St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-02-19
DRAMATIC DRIFT.

in Eighty Days" which has been at the
Grand all the week, is singular mix
ture of good and bad. The features
that are good are very good, and the
ones that are bad are hOrrid. NEWTON
GOTTHOLD, who once had reputation
as an actor, is either losing his grip, or
he is doing himself great injustice by
his impersonation of Phineas FOgg. 1t
is about as spiritless Characterization
as one sees i'll a lifetime.
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The attraction at the Grand this week
will be Jim, the Penman," which had
such phenomenal run at Madison
Square: 1t is the most popular drama
OF the day, notwithstanding the predic-
ton when it was first produced that it
would be failure.
When Sir CHARLES YOUNG's drama
was first produced, critics considered
the plot prepOsterOuS and impossible.
1t was not known by these critics that
III English society several years ago
there was an actual Jim, the Penman,
and it was the accomplished facts of
that real parsonage which Sir CHARLES
YOUNG made use of in the composition
of the play. The drama tells the story
OF man who, possessing the talent of
the most SkIllful fOrger, raised himself
from the clerkShip in a banking house
to nigh place i'll English society. accu-
mulatlng great wealth, finally entered
parliament and maintained for years
the falsest position. This individual,
who is known in the play as jim, the
Penman, was really the leader of a
strong confederation of fOrgers, whose
operations included not only England
and the continent, but America.
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The hostility of tho oh,rob % A.,
theater is gradually dying out. The
| pulpit IS recognizing the fact that the
theater influences the currents of the
life OF the masses who frequent it.
ANA as, according to Scriptural inter
probation, the tree must be Judged by
It's fruit, and the theater going public
are not found to be worse than other
classes of society, the theater itself is
conceded not to be the hOtbed of i'm
morality that it was once thought to be.
Only t1OSe who never attend it from
principle refuse to concede any good to
the theater, even with its best pro-
auctions.
-, Apropos of recent denunciation of
tneaterS by an eminent Boston clergy
man, the Boston Globe saws editOrialIv:
"IheaterS are the outgrowth of one of
the most permanent artistic principles
III human nature-a principle which. if
IL mad been repreSSed, would have de-
prlVed the world of the very uuin-
tessence Of human thought-the plays
OF SHAKESPEARE,t the dramas of EURIP-
IDES and SOPHoCLES, and even that
ola, Incompatible poem of the Bible, es-
Sentlally dramatic in form and struc-
ture, the Book of Job. The most con-
Summate growth of the human intellect
mas burst in flower in the form of the
drama. The playwrights OF the world
nave taught it its prOfoundest and most
permanent lessons.
WILLIAM WINTER. the best dramatic
writer in New York, is an old man, and
something of a cynic. He was not
always so, for there was time not so
very far. far away when WILLIE WIN
TER could enjoy burlesque and the
swing OF feminine legs would not stir
up his choler to boiling point in the
manner it does now. A series of very
sad dramatic Affections is said to be the
cause of Mr.. WINTERS modern Gym
lciSm.
A note from Maj. PoND says that as
soon as CHARLES DICKENS concludes
his readings in New York he will start
Westward. He will probably be in St.
Paul about the middle of March.
The Southern tour of EDWIN BOoTH
and LAWRENCE BARRETT is phenom-
email. Seats are sold at 81 and s. each,
and people stand in line several DAYS in
advance to get them;
HENRY Z. ABBEY has closed con-
tract with Mrs. POTTER for her second
season, which will commence the 10Th
OF next month and extend until Nav >.
1890. Mrs. POTTER's success is thus as
sured, as Mr.. ABBEY never takes hold
OF anything unless there is money in it.
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A New York critic thinks that ZELrB
DE LUssAN is making herself ridicu-
louS by a silly attempt to initiate PATTI
III tone, walk and gesture. PATTI being
unapprOachable by person of Miss DE
LUssAN's caliber, the latter fails to
get credit for the clevernesS she really
possesses on account of her vain at
tempt to gain the unastainable.
Mr.. IRVING and Miss TERRY read in
Boston last Wednesday afternoon for th(
benefit of the School of Expression.
There was notable audience, and al
the close of the reading Mr.. IRVING
was presented with a silver paper-cut-
ter the handle OF which represented
nun SS 4ucpLlStODHeieS. MISS Jerry
was given pair OF silver candleStickS.
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CHARLES COGHLAN and Mrs. LANG,
TRY have kissed and made up. After
getting all the advertisement that wa:
possible out OF their quarrel they are
good friends once more, and COGHLAN
will resume his old place as LANGTRY's
leading man this week. MAURICE BAR,
RYMoRE, who steps down and out ia
make room for COGHLAN, is preparing
to star III new piece called "NadjeSda.A
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The New York Elks will observe the
twentieth anniversary of the order this
evening at the Fourteenth Street
theater by grand social session and
entertainment. Among the volunteers
are members of the Boston Ideal com.
pany. DOCKsTADER'S Ministries, ED.
WARD HARRIGAN'S company, Mrs.
ALICE SHAW, Miss HATTIE RICH and
numerous others.
eden muSee" is the tony name now
for dime museums. The New York
Eden muSee has still further been dig
nitied by being rented by Mrs. WANDER
BILT and a number of ladies of the up
per crust, for an orchid exhibition.
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According to the statement of the
manager of MUNKACSY's picture,
'sChrist Before Plate" of the nearly
10000 people who visited the great paint
ing during its exhibition in this city,
the great majority were from the work.
ing classes. it struck the manager as
peculiar that the society people of st.
Paul paid so little attention to art. Per-
haps 1t was because he didn't know that
the entire population of the city are