St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-02-22
STAGE AND PLAYERS.
Gossip of Current Attractions and
Local Celebrities

Charley Parker, of the Peoples thea
ter, is quite i'll with winter cholera.
Charles Wilkinson, of the Golden
Giant Mine company, and manager of
the Worcester theater. has been the
guest OF Manager Sterling, of the Peo
pies theater, this week.
Miss JesSaline Rogers will be quite
generally missed from Minneapolis
after this week. She is not only fair
and versatile actress, but had the fac
ulty of making friends always.
1t is an i'll wind that blows nobody
good. The same crowd which turned
out to the fire which was within q block
of the Peoples theater increased the
audience flOm fair size to almost
packed house.
Ada DyaS is said to be equal to Agnes
Booth in the famous letter scene in
Jim the Penman," where she holds
the stage for fully two minutes without
word being spoken, and until inter-
rupted by the spontaneous applause of
the audience.
No part Miss WELLESLEY has presented
at the Peoples has she done better than
her Gretchen, the termagant wife of
Rip Van Wrinkle. The comedy of her
part and the torture which her ShiftleSS,
both well brought out.
Mrs. Mckee Rankin in 1.-THE Golden
Giant Mine' attracted another large
audience at the Grand opera last night.
This afternoon the Washington birth
day matinee will be given, commencing
at 2:30 p. m. 1.-The Golden Giant Mine'
is play worthy of patronage and should
be by lovers of good comedy.
Three of the cast of ''Jim the Pen
man" have been seen here, and not I'M
successfully, in stellar roles. Reference
is made TO Ada DyaS, who will be re-
membered in connection with young
Mrs. Winthrop" WI. Ferguson, who
was the dude in "a Friendly Tip;'' Pit
tacus Green in Hazel Kirke;" Macari
in Called Back" and H. NJ. Pitt, whose
comedy company will be remembered
for excellent work.
E. G. Spaulding, formerly with the
Peoples theater, has returned from the
Northwest, after a short experience
with Richard FOOte, the young TRACE
dian, who started out of Minneapolis
some weeks ago for Northwestern
tour. Mr.. Spaulding says Foote is do
ing a poor business. Mr.. Spaulding's
business in the city at present is the
selection of a stock company for the
Sleeper opera house at Brainerd, which
will open the nth of March next under
his management.
Joseph Lift q Co., the Chicago theater
and museum managers, have made
Sackett u Virgins an offer to take the
Minneapolis and st. Paul museums and
Hennepin Avenue and the ST. Paul
theaters. They offer to give $4,000 for
the museums and the st. Paul theater,
together with the assets of Sackett e
for the Hennepen Avenue theater,
and assume all the debts if
the property is. turned over to them.
Mr.. Hunt, Sackett q Virgins attorney,
regards the proposition favorably, but
thinks that as Sackett & Virgins can
not make over to Lift & Co. the leases
of the museum building, the scheme is
not perfectly feasible as it stands. He
adds, however, that if Lift & Co. will
pay the $4,000 and take their chances
of obtaining the leases, the proposition
will he accepted and the entire matter
taken out of the courts.
A. NJ. Palmer'S Madison Square The
alter company are at the Grand next
week. A. NJ. Palmer's name, used in
connection with dramatic perform
ance, carries with it certain guarantee
of artistic fullneSS and of substantial
merit that makes it easy to predict sue
cess for any of his enterprises. 1t is
rarely safe to anticipate in matters the
atrical. But when a manager has dem
onstrated his entire honesty by never
departing from the high standard which
he has set for himself and upon which
he wishes TO base his claims for public
recognition and Endorsement, and year
after year. overlooking mistakes hon
estly made, he has maintained the
superior quality of that which he has
to otfer-in such eases it is not
rash or otherwise to speak decsively, in
advance even of positive information, to
express favorable opinion without being
in possession of data on which to base
such prediction. In speaking of Jim
the Penman," moreover to descend from
the general to the particular, the ele-
ment of doubt cuts no figure. Its sue
cess is known, its merits incontestable.
1t has won the approval of cultured au-
dienceS in the various large cities of the
country, when presented by the people
who will be in the cast here, and there
is hardly any reason to doubt that their
verdict will be ratified.