The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-09-05
THE DRAMATIC SEASON
TO Open in Earnest this Week ut
both Wheeling Theatres,
THE RARE LIST OF ATTRACTIONS
offered by Managers Rhcinstrom and
Genthcr for Fair weeI.--spccinlty,
FARGO Comedy, Molodrama and
Legitimate Drama an Booked.
Gossip ofthc Stage and Players.


audience at the Opera House Saturday
night, and gave y performance which
pleased all.
Visitors to the fair this week will be
provided with an abundance OF fine
amusoments Mt tho two Opera Houses.
AT the Opera House Charles Gardner
Wednesday and Thursday nights, and
the great New York success, THE Lost
Paradise" Friday and Saturday nights
and Saturday matinee; at tho Grand
Turner's English Girls and Frank Jones,
in "Our Country Cousin" will fll the
week.
Manager Rheinstrom has arranged
for nine different comic operas for DC.
tober-"The Woman OF the Guard
"Larry tho Lord" "Fhe Tar and the
Tartar" and tho Calhoun Opera Com
pany for an ontire week.
"fhe Lost Paradise" which appears
Mt tho Opera House next Friday and
Saturday, will 90 from here to Cleve-
land for one week, and thence to New
York City, where the same play and
company appeara at the Star theatre Tor
second long run.
TURNER'S COMPANY.
The following favorable notice OF
Turner's English Girls, the opening at
traction at the Grand Opera House to-
night, is from the Baltimore Sun: 1.-THE
Academy contained large audience
last evening, when Turner's English
Girls made their second annual appear
ance in this city, and the amount OF
applause they received, and the laugh
Ter evoked, showed the audiences APP
probation. The company gives varie-
" and burlesque performance, and
have number Of very clever people.
Nellie Russell is tirst-class burlesque
artist, and displays wonderful agility in
the Serpentine dance, with Misses
Fleming, Lorette Dell Montaine, each
Of whom do clever solo dance. The
buresque Cleopatra, by the Merry
Female Club, is as bright and spark
ling as champagne, and interspersed
with many pleasing and high-class
specially acts"
'ouR COUNTRY COUSIN"
Theatre goers will be delighted to
hear that Frank Jones, the favorite
comedian, with an excellent company,
will commence three nights engage.
ment at the Grand, on Thursday even
ing, Sept. s. Mr.. Jones has been here
before and is one OF the best Yankee
comedians that has appeared here in
long time, and that IS saying great
deal. He is one OF the very few perfor'
mers in his line that does not overdo
anything, and is such n pronounced ia
vorite in Wheeling that q crowded
house is sure to greet him.
1.-THE LOST PARADISE"
Henry G. De Miles latest success,
1.-THE Lost Paradise" founded on the
German play OF that name by Ludwig
Fulda, will be presented at the Opera
House next Friday andsaturday nights
and Saturday matinee by an excellent
comp any under the direction OF Charles
Frohman. The theme OF this interest
ing drama is labor vs.. capital, with sew
eral love stories interw oven. II is
play for the people, for it defends their
rights, and in the end wins for tine
workman all that he has demanded and
asked for. The comedy is brilliant and
enlivens the dramatic work in charm
ing and refreshing manner. Special
scenery and mechanical effects and
proper accessories will all tend to make
this production the notable one OF the
season.
Seats go on sale tomorrow morning
at Houses music store.
STAGE sNowFLAKEs.
Chas. A. Gardner, the popular Ger
man comedian, will appear at the Opera
House next Wednesday night as Her
man Leopold, n Tyrolean guido, in q ro-
mantle comedy called "Fatlcrland,"
which affords him amp.e scope for the
display Of his peculiar and varied tai
ents. Mr.. Gardner is one OF the best
opponents Of eccentric German charac-
ter now on tho stage, and il in addition
an excellent dancer md pleasing vocal
ist. He is surrounded by number Of
clever people, whose singing, dancing
and nlimicking materially aid in pro-
duciHg an altogether pleasing perform.
auce. In act II thore is an exact re-
production OF a German spinning bee,
in which genuine spinning wheels are
introduced, and in tho fourth act the
famous "Fathcrland Tyrolcan Quar-
tettc" rouders number OF fine seleC-
tons.
Tho Americanserpentino dance mania
is now epidemic in London, where it is
overahadowing the "Ta-ra-ra" craze.
The first apostle OF sorpentinism was
Estelia Sylvia, whointroduccd the dance
ut tho London Empire. An English
paperdoscrlbcs tho performance in these
words: "She app lars dressed in black
tights, decorated with big spangtes and
most voluminous skirts OF soft silk,
which she manages in such way as to
cause them to describe various effects,
some Of which are very interesting"
This Is Eaive, if vague.
The Tar and Tartar company opened
its season last week in Detroit.
AMMO Meyers, William Pruetto, Fred.
Frear, Madame Cottrelly, Louise Royce,
Charles Meyer and II. NJ. Ravenscrott
are reported to have made great hits.
In George P. Goodales opinion the
ccompay is even stronger than that OF
last season.
Isadoro Rush, with Roland Reeds
company, has excited the envy of Bos-
ton women by her gowns in "Lond Nc
four Wife" Irene Everett made sue
cossful debut in Boston with this COM
pany:: She Is from San Francisco. Mr..
Reeds opening in Boston, by the way,
was very successful.
Frank Jones will play "0ur Country
Cousin" at tho Martins Ferry Opera