Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-02-06

and Players.
GRAND OPERA HOUsE-FYrst half of
,s C0sgroVe q Grants comedians in
Kin. pagZ.eri;' last half or week, Heart
q. ofa8A HOUSE Monday night, "se-
,- service; Friday night. In Darkest
Tic theatrical offerings during the
UsA which closed yesterday were not
numerous, but were accorded very
fair patronage. Manager Feinler's
rzv play house was dark the latter
o.r Of the week, but the first three
relts were filed with "Ole Oleson. 1"
Ills is very fair Swedish dialect
MAY, and it was given by q fairly
GOOD company. The bicycle race is a
feature The Innes Band concert was
8q event especially pleasing to lovers
b. music Miss Eugene Blair's en-
easement at the Opera House was not
as NOTABLE as it deserved She is a.
very capable actress and shows up to
5Ylendld advantage in stellar roles.
Eer support is uniformly good. NJ SIS
Blair is a very pretty woman, and her
costumes are magnificent. She is star
ms under the direction of her hus.
land Robert Downing, who is physic-
ally unable to follow the stage.
Among the coming entertainments at
tue Carroll Club Auditorium will be
lie production of a drama by the
Cathedral High School students, and
dramatic and minstrel entertainment
ly the Carroll Club Literary Society.
Lincoln ]. Carter author of so many
successful melo-dramas, is a man of re.
markable fertility of invention. In
IS latest play, The Heart OF Chi
cag0' he has succeeded in introduce
Ing something absolutely new to the
sage 1t is the rpuch praised ap-
preaching train scene, IN which an en-
CINE and line of cars is seen to be APP
preaching the footlights, apparently
rom miles away, for fully ten minutes
without for one moment becoming lost
to view. This scene occupies ten MIN
utCs from the time the engine is first
seen TO the moment the engine comes
to a halt at the footlights. Those
Who have seen approaching train pic
lures as thrown on screens by the
7itasc0pe, cinematographs and other
animated picture machines, can APP
7eeciate the beauty of the scene. But
it is not accomplished by pictures. Y
heavy engine and real men at the
throttle and fire box aided by double
stage clever perspective arrangements,
and complicated stage apparatus, fairly
outdoes Edison. At the Grand the
last half of this week.
Secret Service" by William Gil
lette author also of THE Professor"
The Private Secretary" Held by the
Enemy" Mr.. Wilkinson's Widows"
and TOO Much Johnson will be
given at the Opera House Monday,
February 7th. No play was ever taken
so closely and warmly to the metro
poiitan theatre-goers heart. From
the very first night Of its presenta-
ton in New York for over seven
months it drew an unbroken succession
OF crowded houses TO the Gerrick the
atre, and seemingly was IL as great
demand on its last night as on its
first 1t was then taken to Boston,
where for three months it was pre-
scented at the Boston Museum TO
crowded houses. From Boston, Chas.
Frohman took the play TO London,
and its success at the Adelphia theatre
for over three months is matter of
international state history. Secret
Service" like the other serious stage
work that Mr.. Gillette has given US
in war play, founded On secret Ill
cidents in the conflict between the
North and South a generation aSo
ABOUT slavery 1t is not quite as mill
tary in its features as its predecessor
was. but FOR all that there are hu5tling
bayonets in it and the smoke Of me
powder burnt On the trenches before
beseiged Richmond reaches the nos
trils of the audience. The background
Of war is thrilling and yet so pic
turesque and pretty that the horrors
OF the real article do not rise in the
imagination TO mar the majestic and
inspiring magnitude of the fancy-fed
conflict.
Sidney R. Ellis's very successful at
traction, Darkest Russia, will be pre-
sented at the Opera House Friday,
February 18th. 1t has strong plot,
full of dramatic situations and al
though no way sensational, it does not
bore the audience with scenes that
are unreal. On the contrary every
art known to stage realism has been
utilized to make the effect as natural
and picturesque as possible. In deal
ing with the secret police, nobility,
Aihilists and exiles, the author. ii.
Gratt2n Donnelly has shown great
skill, and the play pictures Russia as
IL IS to-day in a true and faithful man.
ner. The company that will interpret
the different characters in the play is
a strong one, and Manager Ellis's per-
scnal guarantee is given that it Will
be first class performance.
Nobody who enjoys a good hearty
laugh, one of the kind that breaks
corset strings and sends vest buttons
lying over into the next seat, can at
ford to miss the Dazzler this year. 1t
Viii be presented at the Grand the
inst half of this week, by Cosgrove &
Nlnts comedians. Some of the most
"e.eome faces of last years company
I'll be seen in this one. and with them
some new faces that before the evening
Is ever will make very pleasing inn
p'essions. All the songs are new to
-.e piece this year, being the very lat
S. publications in the line of popular
music. A number of new, bright and
novel dancing effects are introduced,
and not TO be behind the others the
-onedians have some new and clever
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