Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-12-11
AMUSE MENTS.


Current Attractions In Local Theatres.
Bookings Of the Managers.
GRAND OPERA HOUSE-To-day, mat
inee and evening, Mc,Fadden's Row OF
Flats; first half of next week, Katie En-
nett, in ''The Waits of New York.
OPERA HOUSE-To-day, matinee and
evening. The Girl + Left Behind Me-;
Wednesday night, For Fair Virginia
There was another big audience at the
Grand Opera House last night, to wit
ness the production of "McFadden's
Row of Flats" The race war between
the Irish and German residents OF that
locality, headed by very funny Irish
and Dutch comedians, kept the audience
in constant uproar. When they were
not convulsed with laughter, they were
applauding the excellent specialties.
The production is a combination OF
farce and vaudeville, and the cast is
really made up of favorites of the vau-
deville stage Several flrSt-class spec
ialties are introduced. The scenery and
costumes are new and bright, and the
music is catchy and up-to-date. Nc
Fadden's Flats will close very sue
cessful engagement with matinee and
evening performances to-day.
At the Opera House to-day, matinee
and evening, will be produced 'The
Girl / Left Behind Me-" strongly in
teresting play, thoroughly American,
and full of thrilling situations. AL
though not a war play, its incidents
deal with an Indian uprising and life
at a frontier military post. There are
incidental love stories woven into the
plot between the Majors daughter and
a private and between western girl
and Canadian doctor. These court
ships furnish the comedy element,
wrich is bright and enjoyable. The
incident of the siege is impressively car
ried out, and the play is natural.
A play that has met with an unin-
terrupted carer of success is Mr.. Russ
Whytal's drama, For Fair Virginia.
in which the author and his clever and
attractive wife, formerly Marie Knowles
will be seen at the Opera House on
Wednesday, December 18th. This play
has been everywhere pronounced one
of the very best specimens of Ameri-
can authorship, and its tender heart
interest, it's stirring incidents and it's
striking characteriZations, both emo
tional and comic, cannot fail to appeal
to all classes of theatre-goers. Mr.. Russ
Whytal appears in a light comedy part,
and the company is headed by such able
people as Viola FortuescO, e. F. Maggie,
Joseph Zahnor, John H. Nurnett, and
that exceptionally clever child, Mabel
Taliaferro.
Kate Emmett the actress, who has
been performing for the last three
weeks in Chicago, is a generous and
Christian woman. She takes genu-
inc and lively interest in the newsboys
and bootblacks, whose character she SO
faithfully portrays upon the stage, and
when she comes to Chicago many strug-
Cling youngsters are the richer for her
visit. Since she has been here this time
she has assisted a number of poor fam
lilies, putting one woman with two
small children on her pension list,
which is disbursed for her weekly.
She also pensions another poor family
in Kansas City. Last week she invited
a small phalanx of the Chicago waits
to visit her at the theatre and S. of
them proudly occupied orchestra chairs
for the first time in their lives. Miss
Emmetts last benevolent act was to
take a handsome donation in money
to the Waits Mission" at Battery d.
She comes to the Grand the first half
of next week.