Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1891-09-27


smoother stage experiences than many
rs resalt. She is well dressed but
quietly gowned womsn of medium
figure, with a face as kindly as her
fathers, laugh with the genuine ring
Of his, and well-bred manner alto
gether unlike the traditional appear
ance OF the actress of the boards.
This Is largely characteristic of most
OF the actresses one meets In these days.
Save their quicker sympathies and
keener insight there is nothing to dis
tinguish them from other women In pri-
vste life, nothing OF the bizarre which
was once suppose to beinseparable from
acting.
They call me the old maid" laughs
Mrs. Fitzpatrick, when asked what she
calls amusing when not playing, be
cause enjoy sewing so much. No, /
don't make my own dressing, but use
my needle a great deal"-surely fem
intne enough occupation to suit the
most conservative minds on woman's
sphere.
1t Is a jolly surprise to find Fanny
Rice as young and pretty, face to face,
as when she was singing and dancing
her way into your admiration on the
fremont stage. She began her engage
ment this week with regular Boston
east-wind cold, but her perseverance
won the day.
She is q Massachusetts, girl, and re-
calls with pleasure that all her musical
education was received in Boston, to
which she returns always with pleasure.
This season it is from her country
home at Franklin Falls, where she and
her husband and business manager, DR..
Purdy, who is . dentist Of this city,
have hunted and fished and loafed and
invited their souls, they and Carl.
To omit Carl were objectionable for he,
/ handsome big Newfoundland dog that
he is, has been made regular member
Of the Jolly Surprise" company.
He carries Miss Rice's train, and has
learned his cues so exactly that to the
refrain,
Give US wag Of your tail, old dog,
he wags that expressive member OF his
makeup enthusiastically.
No wonder his pretty mistress sets
great store by Carl, who is named fol
Carleton, the tenor. With the courage
fidelity OF his race. he saved her from
drowning when she had him but year
and he was only boisterous affection
ate puppy.
He plunged into the Merrimoc river
after his sinking mistress, who was
! alone and stunned, having fallen from
| Black rock into the deep steep-oankeo
eurrent. and swan with her to the
| shore, where her husband arrived II
time to help her ashore.
Carl disappeared and presently came
swimming back with his mistress hat
which had fallen off and floated doWr
stream.
Tags?
Taggs is Miss Annie Blancke, the vi
vacious little waif in the County Fair.
who looks about nine years old on the
stage and about Is off. Whether she II
as old as that or not, politeness forDid'
one TO ask.
She was ''at home" for breezy quar-
ter of an hour the other day in her the
atre dressing-rOom, that charmed spo
| to unsophisticated callers.
The TitianesQue curls that bob so CO
ouettishly are her very own, framing
the roundest, merriest little face tina
ever sun shone on or footlights flashed
upon.
81 like to play In Boston," she tell'
you; "all players do, because you re-
member us. In any other city in TIT
country YOU may make what seems II
be never so decided an impression; g.
hack in a months time, and for all TIT
recognition you get upon your entrance
Won might ha a stick or p-stone.
! friends, they remember her when sh
comes back-a pleasant sensation it is
for the actor.
$50 you like the County Fair?'
Well, we have good time, too. w,
are like family, instead OF miScella
neOus company, and you can't thinl
| how nice it is to be settled for tht
season, with no travelling before body
''Do you know somebody has said tha
I oyerdress Taggs?" The idea! veal
| a ive-cent print and a fve-cent chall
and a twelve-cent crossbarred muslin
here they are, see?"'
"Weu," suggests Tim, the Tanners
sister Ia pretty young woman in private
life, from Jamaica Plain, who is assist
ing at this reception q trois), "your
dresses are too pretty, perhaps"
But" says Taggs," doesn't Sally say
she will send for the dressmaker and
make over some of her old dresses for
me, and Sally, you know, is d seminary
girl and naturally dresses prettily, u
which logic there is no gainsaying, and
Tags bargain dresses must be consid-
cred CONNIE II faut.
Miss Blancke may be seen on Boston's
numerous lovely drives on any of these
beautiful afternoons bowling along in
her cart behind a pony not much big
ger than its piQuant little owner, and
quite as vivacious.