Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-12-26

only the lovers of the beautiful in art, but
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talent among women.
FLIGHTS o. LONDON"
A Highly Successful Presentation of the
Grand Spectacular Mel0drana--Magnifi-
cent Scenic Effects and Excellent Acting.
The fact that tho curtain was rung up on
the first act of Golfers Lights o. London"
at twenty minutes past O'Clock, p. M,
and was rung down on the last scene of
the last act at seven minutes to l O'Clock,
9. M, and that . al audi ence filing
nearly every seat in the house,
but very few had left be-
fore the finale, tells the merits of the play
and its presentation by the Collier, better
and more convincingly than could any
words of our of commentator.
In explanation of the great length of the
play last evening, it should be stated that
in its presentation all the scenery used is
carried By the company, two railroad cars
being employed for the purpose. The
company reached St. Paul at 1920 p. m.
yesterday, one hour late, after which q
| loes of forty minutes occurred, due to a
misunderstanding with the omnibus COM
lRny. in getting the scenery to the Opera
house. To add to the troubles
of the company the Opera
Louise stage was found to be the smallest,
| By nearly four feet in depth, of any stage
| upon which the play has been presented.
forts were made it was impossible to get
all the scenery in place, while constant
trouble and delay was experienced in
working and changing that in
,.~e. The play is, however,
what is termed a heavy one,'' and Ii 80 p.
n. Is Il good hour for the curtain to be
,uag down Ill the last scene.
The play is bit of English life, in
| which IS introduced many characters. with
Harold Armytage, son CT Squire Armytage
Hull, as the central figure. Through lead
ing fast life and the scheming misrepre-
tage, the son is discovered. fol-
lowing which the cousin plans robbery of
the Armytage family jewels Preen,a
north country man being his tool,to which
Preen lent himself in the expectation that
his daughter Hetty, with whom Cliff
ford pretended to be deeply
in love, would be the future
mistress of Armytage hall, which is
fastened upon the son, and for which he is
sentenced to penal seryitude for fseven
years. The escape of Harold, and the at
tempts of Clifford to hunt him down, with
the slow unravelling of the latter's villany,
mainly through Preen's revenge for the
treachery shown by Clifford to bis
daughter Hetty, forms the
plot of the play. While
the play itself contains many strong sitaa-
tons, calling for first class talent TO por-
tray them acceptably, as is done by the
Collier company, it is undeniable that the
commanding feature of the presentation
is the most excellent manner in which it
is mounted.
The play opens with a view of the park
and grounds of Armytage hall, with the hall
On one side of the stage and the lodge on The
other, during which Harold, who recently
married Bess Marks, daughter of the Lodge
Keeper, approaches his father, pleading
repentance, asking for aid, is denied and
diSowned, the scene ending with the sons
conviction for the robbery. The second
scene is principally important from the
fact that it introduces Joseph
Jarvis (Mr. Harry Harwood) and
Mrs. Jarvis, (Fanny Denham Rouse)
of Jarvis Temple OF the Legiti-
ulate, WAC encounter Harold. escaped
from prison on the road from Chatham to
LONDON i'll the snow and moonlight, the
scene being one OF the handsomest and
most ilistic ever seen or The Opera
house stage. A still finer scene. and de-
cided!y the best ever given IN this city,
was the meeting between Clifford and
Preen on bridge over the Thames,
London, in which, after Preen his de-
nounced Clifford and threatened MS ex-
posure, he is hurled into fhe river. from
| which he is rescued by Harold. who is
sleeping with his wife under the shadows
of the bridge, the third of the two bodies
as they struck the river and the spIashes
of water that followed being
exceedingly fine in design
and execution. The closing act.sbowing the
arrival Of Harold at Cliford's instigation
In ''The Borough Saturday night, with
his arraignnent, the depouenent of
Preen, in which he produced tho will of the
old squire IN favor of his sou Harold. and
the downfall Of the schenling william Cliff
ford, was admirably set forth by the
scenery and forcibiy portrayed by the
actors.
Of the actors it may be necessary to say
that all took their parts acceptably well,
while the Seth Preen of Z. Il. Glenny, the
Mr.. Harry Jarvis Of Harry Ha1wood, the
Harold Armytage CT Louis Atkins, the
Clifford of W. S. Davoil, the Mrs. Jarvis Of
Fanny Denham Rouse, The Bess Marks of
Della Morlet, and the Tim, q waif, of Lit
lie Edna Bankson, were of decided merit.
The piece is to be repeated every even
ing this week, and with the absence OF the
annoying delays of last evening, which are
promised hereafter, there can be 30 doubt
the house viii be crowded on each present
alton.
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