Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-10-23
AMUSEMENT NOTES.
The past week has been an uneventful

The past week has been an uneventful
one in amusement circles. The only at
traction has been Growers Humpty
Dumpty organization, which has given
four performances to the general accept
alton of those present There have
been better pantomime companies, but
none where all members sought to do
their best to amuse and entertain the
public. The company leaves st. Paul
with the best wishes of all who have
witnessed the entertainments.
The athletes, Muldoon, Whistler and
Christol, gave an exhibition on Friday
evening at Pfeifer's Hall that proved
highly satisfactory save for the accident
that befel Whistler, rendering him in
capable of continuing the contests. His
place was supplied, however, by Christol,
and there was no interruption in the
programme.
For the coming week there will be but
little of interest. Anthony s. Ellis
e'Uncle Toms Cabin" company will oc-
cupy the Opera House on Monday, Tues
day and Wednesday evenings, and will
give a matinee on Wednesday afternoon.
The company is highly spoken of. The
Montreal Journal says of the entertain
ment: s'Large audiences that have pack
ed into Theater Royal, have greeted the
performances of Anthony 6 Ellis the
entire week, Notwithstanding the numer-
Gus entertainments in the city. The vast
drawing attraction of this company Sc
riously interfered with the large opera
company playing at the Academy OF
Music, and empty benches was their fate
Anthony & Ellis may register themselves
as solid favorites in Montreal, and always
sure of big business here and the success
that belongs to merit"
On Friday and Saturday evenings, the
romantic play "The Iron Mask" will be
presented by the Brighton & Carver COM
pany. The play has never been pre-
sented in st. Paul The following sum-
mary of its incidents is given:
For thirty years, commencing with 1859, a
mysterious prisoner was confined in the fort
ress on the Isle of St. Marguerite, and after
wards in the bastile, by the French govern
ment. Although his food was served to him
on silver plate, and his passion for fine laces,
drawing and music was consulted, and his
attendants and the governor of the fortress
waited upon him with bended kness and barred
heads, he was condemned perpetually to wear
al uOH udSk u COuccal ulS ledLuCeS, uOne
knew his identity but the governor, and he
was guarded with the most rigid security,
orders being given that should he ever
attempt to proclaim himself, he should be
killed on the spot together with all those who
had discovered the secret of his identity.
The mystery, "Who was the man in the ir on
mask?" has never been conclusively solved;
there are many theories, but the most plausi-
BILE and the best substantiated is that he was
the elder twin brother of Louis XIV, child of
Anne of Austria. Louis XIII, fearing feuds
by two claimants to the crown, sent this son
to be brought up in distant province in ig-
norance of his rank. In after years he be-
came aware of his identity and joined con-
spiracy against his brother, but was captured.
The theory is that he was the prisoner in the
iron mask, doomed to this terrible disguise,
that his extraordinary resen- blance to the
king should not be discovered.
Next week Denman Thompson opens
an engagement in his well-known charac-
ter of Joshua Whitcomb, and will remain
a week. Mr.. Thompson is well known
in St. Paul as well as throughout the
country, and will no doubt pack the
Opera house at each representation.