St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-12-21
IN THE THEATERs.
be BoIImann Company Performs
Gems at the Met.

he BoIimann Company Performs
Gems at the Met.
The two one-act comedies and the
operette selected bv the Boilmann COM
pany for their mid-week performance at
the Metropolitan last evening were
three little gems of pcting and singing,
and were we'll received by the good
sized German audience that was pres
ent. The curtain raiser, THE Circus
Rider" carried with it neat little plot, :
and in dialogue was clever and inter-
esting, Theodore Bollmann being well
cast and Marie Harding giving a SPLEEN
did recitation of pretty poem. The
second farce was representation of a
woman whose only fault was disorder,
and the peculiar methods adopted to
cure her. The evening was closed
with a one-act operetta, entitled
Love by the Light of a Lam
tern" and was well-rendered
musical effort that would do credit to a
trained opera company. Mrs. Henry
Bollmann and Miss Martha Neumann
sang charming duet with Schober'ss
pleasing voice to aid the well-Dlended
harmony, and little Ella Collmer sang
1.-The Vesper Bells" SO sweetly that she
astonished even her most ardent adj
mirers. Next Sunday afternoon the
Bollmann company will play Christ
mas matinee, presenting der Yer
wunschene PrlnZ." which will prove
especially pleasing to the children and
young folks, for whose benefit 1t is
really planned. All Germans in st.
Paul and Minneapolis should turn out
next Sunday afternoon, and give the
Bollmann company Christmas present
IN the shape of the largest audience
they have ever had the pleasure of see
ing before the footlights.
Walker Whiteside. the tragedian,
will, i'll conjunction with his supporting
company and the necessary adjuncts
that go so far 10 constitute a series of
finished performances, begin an EN-
gagement of three nights and Saturday
matinee at the Metropolitan opera house
tonight.
Fresh from the absolute conquest of
all the principal cities of this country,
and with a record of 500 consecutive
performances in New York and Chi
cago, seemed. staged and surrounded
with all the correctness of detail that
characterized the production in these
cities, will be presented for an entire
week, commencing with Christmas
matinee, what is universally conceded
to be the best American play yet writ
ten, Belasco and Fyle'5 successful
native drama, "rhe Girl l Left Behind
Me.''
If the preliminary announcements
are to be believed, the play-going pub
lie are to be given something far better
than the average domestic play in I'm
Old Kentucky" which comes to the
Grand next week, opening Sunday
night. 1t is said to be a drama of un-
usual strength, with story of intense
sympathetic interest exceedingly we'll
written. The excellence is apparent,
not more in the simplicity and orig
lnallty of its conception, than in the
beautiful manner in which it is told. 1t
is said to reveal and emphasize "a talent
and power In romantic play writing
which is as rare as it is acceptable. One
enthusiastic writer says: "Our dra-
matte literature can show nothing finer
I'D its way than this Kentucky story,
which is all the better for having
Southern flavor, and picturing an ideal
side of Southern life" 1t is superbly
mounted, all the scenery having been
especially prepared for it. "In Old
Kentucky" met with great success in
New York.
Among the arrivals in the city yester-
day was the "1n Old Kentucky" COM
pany, which Jumped through from New
York TO play a Christmas week engage
ment at the Grand opera house. Lead
ing the procession of actors from the
union depot were dozen or so diminu-
tive colored boys carrying musical ill.,
struments and wearing caps bearing the
words I'm Old Kentucky" They were
scarcely out Of their teens, and their
teeth were chatterlng with the cold.
1t was the famous pickaninnv
band which created such a furore
in the New York production
of the play. The boys all come from
the South. and they are not accustomed
to the wintry blasts of the Northwest.
To them a snow-covered land is a
strange sight, and as this is their first
experience in the North they looked
with Interest upon the cutters and
sleighs as they dashed up and down the
streets. The leader is eleven years of
age and less than four feet in height.
Il dom like dis yere country" said
he. with a shlver. Its too COP. De
SHOWS co' and de ices COP and every
body's COP 'cept desc yere men wild de
big coonskin coats. Dis amt no coun-
try for cibilized niggers, and wants to
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