Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-04-16

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career behind de footl3Ghts hns been
. varied one, and from her connection
With some OF the best stock organiSa-
lions IN the country she has been CALI
ed upon to play nearly every leading
part In the modern drama.
Personally the actress Is q most
charming woman, and in the summer
time. when she is resting. she is the
mistress Of pretty place down in New
Jersey, where she dispenses her hospi-
tally with a liberal hand. Those who
have been fortunate enough to put
their feet under her mahogany state
that she Is as good hostess as she is
an actress. Her greatest delight is to
minister to the wants of poor children,
and they simply adore her.
Miss Crosman says that her favOrfte
part is Lady Isabel in East Lynne"
but that she has been identified with
comedy so long that the public will
have her in nothing else. Perhaps in
the near future, if the proper play can
be found, Miss Crossman may enter
the stellar field, and If she does her
future seems especially bright,
Jefferson De Angels name is a
stopper for almost every one who
tries to pronounce it correctly, and al
most invariably the attempt at Gtrict
French pronunciation is made, as il 1t
were spelled "Dongelis." AS a matter
of fact. the comic opera stars name is
not from the French at all. 1t is Ital-
ian, and springs from Greek deriva-
tive. Jeff's ancestors for many genera
lions back were Italian noblemen, who
resided in Corsica, the larger OF the
two islands lying off the middle west
ern coast of Italy, in the Mediterranean
sea, famous principally as being the
birthplace of Napoleon Bonaparte,
who, when a lad, was sent from his
historic island to attend q military
school in France
1t is fact that Jefferson De Angels
is to-day legitimate conte, or count,
of the kingdom of Italy. The Di
Angeles family of Corsica is at the
present time among the best known
and influential ones in the island, and
its members are the possessors of vast
estates. The comedians great-grand-
father incurred the anger of Napoleon
Bcnaparte while emperor of France,
and when his brother Joseph Bona
parte. was the reigning king of Italy,
he fed to this country. With the mem
bers OF his immediate family he settled
in Philadelphia, where Jeff's grand
father was born, who in after years
emigrated with his family to Califor-
MIA, where, in the city of San Fran
cisco, the genial funmaker and prince
Of gcod fellows first saw the light Of
day.
Jeff's father retained the Italian pro-
nunciatiOn as well as the spelling of
his family name until the civil war
broke out. When he enlisted in the
ranks, he changed it to the frank and
explicit American style, ard it should
be pronounced exactly as it is spelled,
De Angels.
The elder Sothern once saw notice
in country inn that "a convention Of
clergymen was to meet there the next
day. Each clergyman upon arrival re-
ceived note signed with the landlord 8
nam requesting him to say grace at
dinner, the signal to be bell rung in
the office. Sothern had noticed that
the landlord sounded bell every day
as the guests seated themselves for
dinner.
Everything went of to Sotherns
complete satisfaction.
The bell rang, and up rose every
clergyman and began grace, then
stepped, looking askance at one an
other. Some began again; some sat
down and got up again. The scene for
some minutes was one of confused
bobbing up and down, with mutter-
ings. The landlord stared in aston
ishment, and Sothern put on look
CT polite anxiety and surprise. He af-
terward expressed sympathy with the
landlord in his anger, but left the inn
that day.
Travelling actors strike some queer
hotels. Walter Perkins has unique
collection of the odd names of such
places. From Minnesota he reports
the Hotel Mix and the Buncombe
House; from Iowa, the Lavless House
and the Hotel Greenwood; from Kan
sas, the Red Dog tavern, the Green
House and the Sherix-House. Recent
ly in Missouri he found the Hotel
Hurt. and he says it must have been
struck by cyclone.