St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-10-10
"GALLANT GERMANS.
Their Third Sunday Night Pres
entation a Success in
Every Way.
The Audience Large, the Play
Grand and the Musical Spe-
ciaIties a Success.

The ripping rills that gathered and
joined from the sparkling stream that
goes dancing over the rocks and lodges
OF historic Minnehaha never made more
merry music, nor did the brilliant co..
ored spray with its laughing name
ever echo the merriment more
merrily than that With which
the gallant Germans Of the
Bollman company amused their i'm
mense audience at the Metropolitan last
evening. The farce in language is
grandly laughable, but the farce in
music is brilliantly comic. The COM
pany in The Honest Broker" is shown
without weak spot, and the blend
ing of the word picture is given a
fringe OF gold by the charming SOU
hrette and the elegance OF the comedian.
The Boliman company can latter them
selves. without being egotiStical. that
as q comedy onpaHy they have no SUI
periorS and but few equals on the Amer
lean stage, in any language.
The plot of tha play is not as deep rs
we'll, nor is it necessary that it should
be when relieved by the musical gems
OF the author. and the musical genius
OF Martha Neumann and Christian
is entertaining and of sufficient
interest not to make the wit
border on the edge of tiresomeness that
Is sometimes the case with playwrights
OF comedy. But the music of the play
there lies the secret of It's success,
aided by the rendition and pressnta-
ton Of those in whose hands
that part was placed. Martha Neu-
mann IS dainty soubrette: that
is Just verdict of the critic, but when
ste appeals TO higher court OF judg-
ment-the puClic-she is given an unan-
im0uS decision. and it reads: Perfec-
ton in your class and tile pima
Gle OF your profession have been
reached. Her nalveness and cuteness
in the pretty ballad, Innocence,
Oh. Innocence, how charming art
thou" brought forth an encore that
must have been pleasing to Patti or
BeTnhardt, so generous ana enthusiastic
was the call. But the laurels were not
for Christian Schober divided the
honors with her so equally that
1t seemed as though the audience had
an understanding On this point before
the play began. Christian Schober is
to the German stage what "0ld Hess
Hoey'' is to the American. When "Old
Hoss' sings topical songs in the
Twin Cities, and especially when
he tlavoFS them with touch
of localisnl. he brings the audience to its
feet with enthusiasm, and Comedian
mans 10 such an extent that they
have no: tie power to rise.
The local favor given to his
treat OF last evening was richly
comieal and highly appreciated, all
in good taste and offensive to none. His
couplctS on the garbage question. the
Bethel bath house and slight dig at
Mayor light caused lingering laughter.
which was highly accelerated when on
an encore he showed his familiarity
with the operation of Tom Low
RVS interurban line ard its
prediction to break down Just half
way between the cities and allowed you
to stay there or walk back, just as you
pleased. Strains of musical comedy run
all through the play and are given spice
by the webs of love woven
between. The word character of
the play are made subSuryient
to those of the musical, but not one is
derelict even in & minor part, and Her
mann Schneider never looked better on
the stage than he did in the last even
ing. Gertrude Berry, Elsa Romer. Hell
enc Collmer, Theo Bollman and The
minor characters all seemed to strive 10
place handsome frame around pretty
picture.
The benefits of German theatricals IN
the Twin Cities are becoming more and
more apparent as the engagement of the
company progresses, and one of these is
becoming a matter OF comment that
the German language is being
more generally spoken among
Germans than has been the
case heretofore. Wherever one goes
among the Germans they seem to have
the idea that they must converse. even
among themselves, in the English
tongue. and this false idea or habit
is becoming quite general and the pres
entation of these Sunday night plays
will undoubtedly go far toward
correcting this backsllding among those
born to the tongue. A suggestion for a
correction OF this habit would be that all
in the audience in conversing between
the acts should use the mother tongue,
and it is quite noticeable that this is
not the case.