St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-03-22
A Theatrical Manager Generally Crit
iciSeS the Taste of st. Paul
Theater-GOers.
A Season of MelOdrama at the Grand
Proves Only Fairly Satisfactory
and Remunerative.
Successful Production st. Patrick's Week
Of a New Operetta by Local
Playwright.
The Hoop of Gold" Company Comes to Grief
and Its Dates Declared Off-NOtes
from Minneapolis.
A MAD MANAGER.
HE MAKES SEVERE REFLECTIONS ON THE TASTE

HE MAKES SEVERE REFLECTIONS ON THE TASTE
OF ST. PAUL THEATER GOERs.
ut is very evident that the people of St.
Paul don't want to see an attraction like
ours; it is too high for them and they can't
appreciate good, clean, wholesome drama,
finely enacted and well mounted. What
they want is another Gold Day When We
Get Left company, or a song and dance
show, where the principal artist falls
from pair of stilts and is lifted up by the
dome of his trousers. / tell you one thin G,
it will be long time before they have a
chance to catch us again. The next time l
come to st. Paul and Minneapolis with an
attraction | intend to food the town with
funny chromos. You can bet I'll pack the
house, and I'll have carriage ready to jump
the town right after the performance.
Here is play that was given in New York
to crowded houses; it was witnessed besides
by every critic in the city, and pledge you
nay word that play was never produced
in New Y ork that received such universally
favorable criticisms. And just look at the
housed Hardly enough to pay hotel bills and
ansportati0n.'
uttered by a short, stout, rosy-faced and
good-loOking gentleman, who was tearing his
hair and walking up and down the box
office of the Grand opera house, in the pres
ence of Manager Scott and the writer last
Friday night. The gentleman in question,
as the reader may have opined, was the bust
ness manager of the Maubury q Overton
Dramatic company, which was just then en-
N or:yiDn artistic narfnrrn a N Pa
of Frank Hornshy's interesting drama of
woman Against Woman While the refec-
tons were a little wide of the mark, they
were not without the element of justice, and
when viewed from the standpoint of the gen.
tleman with reference to the reception ac-
corded his company they were truthful and
well merited. 1t is lamentable fact that in
st. Paul, as in other cities more cosmopol-
itan, the great mass of the theater-going pub
lie has manifest predilection for the barn
storming, break-neck song and dance COM
panies whose sole claim to public patronage
lies in their ability to raise a laugh, no mat
ter by what gross and sometimes indecent
means the object is accomplished.
At the same time the fact is obvious that St.
Paul possesses just as many theater-goers OF
good taste, intelligence and discrimination,
relatively considered, as any city IN tne
country. That an excellent attraction like
the one presented last week with company
comprising such sterling and accomplished
artists as Marie Prescott, Charles Maubury
and Charles Overton should play to small
audiences is the exception and not the rule.
1t is to be hoped that the gentleman in ques-
ton may reconsider his purpose of bringing
a chrome show to st. Paul, and stick 70
his present capital company and that upon
the occasion Of mis- next visit TO this city the
people may accord his attraction the hearty
reception it deserves.