St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-01-05
IN THE THEATERS.
Twelfth Night" Performed Ex-e
cellentIy. 81.


cellently. "a.
Twelfth Night has been so ofteha
presented in st. Paul that theater-goersg
are thoroughly familiar with the play,
yet the public never wearies of it. 1t Isl
undoubtedly the most pleasing OF 'aIll
Shakespeare's comedies. Julia Mar
lowe has herself presented it twice be-
tore last night at the Metropolitan, yet
her audience on the last occasion was
large, and composed mostly of the peo-
pie who saw her on each of the previous
two years.
Viola Is peculiarly adapted to Miss
Marlowe's bent as an actress. The
character is full of sweetness and self
sacrifice; 1t is quiet and magnetic. TO
say that Miss Marlowe was equal to
every delicate feature of Viola is saying
no more than everybody expected she
would be, and everybody who saw her
knows that she was. During all her
period of disguise as a page Viola is
constantly filled with womans modesty,
yet she carries out her male imperSona-
ton with deception that is not sus-
pected by the people with whom
she deals. Shakespeare's females
take kindly to male masquerade
ing, due to the fact that
in the authors time female characters
were unprecedented by boys; but Shake
Speare was not blinded 10y this to the
natural delicacv of the finer sex. 1t
would be easy to mIngle with the per-
fornance OF Viola Il grain of COARSE
ness, which would be most inconsistent
with the fine purposes Of the creator OF
Viola. Few actresses OIL the American
stage are 80 thoroughly masters OF the
true character of Viola as Miss Mar
lowe. Despite her purpose to con-
ceal her sex, Viola is forced to blush
at every feature naturally distasteful
to her sex. Miss MarloWe gave all these
delicate touches with a power nothing
short OF genius. She was equally pow
ertul in representing the deep, seIf-Sac-
riticing nature of her character
Barton Hill has So often delighted st.
Paul audienceS III the imperSonaliOn of
Maivolio. and is considered here to be
SO perfect in the part, that it is difficult
for another actor to give thorough salts
faction as the conceited and vain stew
ard OF Olivia. However. Henry Jewett
was roundly applauded last night. He
might be criticised ia some of his features
but, as whole, he came quite close TO
ShakeSpeare's idea. Some critics have
said that the authors intention was to-
hold MaivoIio up to pity quite as much
as to rIdicule, but this idea IS rarely CON-.
veyed III presentations Of the drama,g
and, indeed, it is difficult to see no Wit
can be. Malvolio is conceited ass,s,
and the standard Of humanity must be
raised to treat him with anything but
ridicule 81
Mr. Wp0UpP Of
this fine old actor. made an excellent
Sir Toby Belch. Dodson Mitchell also
did we'll i'll his imperSonation of the =
coarse Sir Andrew Aguecheek. 81
Walter Hale, as the duke, looked MIS-
part magnificently. And Eugeliia
Woodward performed Olivia, the will.
full lady who has never been crossed,
exquiSltely.
Mr.. Amory is pretty we'll adapted TO
the clown parts. and played the part of
FeSte quite satisfactorily. /,
But every part considered, Miss Mar
lowe lowered far above everybody, and
Viola. as of course she should be, was
dlstinctively the feature of the perform
ance.
Miss NARROW will give but three more
performances at the Metropolitan opera
house. Tonight she will repeat the
great comedy success, "The Love
Chase" tomorrow afternoon she will
appear as Beatrice in Much Ado About
Nothing" and will close her engage
ment in this city tomorrow night i'll
Romeo and Juliet"
Seats are now On sale for Theodore
Bollmann's performance at the Met
ropolitan opera house Sunday night
The company will present the great
German success. "Tllli."
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The popular comedian Edwin Ste
vens. with big cast of principals and
company numbering sixty people, will
appear at the Metropolitan opera house
the first half of next week, presenting
the merry comic opera Wang" The
engagement is for three nights and
Wednesday matinee, beginning Monday
night Seats are now on sale at the
box Office.
"Spider and Flynn. B. Leavitt's
pew spectacular production known as
| the second edition of Spider and Fly''
will be presented at the Grand opera
house tor one week, beginning with
Sunday night. with the same company
| of fifty people who were selected from
both hemisphereS for the worlds fair
engagement at Chicago.