St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-09-21
ADRIAN C. WILL ACT.
The Grand Old Han Of Base
Ball to Go on the
Stage.
Capt. Arson Preparing to APP
pear in a Hoyt Farce
Comedy.
Arrangements Made With the
Playwright in Boston
Last Week.
Twelve Thousand People See
Milwaukee Beaten by
Boston.

NEW YORK, Sept. 20.-Uncle Adrian
Constantine Arson, play actor! Can
Chicagoans picture such a parsonage?
Can the cranks coax their imaginations
INTO presenting the grand old nan of
base ball numbering around stage
spouting words OF defiance into the face
Of some heavy villain, lighter, however,
Oy twenty pounds than the old man, or
whispering soft nothings into the will
ng ear of some coy heroine, while an
audience that packs the theater to the
dome hangs on the bell-like tones of his
:ilvery voice as though the soft
aothingS were the soul-stirring words of
an inspired prophet? Can the enthusi-
astS of the Windy City secure a Strangle
hold on their fancies and turn them into
such channel? 1t is weird sort of
affair TO contemplate. Imagine Uncle
in yelveteen trousers. with his peach
blow complexion frescOed even to a
more carmine hue with grease paint,
and the soft flowing blonde hair, hid
len beneath a wig of goodly proportions,
following closely in the footsteps of
John l.. Sullivan, James Owen O'Conor
and others, who have acquired
Fame and Fortune
oy the display of unsupported histrionic
gifts. Picture that voice which, when
hurled at an unfortunate umpire from
The coaching lines, has been wont to
cause a panic among those within two
blocks OF the ball grounds, being Gagged
up within the narrow confines of a
lhespian temple! The managers will
have to put sinkers on the roof or during
of il l.faf-g to 6 I'm In
audiences will be left only with
heavens blue mantle above them. Hard
as all these things may be TO picture,
they are more than apt to come to pass.
1t has long been an open secret among
mis- friends that Uncle had looked en-
Vylngly on the triumphs of JohnL. Sulli-
van, and when the latter was last in
Chicago he occupied a seat of promi-
nence on several occasions, and felt in
ais Utmost soul that he could lose the
pig fellow when it came to acting, and
he made no bones about saying so. One
lay in Spaulding's, to a select but APP
)reciative audience, the Old Man took
Iome of
SUlliVan's Lines
md showed how they should have been
delivered. Uncle was satisfied with
he effort so that his auditors had no
Kick coming. While the club was in
Boston this week Arson met Charles
doyt, the famous playwright, and the
pair was noticed for some time engaged
earnest conversation. 1t now devel-
Fps that Hoyt was unfolding plan into
Which the old man fell, or rather tum-
oled, promptly. The word fell hardly
expresses che way he took to
he plan. He seemed to take a
.unning jump at the scheme.
Hoyt has become imbued with the idea
that base bali farce would be go,
ard told Arson that his next effort
would be in that direction. He also
asked the old man if he would assume a
part in such piece. Unclo looked at
him pityingly. Would he assume part
IN it? Would duck swim? So that
part was arranged easily enough, and
The pair parted with the understanding
that they would meet later and talk the
matter over again. 1t is not beyond the
range OF possibility, therefore, that the
ChicagO's big captain may blossom as a
zeal out-and-out play actor before Yule-
tide.