St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-08-12
STAGE AND ACTORS.
Rubinstein and Paderewski
Will Not Visit America
Next Season.
Irving is RUSTICATING.
Opposition to Honolulu Dane
epS on the London
Stage.
GROSSMITH'S UNIQUE IDEA.
Tosti's New Opera to Be Per-
formed Before Queen
Victoria.
IRVING is RUSTICATING.
GROSSMITH'S UNIQUE IDEA.

LONDON, Aug. 1.-THE theatrical va
cation is becoming thing of the past,
except for a few leading houses. E. S.
Willard has closed The Professor s
Love Story" at the Comedy, but he re-
opens Monday next at the Garrick. The
Criterion will close Monday. but 1t will
reopen Wednesday next with revival
of Hot Water"
The Comedy reopens on Sept. with
Sydney Grundy's new play.
Terry's theater will also reopen on
Sept. with a new piece by Lester and
RoheSon. The Savoy closes this even
Ing for structural alterations which
have been ordered by the county coun-
Gil; it will reopen, however, in Septem-
Der, continuing to produce "AIirette,"
the new opera which has proved so sue
cessful.
The London theatrical managers pro-
fess 10 have great faith in the autumn
business to be done. There is an unus-
ual number of new companies organ
ICED to tour the provinces.
Beerbohm Tree is at Marienbad; T.
S. Toole and Comyns Carr at AK les
Scotland, and Finero is at Engadine,
Switzerland.
c. n. Yorke has been engaged by
Rose CoghIan, and sails for New York
today on the Campania.
Wide sympathy is expressed for Will
son Barrett in the peath of his daughter
Kate, who has long been suffering from
meningitis. Mr.. Barrett writes: The
blow has left me stunned and daZed."
May Yohe has been at Cowes this
week on her yacht, the Siesta. vessel
of 127 tons.
Hardy is dramatizing Tess" for Eliz-
abeth Robbins.
Rubinstein Has Declined
to make an American tour, and the con.
tracts for PaderewsKi next year are not
signed, on account of hitch which has
arisen.
The Gaiety theater will be reopened
this evening, and in about three weeks
time the theatrical close season will be
practically at an end. The Eyceum. In
addition to the theaters already men,
toned, will reopen at the beginning of
September.
The rehearsals of the Queen of the
BrilliantS." by Brandon Thomas and
JacobowSki. which is down for produc-
ton at the Lyceum on either the lSt or
Sd proXimo, are proceeding apace at
Drury Lane under the direction of
Charles Harris, brother of Sir Augustus
Harris.
c. j. Abud, who is looking after all
the business arrangements during the
absence in America of Henry Abbey,
does not allow the injunction suit
brought against Lillian Russell by the
Casino people of New York to trouble
his head in the least. Miss Russell has
apparently determined not to be drawn
out on the subject, for since taking up
her abode at the Savoy hotel with her
sister, Miss Hattie Z. Leonard, she has
resolutely declined to see all inter-
viewers.
Miss Hope Booth will begin rehearsals
next week at the Garrick of Charles T..
Vincents new comedy Little Miss
Cute" with which she will, it now
seems, shortly inaugurate her manage
ment of London theater.
At the Comedy Sept. l, Comyns Carr
will produce a new play by Sydney
Grundy called The New Woman" 1t
is to be hoped that it bellies its title.
Play-goerS have had so many so-called
problem plays, written around histor-
zeal ladies who are ambitious to live
their own lives" fulfill their own doc
trines'' aud work, work, work" land
talk about IT., that they would no doubt
be grateful for another play of the Tom
Robertson or j. Nj. Barrie order.
OF the making of theatrical advertise
nents there is seemingly 10 end. 1t is
certainly
An Ingenious Thought
to purchase small match factory In
Germany and use the matches for adver
Using London play. This is what Mr.
Perryman, the hacker OF The New
Boy" has done. Each match box bears
on one side picture of Weldon eros
smith in juvenile sailor suit, and or
the reverse the following Inscription: