The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-01-15
FATTY wALSHS DAUGHTER.
GARRETT OF THE GIFTED ACTRESS,
VINO rs OF SIXTH WARD BIRTH.

Her Trme In the Tembs rs the warden's
Daushter-To the stage from . Home
Over Dry Dollar suInvan's ssioon-Goins
Home In y Carriage Every Nisht-&rueh
Credit due Her Motber-Her Training.
Tom walsh's daughter is the talk OF the
town. From a very humble Sixth ward homo.
s-om q birthplace In Mott street and q resi-
hancs in the Tombs prison as the keepers
daughter, she has stepped over the footlights
to become one Of the most attractive figures
on the theatrical stage. She is not O great
actress. She is n beginner. but she Is q good
one She was first seen by us fellow owns
men In the ambitious part Of Queen Elizabeth.
She was STACEY" but the faults that were
found with her performance were mainly
those which hypercriticism pointed out The
public liked hor performance. and the critics
marvelled that a girl born in the Sixth ward.
who had lived there all her life. could DO so
q~ueenly. 80 graceful. so perfectly at ease. and
so gently spoken. The nub OF the best COM
ments that wore made was this: IF that is
Fatty Walsh's daughter. she must have had
aconvent education"
Now she Is playing at Palmer Theatre
under n Frohman management, tho leading
part In the latest and most ambitious play By
Bronson Howard. the first OF American play
wriChts. She Is made to figure as the young
WIG Dl q mliliOubiT6 WIN HONSo III In0 uTbV
society OF the old and the new worlds. Not
Mrs. Potter nor Mrs. Langtry. who were famil-
lar with tho polished world before they went
upon the stage. are a whit more ladylike than
she. In the main sho nids the stage in its
FIRST function Of showing By example how good
breeding and polish are expressed by those
who possess them. And yet she is the daugh-
ter OF a Tombs keeper-ths product OF the
downtown tenem emit quarter. 30 history re-
peats itself. Peg Wellington sold crosses In
the streets Of Dublin. Frances Arlington. SO
great in Garrick's time. was born in the slums
Of Drury Lane. and yet sat to Sir Joshua Rey-
nolds several times. Kitty Give was better
born. but very illiterate. and. in our own day.
Adelaide Nelson was very humbly born and
far from admirable in the choice Of her early
career. or these facts the historians have
mado tales that seem romantic Then who
can blame New York for finding Blanche
Walsh's young career as interesting as 1t is
peculiar?
The wonder Is that the stage folk speak very
generously Of her and credit her with great
talent. They smile at the stuff that has been
written about her instructive stage business
aud her intellectual grasp OF the intent OF the
author In every part she has portrayed. Mod
ern actresscs. with n few exceptions among
the stars. are not left to create their own
business" or to analyze the character Of tho
parts that are given to them. They are drilled
and drilled until 1t may ain ost be said that
they do not raised a hand or put one foot be-
fore another except under instruction and
training. Tho modern stage managers. and
even some playwriShts. like Belasco. perform
almost pedagogic parts in drilling actors and
actresses In performing every little detail Of
what they are to do in O new piece that Is un-
dergoing rehearsal.
MISS WALSH AT HOME.
w Mhss Mfts rs Y Esi td iaehery F fRSnk She Of e %sr e
ssses s }n1ti han IA an fd from "a q v 81 yo Sley ye me w9m G5
ished actress, Louis James Is q thorough old
iaseE foT Miss Walsh to isIl into he n" hands dss p
somnany was drilled by Gene ". Presbrey:
NJ Frohman's stage manager. who is one Of
The first effort to. obtain the true color and
keynote E1,y5 ! Of her early snrrouGdings was made
was seen in a shop on Fourteenth street.
1hnlod%9 p bsr k infSon her Fat at WI W:Is sai xa1 he init n,thSnEh,
She must be dom wonders. though for. to.
night there was q meeting in Tammany Hall:
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E sssia q t RsfG it fHi Ps, 81 Puma %sr sa sa shas TIT .h nsi TsEs
have seen her. and they say she's one In n
thousand for pride and style. Tom wouldn't
~They say the ,. girl f. like a queen; rides
Hill. belle. hear the whoie famriiy'iiii BE- NOV.
Ing to lds deino s Gonr " Mh zen the q N %paWRaEsfs and
ea'sfSs s sir ft the r% asxn in ans IL Sl1 liz Ware .tTeo to p esIt
used te that Soft q thing: down iii there. and rom
Some one said that the Hon. Dry Dollar
SHiliyan ya =, boz born n,t and d, reared PeS n The sixth
her, childhood. in the streets. The. Hon. Dry
Dollar was found in the saloon that he used to
we'll groomed. he. leaned against the bar rail
That Sss thad been srem wet s'xtt th %asd dr tines adj a day with
quite as often with the. coat-sleeves Of the
Ct t ins q He; and phS setion 7: %f NJ s fRd that %. lsi iSss
%e inv WITH Rf.f both lands aatGu eceupie q 9i os they wsrs
D?%s Se sS"' said br n1f be sml%si Sullivan. II cant say
tnHs | , sSsG P PLAYED sat VIII fba,. Mi H. W 1d ms q k Rsy
e siissl .S ;s era DIV %h Z, T SSaSf ri. BE- Il Td', bS 4 wv II e &
pride or not. but keep at him and hen civ lis
{, The II" tlm M"k n and dleniaed ceremony.
Sss ssise t t1 e sl l,aRr yard ne %as fhn IN G }na%le p,Si in'
observed that both, tho Hon. Tom Wish. who
4rinks when he @pleases: and the Hon, Dry
dersd cider and Iuafred 1t as II they liked It.
Now. III stand the cigars" said the re-
I'm damned i yon ynl--Tl do It myself"
proud father and his racoiiectionsss Of h ks t n
ented daughters childhood were soon and
easily parted.
BLANCHE wAIsH's FATHER.
Nj Thomas i. Walsh, now an Official OF the
Dock Department. ms well ms a leader in
the ward. Is q man with a strong and attrac-
tive. face. His features are all well cut and
bold, He is not unlike q stout faced hen
franklin, and his face is distinctly up to what
may be called the postaEe-stamp standard,
which is to say that it is as fine ms, and not un.
like. the countena noes with which we have
been wont to distinguish the northeastern
corners OF our mail. matter, The amiability
and generosity, which are said to have left him
poor while in the receipt OF fortunes, are hes
trayed in his handsome, big. mild eyes, his
large, nose. and his generous but shapely
mouth.
). That compliment which the Princess
6cheherazade SO frequently. paid to handsome
man when she said flint anph had n face lilo