St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-03-30
Dramatic Notes.

Sol Smith Russell is in Canada.
Mile. Rhea is doing New York state.
J. K. Emmett is due in New York tomorrow
night.
Mrs. Langtry appears in st. Louis to-mor-
row night.
Keene, the tragedian, is billed this week
for Buffalo.
"The Rag Baby'' is the name of new play.
What next?
The giddy Alice Oates will ''mash' St..
Louis this week.
Edwin Booths New York engagement
commences tomorrow.
Margaret Mather is in the wooden nutmeg
district of New England.
Kate Claxton and the escaped orphans are
billed for Denver this week.
The Fay Templeton Opera company open
in Chicago tomorrow night.
Maggie Mitchell is playing in the yellow
butter district of New York state.
''Jalma,n the great scenic success, con-
tinues to draw large crowds in Chicago.
The ''Storm Beaten" company appear in
Cleveland, commencing tomorrow night.
Fanny Davenport is billed for Philadelphia
this week. She plays ''Fedora," of course.
Madame Christine Nilsson will not appear
at the concert of the Choral society as ex-
pected.
''Princess Ida," Gilbert s. Sullivan's latest
success, was the leading attractions In Chi
cage last week.
The return New York engagement of
Henry Irving opens tomorrow night and
lasts four weeks.
Ada Gray is playing south. Ada is good
girl, but not much of an actress. The sweet
sunny is good place for her.
Mapleson is said to have soured on the
star system. in the way of dramatic astrono-
my he thinks they are played out.
John T. Raymond is playing ''Fresh" in
New York; the people of that burg ought to
appreciate something of this kind.
"Esmeralda'' will be presented at the
Grand Opera house, st. Paul, by the Madison
Square company, April II, IS and 10.
Geo. c. Min, the ex-preacher actor is out
in a card protesting against the statement
rich uncle.
James O'Neill will star on his own hook
next season. AS he gets $400 week now
and a centage, he had better let good
enough alone.
The Olympic theater has closed its doors
for repairs, and will reopen ON April z
with the Rentz- Santley company, when fine
programme will be presented.
Geo. w. June, business manager of sou!
Williams" is in the city arranging for his
star to appear at the Grand Gin one of the
fin est,'' April z, s and g..
Frank Mayo plays in Cincinnati this week.
If Frank had only been in the American
Berlin couple of nights ago, his famous in
junction might have been good pointer for
the mob.
s'Gabriel Conroy,' the dramatization from
Bret Harte's novel, was presented in Chicago
last week by Mr. and Mrs. Mckee Rankin.
The play suits the Rankins and takes well
with an audience.
Alice Cunning has made big hit in
London with her new play, Breaking o.
Butterfly" II she succeeds as well in this az
in the breaking of hearts, she must be wha
| the boys call daisy.
The soloists engaged for the third concert
of the St. Paul Choral society are Mrs. Jane
o. Van Etten, MISC bfye Shave, Miss May
! Murphy, Mrs. fBastien Marky, Mr.. VIII
Dorgan, Mr.. VIM. Manner, Mr.. W. Fl
Buckelew and Frank Danz, Jr.
The Rev. Justin Fulton is the last cranl
who has tried to obtain little cheap notoriet.
| by venting empty TRADES against the stage
The other day this reverend windmill SPOKE
as follows: 'sPlace me upon polar iceburg
where no verdure greets the eye, where
naught but the white BEARS growl can b.
heard let me live where no friend shall chez
| me with his smile; bar me in prison, but d.
not, oh do not compel me to mingle with thu
ungodly crowd of tfieatfe.'' 1t is abou
time such nonsense as this is sat down upon
| In strange contrast are the remarks o
| Condorcet, who in his life of Voltaire, says
s9Theaters are truly useful institution; it il
by them that frivolous and inconsiderat
youth secures some habits of feeling ant
| thinking, that moral ideas are not absolutel
strange, and that intellectual pleasures are, u
some extent, obtained. The sentiment
which are excited in the representation of
tragedy elevate the feelings, purify tn
thoughts and remove that apathy, and tina
self Importance which are maladies to whicl
the rich and dissipated are condemned b.
nature. Spectacles form in some degree
link between the men who think and thos
who do not.
Prof L. P. Brooke, who acts as stage man
ager of the Flour City minstrels, is com
poser of minstrel music, orchestra and band
music, and has arranged many of the piece
and acts presented. He was formerly {
member of Hayerly's company, and per