Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1891-02-15
SOCK AND BUSKIN.
TIE LATEST NEW YORK GOSSIP ABOUT THE
ATRICAL THINGS.
Mrs Leslie Carriers Debut in Chicago Pronounced
Succsss-Alics Dunning LiDgard's Present
OccupatiOn-Newsy Notes About
Plays and Players.

New YORK, February l4.-Adelaide
Moore, the young actress who began TO
star as Juliet, and has kept at it under
very diScouraging circumstances du ing
the past four or five years, is soon 10
cease travelling. 1t is explained that
she had been sufferer from heart fail
ure, and her physicians have ordered
her TO retire from the stage. Miss
Moore made her debut at the Star Thea
ire, in this city, but she has never faced
a New York audience since her first
essay Her tours of late seasons have
carried her through the West and South
west, and she has gained good many
admirers in those sections.
Lydia Thompson's engagement in
The Dazzer," at the Standard, will
not be prolonged beyond this week,
after all. When the gay burleSQuer
went to the Standard it was with Il GER
tainty of fortnight'S use of that house.
and the possibility of an extension if her
success seemed TO Justify it. But, though
she has played before good-sized audi
enceS, other events have occurred
TO prevent her continuance. The comic
opera, ship Ahoyn which Manager
Hill has owned since its production at
the Standard, has made a success at
Boston theatre, and, in order to make
room for It's further stay there, place
elsewhere had to be found for Sol Smith
Russell, who had contract to play in
the Boston house. Manager Hill
solves the difficulty by bringing Russell
over 10 New York. to follow Lydia
Thompson at the Standard next week.
The success of "Ship Alloy" by the
way, is doubtless puzzle TO those who
condemned it utterly for its musical
unoriginallty. The sun alone could
see in this opera any amusing valve. II
has ever since been sung in crowded
houses wherever it has travelled. Very
likely it will repeat the popular sue
cess of the work it so closely follows, in
general deSign-Spencer'S Little Ty-
COON" a fortune has been made on the
latter piece by the Shrewd young Phila-
delphian who wrote it.
All the reports of Mrs. Leslie Carriers
appearance in Chicago. before an audi
encc composed largely of her own
friends and enemies, agree that the ac-
treSS passed through the ordeal with I'M
ilinChing courage and with pronounced
success. On the opening night the As
samblage in the parquet was largely
made up Of recognized club men. whose
wives. according to an i'm partial CORE
SpOndent, were conspicuous by their alb
Scnce: but this little display Of feminine
reserve will not last Mrs. Carter is
sure 10 have crowded houses composed
of curious women at her matinees, and
the Chicago women will pay tribute to
her cleverneSS Just as New York women
did-a little grudgingly, perhaps, but
before long with honest enthusiasm.
The club men were very boiSterouS in
their applause, and few lines in Mrs. |
Carriers part that seemed to apply well
To her domestic woes created something
like a sensation. Thus far she has
played to profit in the city Of her birth
and Of her divorce. Her former huS-
band is still highly popular club man.
and a member of wealthy family,
whose memory is To be pcrpetuated in
splendid chime of bells in the richest
Episcopal Church in the city.
Ii Is nearly twentY-three years since
Alice Dunning Lingard, quitting the
London music halls, showed her beauti-
ful face and amiable manners to an
American audience. Lydia Thompson
did not come before Us until month
later than Miss Lingard. and so ii hap
pens that many old playgoerS remember
these two lively women as of about the
same age. But Alice Dunning Lingard
has AT least ten years the advantage of
the frsky Lydia, and she is still Sprght-
ly enough to play grliSh heroine in
comic opera. which she is now doing in
England. Not many nights ago COM
ely young woman sang the title role in
a performance Of Lecocq'S "Pepita. at
~. Georges Hall, London. 1t was her
debut as vocalist. and it is worth no.
ting because the girl was Wlhelmna
Lingard, and she is the daughter of
Alice Cunning, who hopes to place her
first born on the operate stage before
long. William Horace Lingard. the
character change" performer of twenty
years ago. and the husband Of Alice. is /
now manager of her opera company and /
person of Importance in English the /
airical circles.