St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-04-28
WAEREFOR ART THOU ?"
Unique Presentation of "Romeo and
Juliet by Minneapolis Amateurs.
JULIET'S CLEAN SHAVE.
Those Who Have Tears Prepare to Shed
Them N0W---P0liGe Protection
Provided.
"Then Romeo his weapon drew,
A knife of seven blades.
And made gap in Tibbey's ribs
That sent him to the shades"

The mournful story of Romeo and
Juliet, which has come down from the
corridors of ShakeSpeare's time, COW
cred with dead flowers and the tears of
ages, and also with a three-ply halo of
glory, has been tragedy long enough.
A company of young men of Minneapo-
lis. guided or misguided by an ambition
to sing in public, or else driven to such
desperation by the misfortunes of the
ball team that they will do anything,
have arranged to produce travesty
Oh Romeo and Juliet at the Grand
opera house the last three nights of
this week. The deed is to be done in
verse, and the main features of Shake
speare's report of the proceedings will
be adhered to, though some latitude Will
be allowed for the Introduction of spe-
cialties which Shakespeare never thought
+ of when he wrote the play. The cast
has been specially selected for the
production and will never be seen
again in an unbruiSed, unbroken con-
dition. People are urged, for that
reason, to secure seats early and stand
behind the opera house door to avoid
the rush.
Romeo will be presented by W. B.
s'Ah. there" four-in-hand. Mr.. Heath
has been thoroughly drilled in the love
scenes and thinks he can kiss the whisk-
ers off from Juliet at every respiration.
His adventures and makeup will be a
decided novelty, and the complaint that
has been made by critics that there was
a sameness about all RomeoS will have
to he withdrawn temporarily. 1t is true
Romeo kills Tybalt in this version, but
he does it with meat AK, steals the de-
ceased'S watch and diamond, skips to
Oklahoma and returns presently dis
guiSed as an Irish peanut peddler with
other variations in the text which the
public and police will notice as the play
proceeds.
Shortly after the audience gets in,
Charles w. Hall will make his first
maiden appearance on any stage dis
guised as Juliet, for which he has had
two gorgeous costumes built. The first
is clean shave and garnet plush ell
traine with fixtures on the sides and
thingumbObS Ornamenting the front.
In the second act Juliet appears with
her hair cut decollete and white bro
caded velvet gown worn over high
faIsetto tone, in the midst of which she
will sing.
Al Flournoy, Providence and the po-
lice abstaining from perniciOus. activ-
ity, will create the part OF Friar Law
renee in such manner that the Law
| renee family wouldn't know him again.
He has injected humor into the pious
| mans conversation, and in one scene
gets the poor anchorite SO full-of pity
for ,Juliet-that he is unable to anchor
| right. The friar's lines have had local
gags s0cked into then until they bulge
out with personalities. Mr.. Flournoy
will also stand behind the friar while he
sings a song. Persons who feel as
though they would like to reduce their
store of eggs should throw in such
manner as to hit the fTiar, whereupOn
| Mr.. Flournoy will cease to sing. There
are a number of other characters of
more or less unusual character, but on
whom sentence has been suspended.
| The entire cast is:
| Juliet. ..................Cha Charles W. Hail
Capulet ..'....'......'....... W: GraIton
Nurse ........................E. P. Browning
Apothecary .--...... ........-.- a f. Wayte
Tybalt.-.. -........W. j. Chick
MercutlO ....-...-.J. Ill. EOrOeS
Chorus of Montagues, Capulets, friars and
apothecaries.
The production is in the charge of III.
S. Woodruff and E. o. BaldamoS, and by
the Apollo Glee club,
The songs and choruses for the
travesty are all old favorite college
tunes and are likely to make decided