Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-11-23
ADJUSTMENTS.


Local Play Houses.
OPERA HoUsE-To-night. Mrs. Fiske
in Tess, of the D'UrberviIles' Thursday
matinee and night, The Players Club; in
Young. Mrs. Winthrop; Saturday, Nor
GRAND OPERA HOUsE-To- night.
John L. Sullivan's Big Farce Comedy
Company.
What is said to be one of the best
comedy and vaudeville companies OF
entertainers will be seen at the Grand
Opera House on Thursday for a half
weeks engagement, and it would
seem that the report must, be true
when it is taken into consideration
that it is not only composed of the
! best specialists in vaudeville, but is
headed by the great ex-champion of
pugilists, John L. Sullivan, who never
in his life did things by halves and
surely cannot with such a company
of players. Among others is his part
ner, Ed. White, who will have a spar
ring and boxing bout with the great
John L., in which each gives the
other plenty to do; Emerson & Ed
mond Edmonds, Saville & Stuart, Beg
ley & Lee, Darling sisters, Fetching
brothers, Darmody the club swinger,
Mile, Oceana the celebrated European
specialist, and the petite and charm
ing Rolla White, in her athletic spar
ring and bag punching act, which is
considered one of the most clever and
interesting features of the programme
This morning reserved seats IN the
balcony for Mrs. Fiske, will be put
on sale at Houses, at 75c.
The following analysis is from Will
liam Dean Howell's review OF Mrs.
Fishes production of Tess OF the
D'Urbervilles,' in Harper's Weekly:
Art and truth are forever bound up
in each other, and the energy with
which the art of this play enforces the
truth is its fascination. 1t does justice.
At last the superstition that there can
be one morality for the woman and
another morality for the man, which
has 50 long insulted the reason, per-
ishes before your eyes in the scene
where Tess and her husband confess
their past to each other There is moth
ing of explicit application in text or ac-
ton which appeals from the forgiven
husbands injustice towards his unfor-
given wife, but that injustice appears
in all its mostrous inpudence and hate
fulness.
thought it a proof of the Slarve,ous
skill Of the actress that she should
have been able almost inarticulately to
possess the spectator of the fact which
Tess does not utter. That was surely
a beautiful piece of art, and it was as
if inspired by most delicate reverence
for the soul of wCmanhood itself, which
when it came to that, could not put it's
ruin into words. But no one could have
mistaken the meaning of that agonized
reticence; the whole house was then
with the actress. 1t is cruel
scene, and it is easily the supreme mo-
ment of play which abounds in high
moments. What you feel in Mrs.
Fiske's work is the unerring keenness
of the perception and the nervous force
which makes the spectator share it. In
the high moments you forget the little,
slender, inadequate presence of the
actress: that became the absence. and
it is the great sorrow and misery of
the character which fills the stage.
Mrs Fiske, in this great play, will ap-
pear at the Opera House tonight.
"McSorley's Twins opened at the
Grand Opera House last evening and it
was case of standing room only"
Not only was every seat filled. but the
aisles were also damned to suffocation,
and if hearty laughter and frequent ap-
plause attest public approval. then the
large audience was more than salts
fed and pleased at everything the me
Sorley Twins" said and did. Properly
speaking, the bill presented was farce
comedy of a most pronounced and ex-
cellent kind. 1t is full of bright lines.
comical situations and catchy music.
All the people are clever in their
various roles and some excellent spec-
ialtis were introduced. Mr.. Nat NJ.
WITS, of the Wils-Loretta team, scored
great hit as Otto Dumore. a gentle
man who despises labor and adores
liquid refreshments The Adds Sis
ters, as the Twins, sang several up-to-
date songs, while Mile. Loretta did q
clever dance. John T. Tiernev Mark
Murphy, Fred " Bowers. Charles Hor-
WITT, Nate Jackson, Marie Stuart Mar
guerite Ferguson, Gertie Millington and
Queenie Mansfield were all execution
ally clver in their various roles
The flattering reports that have nre-
ceded the Morrison company in its
presentation OF Goethe's beautiful
FAUST causes a feeling of interest