St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-07-22
LONDON STAGE GOSSIP.
FAMOUS SINGERS APPEAR BEFORE
GREAT BRITAIH'S QUEEN.
sARAH,s WONDERFUL ART.

uSn IOr kIe0earSal-1WO Dur.
lesque Companies to Start
Soon on Tours to Extend
Around the World.
copyrighted. 1891, by the Associated Pressl
LONDON, July 2l.-Aside from Sarah
Bernhardt, the week has been devoid of
novelties in theatricalS. operate and
dramatic performances before the court
are so frequent as no longer to attra ct
much attention. Eor instance, on We'd
nesday last the two De ReSZkes were
commanded to appear ut Windsor castle
during the afternoon. They obeyed,
naturally, and sang selection of solos
and duets from various operas. TOSti
presided at the piano. The same even
Ing Sigfried ArnoldSon, Ben Davies and
SCR. Aroma sang before the queen. the
cZarewitch aud other members of the
royal family selections from Governs
"Signa." Cowen played the piano. The
queen personally arranged the pro-
gramme for the De Res Zkes. The Prin-
cess of Wales, accompanied by brill
liant suite, was present on Tuesday last
at Sarah Bernhardfs performance of
LA Femme de Claude" The audience
applauded vigorously, and Nine. Bern
hardt was recalled repeatedly. But the
enthusiasm displayed was called forth
by the wonderful art of the great actress
and not by the play.
E. S. Willard has extended his season
at the Comedy theater, where j. NJ.
Barrle's The Professors Love Story"
in which Mr.. Willard Is Pro f. Good
willie, has been drawing better than at
first expected.
OPEN AIR REHEARsALs.
Charles Wyndham certainly does his
best to make the rehearsals of his COM
pany as agreeable as possible. When
Lady Violet Greville's play was being
prepared for production at the Criterion
he took the entire company down to
Brighton for several days, and rehearsed
in large private salon at the MetropOle.
Now, however, he has gone one better
than this. He has play stage fitted up
In the garden of his own house, and it
Is on these miniature boards, shaded
from the sun, though in the open air,
that the first rehearsalS OF Henry Ar
thur Jones' new play, due at the Cri-
teriOn early in the autumn, are taking
place. At ordinary rehearsals it is al
comfortable meal, but at Mr.. Wynd-
hams "Theater Royal Back Garden"
the creature comforts of the performers
are most carefully looked after by Mr..
Wyndham.
London isnow witnessing the debacle
of theatrical season. Last night saw
the final performance of successful
play, Money" at the Garrick.
Henry Irving has lent the Lyceum
for special matinee next Monday by
members of the Actors association and
others. Among those who are to ap-
pear is Sarah Bernhardt, who, during
her present stay, has several times given
her services in the aid of charity. The
programme is to conclude with the play
scene from "a Midsummer Nights
Dream" with George Arson, Z. j. Lon
non, George Shine, Harry Paulton,
Lionel Reynolds, Fanny Brough. Car
lotte Addison and Beatrice Lamb in the
principal parts. The SuperS will also
be prominent actors and actresses. Per-
formances Of this kind always cause as
much amust nent to the performers as
to the audience, and gagging Is the
order of the afternoon.
BURLESQUE AROUND THE WORLD.
Twenty years ago managers would as
soon have thought of flying as
undertaking tour around the
whole English-speaking globe. Now
such enterprises are of quite COM
mon occurrence. Early in Septem-
Der George Edwards sends to America
q powerful burlesque company. whose
tour will open with ten weeks season
In New York. Their principal piece is
"a Gaiety Girl" which has had such a
phenomenal success at the Prince of
Wales. But "Iu Town" will also be
played. After visiting the principal
cities in the United States, the company
will sail from San Francisco for Aus
traiia, and will not return to England
until July, 1895. so that the tour will
last altogether ten months. Several in
tereSting engagements have been made
by George Edwards in connection with
the English tour of "a Gaiety
Girl" Nina MARITIME, of la Petite
Parisienne" fame, will play the impor-
tanL part of Nina, and Two sons of Mel
lie Farren will also be in the cast. Miss
Martina is now having dancing and
fencing lessons at the expense of the
management.
AS an instance of nineteenth century
precocity, it may be mentioned that
Sydney Ellison, The stage manager at
the Prince OF Wales, is barely ont of his
teens.
Maud Hobson, who played the part of
the Gaiety Girl i'll London, but will not
go to America, has Just had her portrait
painted by Markham Skipworth. She
10 seated in gilt chair, behind which
is a background of hanging tapestry.
Her dress, which is cut low, is of white
and yellow satin, embroidered with gold
and edged with sable. The jewels she
wears are all turquoises, the comb in
her bair, her necklace and bracelets
consisting of most handsome stones
Haud Hobson is worshiped by the
teunesse doree of London, and scarcely
day passes but she receives extrava-
CANT presents or jewelry, many of them
sent by anonymous adorerS.
TERRELL STILL A BULLESQUER.
Edward Terrell, who by his perform
ance in king Kodak" showed that, de
spite long disuse, his burlesque HAND
had lost none OF its cunning, starts on 6
provincial tour with his company on the
18th proX. He will return in December
with two new plays, and after their pro
ductiOn, 1t is not unlikely that he will
set forth on prolonged tour Of Ameri-
ca. Australia and India.
Even in the best regulated theaters
ludicrous mishaps are not unknown A
most amusing instance of disilluSloning
due to the theatrical superstition that i
Is necessary to have cat "behind," l:
reported from the provinces. The grea
scene in the "Middleman" is, of course
In the third act, when Cyrus BlenkaerI
DISdAo OpcH llo OfcI anu uuQS Llldt III
has discovered the lOng-lost secret o
making certain old ware. In the be
ginning of the act Blenkaern dwslls a
length upon the excessive heat to which
the clay has been subjected, and he hal
to wait long time before the oven hal
sufficiently cooled to enable him to pull
down the bricks. The actor had jus
reached the final point in the scene, ant
the bricks were beginning TO crasl
upon the floor, when large black ca
appeared at the orifice and leaped upol
the stage. The result produced on tn
audience by this unrehearsed effect cal
be readily imagined.
Oscar Beringer has written a two-ac