St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-10-22
MANAGER SCOTS BENEFIT
Proved a Big success---The Har-
PiS reimbursement Notes.

esteem III WHICH HC Is HtIu ny q cOln-
munity at large. The proposition by his
friends to tender to him compliment
airy benefit, met with such response
as never had been duplicated in st.
Paul: the Newmarket was crowded to
the rafters with not only large, but a
highly representative audience, which
applauded to the echo the humOr, abb
surdities and dialogue of ''The City
Directory" Among those present were
the following:
The boxes were occupied by Mrs.
Gov. Merriam and party, j. B. TarbOx
party, John Summers and party, ID. II.
Moon, J. Ii. Allen and families, E. II.
Cutler and party. Among those whose
presence was noted in the body of the
house were George n. Flynn, c. S. Bar
tram and wife, Mark E. Ferry and wife,
Z. Hilton and lady, F. Huebner and
wife, A. b. Stickney and party. George
Thompson and lady, Charles Thompson
and lady, E. A. Whitaker
and wife, Miss Lillian Whit
aker, r. Mannheimer and party,
r. c. Munger, Walt Wyand, John FoOs
and party, H. Stranss. w. Mussetter,
George MOeller. William Ii. Bickel and
ladies. Aid. William Bickel, f. j. Haynes
and lady, A. j. Powers and wife, George
McGee and family, Ed r. Gilman, S. q.
Dickinson and family, W. P. Murray
and family, Neil Murray and ladies. K.
l.. German and party, Grant Huber, A.
YOerg and lady, Aid. John Gehan
and lady, Mrs. Charles F. Fee
and party, Z. E. Dixon and lady,
Clarence RObb, W. r. Git, Sam Knease,
w. H. Dixon, John Matheis, Julius
Kessler and family, Mrs. +. l.. BOrup,
Charles BOrup, George r. Finch,
Franklin Clark, j. S. Mccullough and
wife, w. S. Morton and wife, II. w.
Dunn and wife. u. P. Hall, Mr.. and
Mrs. c. E. Stone, Mr.. and Mrs. A. w.
Trenholm, Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. E. Ferry,
Mr.. and Mrs. n. r. Bagley. MIR. and
Mrs. A. G. FlournOy, Robert White.
When the curtain went down on the
first act. All unexpected occurrence took
place. c. S. Bartram, exalted ruler of
The St. Paul lodge of Elks, took the
stage,and with neat address presented
Manager Scott, on behalf of the Elks.
a beautiful gOid-headed ebony walk
ing stick. MIR. Scott was completely
taken 10y surprise, but managed to ex-
press his thanks. Before the perform
ance, Treasurer Symonds. Stage Man.
ager Thompson and Advertising Agent
Beech presented Manager Scott with an
presented him with fine life-sized por-
trait of himself.
1t takes Ed Harrington to fill West
ern theater, as well as hold down the
boards and attention of all the East. 1t
has been eight wears since Mr.. Harring-
ton has ventured so far West, and now
that he has come, it seems all st. Paul
turned out to greet him at the Harris
theater last evening III his greateStof all
successes, "OId Lavender" The
house was packed; it was enthusiastic,
appreciative and compoSed!y select.
Old Ed. Harrington, like wine, has
ripened into such delightful character
as to make of him, while under the role
of Old Lavender. mountain of humOr-
Gus and pathetic force. He was simply
the same, though more developed, Ned
Harrington. upon whom New York has
looked with pride and admiration. So
at ease in depicting the humber scenes
of lite, and 81 grand in those climaXeS
which evolve from the Earring together
of the exalted and the lOwly that his
audience is one minute shaking
with uncomfortable laughter, and
the next sitting with waver-
ing :emOtiOnS-tender and deep.
Manager Harris never had better play
to the front than ''Old Lavender;" and,
if the Harris theater is not crowded
each night during the presentation, the
cause will be foreign to Ned Harring-
toms company. The support is good,
strong and remarkably active. Smoke,
a negro, by Joseph Sparks, is grand
success. and worthy the hOnOrS the
prominence of the part brings TO
its subject. Dick. the Rat, is
a perfect characterization Of a
poor newsboy and bootblack,
who on becoming a colleague in meek,
poverty with the abused and OstraciZed
George Coggswell (Old Lavender)
blooms to spread himself In an interest
ing manner. lie is clever young man.
George Merritt, as Pop Jones, is eX-
ceedingly brilliant and witty-bearing
various parts with truth and intensity.
Miss Hattie Mo ne, as Mother Craw-
ford, a deaf and eccentric boarding
house mistress, is very good. The en-
tire company is talented combination,
well able in their rendition of "Old
Lavender" one of the best plays Mr..
Harris has had the good fortune to pre-
sent to our public.
There is a genuine cowboy drama at
the St. Paul museum this week. 1t is
part of BronchO Johns ''Wild West"
show, and is played by cowboys them
selves. Cowboys do not make remark
ably good actors, but they are pretty
clever with their reYOlyers, and they
carry good long ones, too. None of
your toy guns for them. They are all
genuine cowboys, brought up in
the saddle, and they play in
free and easy Wild West
fashion. Their drama is interesting
chiefly as a real picture by the men
who have lived the life of the plains.
BronchO John has played good many
parts i'm his time. He has been lecturer,
cowboy, and now actor. His public
career began with Col. William Cody,
who is now dazzling Europe with his
exhibitions. He rode the first steer.
the first buffalo and the first bucking
horse in Col. Cody's show. 1t was he,
too. that broke the head from the bottle
of wine when the show was christ
ened. And, by the way, there is
story about how the show came
to be called the Wild West. 1t was in
tended at first to call it the Golden
West. and 1t was TO be picture OF the
rise and progress of life on the plains;
but, when the show was first started,
they had so much trouble with Indians
getting drunk, ETC., that when some one
suggested thOt 1t be called the Wild
West. it was named that on the spot.
There have been many Wild West
shows, but only two successful ones.
One is William Cody's, now in Europe,
and the other is Broncho Johns.
BrOncho John has with him now num-
Der of the old scouts that were with tie
first Wild West show. There are al.
together forty people in the Company at
tn g museum this week.
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An excellent vaudeville perfoI nance
pleased large audience at the Olympic
last night Carroll and Lewis, female
lmperS0nators, presented neat act.
George H. Diamond. the vocalist, made