St. Paul daily globe., 1889-01-06
THE AMUSEMENT MENU.
The Weeks Promised Entertainment
Very Varied.
THE ACTORS FUND BENEFIT.
The Florences at the Grand---Bills
and Notes Of the Peoples
and Pence.

The Actors Fund of America will be
the recipient of benefit at the Grand,
Minneapolis, Thursday afternoon next.
After considerable trouble and annoy
ance, one of the best programmes has
been arranged that will be given at
theater in decade. w. j. Florence
and company. Joseph Murphy and COM
pany, the Peoples theater company of
Minneapolis, the Peoples theater COM
pany of St. Paul. the well-known club
swinger, James Wheeler. Charles and
Minnie Burroughs, Kitty Wells, the LIE
Paige children, the DanZ orchestra and
others will furnish the entertainment.
The sale of seats will commence at the
Grand Tuesday, and tickets can be Sc
cured at all the theaterS and hotels to-
morrow.
Tonight the dramatization of another
great novel, by still more famous
American woman-author, will begin
lightfully pathetic and comic old chest
nut, ''Uncle Toms Cabin" which every
body has seen from once to dozen
times, and which everybody wants to
see again. The production will be
made notable one by the introduction
of large number of specialties by
members of the company and others,
and by elaborate scenery. Among the
tableaux will be Little Eva's Ascent to
Heaven and the Beautiful Gates Ajar.
The other scenic and mechanical devices
such as the Ohio river filled with float
ing ice-cakes will all. it is presumed, be
on scale seldom equalled on the stage
of any local theater. Manager Sterling,
who has done very little work behind
the footlightS since he became the head
of the popular house, will make his re-
appearance on the stage in the charac-
ter of Uncle Tom; Miss Marie Welles-
ley will play Eliza: Miss Carrie Strorg
impersonate the villainous Legree, the
slave driver; j. G. Nelson will be
George Harris; James Harrison, Phin-
cas- Fletcher, and John w. Burton as
Lawyer Marks. The North Star Jubi-
lee club will introduce plantation melo-
dies, gleeS and dances. A feature will
be the appearance of Miss Marie Welles-
ley's three great acting st. Bernard
dogs.
The date of the Minneapolis Flam-
beau club benefit at the Peoples theater
has been changed to Friday, Jan. Is.
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After week of roasts, represented in
the mental menu by tragedy, and week
of champagne and liqueurs, represent
ed by light and grand operas. we are to
have taste of the salad, crisp. dainty
and delicious, as represented by gen.
uine comedy of the highest class, with
its accOmpaniments of fine mOuntings
and settings, perfect stage pictures,
hoo ft1I nd -
semble that only such an organization
as the Fiorences and their company can
produce. They come to US this season
after phenomenally successful tour
through the Southern states, territory
they had not visited in ten years.
The repertoire for the week is as fol
lows: Monday evening, "The Mighty
Dollar" Tuesday evening, Our Gov
ernor, or His Little Hatchet," (both old
favorities); Wednesday, Thursday, Fri
day evenings and Saturday matinee,
s.Heart of Hearts," new), and Satur-
day night, "Dombey and Son." pro-
gramme varied and attractive enough
to call out succession of large and
enthusiastic audiences.
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'sHeart OF Hearts," the new play, has
won reputation so marked this season
that it finds a permanent place in the
repertoire of these favOrite artists.
The sale of seats for this engagement
is already large, and they will doubtless
attract the brilliance and fashion of our
city.
A Scotch and an Irish drama are in
cluded in the double bill for the Pence
this week. The latter, which is called
''the Irish Princess,' is dramatization
of William Blacks beautiful and roman
tic story, A Princess of Thule. The
novel is considered by many and the
dramatization concentrates all the best
features of the story. The leading
character is finely brought out in the
play. She is a beautiful Irish girl and
a legendary princess. A young Eng
lishman falls in love with her and takes
her into the highest English society.
She finds in London little but suffering
for her wild free nature and disappOint-
ment for her husband. Her father,
''the King of B0rva" or plain Con
O'Mara, as he is called in the play,
is also a strong character. Jessaline
Rogers will take the part of the Prin-
cess, and Frederick Book will appear as
Con. The play is in many respects like
"Chick," which had such an eXtraOr-
dinary run at the Pence few months
ago. The bill for the latter half of the
week fhe Princess will run the first
halo is a dramatizatiOn of ScOtt'S novel
1.-The Heart of Midlothian" In this
Miss Rogers will appear as the Scotch
lass, Jennie Deans. Both dramatiza-
tions have been adapted for the Pence