Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1890-10-29
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O'CoEor.
James Owen O'Conor gave another al
legged rendition Of Hamlet at the
Grand Opera House, last evening, before
a small audience, which, however, iound
a good deal of amusement in the UNIQUE
performance. Before the curtain went
up on the first act. Mr.. OCohor
appeared before the curtain, anu
made a short address to the audience IN
which he charged the press oil the Guy
with prejudice against him, ana Saiu ne
had been generally misrepresented. he
thought the treatment he had received
was unfair.
During the day Mr.. O'Conor sent the
following letter to this Office
WHEELING, October IS, 1890.
To the Editor orths Register:
SlR:-Your critic dubs my Hamlet as
queer" and as ''creating lots Of iun,
&c, sc.
Lots of fun" is a sort of language
quite unworthy of the stately and
classic columns of the THE WHEELING
DAILY REGISTER, and you may well
blush for your horse Tor sporting)
editor who must needs have so written
himself down an ass!
He then calls me "a somewhat erratlc
genius, forsooth. Erratic?
May venture the hope and pray
that he is not somewhat erotlc IDIOT,
in sooth? Erotic.
He would fain cruelty me because,
heigho, / happen to be dramatic inno-
vator and an histrionic iconoclaSt!
He even ventures the saying that my
Dane Of Shakespeare brain wore eye
glasses"
Ask my excellent friend Manager
Genthcr If that be not another weak
invention of the enemy?'
As to my (alleged) "cute little antics
upon the stage" your carping critic
Loists himself with his own petard; for
Hamlet says, in the first act, ''as | per-
chance, hereafter shall think meet to
put an ANTIC disposition on
Hence the antics. But whence your
censor'S malice?
NV "criss-crosS mode of getting over
over the stage" as your especial ignor-
anus puts it, is well known TO all vet
eran Thespians, and written upon by
myself. to the tune of three columns, in
the Evening Tclegnm of New York
City. | left space for the editor to
put his own (glaring) headlines, and he
padded them in after this fashion,:
"O'Conor on Sleight-of-foot, or Tread
ing the Stage. Tie Motions of the
Emotions. Gait as a Fine Art, Dis
cuSsed by Master" &c, &c, sc.
Your socialist OF reporter lies when
he says that he interviewed me "after"
the performance. The false and
grossly garbled) interview took place be-
fore the afternoon rehearsal, and TO my
great Inconvenience, withal. The raS-
cally dashes which he unScrupulously
interSperSeS through all the prose of the
sentences may serve to tend TO carrica-
ture me before your large circle of read
ers, but am content to rely upon the
unbiased Judgment OF the auditors who
saw and heard me last night.
Ask Senator Grady what he thinks of
me as an orator. Such vulgar and ras-
cally explosives as 'ah.' or ''sec?' or
well" or "IS;" or Sort OF elated;"
yer know" ''all of EN-" and so on,
were not out of my mouth, or conscience
at all.
But when your false scribe and my IL
heller puts it into my mouth as having
spoken of eggs and screens" it is high
time for me to put in this warning and
demurrer of gentleman and scholar
and more.
The dtrocity of this article will be APP
parent to your judicial mind when you
read il, as enclose it,.
reluctantly mutllated your other
wise admirable broadShect to send you
enclosed clipping; but retain a perfect
copy Of your perfect REGISTER for pur-
poses of my own registration.
| wish you would pass" this missive
for publication; and in your comment
upon it solicit you to do me some par
tal reparation. ELSE wherefore
breathe we in a lawful land?'
Faithfully and fraternally,
JAMES OWEN O'CONOR.