Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-08-22
DRAMATIC MOTIFS.

Jane Coombs begins her fall season at Bos-
ton, September ID.
1 Forepaugh's circus has done an immense
business in Chicago during the past week.
CLARA Morris opens her season in Philadel-
phia on September 18th. She will play there
three weeks.
The Union Square company still hold the
boards at Hayerly's Chicago theater, and is
doing finely.
Miss Maude Branscombe, who has had her
picture taken on several occasions, is reported
as seriously i'll.
Maud Granger opened the season at the
Union Square last Monday evening, with Two
Nights in Rome.
The Tourists in a Smoking Car" is the
name of new organisation which starts from
New York early in the fall.
Miss Katie Field has added an entertainment
on Paris to her repertoire. She leaves London
for New York September 6. '-oe
play, and Now, what do you think? ~ is to be
the catch" expression in it.
The title of Dickey Lingard Dalsiepa new
play, it now appears. is Only Dream
Thank Heaven it isn't realityl
Marie Williams has decided to come over and
join IL. b. Lsavitt's opera burlesque company,
sailing from England on the 23d inst.
"All the Rage" will probably continue at
McVicker's, Chicago. for two or three weeks
longer, as the business seems to warrant it.
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good attractions for st. Paul during his trip to
Chicago last week. They will be announced
hereafter.
Leonora St. Felix, one of the sisters of that
name who have been travelling with Tony Pas
tors troupe, died at City Point, SOUTH Boston,
of scarlet fever.
Miss Constance Lewis, sister of Jeffrey
Lewis, comes to this country in the fall, and
will be member of the Catherine Lewis
Comedy Comedy.
1.-TWO hundred and thirty.fve companies are
already organized to take the road, and they
will, most of them, take it to walk home on
before the season is very old.
Hooley's theater, Chicago, is doing splendidly
with FREAKS" performed by the New York
Criterion company. The present week opens
with the Harrisons in their new play of
"Photos."
According to Bellies Life in London there
is possibility of Mis- Langtry. the Jersey
Lily, going on the stage shortly. If she is as
bralny as she is beautiful she will prove an
acquisition.
The many friends of Will D. Baton, dramatic
critic of the Chicago Times and author of '.All
the Rage" will regret to learn of the death of
his estimable wife, which SAD event took place
last week.
John Raymond has had enough of the En-
glish-or the English have enough Of him,
which is the same thing-and he will shortly
be home again, with nothing better to offer
than The Guided Age aud WooJsrt's Roost.
DOyley Carte's company of Pirates of Penz-
ance next season will consist of Minnie Walsh,
Laura Joyce, Rose Chappelle, Agnes Mitchell,
and Messrs. McCreeIy, Brocolinl, Riley, Nash
and Standish. They will take the road about
the 18th of September.
Miss Eme Roseau, formerly of the Colville
company, who has been seriously ill for many
weeks, of a serious attack of sciatica, with
threatening symptoms of paralysis, has so far
recovered that she will be able to resume hel
professional duties thus fall.
John A. Stevens recently received PROPOSE
tion of marriage from a lady admirer who
availed herself of the leap-year privilege. The
gentleman Immediately replied that he had
fourteen children, and wife weighing 24(
pounds. and that his wife had opened the let
ter.
Pauline Markham is single again, and ap
pears to be glad of it, and says: II am feeling
bright and happy once mort: in short, as if .
load had been n1ted from my shoulders.
have an absolute divorce from Colonel Nc
Mahon, and am in every way better off without
him."
"Bernhardt is the thinnest aud wickedes
woman in the wtrld," says the Cincinnati
Enquirer; and then come one rose up and said
that d certain buriesque actress beats her il
one Of those respects, and the latter lady al
once had it announced that she weighed 1St
pounds. Post.
The American thester, Philadelphia, never
had drop curtain, but used instead a painted
scene that slid together from the sides. The
shrewdness of the manager is now made mani
fest. long neglected law imposing tax VI
$500 year on each tLeater is now enfore ed
and back payments for many years are de-
handed. But the act defines as theaters al
places OF amusement using drop curtain, and
thus the American is exempted.
Agnes Robertson Mrs. Dion Boucicault) sup
ported by AIR. Charles Wheatleigh and strong
dramatic company, under the direction OF
Max Strakosch, will commence her starring
| tour on September 18th, at the Walnut street
theatre, Philadelphia. Her first appearance
will be in her LIBERATED role of Jesse Brown
the heroine In the play of the Siege of Luck.
now, in which character she has created the
greatest enthusiasm, having played Jesse
Brown over eight hundred times.
Haverly's Ministries are reported to be meet.
ing great success in London, where American
fun-makers are almost always we'll received.
The troupe it is said. will go from England to
Paris, and they will doubtless score another hit
there, for the Partisan greatly enjoys the droll-
cry of the negro mimic; all the variety theater.
have their American song and dance men, and
the slap of the big shoe, and song of the Gala
ba ma Swell' or mississippi Moke' are heard
in every 'Cafe Chantant."
JEWELL TO REMAIN.
Republicans Denying that He Is TO Rest0,s