St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-11-04
MUSICAL MENTION.
The Concert Season Opens With
Great Eclat.

commencing neXG outlay dICefllOO1,
the Danz orchestra will give concert
every other Sunday during the winter
at Harmonic hall. Prof. Frank DAM,
the popular leader of the orchestra, has
Just returned from New York, where
he made arrangements to have num-
Der of the leading soloists of the coun-
try appear. The first concert prom
iseS to be exceedingly brilliant,
fine. Miss Fannie Walks, charm
ing young lady, and for the
past few years student of the con-
servatory of music in Berlin, Germany,
has been engaged for the occasion. For
the past month she has been singing in
New York city, where she made great
hit and received tiattering press notices.
The soloistS recently engaged for the
orchestra will also appear in leading
parts. Season tickets can be obtained
at Dyer's music store.
MUSICAL NOTES.
The pupils of Miss Colby will give
soiree early in November.
The Northwestern Conservatory of
Music will give concert at Dyer's hall
next Wednesday night.
The Lachmund juvenile string Or
chestra, assisted by Mrs. Ella Mitchell
Randall, Miss Evelyn Burt and Prof.
Sanborn, gave concert at Eighth
Ward Relief hall last evening for the
benefit of the Ladies' Aid OF the Free
Baptist church.
Prof. Herman E. Zoch will give his
first concert at Harmonic hall Monday
evening, Nov. II.
Lily Langtry will play limited ell
gagement at the Grand opera, commenc-
ing tomorrow night, presenting for the
first time in this city the dramatic YER
sion of "As In a Looking Glass" The
novel has been widely read, and has
been discussed as much as ''The Quick
or the Dead" Mrs. Langtry first pro-
duced the play at Fifth Avenue theater,
New York, and her Interpretation OF
the role of Lena DeSpard was favorably
commented upon. Lena Despard IS an
adventures, not of the stereotyped
kind seen on the stage in
French plays, but an English
woman, always mindful of the
proprieties and mindful of her temper.
The play will be presented for two
nights only, followed Wednesday night
by THE Lady of Lyons" The bealti-
full Langtry will wear several new cos
tunes in these plays, which are said to
be marvels of Worth's art. This season
she is supported by clever company,
headed by the we'll known actor Charles
Coghlan. The sale of seats has been
unusually large, and Notwithstanding
the election excitement will draw the
fashionable theater-goer. Manager
Conklin has arranged, for the benefit of
his patrons, to have the election returns
read from the stage election night, thus
avoiding the crush on the streets. Mrs.
Langtry will arrive in her special car
Monday morning.
The Peoples theater management
will present for the first four nights of
this week Leonard Growers farce COM
edy. "Our Boarding House" The play
made such hit at this house early i'll
the season, when it ran for a week, that
it has been decided to place it on the
boards again with practically the same
cast. John w. Burton will be seen as
Col. NJ. I. Elevator. the Spectator. and
Wallace Shaw as Gregarious Giilipod,
the eccentric inventor. Miss Wellesley
will appear as the prosecuted widow
and j. L. Nelson will be the vilIainOus
Frenchman. The play tells in a COM
ical vein the story of life in a Chicago
boarding house. For the latter half of
the week Lester Wallack's great co NEEDY
.Rosedaie" will he the attraction. The
play abounds in intensely dramatic sit
uatiens and pathetic love scenes, and is
interesting throughout. The story is
one of English life, the time being the
present, the scenes being at Rosedale
manor aud neighborho0d. The plot
hinges upon the theft OF child by Miles
McKenna, Gypsy i'll the >pay of Col.
May, and the finding Of the child by
Elliot Gray, who goes among the Gyp-
sizes disguised as one of their humber.
The love scenes are between Elliot Gray
and Rosa Leigh, Matthew Leigh and
Lady Florence and Banbury Cobb, the
squire, and Tabitha Stork, the house,
keeper at the manor. Everything ends
happily in the last act with the cele-
brated Rosedale waltz and galOp. The
cast will include Theodore Hamilton as
Miles McKenna, Miss Wellesley as Rosa
Leigh. j. E. Nelson as Elliot Gray, j b.
Brown as Matthew Leigh, j. w. Bur-
ton as Banbury Cobb and Rita Booth as
Lady Florence.
That familiar and eVer-popular play
ssThe White Slave" will be presen ted
at the Grand the last three nights of
the week by a powerful company. 1.-The
White Slave is one of Barley Camp
bells best efforts, and has retained its
magnetic powers even in this, its sixth
season. The story of the play is in
tensely interesting, and the situations
most dramatic. The scenic effects are
very clever, and include steamboat