St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-07
FoOTLIGHT FLASHES.

grandeur pervades the production of
Bonnie Scotland" Sidney r. Ellis
picturesque romantic drama, which
will be seen in this city at an early
date. More than ordinary interest is
attached to the production of this
play. 1t is a new departure from con-
ventional lines and presents scenes and
characters new to the stage. The play
tells in crisp, bright language. an eN-~
quiSite love story located amid the
crags, glens and castles of Scotland,
and it is amid surroundings that poets
and historians have made famous that
the characters of Bonnie Scotland
enact their life drama. Several scenes
royal bag-pipers and the Scotch sing
ers who will discourse Scotch music
and national airs clad in the pic
turesque costumes of Scottish High
charm of novelty will be the reproduc-
ton of a Scotch fair, showing the
booths of the different merchants and
manufacturers and the characteristic
industries of the Scotch peaas5aantry:
Scotch dances are in progress.
The action brought by Augustin DAILY
against William A. Brady. to recover
damages amounting to $4,000, arising
out of the production of After Dark"
was dismissed June %, in the United
ton has been going on over the pro-
duction of this play for come time. Mr..
Daily claimed that the railroad scene,
which is the principal scene in the
play, was an infringement on the
scene in his play, Under the Gas
Light" and his original action was
brought for an Injunction to restrain
the performance of the play by Nam
ager Brady, on account of the alleged
infringement. A decree was entered,
the play, and holding that he had
performed the play seven hundred and
forty-three unauthorized times. M
DAILY then brought an action to re-
ton of the alleged unauthorized per-
sformances. In dismisSing the COM
plant of Mr.. Daily, the court held it
was not case where penalties could
be collected.
Wilton Lackaye is making arrange
mentS to star season after next under
the management of Mr.. Bailey Avery.
He has secured play entitled Israel
a characterization of Hall Gaines 1.-THE
Scapegoat." and drama by Charles
Weyman's The Man in Black
dramatiZed. He intends to have a
repertory of at least five plays, all
character dramas Mr.. Lackaye will
probably play the leading role in
Messrs. Wheeler and Alfriend's melo-
drama, The Great Diamond Robbery
which Managers Palmer and Knowles
will produce at the American theater
on September 2. Nine. Janauschek,
Miss Katherine Grey and MIR. Arthur
this piece.
Darkest Russia" the realistic reflex
of life and scenes amid the snow-clad
wastes of Siberia and the gilded
palaces of ST. Petersburg, shows the
customs of the people of the cars
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itself, while realistic, evolves a strong
story full OF heart interest and en-
livened with bright comedy. The
company for the coming engagement
in this city will include, it is said, eX-
ceptionally clever actors.
Edwin H. Hoff, formerly Of the Bos-
tonians, has been engaged by Abbey,
Schoeffel & Grau for the Lillian Rus
sell opera company, and will appear as
Kazimir Androvitch when THE
Tzigane'', is reproduced in Abbey's
theater, New York, in August. Hubert
Wilke will not be a member of the
organization next season.
Robert Hilliard has gone to the
Thousand Islands for a short vacation
before he begins the rehearsals for
his starring tour in ''Lost-Twenty-four
Hours" Mr.. billiards. starring tour
will be shorter than his vacation if he
depends upon Neutrality-suspicious.
Hours for success-unless the play has
been entirely rewritten.
Miss Bertha Galland, a niece OF ex-
Gov. Louis Arthur Watres of Pennsyl-
vania, will star next season as Juliet
and Lady Macbeth. She has been
studying for some time with Mr..
George Edgar, who prepared Miss
Margaret Mather for the stage. Miss
Galland's tour will begin late in Sep
TENDER.
Augustus Thomas new play, MAR
garet Doane," formerly called The
Capitol will be produced by Manager
j. NJ. Hill in Buffalo, ON September Q.
Mary Shaw has been engaged to play
the title role.
The honorary degree of a. NJ. was
conferred upon Joseph Jefferson at the
graduating exercises of Harvard col
lege, held June &c, in Sanders theater,
Boston, Mass.
Gus Williams has been engaged by
Frederick Hallen for The Twentieth
Century Girl in which Mollie Fuller
(Mrs. Halen) will play the title role.
Herman Perlet has been engaged as
musical director for The Wizard of
the Nile the comic opera in which
Frank Daniels will star next season.
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