Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-01-05
E.IH BEAUTIES N TOWN.
Leslie WhitaGr8 DiIate8 On the Charms
Of Marie StudhOlme and julia
Nelson.

Nelson.
SOME FACTS ABOUT THE MOTTO
RIOUS MRS. EBBSMlTH' AND
JOHN HARE - THE ARTISTS
MODEL" PROMISES TO PROVE
FAR MORE POPULAR THAN
THE SHOP GIRL"-NHY PAUL
POTTER DENIED HIS IDENTITY
A JOLLY STAG PARTY At
THE GARDEN - NETHEaSOLE
AND DAN FROHMAN IN The
DUMPS-THE CAST OF "CHIMnE
FADDEN."
From Our Special Correspondent.
New York, January Tile first
week of the new year is regarded by
actors as sort of hall way house n
| the dramatic season. Most Of the nov
! elites have been tried in New York and
been acquitted or found wanting. Sa-
ran Bernhard is about the only novel
~ now dawning on the theatrical horl-
zon, and, Great Scott imagine calling
!
forgetting Duse. Unless Cne incompar-
able Italian falls i'll again we shall
have her at the Fifth Avenue before
very long, and then, with Sarah lit
tie farther up the street at Abbey's,
there certainly ought TO be some dra-
matte fun in store. 1t is curious fact
about these two great actresses that,
although from time to time they have
been thrown into close propinqui5y,
they have never met In Paris the
other day Sarah explained the situation
by saying: Il should not really care
to meet Nine. Duse; my Italian is so
bad" She forgot however, to say that
. Nine. Duse speaks excellent French.
/ Duse, on the other hand. never men
lions Bernhardt's name. The last time
that She was here in America there
were two young women who met her
in a social way. and made VI the bust
ness of their life to ascertain whether
she had ever seen Bernhard act. At
the end of a fortnight | met one of the
girls On the street. We'll" | asked,
"have you discovered anything?' Dis
covered anything" she cried, throwing
up her hands. My dear fellow, Nine.
Duse is the most divine diplomatist
ever met. We have not succeeded in
wOrming a single word out of her with
regard TO Bernhard. When you ply
her with questions that she does not
want to answer, she simply smiles,
looks az you out of those great deep
eyes of hers and says nothing"
THE ARTISTS MODEL A GO.
Tt seems odd, doesn't it, that af,G
THE Shop Girl" which is now in the
third year of its London run, should
have failed here so signally, The Art
lists Model" which was only a compar-
alive success on the other side, should
come over here and make a distinct
Success and make it, too in spite OF the
fact ths. is two principal characters,
the Artist and the Model, were indif-
fegently played. The actress in the
company who has really raised flu
rore is little Marie Studholme who
played the part which was created by
Lilly Lind. a daintier piece of fem
;ninity never stepped upon a New York
stage. She has taIents, TOD. sings weh
dances prstdly, and acts with a gA 4
plicity Fad daintiness that are T
tivelv captivating. Between her ....4
C.:ssy Fitzgerald, the last English girl
who captiyated the town, there is just
this difference: Cissy was a belle Of
Bow Bells; SudhOlme is a Belgravian
beauty.
1t is the music of "The Artists Mod
Ell thlt is going to make it so popular,
however. Don't you remember how the
songs from The Gaiety Girl" were
whistled broadcast through the land?
Well. THE Song of the Tom Tit, the
laughing SOLO and two or three Of the
other numbers are equally catchy At
the first performance the audience was
whistling strains from these songs as
they made their way out of the thea
tie. And after all that is the surest
and truest test Of the success Of a pop
ular song
SOME FACTS ABOUT JULIA NEIL
SON
On the same night that Mary Stud
holme was making her first appear
ance at the Broadway, across the street
at Abbey's New Workers were catch
ing their first glimpse of Julia Nelson
in "The Notorious Mrs. Ebbsmith.'
For years this actress has been noted
as the most beautiful woman on the
English stage She is a perfect Hebe
I'm appearance and towers several
inches above the head OF her husband,
Fred Terry. who played the part Of the
lover in the play. She is a fine actress,
but not great in any sense of the word.
John Hare the real star Of the occa-
sion, is going to be liked immensely
here. Besides being an actor Of the
first rank. he is, what is much more TO
the point. the only modest English ac-
TOR that has ever come 10 these shores.
More than any of his contemporaries,
he realized that. after all, the play is
the thing. not the player. In Mrs.
Fbbsmith" he plays the comparatively
unimportant role Of an old rake, but he
Dlaved il with such cOnsummate art
and with such entire artistic abnega-
ti01 10 the requirements of the role
that the audience quickly recognized
tho artistic work of this actor, who had
come TO America without any prelim-
mary booming. and gave him a recep-
ton which must have warmed the
cookies Of his heart.
WHAT HARE THINKS OF SHORE
ACRES"
met Mr.. Hare the other evening at a
nerf9rmance of James A. Hernes onore
Acres" Tn his quiet and uneXaggerated
r.--a~ he was most enthusiastic about
tle play.
eft has made me cry" ne said, simply.
"tr1 when an old actor like myself cries
az q thtater. you know there really must