St. Paul daily globe., 1889-02-17
DRAMATIC DRIFT.

snow is an Illustration, which Will play
at the Minneapolis Grand next week,
but will give st. Paul the go-by. as Kate
,ClaXton did last week. But some of the
;Old-time favOrites still eyince their
partiality for st. Paul audiences by
keeping their dates with Manager Scott:
and among them is Kate Castleton, the
favorite of the fun-ioving public. Miss
CastletOn will begin her engagement to-
night at the Newmarket, and will con-
tinue her performances until Wednes-
day evening, including Wednesday
matinee, in her new play, IA Paper
DOLL" Two of the leading actors in
Miss Castleton's company are Mr.. Coote
and Miss Deayes. both of whom became
fayOriteS with our st. Paul theater
patrons during their connection with
the Peoples theater stock company.
Following Miss Castleton the Webster
Brady Company will produce "A Dark
Secret" at the Newmarket the latter
part of the week.
The Peoples theater retains Its pop
ularity. and did another rushing weeks
business during the past week with the
military play mot Guilty." By re-
quest this will be another comedy week
at the Peoples. The company will
produce, under the direction of Barton
Hill. the exquisite comedy by Buck
stone. entitled married Life."Ia three
act play with the following cast:
Mr. Frederick Younghusband. A S. Lipman
Mrs. Frederick Younghustand-
Miss Lisette lie Baron
Mr. Henry Dove Charles Stanley
Mrs. Henry Dove. 49,. Miss Loduski Young
Mr. Lionel Lynx. Harold R1sseil
Mrs. Lionel Lynx. ...:Miss May Louise Aigen
Mr.. Samuel Coddle. e................ r; F. Cotton
MIS- bjsma Mary ngers
Mrs. George Dismal. ...Miss Sally Williams
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Paul BoytOn, the water adventurer,
will be seen at the dime museum this
week. His rubber suit and ''Baby Mine"
are known the world over, for with
them he has visited every land and
swan in hundreds of lakes and rivers.
Charles Trip, the armleSs worker;
Hugo. the living skeleton, and Adams.
the glass eater. will also be in CnriO
hall. Upon the upper stage the Bijou
Comedy company will present Under
the Gas Light" In the lower theater
the Congress of Novelties will appear.
1t includes Miss Myrtle Pecquette, in
songs and dances: Mcbride and Gould.
the change artists; Smith and Fuller,
the musical team; James Thompson, the
comedian; Miss Kitty Smith, the char
acter dancer, ana De .Hass in a club
swinging and globe speciality.
s'The saddest day of my life was when
went on the stage" were the words of
the soubrette Earl Remington, in speak
ing of her profession. What a com
mentary! Miss Remington continued:
''It is not the morals of the profess
sionals that have reference to. but the
poor, very poor estimation in which we
are held by the public. Why the world
cannot give woman credit for being
honest when she adopts the theater is
something can not explain"
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OF the 500 ladies who listened to Mrs.
Jenness -Miller's lecture last Tuesday
afternoon, probably 450 of them were
converted to her dreSs-refOrm ideas and
went home with the resolution to
eschew both corset and hustle as soon
as the spring came. But this world is
SO given to backsliding. it is safe to say
that by the end of the week 400 of the
number had resumed their partiality for
the old fashions, and by spring there
will not be a woman in st. Paul who
would part with her corset for love Or
money.
II 1t was Charles Vandenhoff, the actor,
who made the observation at dinner
table: Il do not believe nah ever did
a chivalric deed in plug hat!"
Think of this moment-hoW true it
is!
There is great rage forShakespearean
ala CT fnff hic tirpnn n ~
Hooking in vast crowds to see Henry
Irving and Ellen Terry as Macbeth and
Lady Macbeth, Wilson Barrett as Ham,
let, Beerbon Tree as Falstaff. and Rich
ard Mansfield as Richard the Third.
while New Workers are sitting in judg-
ment on Mrs. Langtry and Charles
Coghlan in"Macbeth," ;" "Kyrle Bellew and
Mrs. Potter in Antony and Cleopatra"
and Louis James and Marie Wainwright
III ''As You Like It."
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English actresses are we'll preserved
and long-liyed. One of them, Mrs.
Scarborough, commenced the new year
by departing this life at the ripe age of
eighty-five. Mrs. Kelley, the mother OF
the London stage, is cheerful and vi
vacious old dame of eighty-four, and
she is regular and enthusiastic first
nighter. Mrs. Stirling, who was we'll
enough to play the nurse throughout
the long run of "Faust' at Henry lrv-
ing's theater, is a frisky matron OF four
gagements. Mrs. Alfred Mellon, the
once popular and fascinating Adelphi
leading actress, Miss Woolgar, has at
tanned the age of SiXty-fiVe, and she,
aiSo,iS anxious to tread the boards again.
The only survivor of the original cast of
'sStill Waters Run Deep" thirty-four
years ago, a lady who played Mrs. Mild
may under the name of Fanny MaSkell.
is still alive and well. Miss Glyn, who
shared leading business with Macready
and Phelps between thirty and forty
years ago; Lady Martin, who, as Helen
Faucet, was long the greatest English
actress: Mrs. Herman Vein, Miss Mar
riott. an old American favorite, ana
about score of other venerable act
resses who are on the verge of Script
ural three score and ten, are also still
alive and in good health.
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In a recent talk on the subject of anna
teur theatrieals just after she had ap-
peared with great success in the ''Comi-
cal Countess, - in which she showed
splendid skill with the foils. Mrs. Blood
good said in answer to quotation as to
the effect of amateur acting on morals:
MY observation is that amateur act
ing does not affect morals at all. Ger
tainly the effect is not detrimental one,
or wouldn't do any acting. The idea
that young people are brought into un-
usual relations at time when their
emotional nature is aroused, and this
condition of affairs aboundS in peculiar
temptations, know from actual expert
ence is absurd. The fact of the matter
is, there is no romance about the ANA
teur stage at ali. And amateur acting