Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-11-27
ADJUSTMENTS.

The event of the past week in the
amusement line in st. Paul was the
Kellogg engagement. While that was In
progress the musical critic of the GLOBE
was allowed full sway. OF course he W as
pleased because it is fashionable to en-
dorse Kellogg. In the Sunday GLOBE,
however, the musical critic is squelched
set down upon as it were, and the
pagan department assumes control.
The heather view of the Kellogg bust
ness Is one not altogether lovely. Itwas
popular to go to the entertainment be-
cause the tickets were expensive, and 1t
was tony, and looked like wealth to at
tend, even if you had to dodge around
the corner to escape the Chinese washee
washee man, who hunts down 'Melicans
with laundry bills. Having attended, it
was popular to clap kid-gloved fingers
enthusiastically whenever the ''fair diva"
screeched, because the utterly utter
people said it was nice. 1t looked just as
though you didn't know anything, had
no music in your soul, couldn't appre-
ciate art, and all that sort of swash, II
YOU failed to grow ecstatic, when, as
matter of fact, the greater portion of the
audience could better understand, and
appreciate the notes of sawmill than
those of the gifted artist-so gifted
ahem!
The heather who is in charge of this
notice comedies that Kellogg was not at
her best. She was in love, and at the age
of sweet thirty-nine that state of affairs
always has a damaging effect upon the
voice. 1t also mixes up the mental facul-
ties and plays the dickens generally. But,
bless your soul, you must not suppose
ANYTHING of this kind was
noticed by the utterly UTTER saw
mill chaps. 1t was given
out in advance that Kellogg was a big
card, and only miserable heather would
admit anything else. She treated the
audience cavalierly, INDUCED in stereo-
typed stage grins, jawed at the fellow
who showed the piano around and yanked
off her 422 button kids much in the style
described by Byron:
a grasshopper sat on a sweet potato vine,
Sweet potatoyine, sweet potato vine,
4 urki-gobbier came up behind
And yanked him off that sweet potato vine.
1t was evident she thought she had
reached pretty distant point in the
west, where the people didn't know
much, and consequently it made
no difference how the per-
Torrance was rendered. If we
were to judge from the reception accord
ed we should say from the heathenish
standpoint, of course) that she judged
rightly. As it was supposed to be fash
ionable, her slipshod rendition of pieces
was received with delight and her evident
contempt for the audience only caused a
fercer clapping of the kids. 1t is probably
fortunate that this was the farewell tour
Of the flair diva" -ah, for there is danger
that the ranks Of the pagans will be
largely increased, even in spite Of the
fashions. The public mind is now so torn
up and mixed with the high notes, Mrs.
Fanshaw, Mr.. Whitney and Kellogg, that
there Is a sort of BLUR covering
the whole affair. There is, however,
great consolation in the fact that the Mrs.
Fanshaw affair was prior to Mr.. Whit
ney's having fallen in love with Miss
Kellogg, and hence, like Rip Van
Wrinkles drink, that time ''don't count"
# the picture was reversed Mr..
Whitney might view things differ
emily. As it is, the pagan critic
having relieved his mind is ready to ex-
claim, "Bless you, my children and ex-
press profound sympathy for both.