St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-08-27
SOON TO APPEAR IN AMERICA
The Battle Of Waterloo to
Be Produced in Tab
leauX Vivants,
GRUNDY'S NEW WOMAN"
Threatens to Arouse a Storm
on Both Sides Of the
Atlantic.

the air is full of busy preparations for
the September openings. The Marquis
of Lorne has entered the lists of libret-
lists, and has prepared the book of an
opera, to which Hamish McCunn
has written .the music. The subject
matter has not yet trauspired; but the
subject doubtless is Scotch. aud the
author is rather an adept at"rhymerie,"
having turned the psalms into verse, or
rather rhymes, some years ago. The
marquis is ambitious to have his work
performed at West End theater, but
her majesty has refused permission,
coupling the refusal with partial
promise to have it produced at Windsor
or Balmoral.
Wilson Barrett produced at his
Leeds theater, last Wednesday, "The
Manxman." an adaptation of his
friend Hall Gaines new book of the
same name. 1t is an exceedingly pow
erful play, drawn from book which
the critics have not hesitated to de-
scribe as zone of the very finest novels
of the scentury The play follows
the book very closely-Mr. Barrett's
adaptation having the advantage of
condensation and elimination of what
an excited reader of the DO ok would
call the "useless."
Story of David.
The story of 1.-THE ManX man." as un
folded in the play, is as old as the Bible
it is the story of David. Bathsheba
and Uriah-and the moral of the play is
laid down with terrific force in the old
text:
What shall it profit man If he gain
the whole world and lose his own soul?"
The play is tragedy, and possesses
the true note of tragedy-inevitable-
ness. In bringing about the calamities,
the awful crises with which the plot
abounds, humanity PLAYS its part; but
memorable fate, the inf1exible laws Of
society, even sort of malicious
chance, play larger part still. 1t is
the same key note as in "Othello."
There were five acts and five scenes.
The scenery was most elaborate, and
painted from ManX views. THE ManX-
man" will be produced in London pre-
paratory to being taken to New York,
where it will open Mr.. Barrett's eight
weeks engagement at the American
theater. Mr.. Barrett will also be seen
in two or three other American cities.
The libretto of new opera, the joint
work of Messrs. Harry and Edward
Paulton. has just been completed for
Pauline Hall. The next promised de-
velopment of the tableauX vivants craze
is to be produced in huge tableaux de-
picting the battle of Waterloo, the
engagement at Tel-Ei-K ebir and the
march on Kandahar. 1t is proposed to
have two or three hundred living fig
ureS in addition to the painted ones
and the innumerable accessories.
ComYns Carr opens the Comedy On
Sept. l with Sydney Grundy's
ssThe New Woman,''
the American rights of which have been
purchased by Charles Frohman for the
Empire theater, New York. Mr..
Grundy'S uncompromising treatment of
his subject will probably arouse con-
siderable amount of lively discussion on
both sides OF the Atlantic. The world
of modern fiction has been much
agitated over the pretensions and
claims of the new WOma Ii,
and the moment is there
fore not i'll chosen to transfer the
discussion from the region of literature
to the wider area Of the stage. The
play will present series of scenes of
silent comedy and satire, in which the
modern development OF WomanhOod is
contrasted finely. sharply, almost ridic-
uouSly, with the earlier and more ele-
mental type of the sex. Rehearsals have
been going Oh daily for fortnight past
under the direction OF Mr.. Grundy and
Mr.. Carr, who have engaged fine cast
to interpret it. Miss Winifred Emery
remains the leading lady, to-. all play
goers' satisfaction, and has charming
part In 1.-The New Woman" Her hus-
band. Cyril Maud, has character role
that suits him admirably. Fred Terry
plays the hero of the piec. Rose Leclere,
after a short absence, resumes her
allegiance to comedy. and Alma
Murray and q. j. Graham are new
members.
Three Distinct types
of the modern woman Will be imperson-
ated by Laura Groves, Gertrude War
rem and Irene Richards. Other charac-
tiers will find representatives in MIR.
Wyes, Mr.. Champion, Miss Radcliffe
and Miss O'Brien.,
Mr.. Carr'S name is guarantee for the
mounting. Gertrude Warren, who is
Mrs. Wilton Jones in private life, is the
well known novelist. The leading mu-
steal celebrities are still scattered in
their summer retreats. The brothers
De ReZeke are at their home in Poland;
Mime. Melba at her fiat in Paris; Nine.
Calve at Rosat; Edward Lloyd has
chosen Brighton for his summer vaca-
ton: Mr.. Santley is still &C Lago Mag
i'm nil oh
course of Carlsbad water: Senior Sara
safe is at Pampeluna: Mile. Ravogli is
in Italy; Barton McGucken is at Folke-
stone; Nine. Marian Mckenzie is at
her villa in Boulogne; Sir Arthur Sulli-
van is at Thames. and the
summer hiding place of Sara Bern
hardt, which she vowed should remain
unkEown, has been discovered Beg
neil, in the picturesque Bay of Concar-
neau. about ten miles from Quimper,
Brittany.
Next year will see new departure
by Sir Augustus Harris-he will import
his German opera Wholesale. The leu
tonic season does not rival the more
fashionable Italian season, and it
has proved in London more poup-
lar aud more remunerative. The COM
pany from the Carlsruhe opera house.
under the conductorship of Herr Hottl,
will be imported In a body in June,
1895. On next Monday Sir Augustus
starts his tour of grand opera. through
out Great Britain and Ireland. Slgnor
Amanda Sapelli and Herr Field will
conduct the Covent Garden orchestra.
The company will visit twelve OF the
principal cities.
1t is not impossible that Henry Irving
may this year produce Faust" on the
stage of Coincide Franchise, Paris. Nj.
Samary Is very anxious to arrange 1t,
believing that lrving's success would
be extraordinary.
A detachment of the Coincide Fran
! caise has just given a Performance of
"Gdipe Roi" aud of "Antigone' in
the Roman theater at Orange, near
: Vignon, ih which Mounet-Sully
achieved a great triumph.
Cattolica. near GergentI, Italy, an
entire market place, with church com.
piete, has just been used as a stage
setting for performance Of "Cavsl-