St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-07-04
CHICAGO's GROTTO.
The Windy City Right in the
Swim of Good Things.


Chicago has successfully organized at
last music hall on the order of those
so literally and popularity palronized in
London. Situated at the corner of
Michigan avenue and Madison street
the Grotto has thrown its doors open to
the public, giving them one of the best
variety bills ever put Oh an American
stage before lady audience Seating
as it does, nearly three thousand peo-
pie. it has an ample and comfortable au-
itorium even when completely packed.
Running along the side of the wall
are pretty little tesselated booths con.
tanning comfortable chairs and tables,
where one may enjoy lunch, some
thing refreshing to drink and a quiet
smoke. On the upper tier are twenty
four large and comfortable boxes. and
as one looks down from the same he
sees a vast array of chairs, tables, more
chairs, more tables. The stage is forty
feet wide and thirty-four feet deep, thus
giving a scope for almost any produce
ton. There are comfortable dressing
rooms. A pretty little green room in
the corner, built in the shape of a
"grottO," Illuminated by colored elec.
trio. lights. make it pleasant spot for
the artists TO await their turn.
Among the stock artists of the house
are Teddy Simonds, the genial stage
manager; his clever wife, Clara
Gus Bruno Jr., Dorothy Drew, Cora
Strong. Rosie Sutherland, Bessie Clay.
ton and chorus of twenty-five we'll
trained voices and shapely limbs. Start.
ing at the commencement of the pro-
gramme, one witnesses a very clever
production of Fred SolOmon'S burlesuue,
La Belle Helene;" then Harry Dow
ley gives US an English song OF
two in very good tenor voice; Mazuz
and Abacco are beyond any question
OF doubt the greatest Arabian acrobatS
America has ever seen, their work
being simply Immense; then comes the
Sennett sisters, the shapely English
girls who sing and dance in gin
gerry" way. followed by the greatest
artists of the world, the three Mar
velles; they i'll turn being followed by
Mons. Jean Rollon, who is truthfully
called the modern Hercules, as his
work seems to be an utter impossible
ity. One can scarcely imagine a man
of 100 or 10 pounds lifting without the
least eXertion in one hand $50 and in
the other $50 pounds of solid steel and
playing with them as child does with
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Then comes the three French novelty
dancers, led by THAI Incompatible quad.
rifle dancer, Dorothy Drew. The pro-
gramme claims that Miss Drew is the
highest kicker in the world, and iudg-
from the way her foot tips the tambou,
rine it would seem that instead of being
seven feet and one and half inches tits
somewhere in the neighborhood of ten
or eleven feet, that is to say, to the au.
dience.
The whole performance concludes
with that peerless little dancer, Anna
belle. Annabelle is truly Americas
representative serpentine dancer, and
the manner i'll which she handles her
skirts is something very pleasing to the
eye. In truth it may be said that the
Grotto gives full value to its patrons in
the way OF amusement, and their re-
freshmentS are served at such moderate
prices that one feels that an evening
spent there will not be regretted even
should it cost a trifie more than a
theater ticket.