Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-10-03

The above is a good picture Of the
popular young soprano singer who
made such favorable impression when
she appeared here last Sunday with
Brooke and his famous Chicago Marine
Band, and it will be a source of graft
fication to the music loving public of
Wheeling and vicinity to learn that she
! will be here again with the band next
Sunday afternoon and evening at the
Wheeling Park Casino. The Park AS
soclatlon decided on Friday, after
having been beseiged on all sides to
secure, II possible, a return engage
ment of what is without doubt the
greatest concert organization manner
lea. The band will come direct from
the Pittsburg Exposition, where it is
| at present filling one of the most sue
cessful engagements in the history of
the Exposition, and although just one
week of the engagement is finished,
contracts have been already signed for
next season, which will make the third
that the Chicago Marine Band has
furnished the concert music for that
great affair. No other band has ever
been engaged for more than two sea-
sons
Or course two concerts will be given
next Sunday, the first commencing at
2:3O and the other at $3.50 p. m. Special
motors will be run to and from the
Park and the p M train and a spec
1al evening train at 7:30 will run direct
to the Casino platform The admission
to the Casino will only be 25 cents for
each concert. The programmes for
both concerts will be entirely different
from those of last Sunday, and will be
made up of popular music, the rendi-
ton of which has made the Chicago
Marine Band famous all over the coun-
try. Special excursions have been ad-
Vertised on all lines for this occasion.
There are Just enough really thrilling
situations, and humorous episodes. with a
fair proportion of love interest, in Cres-
ton Clarke's new romance, THE Last of
HIS Race to make it an ideally popular
play When it is presented at the Opera
House on next Tuesday evening and
Wednesday matinee, the theatre-goers of
Wheeling will enjoy what can be truth
fully said to be one of the most preten-
tious productions that win be seen here
this year. Mr.. Clarke has provided a
complete equipment of special scenery for
the play, none of the local theatres seem
cry being used at all. 1t has been his aim
TO provide an entertainment that shall be
as nearly perfect as a liberal expendi-
ture of money for scenery and costumes,
and thorough knowledge of what should
be done, can do. There is plenty of
action in The Last of His Race" AT
times the situations are intense There is
seldom much applause during the progress
OF the play, but in every city where the
piece has been rendered, the end of each
act is marked by outbursts Of genuine ap-
proval, such as are seldom witnessed
Mr. Clarke Eas departed for the present
from the Sham Rerian field, and is Civ
ing the people what he conscientiously
believes to be one of the strongest roman
tic pieces now upon the stage On We'd
nesday evening, Mr.. Clarke will present
The Lady of Lyons"
BOSTON, October 3.-Joseph Proctor
the veteran actor. died at 12:45 a. m. AT
his home on Columbus avenue. after a
long illness. Mr.. Proctor was born in
Marlborough, Mass, in 1916, and made his
debut upon the stage in 1888, in Damon
and Pythias." He had In his time PLAYED
with all the stellar attractions Of his