St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-05-11
THE HANLoN,s .sFANTAsmA."
a Wonderful Scenic Novelty--A
Drean-~A musenlent Notes.

"A ~ nOFelIyssA
Drean,-~A Musement Notes.
The HanIons still maintain their repu-
fation as the kings of humorous stage
mechanism. They have no rivals in this
field, for they cannot be. excelled. The
large audience at the Grand last night
thoroughly enjoyed the splendid scenic
display and mixture of drama, pantomime.
opera. minstrelsy, circus, illusion. tableau.
scenes in witch-den and fairyland, all pro-
duced with brilliant effect in s'Fantasma. :"
It is one of those plays that it is entirely
unnecessary to describe, for the intellects
uaiity of the plot. which consist
solely in conflict between the
good and evil principle. is lost sight of in
the apt work of the machinist and the COR
geous coloring of the scene painter. There
is nothing monotonous about it, for it is
pEantasm indeed, with such rapid changes
and transitions, that from the first act. in
which the cyclone scene occurs, to the last
scene in the last act, which is beautifully
realistic picture of the Fairy Queens realm.
the beholder does not have ali opportunity
to divert his attention from the play. It is
a beautiful novelty, which moves on its
course with such ease, rapidity and pre-
cision. that when it closes one feels
dream. ''Fantasma' is more satisfying
production than the ''Ratcatcher' and the
Hanlons have made bigger hit in the spec
tacular line this season than the Kiralfy's.
With the exception of little Aimee and Miss
Kate Davis there can be no special mention
of the individuals engaged in presenting
this wonderfully clever production, for. like
the mechanical arrangement of it, they are
all parts of a harmonious whole. Little
Aimee is Just what is advertised-the
youngest and most versatile artist that has
ever appeared on the stage. Miss Kate
Davis singing is in fitting harmony with
the whole production-it is a dream of
melody. sd her costuf4ing, too. is in
accord WI, fshe poeticaI illusion, the allie
ka@ > gorIcal display of the
ZS< lower limbs being a
AE< IN dream Of artistic beau
s-A ty.
E#E ~ The costume worn
VI 3S9 by Miss Davis was
- one OF those combina-
~ lions that make the
average man, with
TIE DREAM. bleak and barren scaip
apwards of 90 years, feel under age. #
was a great deal like the foliage of a cocoa
nut tree. nearly all on top. There
was nothing immodest or unfeeling
about it. yet when a man looked at it with
his naked eye he was not liable to imagine
that he was latest improved ice cream
freezer or q common country rail fence
standing in an alabaster SnOwdrift. There
was that about it that had tendency to
increase the respiration of the average rem
resentative of manhood and raise his tenn
parature to several million reyolu-
tons per hour. The modiste who
chopped out that costume was
several feet above her business. However.
no male person in the parquet was heard to
make some remarks of dissatisfaction, and
no man with forehead of usual height
was noticed to leave the house for the pur-
pose of splicing his breathe while Miss
Davis right side was pointed at the centre
aisle.
The southeast quarter of section 2. town.
ship / IS. range So, of Miss Davis possess
sions, was a most attractive sketch of light.
pink country. Such country as would
lure merchants from their desks and book
agents from their display of gall 1t was
more like a long flesh -colored dream full of
peach blossoms and wine springs. Between
the northern boundary and the horizon there
were about two sticks of bold face BREWER.
1t was soil that anyone might well be proud
to own and put on exhibition either in lob
lots or in one edition. 1t was admirable.
! 1t was lovely. 1t looked as though it had
been plucked from the garden of the gods
By some invisible power and
brought out West to drive super
ANIMATED voters to inebriate asylums.
1t was not verdant as one might have
expected it to be at this time of the wear.
but it seemed to be in the full glory of
stsaw-coored harvest season. 1t gave one
an idea of peaches and cream. It brought