Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1890-12-14
"S0CK AND BUSKIN"
ANNIE PlYLEY'S COMEDIAN MAKES A Snow
OF HIMSELF.
Some Odd Facts About BOwsry Audiencas-Ihey
Do Not Tanker After Undraped Actresses
Cosby Notes About Players and
the Theaters.

New YORK, December 13.-The I'M
seemly conduct of an actor in Annie
Pixley's company during the perform
ance of kate" attracked the attention
of the audience at the Grand Opera
House on Monday night. The actor
was Michael c. DAILY, Il veteran come
dian, whose work heretofore has been
so admirable in its care and finish as to
win him high praise. But on Monday
night, TO the amazement OF those who
know him best, DAILY was not himself.
1t was with great difficulty that he de-
livered his speeches. Many of his lines
were cut, and the faction" OF the play
was seriously interfered with by his ir-
responsible conduct. After the per-
Torrance Miss Pixley discharged him,
and since then Charles III. Bradshaw
has been playing in his place. ut was
4 painful and scandalous affair" said
d friend of Miss PiXley yesterday.
"Daly has for a number of
years been Miss PiXley's leading come
dian and stage manager, earning very
large wages and almost controlling the
makeup of her company. Nearly every
actor engaged by her has first been
recommended by DAILY. He has never
liked the role he assumed in Kate, her
new play, and has expressed himself
very freely on several occasions, not
only in condemnation OF his own part
but also of the drama. Miss PiXley be-
lieves that his conduct on Monday was
due solely to his desire to injure the
play in this city, and so induce her to
take it out of her repertory. He took
advantage of his long and friendly aSso-
citation with her, but he has been pun
iShed for it. She will retain Kate,
and DAILY loses his place in the company"
Mr.. DAILY could not be found yesterday.
One of his friends, who saw the per-
Torrance on Monday night, confeSses
that the comedian acted strangely, bri
scouts the claim that he deliberately
endeavored to belittle the play.
1t is an odd fact that the skirt dancers
are coolly received by Bowery audiences
though some of the girls who have
danced there have exhibited much OF
the grace and all of the modcsty OF the
Gaiety originals. An exception was
found the other night at one OF the
vaudevilles, where young woman
danced with far less drapery than IS
proper. She was fair to look upon. and
her figure was superb: added to that
she was SinuOus and altogether entlc-
ing. Yet her Bowcry spectators Kisses
her roundly, and she retired in confus-
ion, nor would the stage manager per-
nit her to go back for an encore, be-
cause there was absolutely no demand
for it. An old theater manager
who witnessed the incident said:
II will bank upon the decency
of Bowery audience in
such scenes rs this every time, If that
had occurred on a Broadway stage that
girl would have been loudly applauded,
because she is really clever dancer;
but The Bowery idea of art and the
poetry of motion is just crude enough
to be on the side of prOpriety. You
can't tickle the Bowery boys in that
way. and travelling managers have
learned as much long before this. NO
Salacious play has ever set the Bowery
at fever heat. Can you recall an instance
to the contrary? Broadway enjoys this
distinction all to itself. Even The
Clemenceau Case has not been banker
ed after by BOwery managers. Funny,
isn't it?" But if the Bowery has not
been led astray in these matters, the
out-of-town theatres are not so deco
rous. There are probably hundred
"Gaietv' skirt dancers in transit here
and there. To add TO their number
keen-wtted manager has just hired four
ight-colored mulattoeS, whom he mas
fancifully christened The Creole Skirt
Dancers" They will probably be UNI
iaue feature of his "Uncle Toms Cab
in" preceding the ascension OF Eva. As
for THE Clemenceau Case, that piece
of wanton indecency also thrived."
There are a dozen companies now eX-
plotting il. The latest, organized in
town. has May Wilkes as the model and
John T.. Kelerd as the sculptor. EStclle
CLAYTON and Creston Clark, nephew OF
Edwin Booth, are in another. Maurice
BARRYMORE and Blanche CurtisSe are
the sculptor and his model in third
cast.
1t is a pity that Charles H. Hoyt, the
dramatst, has permitted his love OF car
feature to lead MIN into a silly and
pointless assault upon newspaper re-
porting, which was his own occupation
eight or ten years ago. He could pre-
sent an acurate photograph if he wished
TO: but in "A Trip to Chinatown" he
has introduced parsonage mysterious
ly labelled society reporter, ana mas
made of him most despicable object
a thing that sncaks into private dining
rooms in hotels, hides under the tables
blackmails the diners, suffers himself TO
he kicked down stairs, ana re-
turns disguised as Chinaman
with his trousers padded for announcer
kicking. This object is made by Hoys
to have habitation in San Francisco,
and his proudest boast, he says, Is That
be never wrote an article that was pub
Iisbed. because he writes for society
weekly" and suppresses his stories Tor
= consideration. The audiences at the
Harlem Opera House seem to be stupe-
fed nv this individual. There is no
laughter to speak of, and the caricature
loses all mirthful value in its grossneSs.
1t constitutes the only dulness IN the
farce. Mr.. Hoyt ought to tell where
and when he discovered society re-
nortern anything like this thing, which
should at once be taken out OF "A Trip
to Chinatown"
A Chicago critic who once wrote an
ESSAY on the play called The Fast
Mail" remarked, in the homely Ian
puage of the Occident, that it was full
IF biff. Naturally, this play enchanted
the Chicago populace, who crowded the
theatre and sat spellbound as the bin
reached them. From Chicago to the
Rowery is not so big theatrical jump
- ,,onv nersons might infer; and 1.-The