Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1891-01-11
A NOTED SINGER
wEO Has ACHIEVED SUCCESS on TIE VA
RIETY STAGE.
Rapid Rise Of Maggie Cline and Her Struggle to
Gain a Rspaia6os-Whsn Fifteen Years Old
She Ran Away With Circus, and
Now She Is Famous Woman.
Ns,o York World

The most popular woman on the
American variety stage to-day is Mag
gle Cline, who is down on the bills at
Pastors Theatre as ''Ireland'S Favorite
Queen"
..Mary Ann Kehoe" is no more. She
has gone and may not be reSurrected
again for many years; but there is con-
ISOLATION in the knowledge that Miss
McCloSxy7 will take her place.
Both of these perSOnages are en-
phasized in the well-knit and pleasing
frame OF Maggie Cline.
ANY one who has heard Maggie sing
will never forget her. For those who
have not an explanation will be neceS-
Sary.
Maggie Cline is rather pretty
woman with marvellous control over
her features and muscles, and she gives
Ian her songs with Il vim that never
fails 10 make for her nightly hit. Her
voice. although heavy and capable OF
great power, has a wide range and Is
extremely musical.
At the end of every verse OF 4 song
she asks the orchestra;
ssAnd what was the cause OF IL?
Bad whisky" they reply.
Then she sings:
..Oh. bad whisky. Yes, bad whisky.
You could smell il for thousand miles
away" SC.
In its far-reaching effect the whisky
is ike Maggie Cline'S voice-lt can be
heard several blocks away, yet 1t Is SS
melodious that it is not diSagreeable to
the audience i'm the smallest OF theatres.
Miss Cline went on the stage In 1917.
She was born and brought up in Haver-
him. Mass. where her folks still live.
While a little toddle she began TO love
the stage.
When She was fifteen years old she
realized that she had good voice and
wanted TO use it, But her parents OPP
Dosed her and she ran away 10 Boston,
where she secured an engagement as a
chorus girl in one of the theatres, Her
father followed her and took her home
ward, weeping. She soon joined d
travelling troupe, however, but was
again taken back by her father
orr WITH A CIRCUS.
The next thing she did was TO run
away with circus, thinking she couId
keen her whereabouts unknown TO her
parents Until she had a chance 10 make
la reputation with her voice. Her father
again found her. and Maggie was about
rs glad TO 90 home as her father was TO
have her.
Seeing that his daughters mind was
made up. Mr.. Cline told her that II She
would wait until she was enough he
would give his consent. This was sat
isfactory. and a few years later Maggie
| secured a place in a travelling variety
troupe. with a salary OF 50 week and
/ her board. She made an almost i'm
mediate success. and says it now costs
her - ! minute TO live. She now stands
az the top OF her profession.
Miss Cline made her first hit with
MARY Ann KehOe," and until she be-
came Miss MrClosky" she would walk
to the footlights after her second encore
and say to the leader:
Mr.. Jones, please play for me that
song which drove me into this bust
ness"
EVERYBODY knew what that meant,
and the opening music would be accom-
panied by the loudest applause.
The song begins:
~Thave daughter Mary Ann,
Mary Ann the blackguard.'
Then Mrs. Kehoa relates thrilling
tale of her daughters terrible appetite
for drink.
With this song Miss Cline became
known far and wide aS MARY Ann he
hoe" and whenever she was billed at
one of the Bowery theatres it was a
Rever failing Indication OF biz week at
the theatre. and the gods would never
let her disappear from the stage until
she had sung "Kehoe." for which they
would loudly clamOr.
THROW HIM DOWN. NCLOsKY.
Lately. however, Miss Cline has made
So big hit with '.McCloSky'S Great
Fight" or Throw Him Down, Me
CloSky." written for her by w. j. kel-
ley, that Mary Ann Kehoe" is permit
t-d to 90 by the boards, and the SOU
briquet of Miss McClOSky" has been
given her instead The song is mag
uetic one on account of the action which
is required in is rendition, and prob
ably not another woman in the country