
"Thst was my latest impression cf Fri
day hight. But, naturally, By Saturday
mcrnirg had retained 10 tho rational
pJidt CT view. The minG's mcrnirg eli
mate y removed by many deges fiom
that cf he evening; and the critical re-
volt which the whole spectacle of tbs
White Lady had iginally reused in me
revived in al its fcr2e. l btgsp, indeed,
to feel rs if l ard humanity, with is long.
lsboTous tradition, we've on Que side, hold
ing cur own sgainst young aud arrogant
aggressor-namely, beauty, in the person
CT Miss B-etherton. How many men
acd women, l thought, have la
torsd and struggled and died in the
effort TO reach 3 higher aud higher p,rfec-
tion in one sicg'e art, and ara they to be
ou,d0ne, eclipsed in q moment, by some
thing which is a mere freak of nature;
some thing which, Ike the mere Hiss Of
the fsld hRs neither tciled nor spun, and
y. claims the special inhe1itarce snd re-
wsrd OF those who have? L seemed to
me as though my feeling IN her presence
Of the night before, "a ii tie sudden over
throw Of tho critical resistance in me, had
ben Kind of teachery 30 the human
cause. Beauty has power enough, 1 found
myself rejecting with scme fierceness-let
us withhold from her 8 sway and q pre-
roga'ivs which are cot rightly hers; let US
offend against her that store Of human
sympathy which is the proper reward, not
of her facile and heaven born Projections,
tu. of labor aad intelligence Of all that is
complex sud tenacious in the workings CT
the human spirit.
"Aod then, as my mood cooled sill fu1
;her | began 20 recall many al evening at
tie F,anca's vi:h you, end one part after
another, Oae sc OF after another, recuued
to ne, till, rs realized af,esh what ORA
matte Intelligence and dramatic training
really arc, l fell in,0 an angry contempt
fcr cur lavish English enthus,ssms. POr
pill Il is n,t her fault if she bel evas her
self to be 3 great sc'Iess. Brought up ul-
der mi4leldl7g conditions. and wi;hunt
any Tut the most elementary education,
how is sha 70 know what the real thing
iaeans? She finds herself tie riga within
few weeks of her appearance in TIE great
eat city in the world. Naturally she pays
no reed to her critic3-why would she?
"And she is indeed NEST perplexing
mixture. Do Whist l will, l cannot har-
mou'ze ali my different impressions Other
Let me begin again. Why is it that her
setting is so poor? never saw more ORA
mstic personality Everything that che
saws or does ia said or done with wrath, 2
force. 2 yivscity that makes Ter smallest
gesture and her lightest tore impress
themselves upon you. l felt this very
strongly two OF three times after the plsy
on Friday night in her tslk with Forbes,
for instance, whom she hiss altogether in
her tolls. aud whom she plays with IS
though he were the gray headed Merlin
and che sn innocent Vivien weaving
harmless spells about him. And then,
fem this mocking war Of words and looks,
tnis cav csmaraderie, in which there was
rot q scrap of coquetry or selt-conscIops-
ness. she would pass into sudden out
h1ret of ANGER. az TO the impe!tinence Of
Enelish rich people, The imperti sencs OF
son rni,Iioraires who havs tried once or
Vice 70 order her for their evening par
tiaa "a fhey would order their ICES; or The
ip,ne-.inen- e Of the ycuug swell abont
town wko thinks she has nothing to do be-
hind the scenes but receive his VISIT
and provide him with entertainment
Aud. as the auitk, impetu9us words came
rushing out, Won felt that here for once was
: woman spfaking her real mind to yoa,
ard that with q flashing eye and curvirg
lin. an Unborn grice ard energy which |
made every word memorable. II che |
would but look ike that or speak like
that on the stagel But there, Of cOur5e, is
the rub. The whole difficulty of art con-
sists of losing your own personality, so to
yp,ak, and finding it again transformed,
and n is a difficulty which Miss Brother
ION has never sven understood.
"After the impression of spontaneitg |
and natural force. thiak what struck me
msst was the physical effect London has
already exercised upon her in ak weeks.