St. Paul daily globe., 1889-03-29
ADJUSTMENTS.

Sir Charles -Young's beautiful play
Jim the Penmann was produced at the
Grand last night, before one of the most
fashionable audiences of the season.
The drama has been seen here before
and made most favorable impression.
1t was presented with the same power
ful and even cast that characterized last
seasons performance and which bears
out the reputation of Mr.. Palmef's Madi
son Square theater TganiZationS. Jim
the Penman" is without doubt the
strongest play given TO the English
speaking stage in decade, and
Its intense melodramatic interest,
carried smootely along from scene
to scene in the most coll0quial styie. is
a refreshing treat indeed. May Brook
lyn as Nina Joseph Whiting as James
Raiston. w. j. Ferguson as Captain
Redwood. and Clarence Handysides as
Louis Percival made decided hit. The
remainder Of the cast was admirably
sustained.
The initial presentation of Paul kau-
var' Steele Mackeaye's famous master
piece, in Minneapolis takes place at the
Grand next Monday evening. The pro-
| duction comes here in its entirety, after
| playing a most successful engagement
at HOOley'S theater in Chicago. As it
/ is now generally known the play ran
for over one hundred nights at the
Standard theater.. New York, and
will be presented in the same
| superb manner that characterized
| its success at that time. The
| company is an exceedingly large one.
/ embracing all of the original east. Jo-
/ seph Haworth, who enactS the title
! role, is one of the best young heroic
| actors on the stage. For number of
| years he was leading man to the late
| Mccullough. and. before his imper-
| sOnatiOn of the part in the play of
Paul Kauvar," starred in the prov
! inces with the - HOodman Blind" COM
! pany. Miss Carrie Turner is the hero
| Inc. and the balance OF the company
| embraces such well-knOwn people as
! NestOr Lennon, Lizzie Rochelle and
| others.
| Washington Irving Bishop, the
| thought-reader. was sufficiently recov-
| cred last night TO appear at the Henne-
| pin avenue theater and give a most in
| tereSting and novel entertainment. The
! house was full and the character of the
| audiei ce such that Mr.. Bishop must
| have indeed felt fiattrred. The expert
! mentS were different from those of his
| opening seance, more difficult and in
| many lCSptCbS i1OlC OlS
| OF the most remarkable was the
! finding in the audience of three gentle
| men who had been previously posed in
| taGleau by the committee and their
| arrangement by Mr.. Bishop in the same
! positions it had hrSt assumed. Owing
! tn the failure OF the committee TO fol-
| low Mr.. Bishops instructions and their
| introduction Of third member to assist
/ them. the little mind reader was consid-
| erabiy delayed and perpleXed in his
| work. During his groupings for the
main idea the suspense was intense, and
the nervousness of the audience far eX-
ceeded his own. Their over
| wrought feelings found vent. how
| ever, in rounds of applause
| and braves when Mr.Bishop was finally
| successful with the test. Some very
| clever eXposiIions of spiritualism were
| given, and the entire WORK frightened
| by Mr.. Bishops witty remarks. The
! thOught-reader is great hit with the
| ladies, to whom he directs much of his
| attention. During the week Mr.. Bishop
| will give change of bill every evening
! and Saturday matinee. He is recuper-
| ating rapidly. and expressed himself as
| quite ia his old condition last night at
| the West. During the day Mr. Bishop
| is besi eyed at his hotel by gentlemen of
| a scientific turn. who wish TO converse
! with him on psychological topics. Yes
| terday several beautiful bouquets were
! sent him by ladies who had seen his
! street test and SYmpathiZed with him in
| his consequent lndiSDOSitiOn.