St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-05-13
THE GRAND OPERA HOUSE,
The season Close. wien "she,

The Season Closes With "she."
The story of ''She" tells of warlike
race of swarthy cannibals who dwelt
| within the great crater of an extinct
volcano that lay near the city of Kor. in
Central Africa. The outside of this
mountain was too precipitous to be
scaled even by wild animals. The
interior was therefore only accessible
by an underground passage that
was known but to few of
the race, and totally unknown
to the outside world. Between the
mountain and the sea there lies series
of marshes, known as the swamps OF
Zanzibar. These marshes reeked with
poisonous atmosphere, and were in
tested with repulsiye and poisonous
reptiles. ''She was woman of great
beauty-in her youth she lived in
Athens-and was known as Aspasia, but
on account of her immortality was driven
out of Athens 339 B. e. She fled to the
city of Kor that lie near the aforesaid
extinct volcano. in Africa. By an ac-
cident she discovered the secret pas
sage and made her way within
Her beauty and learning caused the
leaders of Amahaggar to make her
their queen. About this time there
came upon the scene KalIkrates, a fallen
priest of Isis, who had been. with his
wife Amenartes. banisiled from Egypt
He. too. sought shelter IN the caves of
Kor. She. upon seeing him, became
enamoured; asked him to desert his wife
and 1espouse her, and because he refused
G a tnA nd n h &c,
the caves of Kpr. 1t was about this
time the She had discovered the foun-
tain of life, a flaming bath that existed
In the bowels of the earth. BY bathing
III this flame every twenty years the
vlgor of life would be renewed, and
one could live OH forever. After
the death of Kallikrates. Ayesha, or
She, bstook herself to this bath that
She might live until Kallikrates came
back. whom she believed would return
in after years. After two thousand
three hundred years she met Leo Vim
cey, who was the sixty-eighth liDeal
descendant of Kallikrates by son
born to Amenartes after her Danish
ment from Kor. Upon her seeing
Leo Vlncey, his resemblance to Kali
krates was SO striking that she thought
1t was but Kallikrates born again, and
sought to atone for the murder of the
past by making him her husband. but
here again she is frustrated, for Leo has
taken to himself a wife, native of the
country. When Ayesha discovers this
her rage knows no bounds-she Stays
the innocent Ustane, and, by great per-
suasion, induces Leo to accompany her
to the pillar of fire. Here she meets
her just fate. Her system being over
charged with the vigor Of nature when
she steps within the flame she shrivels
up to hideous mummy and dies.
The scenery and effects carried for
the production are said to be grand
Next week will terminate the fourth
regular season at the Grand. The
theater will remain closed during the
months of June, July and August, ex-
cept for the local entertainments,
lectures, conventions. ETC., to be rented
from time to time by the management.
Frank l.. Bixby will retire from the
management after next week, and will
| be succeeded by George A. Kingsbury.
The next regular season will open on
Sunday night, August 26, with a prom
| inent attraction.