St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-05-02
More Local Than Other Attractions
in the Amusement Line.
Sig. Jannotta's Last Co.cert--At.
fractions at the Grand--Notes,

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The fifth and last of the Jannotta parlor
concerts at the Ryan, Friday evening. was
one of the most pleasant musical enter
tainments of the season in st, Paul, and
was the most largely attended of all of
them. The ladies' ordinary was packed
with an audience composed of the leading
musical people of the city. The Glee club
consisted OF Signor JannOttas pupils and
numbered sixteen in all. The ordinary
was tastefully decorated with flowers and
evergreens which together with the fashion
ably dressed audience of st. Paurs music
loving people made it scene of brill
liant loneliness and one well cal
culated to inspire the Glee club
to Its best endeavors. and successfully
so. The concert opened with Schuman's
Gypsy Life" sung by the club and re-
celved hearty encore. This. as all other
encores, was merely acknowledged by a
bow, as is the custom of the club. The
next was a song by Miss Bessie Chute
from DoniZetti's Opera Lucia" In addi-
ton to very sweet face, this young lady,
for she is only 16, possesses a voice of
rare sweetness of tone and evnced re-
markable cultivation for one of her years.
1t is one of those voices so rarely heard,
full of SOFT touching melody that goes
right to the heart Of the listener and its
echoes fingers i'll the recesses of the soul
for long time to come. A violin solo,
Linder's Fantastic by Mr.. Gustav Won
Goetzen, was well received A duet by
Miss Harrington and Mr.. McLachlan de-
served the round Of applause it elected and
the floral offering of which Miss Earring
ton was the recipient. The principal
event of the evening was Signor Jannotta's
own composition from act l of the opera
"Alidor." A quartet composed of Misses
Shave and Murphy and Messrs. McLachlan
and Gehan took the leading parts and was
sustained by the full chorus. The enthusi-
aStic demonstration at the close was fitting
tribute to the author as it was to the sing
ers. Miss Clara Phillips piano rendition of
Chopin's ''NOcturne" and ''Polonaise'' was
a skillful performance and was heart
lily enjoyed by the critical audience.
One of the taking features of the evening
was Miss Alice Shawe'S singing of Handeps
angels Ever Bright and Fair This
young lady and Miss Mae Murphy, who
sang a cavatina from Mercadantes Opera
II Giuramento," are among the favorites of
st. PanFs musical circle and are always
listened to with delight, never received a
more demonstrative expression of apprecia-
ton than they did from the audience at the
Ryan Friday evening. The duet, 'Sound
Now the Trumpet" by Mr.. Wilrich and
Mr.. Gehan, was one of those inspiring
pieces which gave full scope to the two
splendid voices that sang it that evening.
Miss Agnes Mulvine's AVE Maria" with
organ, piano and violin accompaniment.
was splendid rendition of this the most
sublime of all sacred songs. This was Miss
Mulvine's first appearance before a ST.
Paul audience, but, judging from the
demonstration of applause that followed
her initial effort, it will not be her last. 1t
is seldom that enc hears voice of so much
power and compass as hers possesses. vet
it is as clear and distinct and full of melody
as the tune OF some sweet bell. The Glee
club will close their series of musical enter
tainments with benefit rendered to Signor
Jannotta, May 81, at the Hotel Ryan.
TRIAL BY JURY.
Attic Athenaum Trial by jury bv To-
cal talent will be repeated on Tuesday and
Wednesday evenings, for the benefit of
Company E, First regiment The play
was given very successfully last week. The
cast is as follows:
Judge, NJ. L. Gould; counsel, G. L. Johnson;
foreman OF jury, G. A. Pettibone; Usher, A.
G. Flournoy; clerk Of the court, S. Gilbert:
defendant, W. A. Shaw; Plaintiff, Miss Mae
Murphy. Chorus of bridesmaids and jurymen.
Henry McLachlan, director.
Preceding the play there will be special
features including Gilbert and Mott in their
Tightening drill; A. G. Flournoy in an orig
inal production and j. F. Sherry with his
banjo.
AT THE GRAND.
The past week in St. Paul theaters has
been unworthy of note, with the exception
OF the last of the series of grand concerts
that occurred at the Grand opera house on
Monday night and was magnificent in every
respect. Gas Fixtures" played to empty
chairs three nights and matinee closing
Thursday. At the Olympic, Alice Oates
and company held down the boards with a
variety performance that did about the
average business. This week at the Grand
the Chicago Opera company will give four
presentations OF the ''Mikado." The COM
pany includes the following:
Mr.. John E. McWade as the Mikado, Mr..
Charles I. Barnes as Nanki Poo, Mr.. Stanley
Finch as Ko Ko, Mr.. G. Bryon Brown as Pooh
Ball. Mr.. Edwin Kayne as Pish Tush, Master
Yum Yum, Miss Ada Somers as Pitt Sing, Miss
Eloise Willard as Peep Boo, Miss Lottie
Cruikshank as Katisha.
THE RATCATcHERs.
The last half of the week the Kiralfy
brothers will appear in their spectacular
production, 1.-The Ratcatcher, or the Pied
Piper of Hamelin." The play is based on
the tale that in the latter part of the thir-
foonfh tho of
Brunswick, was over-run with rats that in
tested all buildings and plundered the PEG
pie. A curious-sooking old piper was en-
ployed by the village fathers, and he by his
playing allured them from their hiding
places and charmed them into the water,
where they were drowned. The reward for
this was refused and the piper began play
ing again. In response to the sweet sounds
the children of the town came out and were
led on until they came to the side of Kop-
pelberg, where door in the mountain
opened. and, when they had passed in. closed
Oh them forever. The story has been told
by Browning. The Kiralfy Brothers have
the play deliberately mounted and have been
drawing large houses.
AT THE DIME MUSEUM.
That famous curiosity Mile Christine,
the two-headed nightingale as she is called,
will be an attraction at the dime museum
for the coming week. Her return from
England and recent appearance at Madison
Square Garden, New York. with Barnum's
circus has revised the interest in this
prodigy.
Mile Christine was born IN Georgia in
1851, and is now IS years of age. HeI
master. for she is an octoroon, interested
in the phenomenon, gave her a refined
education, and she was the wonder of the
plantation, until the ubiquitous Barnum
presented her . the world undec tho diyec-
ton of j. E. Sackett. Her fame became
such that she made the tour Of the world,