St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-01-14
j. FOYER AND FOorLIGHr.

The Harris will do large business
this week. The good fortune of that
house in having another of A. NJ.
.Palmer's Madison Square successes, in
''Captain Swift will and should GER
family win the attention OF the public.
''Captain Swift" as Interpreted by Ar
thur Forrest, is most romantic drama,
deep, intense and quasi-tragic. The
scene is in London, chiefly in the best
circles Of English society, into which,
like an active magnet, there intrudes
gallant young man-"with history"
To himself and Scotland Yard, he is the
notorious buShranger, thief and felon,
Capt. Swift: TO the society into which
he has dropped like celestial mystery,
he is the gentleman, developed of
travel and teamiGg with romance. The
history of his life is by him painted
and trimmed to fit the episodes of his
new life. He learns TO love reSpecta-
BILE lady of wealth and station. The at
tachment is mutual and renders his
position perilOus. 70 delightfully."- COM
plicate matters and add an admoniShing
moral to the plot. the young hero learns
that he has wOoed and won the niece of
his own mother, VINO discovers the
desperate to be her illegitimate son,
who was cast to the winds of strange
care when an infant.
A superior destiny seems to have
drawn together tile two ends of two
histories. The moral is apparent after
the third act. and the most critical
audience is likely to find the most of true
art in Pdlmer'S great play. Arthur
Forrest is young actor. but so glowing
with the ardor of true genius and his
tTionic powers as to make his audience
fool tho Of nlfia1. oYH
portrayerS of passion and emotion. In
emotional display MIR. Forrest is So gen.
erOus with true pathos as to move the
visible parallel sympatlies in his audi
cnce. He is strong, yet easy: his stage
movement unreStrained, but well
studied, and his voice is of that quality
which renders his lines all the more in
teresting, besides they are well heard
and understood. Forests creation of
the principal part of this interesting
drama is. as he acted it last night. even
better and carried with more energy
than was seen of Maurice Barrymore
when he carried the first honors
with it in this country. The
and carried London for the same
period. Forrest is in his sphhre, and
as Capt. Swift he finds his cungenial
exercise. Miss Rand is very good, and
her work is realistically imprisoned
and refined. Her act and expression is
warm and full of the spirit created by
the author of her lines. The
company, as whole, is excep-
ti0nally good - Wright Huntington
and Miss Grace Kimball ably and ar
tistically rendering their several parts.
Miss kimball is capable of better part
for grated into Stella Darbisher she
can find but a limited sphere for her
talent. The house was full and the au-
dience a representative one, and the
weeks business will certainly be very
1lattering.
Il
The first presentation of a play is ant
10 be little stiff. Such was the case
with Kiralfy's Water Queen" at the
Newmarket last evening. The special
ties were all very good, and the bal
let particularly fine. With the practice
of last evening there is no reason to
doubt that the play will be first-class
the balance of the week. The stage is
rather meager for the elaborate scenery
prepared especially for this play, but
that, too, will be better for the second
and succeeding performances.
Lottie Swans Female MINISTRIES held
down the boards at the Olympic last
evening in right royal shape. A num-
Der Of good specialties We're followed by
"Hassanbad, or the Pretty Prince,n
tine musical burlesque.