St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-03-16
Dramatic Notes.


produced in Chicago May Goth.
BARLEY Campbell is evolving a new play
TO be named ''The Lascar's Love"
The escaped youngster ''Peck's Bad Boy,'
will loom up at the Standard theater, Chi
cage, this week.
"Jalma' continues to dazzle crowded aud
fences with its spectacular gorgeousness at
McVicker's theater, Chicago.
Walter Bentley the "Silver King'' hero is
worth $3.50, 900. This makes him bonanza
in more respects than in the mere sense of
acting.
Annie Pixley will be seen in ''Zora" in
Chicago this week. What's in a name?
Wonder if Fora is not highfalutin alias for
Sallie or Sarah.
The Lily, Langtry, is getting herself dis
liked in New York, and all because her re-
ligious scruples would not let her appear on
Ash Wednesday.
The railroad black list for March contains
the names of thirty theatrical people, some of
whom are away up in the profesh. beat
is beat for all that.
s"The Girl Love- company went to pieces
in Chicago and the escaped actors who had
the gall to appear in the play are held as
hostages for board bills.
The five hundredth performance of BARLEY
Campbel's 'tWhite Slave'' took place about
week ago, and handsome souvenirs were
given to the audience.
Clara Morris talks of going to England,
just to show Johnny Bull that she can take
the crink out of the frizzes of both Mary An
derson and Minnie Palmer.
''In the Ranks, 1.-THE only new attraction in
Chicago last week, is described as striking
mainly for its prolixity and writer says
that it does not possess an original character
or situation.
Barrett is said to have gone on as Hamlet,
in Indianapolis, in the chamber scene with
out any sword, and had to rush off and get
1t. Can it be that Larry is getting soft in the
upper story?
Marie Barkani is Berlin tragedienne,
who, it is rumored, will visit America next
season. She is a professional beauty, and
enterprising dudes will please notice that she
travels without Freddy.
Edwin Millillen of the Boston Theater Co.,
and playing ''Jaima'' in Chicago, died at the
Briggs house in the latter city March 9TH.
He was only 80 years old but was rated as
one of the good young comedians.
''Skipped by the Light of the Moon," is
the romantic title of musical comedy to be
produced in Chicago this week AS your
Chicago man generally waits for dark
night the title is not especially apropos.
A Cincinnati critic at the late operate fes-
tival displayed the culture of the Paris of
America in the following lofty review of
leading singer: ''Sembrich knocked down
all the pins on the alley, kicked over the
alley and slung the roof clear off the .rafters.
Eliza Weathersby CMrs. Nat Goodwin)
says: "When an actor marries an actress,
the result is happiness; but when an actress
marries q man who is not on the stage, the
results are often to be deplored Therefore,
first marry man in your own walk of life,
and, secondly, stick together in the same
company. Separation will kill anything"
Mr.. Edwin P. Hilton, late manager of
Conley's variety theatre, has opened dra-
matte agency in st. Paul and he is out in
card in which he proposes to supply the va
riety theatres of the northwest with first class
male and female artists. Mr.. Hilton is one
of the most experienced and reliable mana
gers in the country, and it is to be hoped
that his new enterprise will meet with the
encouragement it so rightly merits.
Of Fanny Davenport as the Princess in
Fedora the Nears Letter of Chicago says:
She seems to have made an exhaustive
study of the possibilities of the character,
and her conception of it is well considered
and comprehensive. She has the advantage
of looking the part to the life, and from the
moment of her entrance, pale and agitated
by q premonition of danger to her lover, to
her final fall she is every inch the Russian
princess pictured by the dramatist.
''The Strangers of Paris is great success
on the road from all accounts. The piece is
a melodrama; but it is essentially French
melodrama, which is very different thing
from the Henry Pettitt article The jaded
appetite of the melodrama-surfete public
will find a new and attractive thing in this
piece. The novel from which the play is
taken is one of the strongest that has ema-
mated from the powerful pen of Adolphe
Belot; and the dranatization of David Be-
lasco is said to embody all the thrilling scenes
of the book The plot is complicated, start
nngly original and most exciting. The
motive is one OF absorbing Interest,"
western critic lately saw George Min as
Hamlet, and OF the following day his con-
illusions were published as follows: s'There
is too much Ginning in the piece. The au-
thor is way behind the times, and seems to
forgetthat what we want nowadays is hair-rais-
ing situations and detectives. In the hands
of a skillful playwright detective would have
been put upon the track Of Hamlet's uncle,
and the old man would have been hunted
down in manner that would have excited
the audience out of their number elevens.