Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-04-30
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OPERA HOUsE-Last day of Van os-
ten Triple Star Company, at popular
prices; matinee, Silver King night,
In the Heart of the Storm; Monday
night. Gayest Manhattan"
\ CID FAIR GROUDS-May. 4th, after
noon and evening, Forepaugh and Sells
Bros. Shows.
The return engagement of the Van
Osten Triple Star Comedy Company, at
the Opera House, will close with mat
inee and evening performances to-day.
The management has chosen the two
plays which were most favorably re-
ceiveG during the week The realistic
romantic drama, Silver King will be
the matinee bill. and tonight In the
Heart of the Storm" will be on the
boards. There was a fair audience
yesterday afternoon and last night
very large audience saw the company
produce for the second time in the
Heart of the Storm" Both were pre-
scented in an artistic manner. with a
full complement Of scenery and effects.
The sale Of seats for to-day's perform
ances is large, and crowded houses are
assured.
The public will no longer accept as
first-class any tented show where the
elephant is not largely in evidence. and
its estimate of the great Adam Fore
paugh and Sells Brothers consolidated
mena.eries. circuses and hippodromes.
which are to exhibit in Wheeling May
4th, on the old Fair Grounds, will be
largely ard properly influenced by the
fact that they include the two greatest
and best trained herds Of elephants
ever introduced in parade or arena.
Ranging in individual ages from two
10 100 years. they represent the best
specimens of the Asiatic. Ceylon, Java
and Borneo varieties. The one herd
is the splendid and intelligent Adam
Forepaugh collection, dating half GEN.
fury back, and which has been on con-
tinuous exhibition and in training ever
since. The other is the equally famous
Sells Brothers performing drove. They
perfectly, amazingly and amusingly
represent different schools of education.
which include a great variety of novel
and difficult feats and exceedingly lu-
dicrous antics and limitations. AS an
unequaled double feature they are great
drawing and delighting cards.
Of "Gayest Manhattan" which comes
to the Opera House Monday evening,
the Columbus Press-Post says: Cay
est Manhattan was given its first pro-
duction before Columbus audience
at the Great Southern Theatre last even
ing before a large and fashionable as
sem bll II ic r,,urina1 IN
three acts and in those three acts there
is crowded more genuine, pure and I'M
aduterated fun than is generally found
in play of that description. 1t is
simply a gem, and from the rising of
the curtain until it drops on the last
act the fun is fast and furious. The
production is filled with catchy music,
new and up-to-date songs, rendered by
competent and well-known singers
any number of pretty girls and no end
of innocent sport. The opening act
is laid in Central Park, New York, in
which, by the way, is presented the ia
nous park in a magnificent stage set
ting Here the members of the force
meet and have fun with the nurse girls
and where some Of the members of the
four hundred are also to be seen
This act also serves as vehicle for
the Introduction of some of the Well
known cranks of the great metropolis
who are portrayed in song under an
assumed name, but their fads are sc
brought out that it is an easy matter
| to determine who is meant"
There was standing room only" al
| the Opera House last night, and the
! production merited such an audience
1t is seldom MI Barnes of New
| York" is produced in such an artistic
and finished manner by any company
and the Van Osten is the only roper
toire company privileged to use the
play There should be crowded houses
at both of to-day's performances