Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-01-31


Thank God, bat is what We all wan"
In full faith thS am suggesting this
morning an Institution which wiser
men will develop 20 on to state some
OF the characteristics OF what this
"Spectacular" mus be in order to make
1t grand social anomorsl success. Its
entertainments ougb not to last more
than one hour and thne quarters. what
kills sermons, prayer, lectures, con-
cerss and entertainment is their pro.
lixity. At a quarter TO ten O'Clock at
night every
Curtain OF Public Entesa nment
should drop, every church srvice end,
everv orchestra unstring th,ir instru-
ments. What is more than t,at comes
TO evil. There are ten thOusald people
sound asleep in Greenwood because
they would not go to sleep at ten o'clock
at night. The reason there are drink
ing bars connected with so many places
of ofamusement, underneath or next ioor,
is because people are exhausted With
the amusement and then 60 in 0d
stimulate in order TO stand 1t. How are
We going the next day TO sell eur good'
and build our walls, and physician our
sick, and preach our sermons, II the
night before yon send US out oil your
places of entertainment at half.past ten,
and eleven O'Clock. The most sublime
thing outside of heaven is the oratorlo
of the Messiah" or the Creation" or
"Moses in Egypt" But | never yet
heard them. when, by their very prollx.
ity, to nine out of ten people they did
not become safety. The first hour
we are enchanted. The next half hour
we like it pretty well. What remains
OF it is spent in looking at our watch,
and yawning and wishing that We were
home. An hour and three quarters ex-
hausted the capacity OF attention, in all
save here and there one, and you have
no right to annoy thousand people In
order to please two or three. At q
quarter to ten o'clock in our "Specta-
cular" the audience will be dismissed,
and so avoid one style OF dissipation.
On the platform OF this new institution,
the Spectacular" shall be placed a
drama which has before the occasion OF
its rendering been read, expurgated,
breviated and unanimously sanctioned
by the board OF trustees OF the Reform
Amusement Association. II there be
in Shakespearian play phrase OF evil
suggestion, they will stake it out. Ii
there be in it word OF two meanings
the one good, the other bad-seme other
word will be substituted, an honest
word which looks only one way.
Caterers to the public taste need to
learn that q Shakesperian nastiness
is no better than a congreylan nastiness.
You say, who dare take the RESPONSE
bility OF changing by abreviation or ex-
purgation one of Shakespeare's playsT
dare. The trustees OF the "Spectacu-
lar" will dare. | do not depreciate an
entire play OF Shakespeare because | do
not want 1t all at one time without abre.
Walton. like very much to hear 81
pages of Millions Paradise Lost, but
| should be sorry to have TO hear the
whole book at one sitting.
In Our New Institution
nothing will be considered as bit Tor the
platform that would be unfit for the
parlor. Any attitude, any word, any
look that would be offensive to you sit
ting with your wife and daughters by
your own fireside, will be prohibited
from this new institution. BY no law.of
common sense or of morality can that
which is unfit for five people to hear
and see become fit for 500 to hear and
see. All the scenes shall be as chaste
as was lecture of Edward Everett or
a sermon by +. w. Robertson. On the
platform OF the Spectacular shall be al
mitted only such men and women as
not make q requisition that they be pro-
fessors of religion. There are profes-
sors of religion that Iwould not want
either in nv parlor or in nv kitchen or
coal cellar. We Judge OF people, not by
what thev profess TO be, but by what
theyare. But those men who come on the
platform of your "Spectacular" must be
gentlemen and ladies with all that these
terms imply, such persons as we would
like to have sit at our table, and intro
duce To our children and with whom we
should not be compromised u iounu
walking with them down broadway. -,
On the platform oil our spectacular
should come no ineoriate. no carouseIr'
no Cyprlan, no Toe oil good morals
whether masculine or feminine. IL Is
often saiu that you nave no rignt 70 uis'
cuss tte pTlVa'e morais OF puollc enter
tanners: Me.i' 90 as you PIease SIt,,
other inst''uliohs' III our sPectacu'ar
we VIII nave on our pia'iorn' onIy go'u
men anu gooI women III tne orulhHy
spc,al seiise I oi suIi1ssS, I "et 80 su'm q
P'asloini 'u,y "u h 'm9 o", hs, ar ,ha
IranS,ot;. aS sinman, "rnnressoJ " 9" - IN his no no
,rra Isco,Sa s ha nos pnt soen Tho r;ob,
snhsrs & in Which ~ move i will sten
ont ON that nlatform 70
thrill the World
With his impersonations. Yea. there
nr, GIANTS nov with wide fame in the
dramatic world. who all their lives have
been ioiliny for the elevation of the
drama who will step right over upon
This new nIatform of opr new institutian,
such women as Charlotte Cushman of
the mast sucb men az Joseph Jefferson
of the nresent Such n platform with
snch men and women ON il and snch
on a,nn,g,,ad drsma xorld draw 20 !,
n,;lIiops - naonIo wbo 90 opIy Gnce or
tw;ce in si, tbsir lives N sse a drama or
nsyar COO II a, oil This "Snac,acrI.rn
wonIl combine the hest music the hest
.rcb;,oc,,,ra Tho rect ,an;no S;~ n;,bts