St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-05-13
DRAMATIC DRIFT.

ROBERT MANTELL's first engagement
III st. Paul was fairly successful. He
appeared i'll 'Monbars," an exceeding
~ strong play, with opportunity for
excellent stage settings. The play was
well put on, and Mr.. MANTEII was
supported by an unusually strong COM
pany. In fact, in some instances, the
support was better than the principal.
MI; MANTELL has disposition to over
90 his part and somewhat mars his work
| by an ungraceful stage stride. If he
would tone his acting down little and
cultivate little more grace and natural
ness in his movements, his perform
anceS would be more satisfactory. He
IS hardly dramatic star yet, but he is
rising to it, and will reach the zenith if
he schools himself properly.
There will be a variety of attractions
at the Grand this week. Tomorrow
night the Garrick club, local dramatic
organization, will produce Shadows"
tuesday and Wednesday evening and
Wednesday matinee, LAURA DAISTY's
MAY Blossom company will hold the
boards; and commencing Thursday
night and continuing the remainder of
the week, FRITZ EMMETT will be seen
III his reconstructed Fritz, Our
German Cousin"
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1t has been two years since the
bright, merry face of "Our Fritz has
been seen i'll st. Paul and his return
VIII be pleasant event to those who
are fond OF good music and pure humOr.
Mr.. EMMETT's reconstructed Fritz;
is based on JERONIE's beautiful
one-act, drama of '.Barboa," and
is replete with taking situations,
catching songs and bright sayings.
JOE EMMETT cOmposeS all of his
own songs, both words and music.
His new songs i'll reconstructed Fritz
are The AIiStletoe," down by the Old
Greer Green !, Lane 4iI True Dog, L Love
Thee" The Ragamuftin'S Lullaby"
Schneider, How You Vas" He Is
Smiling on Me- and 1.-THE Baby Army"
ROBERT MANTELI. denies the story
published i'll an Omaha paper that hd
hires women to do the faintng act
when he is painting up his climaXes.
The statement of the Omaha paper was
that Mr.. MANTELL carried a woman
with his company whose business it was
to dress up in fashionable attire, sit i'll
the audience, and when he burned his
flesh with a red-hot iron she was TO
scream and faint. This is denied by
Mr.. MANTELL, who wrote from st. Paul
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Turner hall is being rapidly converted
into peoples theater. 1t is now
thought by the management that the
hall will be ready for opening by the
first week in June. 1t will be run OH
the same plan as the Peoples theater
IN Minneapolis. There will be a good
stock company and lOW-dOwn prices of
admission. The Peoples theater has
proved great success i'll Minneapolis,
and the problem will now be solved,
whether the st. Paul public care to cater
to cheap amuSementS.
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There is something peculiar about the
Chicago taste for music and the drama.
PATTI complained that she would Starye
to death in that town inside of a month,
and yet minstrel show will pack the
largest Chicago theater every night for
a whole season. In fact the fashionable
theatrical event in Chicago this season
was the appearance of DOCKSTADER'S
MINISTRIES at the Chicago opera house
last week. Wealth and beauty turned
out in superb array to greet the burnt
cork artists. POrk-packing dukes and
sleeping-car barOnS, with their families,
occupied the boxes. AT the same hour
DEWITT TAIMAGE was wasting his
eloquence in another hall on an audience
composed mainly of Eastern drummers
who had dropped in to kill time.
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HEINRICH CONREID is going to make
an effort to elevate Chicago's musical
taste He has made contract with the
Columbia theater by which all the new
German operas are to be produced for
the first time in this country at that
theater. Mr.. CoNREID will remove
from New York and take up his resi-
dence in Chicago in order to personally
superintend the production of these
operas.
CHASKA and his bride have been on
exhibition in st. Paul museum the
past week. ''It is the old, old story of
the whites imposing on the untutOred
sons of the forest" remarked visitor
the other day after taking glance at
the bridal couple.
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The following ladies and gentlemen
will appear i'll the cast of characters in
the production of "ShadOwS'' at the
opera house tomorrow night: GEORGE
w. Cory, DAVID III. DAY, WALTER
HALE, WILLIAM BENING, JR., BEN
JOHNSON, HENRY l.. DAVIS, LOUIS +.
SHAVE, Mrs. GEORGE W. Cory, Miss
ALBERTINA HAYWARD, Miss MAY
NORRIS, Miss JESSIE DAVENPORT, Miss
FANNIE LARKINS and Miss ELLA
NORRIS.