St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-08-22

,ody knows. the poem of "Evangeline"
was conceived by the illuStriouS Longfel-
low, but the travesty burletta operatta
beautiful ''Evangeline' was conceived by
Edward F. Rice, of whom Sarony, the Ma
D.: poleon of photographers, says: He is the
king of caterers to all that pertains to the
beautiful and artistic on the stage"
I At the Fourteenth Street theater, New
York, ''Evangeline" ran for 252 consecutive
performances. 1t was then taken on the
road. and after playing to enormous bust
ness in Brooklyn. Philadelphia and Cncin-
natl it was placed OH the stage of Hooleys
theater, Chicago, where it has just COM
pleted 1902 consecutive performances, the
longest and most profitable run ever made
in Chicago.
The management have added complete
new set of costumes and scenery for the
road, the diamond field scene and the fairy
grotto being considered the handSomest
scenes ever produced in burleSque.
Louise Montague essays the role of hero
inc, Evangeline. She has had a wide mu-
steal experience. having sung the role of
Josephine in ''Pinafore" over 800 times,
Patience in Patience 100 times, Yum
Yum in the ''Mikado" over $50 times and
Evangeine 200 times.
Miss Kate TART, who imperSonates Ga
briel, is comparatively new conner, this
being the second season in the profession.
She has had numerous successes, however,
in burlesque under Mr.. Rice's management.
and is pains-taking. hard working little
artistic She has graceful figure, beau
tlful face and very sweet voice.
George A. Schiller, who has the role of
LIE Blanc is native of Boston. He first
espouSed the stage as profession with Mr..
Rice five years ago as Capt. Deiterich in
''Evangelne."
George X. Fortescue plays the role of
Catherine. Of him, it is said, The is the
only man who can impersonate woman
OH the stage, and do it in refined as well
as artistic manner" Daniel Mason, one
of the finest German character dialect
artists Oh the stage to-day has the role OF
Capt DIETRICH.
Edward Morris-he will be better re-
membered by his impersonatfon Of the Po-
liceman in Skipped by the Light Of the
Moon'-is the Chief of Police In 'Evange-
line" and as constant as the northern star.
James S. Maffit, one of the best character
actors on the stage, acts the Lone Fisher
man. He does not say word throughout
the entire performance. but his actions
speak louder than all the words in the Yo-
cabulary.
The balance of the cast is said to be in
keeping with those mentioned. and COM
prises enough ladies and gentlemen to make
the whole number sixtytwo. The play
will run the first half of the coming week.
AT THE OLYMPIC.
The Olympic will open the season to-
morrow night with ''Mudoon'S Picnic" on
the boards. The theater has been repaired,
repapered, repanted, rearranged and reno
waited. A change has been made in the
arrangement of the heating and the light
ing which will be doubly welcome, and uis
entire place is as neat as the pr6ve7bfaI
new pin" The house is Differed az fol-
lows: Pat Conley. proprietor, Edwin p.
Hilton, manager; Billy Wells. stage man
ager; Prof. j. Harry Beebe. leader of
orchestra; A. L. Lanphear, stage carpen-
ter; George Wagner. gas man, and Tom
Mutually, property man. 1t is intended 10
provide an entire new set Of scenery. The
opening company consists of Pat McGlone.
Wells and Sylvano, Gallagher and West
the Gray sisters, William and Jennie
Mason. Lucy Lucille, Allie Selahd, little
Rosa Burnes and McGlone and Mason, sup
ported by the new stock company.
THE DIME MUSEUM.
The Seventh street museum will present
several novelties for the coming week In
curiosity hall that are new to amusement
goers in this city, The human aasil il one
of them, and his body is capable of being
used for identically the same purposes as 4
blacksmith's anvil. Electrical, or the mag
netic girl. and Verona. the human ssta,
mander. perform wonderful feats with the
forces of heat and electricity. The separ-
ate stages still continue. On the Upper
stage Charles and Letha Burroughs, opsr-
attic vocalsts, Edward and Ada Gallagher
comedians. Matte Smith, Grace Garland,
Maude Smith. Powers and Mcfarland and
Effie Lordine will present specially BIO
gram. In the lower stage Fred T. Powers
Madison Square company will present the
laughable comedy Hand and GASse,~
This piece has been played with greet sne-
cess everywhere and will be presented here
with competent company of comedians.
The latter half OF the week Sal smlth
Russell in his PA" will be at the Grand.
The house has been thoroughly renovated
and the Office and foyer papared and car
peted, and the whole house frightened gen.
orally. Great Improvements have been
made on the stage, the most noticeable of
which is the new drop curtain containing a
scene in the interior of an Eastern palace,
through which is visible the distant land
scape. A large number of entirely new
scenes have been painted, making the faeil-
tiles for scenery very complete.