St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-04-02


remarkable strength or following and has
not displayed attributes that viii enable him
TO take the lead AT the finish.
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Ex-senator Window would like to serve
the state as its chief executive. but is appre-
hensive that defeat may overtake him as IT
did at the time of his last effort to get back
to the United States senate when Senator Sa-
bin was elected. He does not desire a sec
ond defeat, and hence is reluctant to enter
the race. He desires to see the others run
for heat or so and laIe- may conclude TO
make dash for first place. He misses the
federal patronage that he was wont to
bcstow among his faithful friends and fol-
lowers, but is still a power with q certain
class, the members of which are now ex-fed-
eral ofliceholders.
Congressman Strait is awaiting results. II
the contest grows warm and a compromise
candidate is desired, he will suffer himself TO
be trotted out to NIL that bill.
Many changes may occur before the con-
veniion is convened. but the present outlook
shows Schefer aud Gilman in the lead, the
dust of their rapid gait obscuring the dark
horses tn at later may appear in the race.
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Salvini, the italian tragedian, 10 q great
that he has not mastered the English Ian
guage, during his many tours in this country.
so as to speak his lines with an English
tongue. His auditors would overlook il IL he
spoke the John A. Logan English. Even this
would be better than the foreign though
musical language of Italy. st. Paul theater-
goers are not up on Italian. / noticed this
fact last night at the Grand opera house when
Sig. Tommaso Salvini played the titular role
in the tragic play of THE Gladiator" They
admired his stage presence and voice, but
they lost the thread o the story when he be-
gan his deep muttered Italian. The stage
conversations. in which he formed q conspic-
uous part, were not unlike the conversation
heard at one end of a telephone. In both in
stances the nearer is obliged TO draw on his
or her Imagination for the connecting wor ds
and phrases.
Not even the most ardent admirer of the
great tragedian can deny that destroys the
effect of any stage scene or situation by hav-
ing part of it carried on in English and part
in Italian. For instance the touching scene
wherein he discovers that Geodamia is his
daughter, is somewhat married to say the least
by the following international conversation:
my fatherI' shrieks the poor slave, while
Nero, the gladiator, replies;
"Mia belle, note, bellina un junotta."
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In justice to Mr.. Edward Johnston, who
represents, in advance, the interests of the
Boston Ideal Opera and Old Maid Chorus
company, it should be publicly stated that
he is not the man whose name appears in
another column as the purloiner OF a CON-
mon pair of tro users. Unfortunately for
the good Mr.. Edward Johnston the names are
the same. This is misfortune rather than
a fault. The innocent Mr.. Johnston desires
it TO be known that he is well supplied with
trausers and has no occasion to borrow such
garments while the owners are otherwise
engaged. The innocent Mt. Johnston is still
at large. The guilty Mr.. Jonston, minus his
stolen trousers, is in the workhouse.
The ONLOOKER.