St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-12-07


the past week al this popular resort has been
bighly satisfactory, Lizzie Evans and Barlow
~ WILSON'S Ministries both giving fine per
! formanees.
Ristori's mplishments in three lang
uages place her head and shoulders above
any living actress. Her mastery of English.
at her advanced age, too, IS her crowning
triumph.
Commodore DayidsUn's new roller skating
rink is progressing finely, and viii be COM
pleted ready to open about the 18th OF De-
cemher. 1t will be one OF the largest and
finest buildings Of SIS class liz the northwest.
The German society will give one of their
standard plays at the Athenaeum tonight,
assisted by the Mannerchor singing society
and Seibert's full orchestra. These dramas
are always enjoyable, and large audience
is assured.
The engagement OF Barlow d Wilson'S
minsirels, just closed, at the Grand, was
very successful and profitable. The three
evening performances and the matinee net
ted $500 more than the receipts of their
Minneapolis engagement for the same period.
Colonel Mapleson has issued a manifesto
to the effect that Patti viii be heard in New
York no more this season, because of the
directors refusing 10 ''anIe.'' She will
MARBLE in the provinces under Maplesonian
management for the remainder of the sea-
son.
Fannie Elssler, the distinguished 'danseuse,
died last week at her home in Vienna. She
was seyenty-three years of age, and, in her
latter years, she was as distinguished for her
] pharafipc and lfhnralfffae ~ q, -
was famed as an artistic
Mr.. NJ. B. Curtis (Sam'l Of Posen) has de-
termined that next season he will not under
any circumstances play at matinees, neither
/ on Wednesdays. Saturdays nor HOLIDAYS.
Mr.. Curtis is SO strong an attraction now that
he can afford TO adopt this rule.
Mr.. w. J. Seaman played very profitable
engagement in Baltimore last week. He
/ plays in Philadelphia this December u week
and then through New England and Penn
! sylvania until December %, when he opens
at Rochester, n. Y, for one week.
Mr.. H. II. Cross, the gifted artist, attended
the minstrel matinee yesterday and during
the performance he took lightning sketches
of Messrs Barlow 81 Wilson. Hughey Dough-
erty and other members OF the company.
! The figures loom up every bit as life-like as
/ when seen on the stage.
Mr.. W. W Kelly has taken the manage
ment Of Grace Hawthorne, tue new star Of
which so many good things are said. The
report that Grace Hawthorne and Grace
Courtland, the (Which OF Wall street, are
one and the same person is a base SANDER.
Her season opens il ST. LOUIS IN about three
weeks.
Louise D. Reynolds, the soprano, died in
Norwich, Conn, November Il She was
born taere and was educated in Italy Two
years ago she appeared in concerts through
gu. the country in connection with Annie
Louise Cary. She had long suffered from
cancer in the throat. and had been slowly
dying in Norwich since last summer.
Ioseph Jefferson closes his regular season
IN Washington or the 18th inst He will
70 to lis southern plantation 10 rest until
April 20, when he resumes playing, opening
at Lynehburg, Va. His present company Is
re-engaged, and its members win, in the
meantime, Join Mr.. Il. /. Downing in the
production Of piece called Tally Ho.
Manager Chapman, of Barlow < Wilson'S
minstrel company, received telegram from
Madison yesterday notifying him that the
Opera house Of that city had been condemned
as unsafe. The company were to have given
a show in that city tomorrow evening and
he at once arranged to engage the Music
hall at Madison 50 that no dates win be can
celled.
Mrs. Lucy Hooper, writing from Paris,
says Of Sarah Bernhardt: "She is very iIl.
She is no loDge young, and the lookout is
not.an encouraging one for the many adj
mirers of her genius to contemplate. He-
movements have been so unforeseen. so
rapid, so untiring, as TO win from the Paris
ian journalists for her the soubriquet OF the
electrical eel woman Her suicide Is looked
for any day"
John Stetson lost IS, 600 betting on Blaine.
lie bet on Cleveland originally, but his nerve
failed and he hedged. Arson Pond won
$1,000. Ned Gilmore. sl2, 600. Both Pond
and Gilmore hedged. John Sehoeffel won a
cool 0,000. and never hedged a dollar.
Here's cool nerve. Shed Shook lost $40 600
on four bets of $500 each. Joe Murphy
lost quarter and wore Grape on his hat for
a week.
Harry Chaplain, the popular and veteran
business manager for Barlow & Wilson'S
Ministries was in Chicago last week, and
possessed OF more than the usual modesty,
he requested that no notice be made of his
presence in that city. The request was car
ried out until he had left the city, when the
papers opened fire on him, and a regular
fusilade Of fattering Dotices were showered
ON his devoted head. The best of il is that
he deserves all and more than he receives in
this direction.
Madame Janauschek played in ssMy Life"
In Chicago last week. The plot has to do
with French opera singer. dissolute and
passe, but still with her admirers, who exer-
cises her wiles upon young Englishman to