St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-10-12

tions.
Midget, new four act drama written for Mag
gle Mitchell by Mr.. Fred Williams, will be pro-
duced in New York during the season.
Ristori arrives in America this month, and
begins her tour in November. She is said to
have become quite proficient in English
Pauline Markham, the old favorite of bur-
lesque, is devoting her efforts to acting in emo
tional plays in the small towns OF the east.
The Hanlons will go TO Paris next year, and
play their new pieces Ut the Theatre de Farie-
ties. They will be supported by French COM
pany.
Gilbert & Sulivan's new opera will not be pro-
duced in London until spring. The American
right to it has already been bespoken by D'Oyely
Carte.
Maggie Mitchell strange to say. has 10 rival
Ill her peculiar line. 1t is a we'll known fact that
this artistic positively refuses to play Sunday
nights.
The revival of The Beggar Student at the New
York Casino, will introduce for the first time
Digby Bell Ollendoff and Laura Joyce as the
Countess.
1t is said that Eben Plympton refused to go
out with Lynwood, because Maud Changers
name was not on the bills in the same sized type
as his own.
John T. Raymond's play, by W. D. Howes
and Mark Twain, is said to be quite too awfully
| funny. Wonder if Mr.. Howells furnished the
comedy .-ET.
Augustin DAILY has engaged Miss Nettie Hoo
per, the only daughter of the q. S. Vice Consul
General at Paris. Miss Hooper has been study
ing for the stage for Il couple of years.
1t is said that Lenora Bradley Robson &
Cranes leading lady, will star next year in q
piece by Joseph Bradford, entitled Dross. Lenora
had better do nothing of the kind-Ee.
Efie Esler has in preparation Ciprico's play,
A Daughter of nature, which is shortly to be
| produced at the Baldwin, san Francisco. La
! Belle Russo and Called Back are to precede it.
James W. Morrissey will be the business
manager of Brooks 6 Dickson, both for Ristori
and La Charbonniere, until January, when he
will give his entire time to the management of
| Rhea.
Robert Buchanan says that the American peo-
pie have not seen his best play yet, It is en-
| titled the Nine Days Queen, and is founded on
| episodes in the life and death of Lady Jane
Grey
Mr. Charles Abbott, now leading man with
Maggie Mitchell, is the same gentleman who so
severely thrashed Osman Tearles English friend
at the Morton house last spring for calling Amer
lean actors cham fatters.'
The students at Eastou, Pa. have an odd way
of demonstrating their approval OF an actress.
They threw pretzels at Catherine Lewis the other
evening, and she picked one up and nibbled it,
greatly to the boys delight,
| majority of the members of John McCul-
lough's disbanded company will not suffer much
by the interruption of their season, they will,
in all probability, be used as the support of Nine
Ristori, who is also under the management of
| Mr.. Brooks
The Chicago Ne,CS Letter is rather left handed
in some of its compliments as witness this: The
gratifying assurance is given that this will be the
| Chicago Ideals farewell tour. Could not these
fossils be induced to take their farewell without
making tour!
! NeaoS Letter.: The new Chicago Opera house
company have made the Frohmans an offer for
Madame Modjeska to open the theater in August
next. They were obliged to Decline as Nodes
ka's European engagements prevent her arriving
in this country before October.
The Boston Ideal Opera company begins its
season Monday evening, at Cambridgeport. The
company includes the same vocalists that have
| long boon familiar to the public. The troupe
plays two weeks and then rests till after election.
Bude and Frears Bunch of Keys company
opened at Manitowoc, Wisconsin, last Monday
evening. The company includes Hattie Ander-
1
Agnes Earle, Fred II. Frear, James H. Dyer, W.
IL. Currie, Arthur Dunn and Il. j. Ross.
An exceptionally strong dramatic company is
supporting Maggie Mitchell this season. Among
| the prominent names of her company are Messrs
Charles Abbott, E. F. McCl amin, George Park
hurst, E. G. Spangler, and the Misses Lillian
| Andrews, E. A. Eberle Janet Henry, Lizzie
Hudson and Minnie Galloway
OF Fanny Elssler, the 'divine Fanny" it is
said that her personal charms were not lasting
as for many years she has been corpulent, and
ford in complexion, though full of bon homme
and esprit. A few years ago she followed the
continental fashion OF old maids and became de-
won't, giving literally of her means to the Catho-
lie church, and attending mess daily.
The dramatic critic Of Chicago Sports has the
unappreciative mind to say; II doubt if j. NJ
| Hills prodigy, Miss Mather. who comes here
next week, will lighthen things up much either,
certainly not by playing Juliet. This is unques-
| tionaby Miss Mather's best character, and one
! in which she has been lavishly praised am
inclined to think that Miss Mather is a very
much overrated young woman, and that j. NJ.
| Hill is most admirable manager"
Fanny Elssler never married, though titles
laid at her feet, and offers were continually
made from her sixteenth to her seventeenth
year. The great scandal of her life was her
|
she a bio oming beauty of eighteen, the duke
being son OF the great Napoleon. Notwth
standing the notoriety this liason obtained,
Fanny always pleaded not guilty. and went so
far as to declare that the love passages between
them must have been of a very metaphysical
aud harmless character, as she never set eyes on
| the gentleman in her life.
Henry Irving sent the following dispatch with
reference to John McCullough's misfortune: al
learned with the deepest regret and sorrow Of
the sad state of my friend, John Mccullough. l
earnestly hope that it is but temporary, and that
we shall soon see him restored to his friends and
| the public. When / met him first in London,
some years ago, l was much impressed by his
| fue physique, and by his genial and manly char
| acter, which won him in England troops of
friends. After his great success in Drury Lane
in Virginius saw him often, and always felt my
self cheered by his hearty and buoyant spirits. -
Fanchon has been greatly improved. in fact al
most rewritten by Maggie Mitchell. since she
first received 1t from the authors hands. having
added the music and introduced the famous
! shadow dance--a dance, by the way, that made
the chief hit in the opera Of ''Dinorah. -
Fanchon was first produced at the St. Charles
| theater, New Orleans, the night following Wash
| ington's Birthday celebration in the year 1861,
| nearly quarter of a century ago; it has made
more money for Maggie Mitchell than all the
popular with the public as ever.
Maggie Mitchell has the prettiest place at Long
Branch OF any Of the theatrical colony. II is a
beautiful spot of about twenty acres, we'll shaded
with poplar and elm trees, and about half a mile
from the ocean; the house, the largest and most
picturesque of any at the Branch, is built in the
modern style Of architecture, with broad yeran-
dahs encircling It; there, during the summer
months, Maggie Mitchell entertains royalty all
| those who are fortunate enough to be numbered
among her friends. She Is bright and chirpy
off the sfare IS she is on. and IL would do Won