St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-09-07

duced in Chicago last week and the scenery
and mechanical effects are spoken of as.yery
fine.
The Ford Opera company produced the
"Queen's Lace Handkerchief at the STAN
dard theater, Chicago last week, in good
style.
Daisy Murdoch, who played Hebe with the
Orpheus company, now disports herself as
Ida Mule cupid with that fractured organi-
cation.
Mile. Rhea is in Paris, looking as "pretty
as picture" and has added couple of new
PLAYS to the repertoire for her next season
through the States.
Henry Irving says amatuers theatricals are
the nursuries of the stage. This causes a
critic to remark that he has noticed ''ama-
teurs generally act like children.'
Manager Hess has been having trouble
with his company in Chicago, and Martha"
was shelved few nights ago on account of
the failure of Miss Darlington to appear.
Minnie Maddern is scarce twenty years old
quite young thing. She used to play the
child in Fritz, and the schooling she re-
ceived from Mr.. ]. K. Emmett has been of
immense benefit to her.
Mr. and Mrs. W. ]. Florence are billed to
appear at the Opera house, commencing on
the 18th inst.
The Den Thompson company will appear
at the Grand Opera house, st. Paul, week
from tomorrow night.
SCALED Back was produced in New York
last week, and it is said to have been great
iu,p ant fhsa I
Over four month have been devoted by
scenic artists and carpenters at The Boston
Museum to preparations for Edwin Booths
production of Hamlet, and OthelIo is now in
hand.
Maurice Barrymore will shortly return to
America He has given up the idea of hay
ing his play Nadjezda done by Sarah Bern
hardt, and will come home to attend to his
other pieces.
Minnie Woods Metropolitan female min
stres were in Chicago last week and an ex-
change says that artists DESTROYS of studying
the grotesque in female anatomy should
bear in mind the day and date.
The curtain of the Grand Opera house will
rise promptly at eight o'clock during the sea-
son, and it is desirable for both the conven-
fence of the actors and management and
the pleasure of the public that the audience
be seated by this hour.
Dalziel's NeaCs Letter, the brightest dramatic
| publication in the country, has added colored
cartoons to its entertaining pages, the first
one appearing with last weeks issue. The
subject is ''Her Husband" the first of a
series of men we know, and it is an admir-
able take off aud one that does full justice
to the peculiar fungi it represents.
GIANNINL.-The tenor who has been set
ting San Francisco wild has received an Of
fer from Mapleson, to which he answered:
81 will sing three times week in any of the
fifteen operas of my repertoire for $4,000 a
month" The last proviso indicates bust
ness capacity on the part of Giannini. If the
Frisco papers are to be credited Giannini is
second Gayarre.
Aimee arrived in the Normaudie from
Havre Sunday. In spite Of the sad condi-
ton of her mothers health, she looks even
more sprightly than ever, and after an ami
mated argument with the custom housespeo-
| pie at the new barge Office, which is a great
nuisance, she drove off to her house on
Twenty-seventh street, New York, amid
cheers of devoted adorers.
In speaking of the play SCALED Back"
a New York correspondent says: s'The sit
uations are strong, and the incidents are
very striking, the characters being pow
erfully drawn and well distributed. Its sue
cess, for there is no doubt that it made an
emphatic one, equals anything that has
been here for years. The audience filed
every portion of the house, and freely ex-
pressed their approval.
Sarah Bernhard has left Paris for Faux
BONES, to recuperate her health and gain
strength for the creation of q strong new
role. AS she was entering the train at the
Orleans railway station, fire broke out in
her little Hotel Rue Fortuny. The fire be-
gan in the bed room, and in few minutes
had consumed the bed curtains and mate
rally damaged valuable capony painted by
Georges Clairin, representing the Triumph of
Venus, Of which Sally thought much.
Mr.. NJ. B. Curtis is having his new COM
edy drama ''Spot Cash, or Sam1 of Posen on
the Road" revised while he is playing it..
He commenced an engagement at Hooley's
theater, Chicago, in August, and the play is
said to have been very greatly improved by
the changes already made, though it was a
success from the start. Miss AIbina de Mer,
who assumes the leading female role, Hor-
tense plays Camille at the matinee, thus
giving Sam1 rest.
Miss Lizzio May Ulmer, now playing at the
Bijou theater, Boston, in 'Dad's Girl" a
story of New England society life,w appear
at the Fourteenth Street theater, New York,
September s, in the same play. The cast
includes Messrs. G. Leslie Allen, JAS z.
Wilson, Geo. Ames, Harry Robinson E. T.
Weber, Harry Wilson, Misses Nellie Taylor,
Kate Burlingame and Edna Dellano. The
scenery painted expressly for ''Dad's Grip
is said to be exceptionally fine, Nantasket
beach by moonlight being gem of scenic
art
Although Shakespeare gives us to under
stand that in ancient Rome each actor came
riding in on his ass, he ailudes to the en-
trance into the city, not on to the stage.
And so far as dramatic history goes, the first
forerunner OF Lawyer Marks and his four
cared steed was Joseph Hamis, the celebrated
comedian, who fourished in 1890, and who
is described by Tom Brown in his works. He
rode on to the stage of old Drury Lane on g
donkey to speak prologue, creating, says
the old historian, such laughter that he was
more THAI half an hour in speaking it. He
died after short illness, April 4, 1701, and
was buried in Convent Garden churchyard
Joe was an experienced gambler, and, going
to Paris, assumed the title of count, and
tricked many of the rich citizens out of large
sums of money.
THE CHURCHES.
st. Paul's church. Episcopal, corner Ninth
and Olive streets, Rev. E. S. Thomas rector