St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-04-24
Ar THE THEATERs.


full robin Hood" at the Metropolitan
opera house last night. There is GER
| tainly no comic opera of American
composition quite so charming as this.
| 1t is replete with gems of melody, ana
full of rich harmony. The music 3
| unquestionably reminiscent-too mudh
! so to be pronounced original-but At
is none the less pleasing for all thaE
The performance given last night IS
| familiar one to the public. All 81
| the favorites were in the cast with tina
exception of Mr.. Barnabee, who, trtlas
! to tell, was very much missed, theug3a
Jerome Sykes made creditable show,
ing in the role of the sheriff of Not;
tinghanl. Jessie Bartlett Davis, w. H.
Macdonald and Eugene Cowles ap-
peared as Alan-a-Dale, Little John
and VIII Scarlet, and Mr.. F'rothingS
ham presented the familiar person.
ality of Friar Tuck.
Maid Marian was impersonated by
Caroline Hamilton, who has also an
peared here previously in this role
Miss Hamilton sang spiendidly last
night. Her execution I'm the forest
song, in the second act, was admirable
and well merited the double encore ac-
voice has gained in volume since her
last appearance here, and the artist
herself has improved in her acting.
The performance was witnessed nv
another large, representative and nat.
urally an appreciative audience
Nearly every number in the opera re-.
celved an encore and principals and
chorus sang with a spirit and zest
that Impaired life to the music.
Truly there is nothing like the Bos-
tonians in robin Hood
Nancy & Company will be given at
the matinee performance at the Grand
today at 2:S0. The piece has made a
decided hit at the Grand, and win
be continued until Friday night, when
Little Lord Fauntleroy" will be put
on to run the balance of the week
In the latter play the title role will
be played by Miss Annie BIancke and
the excellent role of the Earl of Dor
lncourt viii be interpreted by Charles
Kent.
Sunday evening at the Grand opera
mouse VIII occur an opportunity to
see "A Bowery Girl" meiodrama by
Ada Lee Baseom, who has made study
or characters as they are in this ia
nous quarter of the great metropolis.
Tonight the Bostonians present an
other successful opera for the first
time here. Clay NJ. Green and Thomas
PearsaH Thorn's romantic comic op-
era, THE Maid of Plymouth" which
has for its theme Longfellow's familiar
poem. THE Courtship of Miles Stand
ish," is one of the most attractive
operas In the Bostonians' repertorv.
The author of the opera, however. has
shown a refreshing disregard for the
historical fact that guided the poet
In fact, he appears to have his own
IDEAS about such things, and as the
philosophers tell US that '.alI freedom
Is but a. series of limitations" Mr..
Green plainly regards all limitations
as series of liberties. The liberties
ne mas taken with the story are numer-
Gus, and all of a whimsically humor-
GUS nature The characters are all
touched with this color. The dainty
little maid, Priscilla" knows that
she is very trim, and that nature has
been bountiful to her, and she dis
courses about 1t frankly. Miles Stand
to make love for him, arrives at a tell
ing situation by returning to- his
friends after, having been given up
Tor dead by his scampering soldiers,
and John Alden, who pleads the cause
OF Miles with Priscilla. and gets himself
beloved, is moved, after much suffer-
ing, near the close of the opera to
boldly take the center of the STAKE
and declare this dramatic sitda tion
belongs to mel These are the cfisitr--
! acterss of the poem, but three persons
will not make an opera, and Mr.,
Green therefore called upon his imagiL
nation. The first result was a gro
tesque elder-the spiritual guide Of the
Plymouth Rock Puritans. The elder
is a man who means well, and labors
earnestly to be austere-when a DASH
ing up-to-date damsel arrives from the
other side and bbmbards him with
roguish glances and captivating
smiles, he realizes that all flesh is
weak, and sneaks bit Of a Irritation
with her.
The up-to-date girl is Primrose, and
She is a striking contrast to prim
little Priscilla. Primrose knows what
O'Clock it is and also that she is over
seven, and she makes life a veritable
merry-go-pound for the elder, and
scandalizes all the others. The author
introduces the first foreign masher
ever brought to these shores. He Is
Sir Loyesby Montague, and he comes
over with a lot of handles and courts
the Puritan maidens, but there is an
Indian girl, Masconoma by name, who
goes about wailing for an affinity. and
using words that are not to be found
outside of a Century Dictionary. and
she captures Sir Lovesby for her very
own There is another Indian, Hobo
max, supposed to represent the usual
theatrical idea of Lo! the poor Indian.
but he only goes about drinking
whisky and playing poker with him
self. There arc many other peonra
Puritans, soldiers, cavaliers, and so
on, and they work out distinctly
entertaining story. The music by Mr.
Thorn is delightfully."- tuneful and
catchy. and thoroughly in accord with
the efervescent quality of the libretto
Henry Clay Barnabee will piay the
elder. Eugene Cowles, Miles Standisb !.
Joseph Sheehan, John Alden: Jessie
Bartlett Davis. the Indian maiden !.
Caroline Hamilton, Primrose; Eloise
Morgan, Priscilla, and other prominent
roles will be taken by Peter Lang
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