Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1891 — THE STATE FAIR. [ARTICLE]

THE STATE FAIR.

The Indiana State Fair begins at Indianapolis, Set t. 21, and continues during the week. The indications are that it will be the most successful in the history of the association. The exhibits in every department will exceed previous displays, i'here will be the stock show, machinery exhibit, races, grains and fruits, and many new attractions. Reduced rates have been secured on all railroads and the prophecy is made that the attendance will be enormous. A few suggestions follow, which will be fotir.il of value to visitors to the capital city during fair week: STATE FAIR ATTRACTIONS. The Excellent Theatrical Attractions at Indianapolis Fair Week. In accordance with their long established policy of providing the best and strougest attractions possible for the Indianapolis Theaters during State Fair week, the - managers have engaged for the coming fair week (beginning September 21) such varied and popular attractions as will please all classes of i theatergoers, I In point of local interest there could bo no greater attraction than ’’Blue Jeans,” which is to be played at the Grand Opera Houso that week, for it is an Indiana play, by an-I-ndiana author, on an Indiana subject.. I‘t has been the greatest dramatic success known for years. It. was first produced 1 in-New York last winter, when it was presented to immense audiences for 200 nights and was witnessed by 250,000 people. In other-cities this success was duplicated, and l in Chicago it filled the theater nightly for two mouths in the hottest part of the subimer. I*tJ wil. be. given at with exactly the same company, scenery; and sensational effects as were employed l in New York, including the great saw mill scene, tiiunmost startling ever put on any stage: ‘‘Blue Jeans” is full of the clement which* appeals so strongly to the heart—stage- IF tells of a young mau who was lured by the pretty face of a wicked woman'intosecretIy marrying her Whemhis passion cooled he found that she had a husband* already living. Later on he falls in love with an honest-hearted and quick-witted waif.and' very foolishly does not tellher orhis former escapade. Then the trouble' begins. The wicked woman has lured another loon into her toils and the thrilling seeno in a saw mill ensues. The action is-supposed to take place ou the banks of the Ohio, and gives an opportunity for some very charming scenery. Comedy runs all through it. Everything is real—smoke out of the chimney, real doves on the barn roof, real paint, real cows, a real barbecue

. ’ i - "ountry tend. The- singing of and a reP*. . ette am j t j, e dancing, ft j s said in for wann a PP ,aUBO ’ J during 1 ter o fTf™s”dra York success,‘V K Mr Archibald matized by tie' s’atfr'v • *reat storv of ClaveringGante^-fratolfc*. the same title, a book-of W * copies were sold m’rix'-mmi'tk*’ , p tt * dreserves tlio marWMri^L o *™ story, and when it was York Press said of it: “Lastup- -? P I plause ruled throughout! The” FwJ ,** ft goldmine. When it has remits appointed course in this city, it will gfe the'-™,^ 11 ?? other cities for years to come.” 1 York Times said: “More tha»'a ! jA'L'V°n ot persons have read the novel, mofd'.tL'au a million will see the play.” The'Maftl Express said: “Mr. Potter of Texas,’sfehred the greatest popular success which tfhy theater has seen This season.” Tee play deals with the exciting and ludicrous, adventures of a brave, warm-hearted Texan in the old world, where he gets into all sorts of trouble and amusing complications but comes out of them with flying colors. There are comedy, pathos and sensation; in it. and everywhere it has been presented it has met with the most flattering success. It will be given at English’s by a powerful company, the same that presented it in New York and with the same scenery, three car loads of which are employed in its production.-, You will enjoy one of the greatest and most absorbing performances ever seen on a stage if you see “Mr. Potter of Texas.”

The Park Theater, thefpopular priced house, where two performances are given every day, at cheap prices, 10, 20 and 30 cents, will have for its attraction fair week the greatest of all German dialect comedians and singers, Mr. “Pete” F. Baker, in two plays. “The Emigrant” and “Bismarck,” both of which are full of fun, pretty music and attractive specialties, lie will appear firs! in “The Emigrant,” which has been reconstructed, redressed and very materially improved. Notwithstanding it was always a musical comedy with many excellent features, new music, new specialties and other additions have made it one of the brightest plays of its character, and as presented by Mr. Baker and bis company the performance is one that will, not fail to sustain the strong claims of exceptional’ merit made for it. “The Emigrant” will be withdrawn after Wednesday evening, and replaced by “Bismarck,” Mr. Baker’s latest musical comedy, which has been, it is said, a success from the first performance. It belongs to the fame class as “The-Emigrant,’’though different in many respects, and furnishes the central figure a good opportunity for the introduction of his character songs and imitations. The action is said to be rapid and there is no lack of incidental features of an amusing kind. It is said that Mr. Baker’s company is anexcellehtone—the best he has-ever had. At Tomlinson Hall, Indianapolis, the most beautiful and commodious hall in the West, on Wednesday and Thursday of fair week, the Cincinnati Orchestra, of fifty pieces, ono oLthe greatest musical organizations inthe world, wil} give two concerts each day. This Orchestra is under the skilled’dfrection of Prof. Michael Brand, and-the'soloists with it are Miss Elizabeth Hetlich, the soprano, whose marvelous voice has delighted thousands on both sides of the Atlantic: Herr Hans Yon Schiller; who is one of the greatest living pianists, and Mr. Edwin J. Webbor, the famous tenor. This Orchestra is nqt excelled bv that conducted by Theodore Thomas, and its reputation is of the high-

among musical critics. The concerts sk, promise to excel any ever beforeZL inthafeity. to the State Fair would do well their seats at the theaters can do without extra charge) ZoftKi. t arrive in Indianapolis, and * MSlbl « flatting: good too. Rates a-mreduced, for the occasion on aH railroads.