Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-01-04
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"Finnigan's Ball. drew fair house
at Harper's theatre last night. The
piece. arollicking farce. was presented
by fair company, headed by
John Moran anu James X. Wesley,
who assume the roles formerly
taken by Murray & Mack. who are still
proprietors of the show, but it would
seem at leasta few of the acts that have
been 4 part of the show for seasons
past could be replaced by something
new.
..Isham's OctoroCns, which will be
at the BurIis Sunday evening, have
amcng the long list of names those of
some of the best singers and special
lists of their race. The entertainment
will be first-class and largely on the
operate, and the scenes to which all
have been adapted are piquant and
beautifully costumed. The young
manager believes in having only what
is lirst-class and in doing everything
in an up-to-fate style, and To that end
has spent money lavishly in securing
talent and making the entertainment
the best of the season, knowing full
we'll that the musement-loving Amer
leans delight not alone in what pleases
the ear, but the,eye as we'll. The sing
ing is said to be unrivalled and the
Icostuming and scenic effects beauti-
full. The s'Oct 1roons" number 40
people, and appeared at Madison
Square Roof Garden, New York, the
entire summer.
1t takes a general to devise and plan
battle for a successful campaign, and
so it is with stage entertainments.
Mathews and Bulger can be likened to
pair of successful generals. so far as
it applies to the amusement public.
They not only conceive, plan and devise
tneIr n erJainmentS but come pretty
near being the exclusive authors, as
the ideas q I'D suggestions furnished are
almost entirely their own. When one
contemplates such task rs putting
together new and novel performances
in these days, when almost every idea
has been written To death, it will he
allowed by all that nothing short of n
successful general in stsge offerings
could accomplish such results. How
well they have succeeded the fun low
ing public will shortly be able to de-
termine when their latest version of
the big vaudeville operetta, by the
Sad Sea Waves" with its immense
company, picturesque scenery, novel
electric light effects, and with all the
resources of the comic opera stage, in
GLIDING an ever gay and dashing
chorus, will be seen when presented
at the Wagner, Moline, Saturday night
Aside from the two stars. two of the
principal features of Mathews & Bull
gers aggregation of farceurs in by
| the Sad Sea Waves" are the only and
| original isis Hopkins, the Gal From
Shutdown. who is now the talk of the
fun-loving world, and Mile. LIE Seye,
who appears in series of plastique
poses with Illuminated, irridescent
electrical effects and is considered u
decided novelty. At the Burtis, Dav-
export, Monday evening.
The patrons of the various play
houses will be pleased to know that
at last the great black face comedians,
Mcintyre and Heath, will be seen at
the head of their own company at
theatre where tho whole family can
come. Mcintyre and Heath's come
dams is the elite vaudeville show of
the season, and beside the stars, who
are the oldest team on the stage, there
are the three Nevaros, European aero
bats; the Young America Quintette,
with George Mack and Miss Matte
Boorum; McWatters and Tyson, Der
enda and Breep, Miss Maud NJ Intyre.
the great Bicknel1e, and Coulter and
Starr. A new diversion is the closing
of the performance with a scream
producing farce in which the whole
company take part, thus assuring the
audience ut least one genuinely funny
farce comedy finish to an unusually
clever vaudeville performance. Nc
Intyre and Heath. comedians, will be
seen at Harper's theatre Sunday even
ing.