St. Paul daily globe., 1886-03-15
AMUSEMENT CHAT.

There Is rather an incongruous assOrt-
ment of theatrical diversions on the tapis
for the current week Mary Anderson will
be here tonight with her little Ice palace,
which tradition says she carries around
with her both summer and winter. and that
protOplasmal floater known as DIR. Ham
Griffin, who is much more OF a curiosity,
viewed fTem q scientific standpoint. than the
divinity with the snOwballS herself. The
public will be relieved To learn that ''Our
Mary" will not put on Juliet" here.
Juliet is female chestnut which is only
endurable from the mantle of Margaret
Mather, and Margie has not dropped her
mantle as yet. at least not that any one
VINO saw her paralyze Our Mary during
the recent New York tournament, knows
2bOut. The "reminiscences aroused by the
Balcony scene. among many of our leading
and gayest society people, have caused this
tragic tidbit of fiction TO become unpOpu-
lar.
Anderson is to be followed by "0pen
Dates.' so the local management says.
That's 4 singular name for it. but na so
eccentric a title for a dramatic production
as ''The Rat-Catcher." ''Open Dates" is
thought TO be q spectacular melO-drama in
two acts, scene laid in the tropics, with re-
vOlying scenery, which revOlyeS with such
mechanical precision that the people on one
side of the house witness one act, while
those on the opposite side see the other.
And as both acts are shown simultaneously
the performance is thus abridged TO one
hour instead of two. Ii is almost needless
20 add that the people in the first act do not
double up or fake their parts; and prices
have not been reduced. although there is a
considerable saving in gas. The ''Open
Dates" company is said 10 carry 40 pieces
of scenery and three carloads of people.
80
''The Danites" is TO be sprung on a sor-
rowing community at the COmique this
evening, and Powl Stanley will sing a new
topical song at the Columbia, called
They're all Getting Dry When l Sing" +"
Following upon the heels of the recent mu-
nieipal bereavement, in the loss of our help
mate and cOlabOrer. Elder W. W. Satterlee,
this blow viii be all the more trying 20
bear. There is a ray of sunshine for those
whom dearth OF sport will compel to drift
into any OF these last-named resorts. If
they get tired, real tired. 50 that anything
would be a welcome respite, they can go
over TO the dime museum and see the Storm
q Edwards Comedy company.
GeCple WIN DrOau JUDICIAL IOreneauS,
who smoke cigarets and blow the smoke
away from their classic chins very much as
though they didn't know what moment
they might be called upon 10 use their mas
sive intellects unclOuded by even such
medieval film as tobacco smoke, have ex-
pressed surprise that the ''MikadO. as given
by the Duff Opera company, did not do
bigger business in Minneapolis. There is no
especial reason for it, me boy. won 4 box
OF cigars from a man (whO will never pay
the debit on the odds of two to one that
''Mikado" would play to more business
than the Dromios. My friend argued that
the social craze was on, and that now that
the ball had been set i'm motion the crowd
would surge into the play house this same
way for weeks 10 come. The Duff people
sang the charming airs of the rival of
III. VI. 5. PinafoTe" for six or eight weeks
to $40. 900 and S12,0O a week until they
reached Louisville. There the company
got beautiful black eye. Now, how do
you account for this. my youthful Roman
with the Sixteenth century cigaret holder?
There is no accounting for the whims or
whiffs of THE FOYER CRANK.