Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-10-13
ADJUSTMENTS:

A GREAT DRAMA AT THE OPERA HOUSE.
The comedy drama of "Blue Jeans"
the initial Performance of which was seen
at the Opera House, last night, ana
which will be repeated this evening, IS
we'll deserving of the Characterization
of ga great show" No better perform
ance was ever seen on any stage
in Wheeling than that given last night.
The audience was large, and 1t
attested it's delight and appreciation
from the start, the applause culminat-
ing at the end of the third act In Kisses
for the villain and cheers and the waving
of hats and handkerchiefs as the hero
and heroine came before the curtain.
The scenery is handsome, and the COM
pany throughout good. The "saw-miil"
scene, at the close of the third act, Is
very realistic, the stage being trans
formed for the nonce into regular
mill. where belts run and machinery
buzzes, and boards are sawed OH at
lively rate.
The scene Of Mr.. Joseph Arthur's
play is laid in the suburbs OF Rising
Sun, Indiana. Perry Bascom, young
man of means, has saw mill. Cindy
and Jacob Tutewiller (homespun neigh
bors of Bascom, finding their modest
home lonely since their son Jim and
daughter Nell have gone to New York
City to make their way in the world,
adopt a waif from the poorhouse known
as June, who is diamond in the rough,
and who turns out TO be their own dead
daughter Lucy's child byBascom'S uncle,
with whom she had eloped. Perry
Bascom is running for Office and
Colonel Henry Clay Risner, OF
Rising Sun, is. booming his cam
paign. The handsome young mill owner
gets smitten with the charms OF Sue
Eudaly, formerly a snake charmer in
circus. He loses the election but wins
Sue and honestly but secretly marries
her. She is passionate, fiery and jeai-
Gus. He finds out that she has been
married before to one Richard White,
and that there is no record Of her hus-
bands death. Knowing that she has
committed bigamy he leaves her. He
falls in love with June-hiS cousin, at
first mistakinglY believed to be his sis
ter-and marries her. Sue, still madly
in love with him, thirsts for re-
venge, and finds very handy
ally in Bascom's saw-mill foreman, Ben
Boone, who was her devoted lover
before Bascom ever saw her. June is
not told at first Of her husbands former
marriage to Sue. She finds it out in
time and there are some stormy meet
ings between the two women. Ben
Boone's opportunity comes one day in
the mill when the hands have gone TO
vote. He knocks Bascom senseless a2d
places him on the frame So that he will
be sawed apart in no time. June, is
locked In the Office She batters down
a door and gets out just In time to save
her husband.
After trial of Boone for attempted
murder, acquitted by Perry's testimony,
to the effect that Ben acted in self-de-
Tense, he goes away in search OF Sues
husband, Dick White. He is unsuc-
cessful. Three years pass before he
returns to find himself father and
June the only one who still has faith
in him. 1t is Christmas Day and it
brings Sues husband, Richard White,
alias Emerson Duckshooter, who really
is Jim Tutewiler, New York minstrel
man, runaway son Of Cindy and Jacob
Tutewiler, as from the dead he comes
to denounce Sue and restore peace.