St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-02-19
IN THE THEATERS.

In "Panjandrum, with which De
Wolf Hopper appears in this city to-
night at tile metropolitan opera house,
there is, it is said, more music than in
any OF his former SUCCESSES.
j. Cheever Goodwin. the clever lii
brettist. wrote the book, while WooIson
Morse, a young and rising composer,
contributed the music, and, like all
prominent comic opera successes of the
past decade, it is written and composed
in an Oriental atmosphere. bi..
1t Is good thing always to put the
scenario OF a comic opera in an obscure
corner of this vast world. with which
the general theatergoer is unfamiliar.
as it always allows such an enjoyable
amount OF latitude TOR the free reign OF
fancy and anticipation. 49,,
Subaya, a suburb of Manila, the
principal seaport of Luzon, one of the
Philippine islands, also the distant
island or Borneo, are far enough away
TO escape the knowing censure of any
one likely to see the sprightly and melo.
dious opera i'll this country. The story
of "Panjandrum" begins in the pictur-
eSQue village of Subaya. where a bull
night is about to take place, and ends in
the city of Kutching, which is situated
near vast jungle on the coast of the
Island of Borneo. both being quite I'M
known to ordinary amusement-goers.
There are bull fighters and sailors,
Spanish grandees and their high-combed
ladies. grand viziers and prime minis
tiers of Borneo, with their native wives
and slaves, which surely make a pict-
uresque and varied group to move about
to the composers music under Oriental
skies. There is great sun feast in the
kingdom of Panjandrum. during which
time some of the funniest scenes in the
opera take place. 1t is pity to tell the
amusing story in print. because it is
quite complicated, and would strain
ones brain. on paper, to keep Pedro,
and his coquettish sweetheart Paquita,
Diego. Donna lneZ. LUZ. Donna Maria
and Don RosoliO separated during their
travels. or in their many adventures
and experiences.
A special feature of the engagement
Will be the appearance at every per-
fame, and the sister and pupil of Il "a
Loie" Fuller. and said to be her superb
or, in the rendition of intricate butterfly
and Serpentine dances,a series of which
Will be given with dazzling rainbow and
novel electrical effects.
"PanJandrum" will be sumptuously
staged and mounted, as all of the entire
original scenery, brilliant costumes and
numerous mechanical effects will be
employed. Mr.. Hopper and his entire
organization will arrive in this city in a
special train, composed of six cars. over
the Rock Island route this morning.
-
HenShaw and Ten Brock opened at
the Grand last night to an audience
that certainly went away pleased if the
ing indicative of it. "The NabObs' is.
like all others of the farcical school of
plays, possessed of but little plot, but it
Is most effective means of displaying
to advantage two clever people in Hem
shaw and Miss Ten Brock. Mr.. Hem
shaw comes to us an entire stranger to
the theater-going public of St. Paul,
but this city will be full of his admirers
before the week is over, for he is GER
talnly possessed of all the qualities to
make him popular. 1t is not saying too
IHucn LOT MI. HenSnaW'S ability to Sug-
gest to him that he should 20 into the
comic opera field. Miss Ten Brceck
is full of life and dash, and gave
to the part of Mrs. Dodge most distinct
personality, and during the evening
displayed number of beautiful cos
tunes, in fact the entire company is one
of the best dressed farce comedy organI-
cations seen here this season. The first
act partakes more of the neat comedy
idea, and is most laughable in the COM
plications. Thief rcical features of the
play are developed in the second act,
and from the rise of the curtain on it up
to the close of the play the fun is fast
and furious: in the second act number
of clever specialties are introduced and
several concerted musical numbers are
rendered in way that stamped them
above the ordinary farce comedy type
of work. Mr.. Henshaw sang several
new songs and also introduced his gro
tesque big shoe dance, which gained
for him several encores. The show is
full of snap and go from start to finish,
and made hit last night that was re-
warded by unbounded enthusiasm and
is sufficient to base the opinion upon
that full houses will see it the entire
week.