St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-04-20
DRAMA And MUSIC.
One of the Greatest Show
Weeks Of the Entire
Season.
"Bluebeard Jr.," the Great
Extravaganza, at the
Grand.
Marie Wainwright at the Har-
pis Theatep in Twelfth
Night"

When the curtain rises Monday night
at the Grand opera house on the pro-
logue of the latest and unquestionably
the greatest of stage spectacles, Blue
beard Jr.," there will be presented a
wonderful piece of scenic taste in the
gloomy grotto of the king of chestnuts
SO from the very first the interest and
admiration commences as each new and
dazzling scene is presented, and to the
close of the extravaganza seldom is a
rational being disappointed. In the
numerous stage pictures and ballets are
unique dressed green grasshoppers,
white moths, glistening ladybugs, merry
parrots of all the colorS of the rainbow,
stalking barnyard fowls, harlequin but
terf1ies, with wings outStretched, and
also brilliant FREELY in the person of
Madeline Morondo, one of the queens of
the ballet. This latest of the Chicago
opera house productions is really be-
You'd question the greatest of its kind,
for. indeed, with 200 people on the stage
and three carloads OF scenery, it should
certainly make an unusual showing, eS-
pecially when it numbers among its list
Of comedians such laugh prOvokerS as
Eddie Fay. 1t has big chorus of pretty
girls, whose feet are as nimble as they
were in "rhe Crystal Slipper" of which
''Bluebeard" is the successor. All the
scenery throughout was especially
painted by Henry Hoyt and Voegtlin,
and the music has been plentifully sup
piled with catchy airs by Braham and
other clever composers.
In every special scene there are said
to be, and there are eight exclusive OF
the transformations, in which there is
an exceptional degree OF art, poetry,
sentiment and striking originality which
certainly indicates the genius of the
foremost American scenic artists that
painted them. The works of these
artists is of that dignity and beauty of
richness that have called forth the most
praiseWOrthy commentator. One of
the most prominent of these is the
''Grotto of Fantastic Fancy" admira-
bly, executed, and particularly Strik-
ing feature of this gem is the adj
mirably executed life-siZe figures
of nude women reclining, with light
gauZe draperieS, under banks and
brilliant stage SpectacleS, the transfer
nation entitled ''Truth and Light" has
been repeatedly described as triumph
of scenic art. 1t is called a marvel not
only in conception, but IN treatment;
and, when first seen in Chicago last
spring, was said to place all other at
temptS at transformation comparatively
in obscurity. Another special feature
is the wedding pageant and the Light of
ASIA" and the production, on the whole,
is said to have cost the Chicago opera
house management the sum of 100000
before its first production. But not
outstanding this risky outlay, which
depended for returns upon the uncer-
tain thread of public opinion, all par
ties have become thoroughly satisfied
Manager Henderson for large profits
and the public for the good return for
the price of admission to perform
ance which is said to rival in grandeur
the most sumptuOus days of the en-
trancing "Black Crook"