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

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"ErQuisitm said Hcndc.
"Exquisiter said Kendall in Mrs. Stu
arts ear, 81 ha stood behiad her chair.
"She was romance it1eB, Her acting
should always he kind Of gloIifed and
pOe:ical Iantomine; she would be inimita-
bic So"
Mrs. Stuart locked 40 and smiled agrsc-
ment.
''Ycs, that scene lives with one. If
everything else in the play is peer, SIZE S
worth seeing for THAI alone. Remember
litn'
The little waning was in season, for tbs
poor White Lsdy had bat to1 many sfier
approximation Of blurriDg ire impression
she hsd made. In the greet situation as
The end of the second oct, IN which the
countess has TO give, in the presence of
| tbs court, q summary of the supposed
story Of the White Lady, her passion ct
once Of love and hatred charges it with a
| force aad meaning which, for the fra.
| TINA, Iouses the suspicious of the prince a.
20 the reality Of the supposed apparition.
In tire two or three fac and dramatic
speeches which ths situation involved, The
actress ehowea ths sane sblsnce of
knowledge AID resources IS before, ths
same POW eTlsssntsI 20 create g PERSONAL ty
the same lack of all those quicker sHd
mora delicate perceptions which Wa in
clude under the general term 'ref5s-
ment," and which, IL the prsctics of shy
art, are tbs outcome Of loag and complex
processes OF tdlcation. There, indeed
vas toe bald, plain lcc.--the whole tx
PLANTATION of her failure ss an arts, lay in
| her lack Of both the lower and OF the
higher kinds Of eduCstiop. II was evil
deat that hsr technical training had be- n
Of tae toughest. In all technical r:spacIa,
| inJesd, her acting Rad q selftsught PFC
vinc.al air. which showed you that she
had ratGCsl cleverness, but thst hsr MOT
els had been OF the poorest type. Ard IN
all other respects, VIXEN it osne to iuter-
rretatioa OF creation, she was spoiled By
/ her entire want of that Inherit inCs from
the past which is the foundation Ct 81.
good work in the present. For IN set
res5 must have enc Of tie two kinds Of
| kroRledge; she must haye either thu
knowledge which comes from fine train
irg-in itself the outcome Ct long
traditiOr-or she must have the kn0wl-
sdge v ich comes ffem mere living, from
the accommodations Of personal thought and
| ex pe1isnce Miss BretEerton had neither
she had extraordinary beauty aud charm,
and certainly, SO Kendall admitted, soGe
original quickness. He vas IOs inelir Ell
to 90 so far az TO call it power" Bat
this Quiekpese, which would have beea
promising in dehuiaa.e less richly en-
dowed On tho pbysical side seemed 70 him
to have no future in her. 1T viii be
checSed," lie said to himself, "hy hsr
beauty AID eli that flows from i. See
mus. come 70 depend more and lore on
the physical charm, nd o. that Only. The
who'e pressure Of her success Il and viii
be that way
Miss Bretherton's inadequacy, indeed,
became more and moro visible SIS the pay
wss gradually aud GEoly worked Up TO its
climex in the last set. In the tinai sCene
Of all. he prince, who, by series Of sccl-
dents. has discovered TIE Countess Hilds's
pla-s. lies in wait for her in tha armOTy,
where he has lea-on 10 know she meaLs to
trg the effect Of a third and last appariiion
upcn the princess. She appears; he sud
denly comforts heI; aud, dragging her
forward, unveils b5tors himself ard the
princess the death-like features of
his old love. Recovering fiom tie shock
of detection, the countess pOuT5 o1t upon
them both fury Of Jealous passion, sink
ing ty degrees into pathetic, trance-like
invocation CT the past, urder the spsii ci
which the d incs's anger melts away, and
tbe little princess terror aud Excitement
change into eeger pity. Then when she
sees him almost recorquered, and her rival
wseping beside her, she takes tbs poison
VEL from her breast, drinks Il, ard oles IN
the arms of the man for whose sake sne
has sacrificed beauty, character and lie
Itself.
A great ec,ross COLD hardly have wished
for a letter opportunity. The sceCe was 20
obviausly beyOnd Miss BrethertoG's re-
sources that even the enthusiastic house,
Ke3dal flnciel, cooled down during the
n,ocsss of il. There we're signs Of restless
1e-s. ihere was even little talking IN
so,ne ~ the back lows, snd 81 nc time
5nrino tie acers vas there any of that
breatbles5 absorption in what wss passing
~, tho sfaps which the dramat C material
itself amply deserved. .,
81 don't think this VIII last very long, "
soid kendall in Walsace's ear. There 10
sSmetbipg tragic in = popularity like thie,
Il rests on something unsound, ard one
feels that disaster is no very far OIL Inc
yTtole thing impresses me most painfully.
She bss some capacity, OF COURSE; If only
tbe Conditions had been different-it she
he'd been born within hundred miles OF
tbe Pari, Conservative, if her youth had
been nssssd in a sccietyof more intellec-
tnsl wsight-but, as it is, this very ap-
nIauss ia ominous, for the beauty must 90
sooner or later. and there is nothing else.
lyon remember Desforeis in this same
tbsoter last year in 'Adrienne Lecouv-
ron, 2, ;, said Wallace. "Whas gulf be-
tween the right thing and the wrong. But
come. we must do our duty" and ne drew
kendall forward towards the front of the
box. and they SAW the whole house on its
feet clapping and shouting, and The curtain
mat be;nz drawn back to let the White
Tsdv and the Prince appear before it. She
was very pale, but the storm of applause
which greeted her seemed to revive her,
and she swept her smiling glsrce round the
theatre, until st last itrested with special
o,eam of recognition on the party in the
box, especially on Forbes, who was out