St. Paul daily globe., 1894-05-20
Lo|E FULLER /! IS A La La.
SHE APPEARS NI5HTLY IN THREE
LONDON DANCE HOUSES.
WILLARD OPENS THE COMEDY

German Opera Will Be Given at
the Drnry Lane 1heater-AIiss
Cortes, Of Chicago, Is at
Princes HaIl-Jim Corbetr
Goes to scOtiand-Mlle. Gull
bert the Rage.
[Copyrig hted. 1894. by the Associated Press
LONDON, May 19.-Some idea of the
keenness OF the competition existing
among the theatrical managers in Lon
don may be gathered from the fact that
Miss LOie FdlleI. the American skirt
dancer. is appearing nightly in three
houses the Trafalgar, the Strand and
Terry's-in different dances, and with
great success at each establishment.
The theaters have been compelled to
adopt the music hall system Oh account
of the fact that the theater managers
are expected to furnish extra attractions
in addition to their regular bill of fare if
they enter into active competition with
the so-called popular business.
The Court theater reOpened on Thurs
day with Clement Scott's one act
sketch, Cape Mail" and with Thomas
and Keeling'S Marriage. The latter
was given a capital reception.
Nine. Duse has been playing this
week in Sardou's "Diyorcons'' to full
houses. The star has received the
queens command to play in Goldoni's
fine comedy ''Liconderia" at Windsor
castle.
E. S. Willard will shortly open the
Comedy theater with "'rke Middleman"
and other plays of his American roper
toire. Broughton, the author of num-
Der of amusing short plays, who was
much employed by Charles Wyndham
to rewrite and translate foreign plays.
and who has been suffering from
pleurlsy for some time past. is dead
Sir Augustus Harris is now arranging
special season of German opera for
DRURY LANE THEATER.
The Duke of SAKE Coburg Gotha on
Thursday attended the concert which
was given in celebration of the ami
versarv of the seventieth year of the
existence of the Royal Academy of
Music. Prof. Alexander Campbell Mac
Kenzie. principal of the Royal Academy.
introduced new overture. entitled
"Britannia'', in which number of pa
triotic melodies were heard.
Miss Minnie Cortcs, the charming
soprano from Chicago. gave an interest
ing concert at Princes hall on Wednes.
day last. During the entertainment
! Miss Cortes introduced to the audience
the prodigy violnist. Arthur Argiewcz
Another child violinist, Maud Nc
Car,hy, appeared Thursday last under
the patronage of Mr.. Gladstone. Pader-
ewSkPS teacher Letitscky has three
prodigy students studying with him at
present.
There recently arrived in this citv a
little American prodigy known as Lit
tie Ruby" pretty New England baby
dancer, who is said to have gained con-
siderable fame in New York and other
cities. 1t is said that the Baroness Bur-
dett-CouttS is Interesting herself in
! dancer, who is described as being most
| graceful anu accomplished. will be pre-
| sented to her first London audience in
! the drawing room of the baroness.
JAMES j. CoRBETT
| starts from Paris today for Scotland,
| taking "Gentleman JACK" 10 Edinburgh
| and other large towns north of the
! Tweed. At the conclusion OF this tour he
| will visit the English provinces, and
, will afterwards return TO the United
| States. Whether regarded as a play or
merely as the medium for the display of
| COrbett'S boxing, "Gentleman Jack'
fell far short Of the London stais,iard
Corbett declares that he, and not the
| author, is to be blamed for this. IL am
only a beginner in acting" he says,
land when we were rehearslng the play,
if there was any scene | did not feel
| capable OF tackling, l had it cut bodily
out. which was rather hard Oh the au-
| thor"
: "The Yellow Curtain" has, after all.
been chosen as the title of the new play
j; by Henry Hoyt, which is to be produced
ny Miss Olga Brandon at the Prince of
, Wales matinee next Thursday. 1t is on
the shoulders of Charles Glenning, the
| OF The play is said to chiefly rest, the
part OF the marquise, to be played by
Miss Brandon, not Offering such fine
acting opportunities.
MILE. YVETTE GUILBERT,
the Sarah BernharutO of the Paris Music
hall" VINO has been Oh a brief visit 10
London. with Miss Loie Fuller, leaves
today on her return to Paris. A repre-
sentative of the Associated Press called
upon her at the Savoy hotel yesterday
evening, and asked her if she had any
Intention OF going 10 the United States
i'll the Immediate future.
Il cannot say" was the reply. 81
want to go to the United States very
much, but my friends seem to think that
my performance would not be quite to
The American JaStpo -
! Mile. GuilDert said that three years
ago she was only earning Is francs a day
by her singing, while nowadays she re-
celvcs as much as 1.5OO francs for
single performance.
when the Prince of Wales was last
at Cannes" she continued, "a grand
party was given there in his honor, and
1 came especially from Paris to sing at
II. l was introduced 10 the prince. who
was most charming to ME. and was kind
enough to say that my performance was
like that Of an actress in the Comedie
Franchise. He thought | ought to give
up singing i'll music halls aud go on the
ordinary stage, and advised me to pay
visit to England"