St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-05-04
FLOUR CITY EVENTS.
Two More Theaters Open on
Sunday and the Ministers
Talk.
More About the Suspicious
Against Minneapolis Po-
lice Officers.
West Minneapolis Turner's Gel
citrate Their TWenty-Fifth
Anniversary.
Rev. w. j. Lhamon Takes an
UnorthodoX View of Amuse-
ments.

Yesterday marked the establishment
of the Sunday theater in Minneapolis as
an institution. Of course. Minneapolis
theaters have been open OF Sunday be-
fore now, some of them: but those
which are supposed to be supported by
the ultra-moraliSts, the Grand and
Lyceum, have always been hermetically
sealed on the Sabbath. But the man
agement of these theaters has been
changed. Parker & Thompson have
leased them, and propose running them
for revenue only, not as auXiliaries to
the Y. p. S. c. Z. and the Presbyterian
alliance. The new management took
charge Of these two playhOuseS yeSter-
day. Last night their doors were thrown
open to the world.
AT the Grand the attendance parto0k
not at all of the nature of crush.
There was no fighting to get to the box
Office. Yet the receipts were more than
sufficient to pay the expenses. The
class of people who attended was fully
up to the average of a mid-week audi
ence. Large attendance was not looked
for. George Thatcher's MINISTRIES
played a return engagements and nearly
all the people who wanted to see good
minstrel show had seen it earlier in the
week. Then the opening had not been
advertised very fully.
AT the Lyceum it was different. Sun
day evening opening was no experiment
there. 1t was large, loud, obtruSiye,
VociterouS success. The house was
packed from pit to dome. and the au
dience seemed to enjoy the opera just
as if no pit of perdition yawned to re-
ceive them.
Did the ministers neglect the oppor-
tunity to plant vicious upper cuts on the
Sunday theater? Not bit of it. Even
Rev. NJ. D. Shutter discussed
"Theaters and the Sunday Open
Ing" But he did not tear
his hair in agony of spirit. Neither did
he anathematize. lie thought the Sunday
theater wrong tor these reasons: 1t
depriveS the people connected with the
theater of a day of rest; is against the
law: it is not necessary, as there is no
public demand for it. He went 10
further. He didn't rave about desecra-
ton.
Out in the Eighth ward it was differ
ent. Rev. Golightly Morrill, tackled
the Sunday theater in a prelude. He
went at it regardless of rules and heed
less of the referees warning that he
might lose on foul. His copious vo-
caDulary OF Seml-rellglOuS DllllngSgate
was turned on without let or him
drance. He painted horrible pictures
of Sunday theaterS, Sunday theater
goers, Sunday theaJer players, Sunday
theater managers. He even took a shy
at Sunday newspapers. He spilled over
his congregation torrents of rawlings
which seemed to have been inspired by
moral, or Morrill,, delirium tremens,
and he never turned q hair.
In the Lake Street NJ. E. church Rev.
Noah Lathrop preached on Darkest
England VS.. Darkest Minneapolis" He
seemed to think Minneapolis needed
more reformation than ever ancient
Sodom, because there was no record of
SOdOm having tolerated Sunday the
aters.
All this denunciation did no harm.
The churches seemed to be full, and the
theaters did a good business.