St. Paul daily globe., 1888-08-12
SOON IN FULL BLAST.
The Fall and Winter Amusement Season
Is Here.
MARBLE HEART" AT PENCE.
Books Original Melodrama, "Power of
Money" Theatrical
Notes.

The regular season of the Grand
opera house will open next Monday
week. The theater is now in the hands
OF the decorators and painters, and the
foyers and lobbies have been entirely
repaired, while the auditorium has been
frightened up considerably. Manager
Conklin's date book is filled entirely
from August until July, 1889, with the
choicest dramatic and lyric successes,
and Minneapolis will also see the great
est stars during the coming season.
Vernona Jarbeau, the well-known canta-
trice, will present starlight" a musi-
cal comedy, as the opening attraction,
and will be followed by Haverly's min
Strels, the week being divided by the
two attractions. Miss Jarbeau and COM
pany arrived at the West yesterday, and
Will begin rehearSalS at once. The sale
OF seats will open Friday.
Charles Selby, ,one of the old-time pop
ular comedians, was also a scholar. One
hlght In ms room, after an evening of
reading. he fell asleep and dreamed
play. The story and the situations i'm
pressed him so strongly that he remem-
Dered them all when he awoke. He
began at oHce to write out the play. In
less than month he completed his
work and furnished the stage with one
or its standard dramas. one that has
held the boards with its grst yigor for
many years. Selby called his play
The Story of Marble Heart, or the
Sculptor's Dream-a Romance of Real
Life in Five Chapters" The first
American production of 1.-THE Marble
Heart" occurred in New York with
Edwin Booth III the leading role. The
first act OF the play is the sculptor's
dream-a story of the famous Greek
sculptor Phidias, who lived in Athens
1900 years ago. One of the famous char
acters introduced in this dream-act is
Diogenes, the philosopher, who could
not find an honest man, though he
searched in the daytime with lighted
lantern. Three beautiful statues of
women by Phidias. represented by three
ladies, will be one of the most notable
features of the play. The white statues
(draped) will be discovered in an alcove
lined with black velvet, and softly
lighted. Raphael Duchalet, a young
play, appears in the second act. The
last three acts of the play tell the story
OF RaphaeFs infatuatiOn for the beauti-
full but marble-hearted Marco. One of
the chief characters in the play is
Volages, a witty French editor. The
character of Raphael is drawn with re-
markable strength, and offers oppor-
tunities for acting of the highest order,
especially in the fourth act, where the
love-lorn sculptor is driven partially in
sane. Theodore Hamilton will appear
as Dlogenes and Volages. j. b. Brown
will assume the roles of PhidiaS and
Raphael, with Marie Wellesley as
Marco. The first performance of 1.-THE
Marble Heart will be given this even
ing. 1t will also be the first perform
ance in the city.
The opening week at the Peoples,
with ''LOndon Assurance" as the at
traction, proved one of the most profita-
BILE in the history of the theater, and
equally gratifying as an artistic success.
All the new members of the company
jumped into favor and the old ones
added to their laurels.
~
"The Power of Money" an original
melOdrama by Frederick Book, will be
produced at the Pence opera house to-
night. ''rhe Power of Money! has
been successfully presented throughout
the United States for number of sea-
sons, and is a thrilling and dramatic
story, full of stirring situations and
leading role in the piece. The scenic
effects in the play are very clever, and
the Horseshoe Curve" on the PennS-
ylvania railroad, the Mammoth Cave"
the levee at New Orleans will be
shown. Thursday BARLEY Campbell's
play, The Galley Slave" will be put
up for the remainder of the week.