Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1895-11-03

them all. I fancy that audiences in
other cities have become better lovers
and appreciatOrs of the theatres than
are New Workers.. But these are an
ticipating the appearance of Henry
Irving who. in my Judgment, is the on
~ great living actor, because he is a
perfect impeTsOnator; sinking his lndl-
viduality in his character. l have sew
eral times dined with him in his pri-
yate capacity that never hints OF the
actor, and within two hours afterward
have seen him on the stage as the dying
Louis XI or the pathetic Vicar of Wake
field; and then really wOndered-blase
as / have become after forty years of
incessant theatregOing- the private
gentleman stood before me. True, we
Americans have jefferson, but he is
throe-part actor only; so that our ma
tional stage has no real impersonator
male or female. Next week the Press
Club dimes Henry Irying-my pen does
not really take to the nightage-and on
the week after he is to be the sues. OF
the LOtOs Club, that is the banquettng
club par excellence of the land. Henry
Irving. as either host or guest, has no
superior: the which I aver after l have
met all the distinguished dinner giyers
of London or New York-and l don't
except our Chauncey nor the hospitable
American husband Of the Baroness Bur
dette-Coutts. whose dinners at Holly
Lodge or in Piccadilly have become ira
ditiOnal. Curiosity is excited because
for the first time in this country Irving
the only valid rhyme to which name
is deserving will essay Macbeth and
Lear VIII he, for instance, ask the
critics. obliterate veteran remembran-
ces of Edwin Forests Lear played in
his old age, when he was more or less
q dramatic Lear deprived of his old
dramatic kingdom? | witnessed in
London several successive performan-
ces by Irving of Macbeth; for to see it
collections of the part ran towards Ma
cready. Charles Kean, James ". Wal
lack. IT.. Davenport and the Booths
father and son; but Irving's portrayal
of the Thane of CawdOr seemed gran
der than that of all the others. He
brought out SC fully the psychology of
the character. and all its moods to per-
fiction In the representation he was
marvelously assisted by Miss Terry as
the unsexed spouse. Her reading OF
the letter by the rude fireplace wa
an unexcelled dramatic picture worthy
to be painted and hung beside a COM
panion one that represented Irving as
he descends from the chamber of the
murder | had seen in my professional
experience many appalling faces out
lined by a spell of conscience; but that
of Irving in the scene exceeded in hor-
rOr. Let no American playgOer omit
on this visit of Sir Henry-let the title
be written once-to attend his persona
ton of the treacherous, ambitious
Thane of CawdOr, and of the discrown>
ed shred of insanity-Lear. Moreover.
the stage accessories Of the parts are
something grand to hang on memory's
walls.
The bicycling craze has received new.
impetus since a Judge of the Washing
ton Supreme Court allies the common
veal of the Bench with the uncommon
wheel of the thoroughfare; and since it
is also ducal. dOntcher know" The
largest livery stable of the city, and
near Central Park, has purchased a
supply of bicycles for rental by riders
who eschew trOtting and saddle horses
for the fashionable treadmill-a mill
that pulverizes obesity and cares for
muscular and nervous grain. The bicy-
Gle girl hereafter assumes prominence
in popular notice with the summer girl
and the matinee girl.
New York has in progress a chess
tournament-as writer's insist upon an
nouncing it, although tournament is