St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-07-31

,60arder at tine same place, and who is
the eaSt-uH daughter OF the baron, hav-
I ing been driven from home by the mar
rage of her father to Delphine, who tells
the heartbrOken father all the misery
his merclless daughter has caused both
herself and her mother. Old Goriot de-
termInes to see his daughter, and learn
the truth from her lips. and at the same
time the baron repentS and sends for
his daughter to come back to him. They
all meet at the ducal mansion. and act
three closes with climax that for
strength and effect is seldom equaled.
Inc story closes with the death of Old
Gorlot, the suicide of the baron, the
reconciliation of Eugene and Victorine.
and the repentance of Delphine for her
wlckedness. The death scene is we'll
put on and remarkably well rendered.
The Players.
The players are all well known, and
no better stock company ever trod the
boards of a playhouse in st. Paul.
Their work in all plays they have pre-
Sented has been snch that none could
condemn and but few criticise in any
thing but laudatory manner, and up
to last night it was hard to tell in which
play they eXcelled. But the public has
decided that "a Shattered Idop' can be
called their masterpiece. George Faw-
cett as Old Goriot was the diamond cen
ter around which stones of equal
brilllancy were set. His was a mas
terly effort, and as the childish old man
would tremblingly hand his boarded
gold to his lovely, though cruel child,
tinge of pain would show on every
face of the audience in sympathy
with him. and as he greedily kissed the
proffered hand of his ungrateful child it
would change to look of anger at the
audacity of Delphine. In his denuncia-
ton and expose of the willy schemes she
had worked he carried the audience
right with him, and they were only salts.
fed at the end of the third recall 1t is
said that FaWcett will take prominent
part in the new play entitled THE New
South" but it is sincerely hoped by his
friends here that at some time in the
future they will again be able to see
him as Old GoriOt Stephen Grattan as
Eugene. the young artist lover, was
clever, and read his lines with just the
proper amount of emphasis, not over
doing single word and still
giving to the character all the
life needed George Wright. as
Polret, was a good selection, and his
physique must have got him the Job,
for he could not have been better if
| made to order. Gilmour had a minor
part, with little opportunity, but made
OF 1t all there was in it. Carrie Turner,
as Delphine, looked the part to perfec-
ton, and her cold and sleely acting was
so true to the part that it came near
drawing Kisses from the gallery, where
the sympathy was with the old man.
As the baron said. she was duplex, COM
pick and r5pleX, and in expression she
was the woman Clyde Fitch intended
her to be. Ruth Carpenter, as Victor
Inc, was neat and charming, shy and
loving, sorrowful and sympathetic, and
In all the scenes gave evidence of the
careful study of finished actress. Flor
ence Slower had the character part of the
play, and, as the old maid who has been
looking for years to catch a husband.
made quite a hit, being roundly ap-
p!auded in the scene with the baron.
She can't take love parts, but she can
represent character. Mrs. w. &. Jones
as Nine. Vauquer, the old boarding
house keeper. and Ray Goldman as
Sylvle, her servant, completed an excel
lent cast. and Ray Is to be specially
complimented on Der ability of making
much out OF minor part. 1t is not
what she says that shows her work, but
what she does. "a Shattered Idol" will
be presented all the week, and next
week the stock company will play their
farewell engagement i'll LED Astray."
~
The Wilburs opened the third week
before the close of their season at the
Metropolitan opera house last night to
very fair audience, presenting "Doro-
thy" During the entire week they
will present this brilliant operate
work, which has only been given in
this city once before, by the Bosto-
mans. Some of the members of the COM
pany have introduced specialties which
Include new adaptations of old songs,
The part of the cousin with many debts
Is taken by j. E. Comfy, while Miss Klr-
win makes a lovely DOROTHY. EIoise
Mortimer plays LYDIA Hawthorne to
perfection, and Harry Sherwood makes
iaughable pretenSe of lovemaking to
Dorothy, while her gallant cousin is
counting LYDIA Hawthorne. W. H.
Kohnle, as Lurcher. succeeds for some
time in deceiving the bashful and timid
Priscilla as to his identity, but the
OH"'AS hioiS ColnCS upOu tuetH ana
causes a scene by informing her that
Lurcher is not an army officer, as she
supposed, but an officer of the law.
The opera is made repiete with bright
and witty things, many of them new
w. II. Kohnle kept the audience in roars
of laughter all through the last act.
Geoffry Wilder finally gives way to the
pressure brought to bear upon him by
his uncle, and, not being able to raise
hn
debts, he decides TO take his cousin, and
LYDIA Hawthorne thinks she cannot do
better than follow Dorothy's example.
So she and Harry Sherwood quickly de-
eide that they had better follow the
example of the other two. and the cur
tain falls On two apparently very happy
couples.