St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-12-27
AT THE THEATERS.
What Playhouse Patrons Will
Find in Minneapolis This Week.

What Playhouse Patrons Will
Find in Minneapolis This Week.
Grand Opera House-The repertoire
announced for the Bostonians for the
week of their engagement here begin
ming tomorrow night, is as follows:
"Robin Hood" Monday, Tuesday,
Thursday, Friday, and at the Saturday
matinee; Carmen" Wednesday night;
Dorothy" at New Years matinee and
Saturday night. The company is
stronger this year than it has ever been
before. New artists have been added
to the list of old favorites. the chorus
and orchestra has been enlarged, and
magnificent new scenery painted espe
cially for these productions. The
success Of the Bostonians in New
York lends an especial interest
to the performance here, for
they played an engagement in
the metropolis which has not been
eQualed in years. Maud Timer, a Mn
neapolIs girl who joined the organiZa-
ton, Will sing at each of the perform
ances. The great success of the BoS-
tOnian Opera company may fairly be
said to be due to two important factors
which are extremely rare OH the amuse-
ment stage today. The first is that a
superior order of entertainment and a
high standard of excellence was estab-
lished and maintained, and the other
that a large number of artists were
brought together and put on ali equal
basis, with no one starred more than the
other. That this was a difficult task,
any one who knows anything about the
opera business will readily concede !;
but Karl, Macdonald and Barnabee, the
prOprietOrs of the BostOnians, have ac-
compliShed it. and their organization is
conceded to be the best of its kind in
this country. They are prime favorites
wherever they 90. and their engage
| ment here at the Grand opera house
| New Years week will be one of eXcep-
tlOnal interest. The demand for seats
| is already large, and there is every in
| dicatiOn that enormous business will be
done.
| Bijou commencing with a
matinee performance today at 2:30, the
! great war play, Held by the Enemy"
will open weeks engagement. The
| production of Held by the Enemy"
which is from the pen of William Gill
| lette and in the sixth season, is one of
the dramatic successes of the times,
and though seen in Minneapolis before.
| there will probably be overlooking au-
| diences at the BIZ gu this afternoon and
night L tic dCllOu VI the play takes
place in Southern city occupied by
the United States forces during the
| civil war, and the interest never flags
from the rise of the curtain on the first
act until the fall at the close. The
drama is we'll staged and is in the
hands of an excellent company. Many
of the actors who have been seen
here before in the same parts are
with the company. The scenes show
ing the casemate in the fort and that
of the dismanTled church interior used
as military hospital have been newly
painted and are beautiful The effect
of the galloping horses introduced in
the third act belongs solely to this mill
tary representation and cannot be used
in any other production. The noise of
an engagement, the roar of cannon
the sound of musketry are produced by
devices for which Mr.. Gillette has the
sole right. An extra matinee perform
ance will be given on New Years day
when evening prices will prevail.
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