St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-02-05
not be required to take a role that was
not agreeable to her. Miss CoGHLAN is
now going to star in her brother
CHARLES new play, "Jocelyn."

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not agreeable to her. Miss CoGHLAN is
now going to star in her brother
CHARLES new play, "Jocelyn."
On the Goth of this month RUDOLPH
ARoNsoN will celebrate the 7OOth per-
Torrance of ''Erminie." He has pre-
pared souvenir for the occasion repre-
Senting the second scene Of the opera.
The actors are made to appear as chill
dren dancing gavOtte.
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81 feel SOrter blue to-day" remarked
theatrical manager the other day.
'l OH see, got into st. Paul when the
hotels were crowded with Carnival visit
0rS, and l had to take pot-luck in the
way or getting accommodations. l got
a room after great difficulty, but was
horriiied to find the unlucky No. Is
ID on my room door. 1t is the first time in
all my travelling experience that | have
occupied room with that number. 1t
makes me feel blue, because / am dread
ing a bad season from this out.''
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q AS class stage people are unusually
y superstitiOus mOrtals. Even SARA
IN a God, has a SuperStitiOuS dread of
Friday. She will not make her first APP
}pearance in new play on Friday, nor
will she even begin the reading of
drama on that day. Most stage
women, including BERNHARDT, have
positive horror for anything
of saffron tint. 1t is considered bad
luck to look out upon the audience from
the left side of the curtain when it is
drawn. 1t is considered an omen of
trouble and disaster whenever the cur
tain, having started OH its ascent, is al
lowed to return to the floor. 1t is a
sign OF sickness if nails are found lying
about the stage during rehearsals. 1t
is considered good omen if cat
comes of its own accord OH the stage.
If it iS.a black tOmcat his presence is re-
garded as real blessing.
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PATTI and BERNHARDT have super
stitious dread of cross-eved people.
PATTI will not sing if there is cross
eyed man III the orchestra. and BERN
HARDT will not play if an actor whose
vision is askew is cast in the perform
ance. PATTI always wears a bracelet
or necklace of precious stones to coun-
teract the malignant influence which
darts from the eyeballs of enviouS per-
sons. OFFENBACH was crOSS-eyed,
and was always supposed to carry ill
luck with him wherever he went. He
wrote score for ''Vie Parisienne," and
Nine. BERTIIELLIER dropped dead
while singing it for the first time. He
once passed through the Rue Lepelletier,
and that very night the opera house was
destroyed by fire and poor EMILY LIvRY
was burnt alive in the only ballet OF
FENBACH ever wrote.
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LILLIAN OLCoTT is believer in stage
illusions. In an article contributed to
the New York Star she says the mass of
theater-g0erS revel in the illusion of the
scene. They are not concerned with
the actors except as the necessary in
strumentS to the effect produced. The
more the goblet of life is wreathed with
the flowers of fancy the more nOurish-
ing and beneficial will the contents be.
The little old fellow in the gallery, with
his worn and shabby coat. has never
passed beyond the line of his own mar
row groove. He is fair illustra-
ton of the commonplace. But to-
night he has wandered through the
streets of Verona, Toasted with the Cap
ulets, and Joined in the dissipatiOns of
romantic high life without malice and
without remOrse. His scope of thought
is widened, and monotony is conquered
for awhile. The soft music, the chang
ing lights, the beauty of the pageant,
haunt his memory for many days. and
are food of a delicate and satisfying
nature to his poorly fed mind.'
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Miss TYLER, who supported MINNIE
Z MADDERN, was quite i'll all last week,
yet she will get out of her bed every
evening, come to the opera house and
play her part. 1t is wonderful what
8 fascination the fOotlightS have for these
. stage people. Il was never tired of
acting" remarked RIsToRI. ''and my
CHEAT that when my manager, partly
: for my health, gave me an idle day, L
I. felt like fish out of water" CLARA
NORRIS always has to lie down between
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