St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-08-31

friends. His nom de plume is Mr.. Law
renee, having assumed that name by
way of compliment to his fathers old
friend, John Lawrence Toole. Mr.. Law
rence'S debut was made as Snug, the
Joiner. III midsummer Nights
Dream"
A dispatch from Vienna announces
the ceath of Marie Taglioni, a niece OF
her celebrated namesake. The dead
dancer was the daughter Of Paul Tag
liOni, the brother of the world renowned
Marie TagIioni. The lady who has just
died was born in Berlin in October. 1888,
and made her debut in London in 1S47.
In 1866 Marie TagliOni married Prince
WmdisehgraetZ and abandoned her
theatrical career. Her death occurred
at the Chateau Aigen, near Tull, on the
Danube. seventeen miles from Vienna.
IA Sailors Knot" with which Drury
Lane will reopen, will embrace the
period from NapoIeOn's escape from
Elba to his fall at Waterloo. The ac-
tiOu of the play will commence at Wap-
ping Old Stairs, and the deck of the
Victory and the march OF the troops for
the great battle will be seen. Charles
Glenney will play Juvenile hero to
Charles Warmers lead. There are only
five important male characters in the
drama.
A New York manager is said to be
trying to engage the services of Mabel
Love, a popular "Gaiety girl" for a
season in New York and elsewhere.
Isabel, when ''Only a ballet girl, ;"
jumped into HOtOriety by plunging into
the river Thames in an attempt to COM
nit suicide. MabePS genius in tue bal
let was not appreciated TO the degree
she thought 1t should be. After her
cold bath and rescue and the unfolding
of her ''pitiful tale" in a police court
Mabel blOs5omed into popularity, for
that dramatic debut made her the Idol
OF the JOhnnles VINO convert the Galety
theater into a gold mine.
1t is whispered that the indictment
held out to Mabel is not yet sufficient to
make her desert the Gaiety brigade.
A hundred and twenty-five dollars
weekly is the sum mentioned as the bait
offered by the New York manager.
Minnie Hauk sailed for New York to-
day.
Miss Eastlake has determined to make
tour of the United States as her own
manager. instead Of Joining Wilson
Barretts' company, as at first an
nounced.
ment to make another tour of the
United States. This venture will COM
mence in January heXt.
William 5. Gilbert, Sir Arthur Sulli-
vans partner in so many dramatic
and musical efforts, has finished the
libretto for a comic opera composed by
Alfred Cellier. This new production is
quite ready to be put upon the stnge.
but it will not be exposed to the fire
until La Cigale'' ceases at the Lyric
theateT. Geraldine Ulmar is still play
ing the leading role in La Cigale."
MIR. Gilbert has also undertaken to
write a farcieal musical comedy, which
will be produced at the Prince of Wales
theater.
In response to a demand by the Wag-
ner societies a minor festival may very
likely take place next year, the operas
represented being "Parsifal," Die
MeisteTsinger." "TanGhauser," and
possibly "RienZi."
Harnish McCarn's new cantata.
Queen Hynde of Caledonia" is highly
spoken of. 1t has been accepted by the
/ Glasgow Choral union for performance
during their winter series OF concerts.
During the past season, ten months,
at the Opera cOmique, Paris, the works
/ of no less than tWenty-seven composers
were given. GOunod headed the list
with siXSy-siX performances Massager
came next with fOrty-seven, and then
BiZet with fOrty-fOur; Ambrose
Thomas, Victor Massie and Harold
were all played a nearly equal number
of times, betwe9S thirty and forty.
whereas Rossini las only been heard
seventeen times and DO nizetti but
/ twelve times.
Rudyard Kipling has just finished a
new novel. written in collaboration
with young American. Wolcott Bal
estier, now living in London. 1t is a
story of America and India, and it viii
appear in the Century.