St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-02-12
DRAMATIC DRIFT.

DRAMATIC DRIFT.
The HANLONS' "Fantasma" did a big
business at the Grand the past week.
For their cleverneSs in stage tricks the
HANLONS are unsurpassed. Their
'Fantasma" has undergone complete
since last season, and all
the new features are attractive. LAURA
BURT, who takes the place of PHOEBE
DAVIS in the title role, is bright SOU
brette. who impartS a SprightlineSS to
the part that it has never had before.
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KIRALFY's ''Around the World in
Eighty Days" will be the attraction all
this week at the Grand. The KIRALFYs
ale noted in the line Of spectacular per-
fOrmanceS, and this is one of their best
productions. The announcement OF
two ballets in the performance gives it
an attractive flavor for those who are
fond of the graceful in art.
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1t never rains but it pours. At least
the old adage seems to find an appro-
pirate application to the way theatrical
amuSements have been served up to the
st. Paul people this season. Whether
1t has been comedy, tragedy, opera, or
the spectacular, there has been del
uge. If it had been possible it would
have been better to have mixed UP the
amusement list little, SO as to have
had something of one kind one week
and something of another kind the next,
and not too many OF the same sort to-
gether.
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"Adonis" DIXEY seems to be having
as much trouble with his creditors as
Mr.. LOCKE, of the National Opera COM
pany, had with his On his Western tour.
A Cincinnati diamond dealer wants pay
for stone that Mr.. DIXEY's father-in-
law bought of him, and DUNCAN B.
HARRISON wants ''AdOnis'' to return
81 800 borrowed money. Creditors have
been SWarming around the box office OF
the Chicago theater, where DIXEY was
playing last week, and Sheritfs have
WritS. 1t is hard to get blood out of a
block of marble, but if it is advertising
that DIXEY wants, he is getting it.
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That was something of joke on LIE
GRAND WHITE, MINNIE MADDERN'S
adopted husband, who turned up at
Detroit the other day to answer to
divorce suit, and found that no bill ask
ing for divorce had been filed. WHITE
and Miss MADDERN separated two years
ago, Miss MADDERN alleging that she
was tired of supporting him. WHITE
affirmS that the separation was brought
about by Miss MADDERN's relatives,
who wanted to get control of her money.
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One of HANLON'S clevereSt tricks in
'Fantasma'' is putting the man together
after he has been blown to pieces.
Looking at it from the front, very few
of the audience can guess how it is
done. The door against which the sup
posed man is being built up by pieces
is made up of slides working with
springs. The live-enough man is be-
hind the door. First one leg is slipped
through, then the other, and so on with
the arms, body and head, until the man
stands erect before the audience. III
the necrOmancer is slipping
them through the slides, unseen by the
audience.
Little JOSIE HOFFMAN. the boy plan
list, continues to delight New York audi
ences with his marvellous musical per-
fOrmances. 1t is all right for the people
who enjoy the child'S wonderful genius,
but it must be aWfully trying on the
boy himself. His genius is a marvel,
but it will be greater marvel if the boy
lives five years longer under the terrible
strain he is subjected to by these oft
repeated musical performances.
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"TooTsY," the little seyen-year-old
boy whose cute performances in "Fan-
taSma'' never fail to elicit applause,
has great fondness for machinery.
During the weeks engagement here he
spent all his spare time in the basement
of the Davidson block studying the
electric plant. He became fast friend
of the electrician of the opera house,
and what ''TooTsY" doesn't know
about electricity now would puzzle
EDISON.
s'No Free List' now hangs in the
New York Metropolitan Opera house
lobby. 1t was not that way when the
gallant Col. MAPLESON ran the eStab-
liShment. MAPLESON used to say that
a dead-head audience was better than no
audience. He had free list on which
one man had been getting two orchestra
seats for twenty years, because he had
painted the ceiling of the old Academy
i'll 1858.
JOHN JACOB AsTOR has presented to
the Metropolitan Museum of Art his
late wife's collection of laces. The gift
is magnificent one, the collection of
laceS consisting of seventy pieces, gath
cred from time to time, and said to he
the most wonderful collection in the
world. 1t was during prOtracted stay
abroad, in 1915, that Mrs. Aston started
the collection She travelled all over
the continent searching for rare pieces,
and she succeeded in securing many of
great historic as we'll as intrinsic value.
In presenting the laces Mr.. AsToR
stated that it was his wife's wish that
the collection should go to the Museum
of Art.
Mr.. DALY's production Of ''Midsum-
mer Nights Dream" at his New York
theater is said to be the most magnifi-
cent spectacular performance ever seen
of the New York theatrical season. A
good many years ago WILLIAM UAsIITT
said that the poetry Of this piece alien
ated it from the stage. 1t was because
it was sWathed in an atmosphere
of poeticai and grotcsque fancy that it
has been Stunned by theater managers.
Mr.. DAILY is the lirSt manager who
agreed with STAKESpEARE III the. be-
lief that il could be made proper per-
fOrmance. The fact that tickets have
to he bought two weeks in advance to
get chance to see" Midsummer Nights
Dream" goes to show that DAILY and
knew something of the
theatrical business.
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