Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-12-23

ADJUSTMENTS.

three evenings of the week, the dates fol-
| the latter part Of the week moi
having been filed. The entertainment
presented by Prof. Stoddard proved e1-
ceedingly interesting and attractive, be-
| sides furnishing very considerable fund
of delightful and useful information.
They were only fairly attended.
| and in view of this it is perhaps a. we'll
that the remainder of the week was with
out attractions, for if high order of en-
tsrtainment fails to draw big houses, what
hope ia there for the average run Of trav-
cling combinationss
soMINa EVENTS.
Mestayer's Tourists Specially company
will play the first Christmas engagement
given at our new and elegant Grand Opera
house. They open tomorrow night for a
period of three nights and gala matinee
Christmas day at p. m. This will be an
excellent opportunity for all the children
and their parents to attend holiday mat
inee at the usual matinee prices. This
company must not be COMPOUNDED with the
Mestayer's Tourists company that visited
our city early in the season. The play is
somewhat similar, but the scenery is larger
and much finer. They have two porters
and two conductors, Mr.. ALT Mcdowell, a
young actor hailing from Baltimore,
takes the character of "Faro Jack" SO we'll
acted by MestaYer himself during their
visit here last season. During a recent
engagement in New York city, Mr.. Mes
tayer was in a box and applauded Nc
Dowell's meritorious acting very heartily,
and expressed himself loudly in praise of
the successor to his character after the en-
tertainment. The other members of the
company are all frst-class and up in their
individual parts. They certainly deserve
liberal patronage, and large houses are
looked for.
Seats can be secured at the box Office
any time during the day, Monday, after 8
o'clock.
THE SILVER KING.
Commencing week from tomorrow
night J. FL. Haverly's company will open
weeks engagement at the Grand Opera
house in the successful melodrama, ''The
Silver King" The story of the drama is
interesting andit is therefore given in full,
as follows:
"The Silver King" is an English melo-
drama, written by Messrs. Jones and Her
man, and originally produced at the
Princess theater, London, in November
1882, where it is still on the boards. Mr..
Wailack purchased from T. French the
American right TO the play, and produced
1t at his theater, New York city, where it had
a run of over 100 nights last season. The
company that will produce it here is high
IL spoken of, and has been playing the
piece in the larger eastern cities with
great success. The authors of the play
found their theme in the following lines
from Tennessee:
hold it truth with him who sings
To one clear harp in divers tones,
That mon may rise on stepping stones,
OF their dead selves to higher things.
These lines are highly suggestive of the
despair, the hope, the triumphs OF life
time; of strong moral struggle ending in
the victory over mans ignoble self. How
far the authors have succeeded in con-
ceiving character in whose life they
could trace the poets theme is best told in
the following synopsis of the drama:
ssIhe curtain rises on Wilfred Denver,
the hero of the play, who, impoverished by
losses on the turf, is seeking TO drown his
despair in drink. He is tainted in his
misery by Geoffry Ware, q former sutton
of his wife, and goaded to madness by
Wares sneers, ne threatens to kill him.
Rushing after him he reaches Wares
chambers late at night and finds them oc-
oupied by gang of burglars, headed by a
swell craftsman, Captain Skinner, who
uses his social position to OBJ
tain points for criminal enterprise. Den
yer is saized and chloroformed, and
soon after Ware enters, and in the strug-
gle that ensues Skinner shoots him With
Denvsrs pistol. After the burglars have
left, Denver slowly RECEIVERS consciousness,
and gradually as the effects of drink and
ckloroSorm wear Off, he reeslls the pur-
pose Of his being there. Cropping for his
hat he stouches Ways's lifsless body,
and the terrible conviction il forced upon
hin that in his drunken frenzy he has full
filed ais threat. Coscssling his revolver,
he ruehss away, feeling himself murderer
and fugitive. In the second act he re-
turns to his wife and makes confession
of his supposed crime, when she assists
him to a disguise and no departs for a
Northern seaport. Before the train
from it to avoid detection, and in so
painfully makes his way to an inn, when
ne lc5fuS tuSt CLIO tEdAA 1IOUl
collided with some wagons laden with Pc
troleum, and the esr in which he was sup
pessd to be wss burnt. He then plans to
leave England for the United States, his
supposed death having made him secure
from pursuit. A few years arc supposed
to elapse, and the curtain rises on Captain
Skinner entertaining his companions at q
villa where Nellie Denver, the wife of the
fugitive, cones to plead that she may not
be sjecssd from her wretohed home be-
Cause the rent is unpaid. Her request is
granted, but Skinner, finding out who shs
is after she has gone, sends after her TO
have her turned out of her home. Mean
time Denver has returned, grswn rich
from silver mining in Nevada, but changed
by sorrow and rsnorss. He finds his
family starving, but, fearing to make him
self known, gives his purse to his child,
whom he nsess, and who returns in time
to pay the rent to SINNERS messenger.
Denver afterwards finds that Skinner and
not himself is the murderer, and the play
ends with the punishment of the guilty and
| triumph of the innocent"
Thu RYAN COMBINATION,
The many friends of Parson Davies, the
business mansger of the Paddy Ryan Ath-
letic combination have, by considerable
| persuasion, induced him to start his party
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