St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-11-06
DRAMATIC DATA.

One OF the funniest comedy farces which
has ever beeu produced before st. Paul au-
dience was "Incog," which received its first
production here last season. 1t Will again
be presented here by Charles Dickson and
his merry company of comedians at the Met
ropolitan Opera house, commencing Thurs
day, Nov. 10. for four nights engagement
OF the company supporting Mr.. Dickson IL
must be said that it is certainly we'll selected
for there is hardly one of the people who
has not done something clever before. 1t is
composed of the following: Messrs. Ed j.
Connolly, Reddick. Anderson, Gustave
Yorke, franklin Garland. Bartram Bancroft,
Louis l.. Mason, and Edgar Allen, and the
Misses &aude Haslom. Louise Muldener
Lillian Burkhart, ANITA Bridger and Vir
giha Ross.
The tour of ''Mayourneen." viii n was in
terrupted last season by the unfortunate i'll
ness of W. j Seaman. Will begin Nov. 10
under the management of Augustus Pitou,
with Chauncey OlcoLt in the role of the Irish
hero. The other members of the company
are Edward Holland, j. "; Hague, Frank
Peters, w. f. White, Daniel Gilfeather, j. O.
lie Brasse. E. f. Liyermore, John Foster,
Ethel Winthrop, Florence Foster, Cecile
Rush, Helen Mowat and Dot Clarendon, with
George LoeSch musical director. The
play Is to be presented Will all the original
scenery costumes and accessories used at the
Fourteenth Street theater New York, last
season.
Across the Potomac is a successful war
play. The dialogue is terse and pointed. the
action is swift the climaXes are strong and
Skiifully developed and the characters are
animated by spirit of patriotic feryOr that
pervades the entire drama. These merits
alone are sufficient to insure success but this
is made doubly certain by The Introduction OF
mechanical effects and devices which are
wonderfully ingenious and novel, and by
scenery which Is surprisingly good. The in
terest of the audience never halts or flags,
and is maintained to the very end-the last
act being one of the strongest in the play.
THE Country Circus began its second
tour last Monday. A number of new features
have been introduced to the show this sea-
son, and its managers say that il now re-
quires 2U0 people 10 present 1t properly, The
Glinserettis, Prof Conrad Master Leon Nor
ris and Wallie De Mott remain in the COM
pany. Trained pigeons, trained goats aDo
performing mules and ponies will be seen in
the circus act of the play. Nelsoni, as equili-
brist; Mile. Venus, as equestrienne, and the
De NereS, acrobGts, are some OF the new peo-
pie engaged.
Many ladies will undoubtedly avail them
selves of the opportunity which will be af-
forded them next Tuesday evening at the
Metropolitan opera house of bearing the
election returns without the discomfort of
standing in the chilly atmosphere in front of
the bulletin boards. Manager Scott has ar
ranged for a special wire and an operator to
be placed upon the stage. and the returns
viii be announced as fast as received during
the performance of the sparkling comedy
That Girl From Mexico
Charles Frohman's com pany produced on
Monday, at the Columbia theater Boston,
The Sportsmen,' a comedy from the French,
by William LestOcq, the author of Jane"
The present version is located i'll England.
and, like Jane" the action takes place in
one day. The story is light bright and
breezy. The plot is one of cross purposes
and misunderstanding and the play made
great hit
Clay NJ. Greene is about the busiest of the
dramatic authors just now. lie is writing
new second act for William II Cranes play,
For Money" libretto for a comic opera to
be presented i'll san Francisco. and farce
comedy. Mr.. Greene's comic opera, The
Maid of Plymouth, is 10 be produced by the
BostOnianS in January, after the presenta-
ton of DeKoven and Smiths ''Knicker-
pockers. -
During the engagement of "Yon Youson''
at the Grand opera house, Chicago, next
month, arrangements have been made to
decorate the theater with the Swedish ma
tional cOlors. and, as 'Yon Yonson' PLAYED
to the largest business in the history of that
theater last season, 1t is expected that the
engagement this season will be little short Of
an ovation.
Louise Kissing, who last spring gave up the
glitter and show of the footlights to become
Mrs Cyril Scott, has, as is a woman's priv
iege and right, changed her mind" and
will return to the American Extravaganza
company She will make her first appear
ance i'll the title role OF Ali Bahia in st.
Louis, Nov. 6.
Daniel Sully's new comedy, 'Tammany
Hail. was not the success it was anticipated
it would be. and it is likely that Sully Will in
the future contine himself to the production
of such standard plays as ''The Millionaire"
in the production of which he has achieved
the greatest success of his career.
Following ''Spider ana Fly at the Grand,
RarnQV Ferguson I ha in
his hilarious skit ''McCarthy's Mishaps"
which is said 10 have been greatly strength
ened and i'm proved by the addition of num-
Der oil strong specially features the present
season.
THE Grey Mare" comedy in three acts,
by George r. Sims and Cecil Raleigh, is a
play that abounGs i'll situations that are clev-
erly devised ana most provocative of laugh
ter. The lines TEEN with wit and are as
polished ana as sharp as Sir Lucius O'Trger's
sword.
Frances Harrison, the magnetic electrical
spark of the spider and Fly COMPANY, will
read the election returns from the stage of
the Grand opera house as fast as received
over the wire next Tuesday night. election
night)
Bright Katie Emmett who is now in the
South with her new Irish play, Killarney"
seems to have captured the Southern press
with her performance of the five different
characters in the play named.
fTeQ6IlC W dIu6 IL an tuluuSluSLlC lover OF
poetry, and 1t is one OF his fads TO gather
around him q choice circle of acquaintances
to whom he will recite for hours fragments
from we'll known poets.
by Proxy" is said to be the greatest sue
cess of the present season. After long and
successful run in Boston it is now on tour
of the largest cities and will shortly be seen
i'll the Northwest.
The attraction at the Metropolitan opera
house for the last half Of next week will be
Thomas w. Keene in grand revival, begin
nlng Nov. II. of his great scene production
of Richard ILL.,
Ben Teal claims that he has found in Kath-
leen Kerrigan, of Louisville, probable dup
licate of Mary Anderson.
The German dialect comedian, Gus Will
Jams, is meeting with decided success in his
new play, April Fool"
The present season Of Miss Rosabel Morri-
son in THE Danger Signar' is a most pro-
nounced success.