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

have been engaged, and will sail by the same
| steamer. The balance OF the company will
be engaged in England. Barret's next sea-
son in this country will be in Denver, Col.
the last week in July, 1884.
Edwin Booth has finally explained why he
always engages the companies on whose in
competency he seems to hold patent to sup
port him. At least he has given what he
says is his reason to an interviewer. This
reason is that he can not get good actors to
do as he wants them to. They think they
know it all and refuse to be schooled into
conforming their performances with his.
| Consequently he is forced to employ medi-
OGRE players, who are not above doing what
they are told. Neither Irving nor Jefferson
seems to have the same difficulty. Let Mr.
Booth explain again.
! Lusby's Music hall, London, was recently
destroyed by fire. Crowder, the manager,
| had favorite tabby, and the tabby had four
kittens which she nursed at the back of the
stage. Soon after the outbreak of the fire
puss was seen rushing about like mad, and
| in her attempts to pass down the corridor
was driven back by the smoke. Atlength
| plucking up courage, she made dash for
the stage and presently returned with one of
her kittens in her mouth. Three she rescued
in this way, but trying for the fourth this de-
voted mamma lost her life, and her blacken-
ed and charred remains, side by side with
! those of the kitten, were subsequently dis
covered by the firemen among the ruins.
Had she lived she ought to have received the
| Bennett medal.
1t has been a good thing for Boston,
and indeed, for Edwin Booth, in the long
run says the Mirror correspondent, that he
and Henry Irving played against each other
last week. 1t has shown, to thinking per
sons, the American superiority to the En-
| glishman in all but superb stage presentation
and management; and that, after all, is not
the actors immediate business. He should
see that it is done but not necessarily to do
it. Mr.. Booth may not be closer student
of Shakespeare or of human nature general
ly than Mr.. Irving; but, undeniably, he can
make that study manifest to greater advan-
tage, while he has no strong mannerisms to
mar his work. His left leg may not be a
poem, but his whole organization is refined
tragedy personifed
| Olive Logan writes from London: ttEvery
| day Miss Lolita is seen walking in the streets
or in the park with handsome young man,
whom some say is her brother, back from
| school in Germany, and others declare to be
her fa1ace, Mr.. Rayne. The first time l see
the arch little actress. shall assault her with
my Toledo pen, and ask her to tell me in
stantly which it is. Minnie Palmer drives
every day in park phaeton with Mr.. Rogers,
! her manager. l have accepted an invitation
to luncheon with them at Morley's hotel next
| Tuesday, and expect to hear mo end of mu-
| steal and dramatic news. Minnies financial
success is so great that she is hungering and
| thirsting for higher artistic standing, and,
hear, is going to revive those old Two
| Orphans, for the purpose of showing John
Bull and his island how well she can play the
| blind girl"
Last November the Hanlon brothers leased
| Hooley's theater, Chicago, for six days and
| two matinees. Hooley made date with
| another combination, getting a larger per
cent. of the receipts. The Hanlons sued for
PEELED to remain idle all that week. Hooley
pleaded that the contract called for Sunday
performances, and was therefore illegal.
Judge Blodgett overruled the demurrer on
| the ground that, as Sunday performance
was not stipulated therein, it could not be so
| construed. Again the defense set up spec
ial plea that contract which involved labor
| and disturbance of the public peace on Sun
day was void.'' Judge Blodgett again ruled
against Hooley, holding that a performance
on Sunday did not necessarily imply a dis
turbance of the peace, and that the defense
was merely predicting what might occur.
| Sunday performances have been given at
violation of the law had never occurred to the
moral Snowman.
Barnum, it now appears, is not to be the
only possessor of white elephant the COM
ing season. Forepaugh has purchased an
excellent specimen, but recently arrived
from the East; Cole has secured another,
and Messrs. Jack and Gill Robinson are at
present negotiating for fourth, which is
ready to be shipped from Hamburg.
The Irving season in Boston ended on
Saturday night with the performance of
''Much Ado About Nothing" before one OF
the largest and most demonstrative audiences
of the week Mr.. Irving and Miss Terry
were honored with repeated calls, Miss Terry
of the two, receiving the heartest applause.
At the close of the performance, after three
calls before the curtain, Mr.. Irving made a
brief speech, in which he spoke with much
warmth of the attention they had received.
He said that when they first appeared here
their welcome was most grateful to them,
and now, on their return, they had been re-
ceived, not as strangers, but as old friends.
| He closed with significant, remark, which
called for renewed applause, to the effect that
they hoped to return to America and that be-
fore the year ended they will appear again
| before a Boston audience. This means,
what has been an open secret, that the nego-
tiations. for the return season are now
completed. Mr.. Irving expressed on behalf
of Miss Terry her appreciation of the kind
ness she had received during their American
season, and her thanks for the splendid re-
ception her audiences had always accorded
her. This second Boston season has been
pecuniarily most substantial success. The
receipts for the week have amount to S24, 600
the largest ever played to by star or visit
ing company.
A Judge on q TreadmiU.
London Letter.
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