Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-01-28

| AZ dihcult person TO see behind the
scenes as we'll could he is that petted
| young woman OF fortune, who after a
doZen years OF comic opera looms up
against fairer than ever-Lillian Rus
sell. ears have only gone to mike
her less sylph-like, and her face fuller
than IL was when she first captured
Now York as the milk maid Patience.
Her daintiness ia her chiefest charm,
ana IL Is quite as marked and evident as
hali a generation ago. Little OF dis
array fingers about her dressing room
Her maid has little 20 do except TO
be at hand. for the dainty Lii
Ian attends 20 most Of her costumes
herself IL is her own dainty fingers
that apply the ''make-up"-not. Indeed,
that there Is 50 much TO do, nature rem
derinR stage paint rather a superfuity:
dash OF rouge here, a bit OF dark line
under the eyes, and the stage need nc
longer wait
While ia the midst Of an opera she
objects most heartily TO visitors, and
WOO betidc her stage manager II any
come without her express permission.
For Miss Russell can be very cross, in
deed, upon occasions.
Ia all fairness, however, 80 should be
said that this Is largely due 20 the
strain upon her. With the most fasci-
mating OF smiles she will close an act
seeming TO the spectator the embodl-
ment OF health and ylvaclty. aud once
the cuftIin has fallen 20 of into very
nearly o dead faint. with hardly
enough strength to carry on the next
scene.
Her letters have a STYLE tina. is all
their own. She writes in large round
hand upon the most scented Of perfum-
gH pa "A IA a InrrrH l. f~ III
tials crossed like two Keys. the design
in gold or silver letters.
Marie VAIN wright, behind the scenes,
is tho generalization Of sense and SEN
sibillty. How sho kept the curtain
from rising for several minutes one
night, is no matter Of theatrical history.
but 20 might we'll be-. was in the old
Star Theatre, 70 think and the Vain
wright was being interviewed, aud .n-
terosted, az the same time. Seated In
her dressiDgroom, with tho last touches
finished, ghe was taiising on volubly.
when messenger came. "Ali ready
TO ring up, Miss Wainwright" The
curtain-rising was WainwrlghCs cue
for ttis act She stopped just long
o. nough 20 wavo the messenger away.
Walt moment aud She went on
with her "1lcws." The curtain staid
down, and q minute later the messen-
ger reappeared. She roso from her
seat then, Sill talking. but shook her
head vigorously az the cail-boy.
a slight uueasincss began 20 peryado
the stage. 10 brought Louis James 10
her dressing-room door. Really. Miss
Wainwright" he began. She laughed
a. this. just one second morelD
Trlumphnntly then she said her last
words, and the warning bell finally
sounded. The curtain was rung uD.
but Wainwright had spoken, and was
Gin print
On the boards Mrs. Kendall NAV be a
girl % IS; or, fro her latest star role. n
wicked woman Of London; yet, away
from the audiences sight, she is the |
trad itiOnal British matr0n. without a
trace Of coquetry; housewife and a |
mother She realizes that she ls, In a
sense public character. but that does |
not prevent her drossing-tabio from /
being as immaculate aud i,s articles OF |
use a. delicate ~ those Of tho bureau |
IN hcr London home. Between the /
scts. she seems out or place amid the 1
rush Of stage hands. and one would /
AXE her 10 be a visitor admitted /
through managerial courtesy. There 1
.ertainiy y no other actress 20 precise 1
- even "hnickly,n and there IL a 1