St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-03-18


in New York city. the GLOBE is enabled
to give TO its Sunday readers each week
letter about the actors and plays that
are having the greatest success in our
various large Eastern cities.
DRAMATIC EDITOR.
| Special Correspondence st. Paul Globe.
| NEW YORK. March 15.-The principal
production of the week in New York
occurred at the Fifth Avenue theater,
Monday evening, under the direction of
the MessrS. Carl and Theodor Rosen-
field, with the rather unpromising title
Loves Extract" The Rosenfeld
brothers are a pair of adroit, well-fed
and phlegmatic German managers,
whose speculatiOnS thus far in this
country have shown them to be singular
ly far-seeing. They made their first
! appearance in America with the Lii
llputians, and they afterwards brought
| Madame DuSe to the United States.
Both speculationS turned out to be very
largely successful III a financial sense,
and this result has apparently encour-
aged the RoSenfelds to go into Ameri-
1
tensively. They have secured all the
open time at the Fifth Avenue theater
for fifteen months to come, and during
their stay they will bring out several
new pieces. There is one popularity
about the ROsenfelds that is not alone
Interesting i'll itself, but may serve as a
valuable pointer to other people who
are fly" Not having been in this
country very long, they speak with a
| pronounced German accent at all times.
| Whenever any one has anything to say
to either OF them which it is pleasant
for them to hear, they are glib enough
in'their responses. But whenever they
| wish to avoid answering business or
| personal question, they sit back and
stare blankly at the person who is adj
dressing them, and simply exclaim.
Not comprehend" After that state
ment has once passed their lips, one
might as wellltry to get coherent and
elaborate conversation out of a wooden
Indian.
The pictorial presentation of 1.-The
Girl L Left Behind Me-" at the Academy
or Music, Monday night, turned out to
be the biggest kind OF success that
has been seen in New York In very
long time. Some of the smaller effects
which were to have been introduced did
not work we'll at the opening perform
ance. but when it came to the big
climax at the end of the third act, in the
stockade scene, where } James Wilson as
the hero came daShing upon. the stage
at the head of twenty mounted cavalry
men, there was an OutburSt of cheering
and applause such as has rarely been
heard within the walls of a New York
place of amusement. 1t was at that
point demonstrated that great man
agerial judgment had been shown in
this daring decision to introduce the
spectacular element into play which
had been conspicuously successful
without it, Mr.. Frohman's profits from
his new York ventures alone must be
running close upon $4,000 a week-out
of which he ought be able to put aside
dollar or two for rainy day.
The Boston Grand Opera house stock
company came over to New York at the
beginning of this week to show us that
we are not alone in the possession of
frSt-claSS stock organizations. The
play presented was ''Rosedale," hitherto
associated exclusively, so far as this
city is CONCERNED, with the memory of
Lester Wallack. In the present revival,
Mr.. Joseph Haworth plays the late Mi.
Wallack's OLD part, and plays it with
very considerable spirit and force.
There is considerable interest in the
forthcoming opening of season of
comic opera at the Fourteenth Street
theater, with that sprightly little
dumping, COrinne, as the star. Special
preparations have been made, in the
shape of new costumes. scenery and
other adjunctS, and there seems to be
a likelihood that the engagement will
at least start off auspiciously.
James j. COrbett, over in Brooklyn, is
playing to ali that the house and street
in front of it will hold. and beyond the
financial success of his undertaking, he
is succeeding in attracting serious at
tentiOn to his work as all actor. Nh.
| Coz bett has plainly devoted good deal
Of intelligent and well directed effort to
! the task of overcoming the difficulties
| incident to short career on the stage,
aud he has gained marvelously in his
capacity as all actor since first saw
| him make the attempt at "Gentleman
Jack"
Miss Pauline Hall is drawing better
| houses than she anticipated at Harri-
gan's theater, and before she goes away
she will probably produce one or two of
the older operas, like MADAME
| Favart," carefully undermined in dia-
logue and deliberately put forward in
the matter of scenery and dresses.
Miss Hall has lost considerable flesh
since she was last seen III New York,
and is now as radiantly beautiful of
face and symmetrical of figure as when,
in the original production of The
Merry War;" she dazzled all New York.
Rich and Harris, [ am told. have
determined to send May Irwin out
starring next season at the head of
company of her own. She has made by
all odds the greatest success in the pro-
duction of "A Country Sport i'll this
| city, fact which does not appear to be
particularly relished by Peter f. Daley,
| WHO is ostenSiUiy the chief attraction
of that representation.
Walter Sanford seems to be branching
out pretty extensively in the field of
theatrical management. He now con-
trols three theaterS in Brooklyn and
one in New York, in addition to direct
ing the tours of a number OF combina-
| tons playing in various sections of the
country. He is a slender, boyish- look
ing man, who does not look as if he
possessed sufficient physical stamina
to endure the stain of continued and
| heavy application. But he has been
remarkably successful thus far in his
career, ami the fact that he has built
NibIo's into a largely paying institution
after so many other managers had
fallen down in their attempts to make
| living in that establishment. has awak-
ened great deal of comment in New
| York.
am told that Maurice Barrymore
and E. j. henley will 60 starring to-
gether next season, under entirely re-
sponsible management. They are both
gNGd actors 2f XEdeig aSIHg forms ,nS Of
the right material in the shape of a
play, there is no reason why the venture