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

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-oissed one of the brightest, drOlisst lit
,s women who ever fascinated an audi
nee with her antics, and touched their
Sssrts with the odd little culver OF
nqthos in her voice, and moved them
With her tears.
Real tears they are that June sheds In
.Blue Jeans" the proof OF the way In
,,bich she throws herself into her work.
She is the youngest actress, moreover,
,,bo sheds real tears upon the stage.
To have been married $50 times, and
N have mOthered, in her own tender
fashion, $50 cherUbic youngsters, would
ergue Miss Yeamans a MethuSelan, not
~ say Mormon, but that they have been
footlight bridals and borrowed babies.
lin real life she is as young as she
looks when the ample blossoms are stiff
ing down upon her curly pate and DIM
MES. and the self sSame April-like mix
TIRE OF sunshine and showers that
June" Is.
veritable daughter of comedy is
Jennie Yeamans. How could she be-
otherwise and be the daughter Of her
mother. of whom she is so proudly fond?
Born I'm Australia Cher mother is native
NJ the Isle OF Mani, she was in America
before she was half dozen years old,
and al the baby age Of was playing
Puck in "a midsummer Nights Dream"
"What do do when l am not play
Ing? Well, l sleep. sleep a great
deal, for my work is hard and exacting.
"For amusement? Now, I'll not tell
YOU that, twill make you laugh at me. !"
But being assured that nothing was
ever known TO ripple the writer's grav-
inv she said: ''Well like base ball i'm
mensely; 90 to see every game I get
time for. And horse racing, like that;
but my stage luck deserts me on the
track. I've lost-well, never mind how
much, more than l ever shall again,
sure. And dime muSuems, they amuse
NE vastly. In fact, our best comic ac-
tors are there"
Il was at a circus side show in Chi
cago, by the way, that this plucky little
body's bravery saved the life Of snake
cbarmer when the last and biggest OF
the boa constructors became unmanag-
able.
Others In the crowd gaped, but viva
cious little "June" sprang upon the
platform TO the rescue, and her fingers
will always bear the marks where the
creature bit her before he was ehoked
of.
Ifyou are given to horseback riding
YOU have very likely already had a
chance to wish the top o the morninp
40 least mentally, to the graceful new
conner at the Museum. Pretty Marie
BurreSs is q bonny picture in her twig
riding habit, her yellow curls dancing,
and the color of the rose coming and go
ing in her checks.
Her home, let Us say was, in Pitts
burg, but now she is dOmiciled In cosy
apartments on West Chester PIX, where
she and her mother ars of hOstnssSs the
Ia those three years, however, she has
had a varied experience as leading lady
10 Frank MayO's company, into which
she went after studying at the New
York Lyceum school under DeMille,
Sargent, McKaye and others.
Her present role at the MuSuem,
where she has had the pleasantest re-
cep,ion, gives her little opportunity ex-
cept TO look pretty, which she does to
perfection.
Later on In the new play now In pre-
paration she is TO have a fine role.
Beside being devoted TO horseback
riding, Miss BurreSs is fond OF the
water and canoeing. Henley taught
her 70 skull, and now she is learning TO
paddle her own canoe, a picturesque
feminine accomplishment which few
pretty women, however, have had the
patience to learn.
pretty, slender woman, with wav-
hof nd
eyes, gOwned in a London tailor-made
creation Of nickel tinted cheviOt and
kid. Such are your impressions OF the
faithful wife In The Power OF the
Press, as she comes 10 meet you In the
hospitable parlor of the United States
Hotel.
Miss Ida Waterman, who is really
Mrs. j. M. FrancRur, is not so like the
heroine she enacts. An essentially wo-
manly woman, you see at glance, one
who talks not in the sounding periods OF
melodrama, true, but seriously or light
lY or brightly as the talk runs.
She is well remembered in Boston as
Rhea's leading support for several years;
last year she made pronounced New
York hit In Sydney ROsenield's "Step
ping Stone" and this year what better
part could one ask than TO be the in
SpiratiOn Of a good mans life, such as
sac is with sUch success on the stage,
and of, il one may judge.
Her husband comes in for word in
The informal chat only, for he is more
than 20 miles away in the body, playing
Pisanio 10 Miss Marlow's Imogen in
Providence, and acting as her stage
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ne was fatteringly received in Boston
as Ia.eyrand in Rhea's Josephine"
sally comes IN at this juncture, and
Is intrOduced-Miss Sally Williams, the
sister Of Fritz Williams and daughter Of
Fred Williams, who was at the Boston
Musuem for more than dozen years.
Miss Williams is Miss Waterman's stage
sister aud good friend always-and then
Hiss Lavinia Shannon joins the group,
The gay young opera singer OF unbound
cd generosity in the play.
Would you believe it? She and Miss
Williams get up early every morning,
no matter what the wind or the
weather." says Miss Waterman, "to go
TO mass call that a test Of goodness.
A very pleasant trio, these young wo-
men, in their light froeks, looking as
bright and careless of all as a group Of
summer girls by lake or mountain, In
reslity three earnest, hardworking
young players with their anticiDations
In the future and their hearts In their
Present.
Mr.. Denman Thompson IS fortunate
IN having with him continually az his
"O'd Homestead" his son and one OF his
daughters. "Mrs. Henry Perkins
Mrs w. l. Fitzpatrick = was Miss
Thompson before her marriage two