St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-09-18
CHICAGO LETTER.
Breezy Gossip of the Stage in the
Windy CITY,

Special Correspondence of the Globe ''
CHICAGO. Sept. 16.-There walked in
TO Manager Will j. Davis office at the
Columbia theater this morning a man
of diminutive height and as unassum-
ing in general appearance as a disap-
pointed politician; yet what Caesar was
to the Romans, what Napoleon was TO
the French, what Wellington was to
the English, what Garabaldi was to the
Italians, what j. Gould is on Wall
street is Charles Frohman in the the
atrical world OF today. He is
here to witness performance of
Jerome K. jerome and Edin Phillpotts
1iew play, Tine Councillor Wife, and
goes to Milwaukee Monday to witness
sous play. "The Masked Ball." as
adapted by Clyde Fitch, which will i'll
troduce for the first time as star John
Drew, for ten years leading man of Mr..
Days company. Columns have been
written concerning the probability of
Mr. Drew'S success as star. The fash
lonables of the city, who in years gone
by have been led to admire Mr.. Drew
as the essence of all that is delightful
and refined in comedy, are on the tiptoe
of expectancy over the event.
The only important event announced
for the coming week will be the first
performance in Chicago by Daniel
Frohman'S Lyceum Theater company
of esquire Kate" by Robert Buchanan.
While confessing that he received part
Of the story from French source, he
has made this play almost entirely
from dramatization of his novel,
Come Live With Me and Be My
Love-" The plot of the play can hardly
be better presented than in charming
little poem, which Mr.. Buchanan has
written for the purpose, upon the plays
first production. Each verse, repre-
Senting an act, runs as follows:
ACT l..
There grew TWO roses in the light,
Hey the winds and the weather;
And one was red and one was white
And they shone in the sun together.
old Song.
Cold and chill the east wind blew,
Hey the wind and the weather:
And the roses dropped in the rain and the
And saddened both together.
ACT I'LL
The red rose wept with a bitter pain,
Hey the wind and the weather:
And there came storm which tore in twain
The roses that grew together.
ACT ".
Sunlight comes when the storm has fled.
Hey the wind and the weather.:
The whites still white and the reds still red,
And they bloom in the sun together.
As poet and novelist Robert Bu-
chanan gained his reputation with the
British public; and it was some time
thereafter that he turned his attention
to dramatic work. In his younger davs
he was a great friend of Thomas Car
lyle, being neighbor of his in Edin-
burgh. 1t was Carlyle who advi sed
young Buchanan to go to London. and
seek success in the field of literature.
He went. and, like all pennileSs young
writers, had to fight that hard battle for
fame which has been continually waged
in the big, smoky metropolis from the
time of Johnson and Goldsmith to the
present day. But fame Is more remu
nerative in this worlds fair year than
it was in the past, as has been shown
by the success of Jerome X. Jerome and
others. Robert Buchanan is now prob
ably fOrty-elght years old, and enjoys a
large income coming entirely from lit
erature.
Chicago is about to have dedicated to
the muses. another new theater, called
the Schiller, situated on Randolph
street. between Dearborn and Clark.
The appearance of the building, al
though it be theater, is characteristic
of this wonderful town, having a pre-
tentious tower fifteen OF twenty stores
high. A matter of five stories is very
Insignificant thing, when the architect
ure of the worlds fair city is being de-
scribed.
'All Baba." with its gauze and tlnsel,
Chicago.
Hoyt's new play, "a Temperance
Town. will have its first Chicago pro.
| duction at the Grand next week.
Julia Marlowe continues at McVick-
er's to the largest business she has evel
| done here, and more worthy actress
has seldom delighted the eye and ear.
| CHARLES Aston PARKER.