St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-02-03
SHIFTING The SCENES.
A Transformation Effected at
the Old Market
Hall.
Manager Scott Provides a
Cosy Resort for Amuse-
ment Lovers.
Socially Inclined Elks Make a
Merry Night For
Visitors.
Aldermen For a New Sub
urban Town Must Take
Their Chances.

Market hall has been transformed.
The old scene of political conventions
and public meetings is no more. In its
stead has risen commodiouS theater
Tuesday night the old hall was as it had
been for years; tomorrow evening 1t
will be opened to the public as the opera
house which will take the place of the
Grand until new one can be provided.
Not wishing to deprive the public OF the
artistic and intellectual treats he had
secured for the season, Manager Scott
secured Market hall Tuesday and imme-
diately put large force of men to work
to prepare a suitable setting for the
jewel who will dazzle the eyes of the
ater-goers tomorrow evening. The first
thing to be done was to entirely repair
the old seats. A specialist in this line
arrived from Chicago, and by skillful
course of treatment has entirely cured
them of the many diseases which af-
flicted them, so that they are now fit to
support either coat-tails or bustles. The
next step was to tear down all the par
titionS back of the old stage, put in a
new stage and arrange rooms where the
festive chorus girls can don their tights,
concealed from the gaze of the general
public, or in which the star can dress
herself in her best skirt and complex
ion and cover the rest of her body with
diamonds. Fifty men have worked day
and night, and now the 1850 chairs gaze
blankly upon a stage 81 feet deep, 45
feet wide, and 80 feet high, with II
commodiouS dressing rooms at the side.
Two boxes are being putin On each side
of the stage, and space is being rallied
off
FOB THE ORCHESTRA.
Twelve men are hard at work making
and painting scenery, and have already
finished the wood wings, dark wood
drop, landscape drop, tormentors, grand
drapery, interior borders, sky borders,
gothic interior setting, plain and fancy
chamber setting, kitchen, prison and
street scenes. The grooves are nearly
finished, and the stage hardware, such
as gas pipes, border and foot lights, has
all arrived from Chicago and will be
put in place to-day. New standpipeS,
hose and Babcock eXtinguishers have
been put in. and, as further safeguard.
and additional exist has been provided.
while all the stage fittings are made of
sheet iron and the stage itself lined
with the same material. Light and
heat will be supplied by the means al
rea dy there, and the old drop curtain
will be used until new one can be
painted. To show what enterprise has
been displayed by Manager Scott, it
may be said that fifty men have been
working day and night since midnight
Tuesday. AS fast as sheet of iron
was put in place it was painted: not
minute was lost, and the work which
seemed as it no human skill could COM
plete in time for tomorrow evening,
has been pushed forward so rapidly
that it will be all finished in time for
the rise of the curtain at .. m. The
only apparent disadvantage which Mar
ket hall has for theater. is that the
floor is all on the same level, but if
ladies will discard their sky-scraping
hats. even this objection will be over
come. The hall will seat 1850 people,
and the view from the seats at the sides
of the hall is just as good as
FROM THE MIDDLE.
The aisles are wide and the ventila-
ton all that could be desired. The
large windows which run down each
side of the hall are being draped with
warm red curtains, and the auditorium
will present very respectable appear
anee, considering the brlef time at the
disposal of Mr.. Scott. while the stage
will leave nothing to be desired, as it is
larger than the old stage at the Grand.
A curious coincidence is the fact that
Miss Margaret Mather was the last act
ress to appear on the stage of the
old Grand, before the recently de-
stEoyed one was opened, while
she will open Market hall as
a theater. Manager Scott's enterprise
in preparing a suitable theater for the
should meet with it's just reward in lib
eral patronage. and any slight defcie n
cies in the new house should be over
looked in view of the excellence of the
general arrangements, which, under the
late unauspicious circumstances. are in
finitely better than could possibly
boua haan bonaI FOR