St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-23
DRAMATIC DRIFT.

DRAMATIC DRIFT.
The past theatrical week was all jan
gled out of tune. A dramatization of
Ouida's Moths" was produced with
only limited success at the Peoples,
while the Grand did next to no business
at all. Sol Smith Russell played to small
houses the first three nights OF the week;
and an audience diSgracefully small, i'll
proportion to the merits of the perform
ance, attended the Seibert concert and
Fantasma of Singing Flowers Thursday
night.
The Christmas theatrical bill is an I'M
usually attractive one. At the Peoples
the dramatic romance entitled 1.-THE
CusIcan Brothers," in four acts and
tableaux. from the French OF Dumas, and
dramatiZcd by Dion BOucicault, will be
produced with new scenery and start
ing effects by the following cast:
Fabian del Franchi Twin "A 1inmsn
Lonis del Franchi | Brothers { a. - III man
NJ Alfred Meynard ........ Harold Russell
NJ. de Chateau Renaud. -. c. Huebner
Baron de Montgiron .......... Chas. Wyngate
Baron Giordano Martelli 49,. Ben johnson
NJ. BeauchamD. ..................W. Haggerty
NJ. Taveolleo. ......................T Duncan
Orlando the heads of two r.. +. Cotton
Colonna Corsican families Charles Stanley
Antonio Sanola, a judge......... ..Johnson
Boissec woodcutter. ............-: NJ woods
Emile de Lesparre. 800. Miss Lodnski Young
Nine. Savilia del Franchi. Mrs. Mary Meyers
Eselle ................. Miss Lisette lie Baron
Celestine .........Miss May Louise Aigen
Marie, with song....... Miss Sally illiams
Coralie ..................M Miss Katy Lanphear
At the Grand opera house throughout
this week, with matinees Christmas day
and Saturday. the well-known Boston
ians in English opera, Karl Macdonald
q Barnabee prOprietors, will appear in
varied repertory, of which three ofth
operas are new in this city. ''Pyg
malion and Gaatea," billed for Monday,
"Wednesday and Saturday evenings, is
by Ambrose Thomas, author of
'Mignon' and Hamlet" the libretto
being founded on Gilberts well-known
comedy. Marie Stone, Jessie Bartlett
Davis, Carlotta Maconda, Josephine
Bartlett, Tom Karl, Ii. G. Barnabee.
w. II. Macdonald, Eugene Cowles and
the opera. Tuesday afternoon "Fati-
nitza,' with Jessie Bartlett Davis as
Lieut. Vladimir, .Juliette Gordon as
Lydia. Edwin w. Hoff as Julian Hardy,
Barnabee as the Pasha, and Ricci, the
general. Tuesday evening and Satur-
day matinee, Cellier's comedy opera,
''Dorothy,n never sung here before;
Thursday evening. Donizetti's don
PaSquale," also new here, as it is in
most American cities; Friday evening,
''Mignon," with Gordon in the title
role. The advance sale. which Is large,
gives reason for belief that the coming
engagement will be a notable one in at
tendance.
sew York man proposes to test the
right of the high hat worn by ladies to
obstruct the view in theaters. He
to get view Of the stage because of
the high hat in front OF him. Now he
asks the courts to compel the manager
to pay him damages for violation of con-
tract. He holds that when he bought
bis ticket it was with an implied con-
tract that he was to see the show. He
alleges that by permitting the woman
with high hat to make nuisance of
herself the manager did not fulfill his
contract with him. and is therefore liza
bic to arrest and to be mulcted in dam
ages. The issue of the suit will be
awaited with Impotence by thousands
who are yet sitting behind the high hat.
lis if gentlemanly to go out between
the acts%r asks a lady correspondent of
the GLOBE. Yes. provided the gentle
man has a good reason for going out.
1t is sometimes annoying to those who
have to get up and let him out. In
country towns it is considered an awful
thing to 90 out between the acts, be-
cause in those places they presumably
go out to get drink. Here in st. Paul,
where bright women and brilliant men
are constant theater goers, it is very en-
ioyable to meet between acts in the
foyer and exchange views about the
new play. or to see each other and talk
over current events. Remember the
line is drawn at the foyer. The man
who goes on out of the outside door is
at once suspect.
1t is not going out between the acts
which is so much of al annoyance as
coming late to the theater. That disturbs
everybody. because eyerybedy'S atten-
ton is intently engaged with what they
paid their money to see. But when the
curtain drops on an act and the OrcheS-
ira strikes up tune that was chest
nut when we were little boys ana girls,
the natural impulse of everybody in the
house is to get right up and go out. 1t
makes You tired, and you want rest