Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-11-25
ADJUSTMENTS.
THE MAN UP A TREE.

THE MAN UP TREE.
To man up tree it looks as if the de-
mand for the ham-fat species of drama
was on the increase. If any one doubts
the assertion LEI him not carp and cavil
but let him take camp chair and lor-
gnette and Chamber up to the perch where
things are seen as they really exist.
The illusion racket is a good thing but
it won't wear. This is the period of the
song and dance racket, of bad ballots,
cheap comedy productions and skinned
melodrama; of dramatic weaklings who
make the people laugh with grievance or
cry with preposterous sentiment.
After a while some man with a
taste for the drama and genius for the
eternal fitness of things will come along
and hit the whole tribe of dramatic dudes
on the head, and then when they are dead
and buried a taste may be kindIed for the
true in art and the drama.
In that happy time Comedy
will wipe the tears of shame from her eyes
throne. In that time also, man or
woman will have to do something else be-
sides smirk, or get off stale and nasty
puns to put an audience into good hu-
NOR. There will be no show for this
species of hay-rick ticklers. They will be
dead and their graves will not be kept
green, either, for there will be no moss In
their part of the cemetery. In that gold
en- time the man up a tree Will get down
and sit in the parqueste
next to the musical tank
for then there will be no more bald-headed
men in the front seats, and everybody will
have show. This, gentle reader, will be
the millennium and we will not be there.
"PoP."
Rice's Surprise Party open an engage
ment al the Opera house in their new ex-
travaganza, "Pop." 1t is said to be very
to the following from an exchange: "Pop"
fairly fixed at the Academy of Music last
evening. better draught of nonsense
has not been quaffed by our amusement
hunters this season. Rice's Surprise Party
is superb at entertaining, and every mo-
ment of the raised curtain last night was
one of ecstasy. The personnel of the
company is fine throughout. There are
ten of them, five of either sex, each an
artist in some specially, and as combina-
ton, very strong indeed. There is Just
thread enough of the plot to string the
pearls of their specialties upon, and there
were pearls-of music, of dancing, of
opera, of comedy, of recitation, of imper-
sonation, of every fun-arousing feature
that people go to amusements for. And
it was all clean and pure, representation
that one could enjoy with his wife, mother,
sister or fiance by his side. Such shows are
naught save recreational and educational,
it is true, but recreation and relaxation are
precisely what brain and muscle workers
need to rest them and renew them for more
brain and muscle effort to come.
THE BOSTON IDEALS.
Manager Foster of the Boston Ideal
Opera company bobbed to the front in st
Paul last night, weighing eleven pounds
more than when last here, and just as sassy
as ever. He says the company has been
prosperous, and if bis appearance may be
taken as criterion, ne is correct. The
Ideals have just finished a successful en-
gagement in Chicago, and they will open
an engagement of six nights and two matt
nees at the st. Paul Grand, commencing a.
week from tomorrow night. The sale of
seats for the engagement will open next
Thursday.
The company comes to st. Paul with the
prestige of pas. success, and with all the
elements of popularity which contributed
to make them the fayorits of all combina-
tions on the road. This season the oom-
pany embraces as principals Marie Stone,
Geraldine Ulmar, Mathilda Philippe.
Lizzie Barton, Tom Karl, Henderson Wor-
sell, Myron W. Whitney, H @. Barnabee,
W. II. Mcdonald and Geo. rockingham.
The repertoire for the week is as fol-
lows: Monday, "Fatinitza;" Tuesday, flor
the first time by them in this city,, ''Gir-
ofe Giroha;" Wednesday, matinee, "Mas-
cot;' Wednesday evening, for the
first time, Fra Diavolo:"
Thursday, Marriage of Figaro" Friday,
''Gi oae Girohs,'' Saturday matinee, 'Mus-
keteers," evening, FRA Disvolo'
The orchestra is said to be the best on
the road and the chorus and company com
prlses ffty-seven people.
The PROFESSIONAL MATINEE.
New York is addicted to what is termed
professional matinees. About week ago
Irving, the eminent English actor, gave
oae of these performances to an audience
that numbered several thousand people,
and on this occasion he performed HLouis
III" A New York exchange took the
trouble to interview number of "pro-
fessionsl" people who had attended the
performance, and among Others We Gull
the following:
Louis Morrison: A great performance
indeed. Mr.. Irving fsscinstes me. The
first and second act of Louis XI are among
the finest things have ever seen on the
stage. I am very glad of the opportunity
/ have had to see him.
Gerald Eyre: A great piece of acting
indeed this Louis II. From first to last
it is performance you don't want to miss
line of; l have never seen any actor so
good in the part.
0smond Teerle: have heard of PEG
pie who study Irving's marnerisms and
his greatness, his care, his niceity, these
are the things to study. He is unequaleG
as a character actor the world over as in
London adverse judgement has turned COM
pletely IN his favor.
Tony Pastor: Yes sir, it is grand, sir;
grand indssd.