St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-04-21
FOOTLIGHT FLAsHEs.

Richard Mansfield, who proposes to
call his new theater The Garrick, has
always had special fondness for the
eminent eighteenth century actor. This
fondneSS, it is said, has led him to pre-
pare the materials for a new biography
of Garrick, which he hopes to publish
in the fall
Fanny Davenport met Sardou at
Marty, near Paris, last summer "I
beg your pardon, how do you write
your plays?" asked the actress. ST do
not write them" answered the drama
fist. Il build them. Playwrights are
mechanical. like engineers. 1 would
rather have a broad-minded engineer
produce a play for me than an exclus-
i've literary man."
William A. Brady, the manager who
is now busy launching Trilby on the
road. is engaged daily in examining
the pedal eXtremities of countless lead
ing ladies all anxious to play the title
role of the piece founded on the world
wide famous novel of Du Maurier.
Charles Frohman has booked a tour
of John O. Dreams" for next season
that will extend as far as California.
He will put very strong company
into it, and believes that it will prove
as popular on the road as it is proving
to be in New York. The novel and en-
ticing play is attracting crowded
houses to the fashionable Empire the
alter, and there is no question of its
success. Henry Miller and William
Faversham battling for the same girls
hand is a combination that catches
the matinee girl
London critics say ''The Notorious
Mrs. Ebbsmith," Pinero's successor
to 1.-The Second Mrs. Tanqueray," pro-
duced by John Hare, is brilliant in
dialogue and ingenious in construc-
ton. But they object to Mrs. Ebb-
smith throwing the Bible in the firepi
Victor Herbert has contributed to
prince Ananias" considerable comedy
orchestration. The music upon the
entrance of the melancholy king as
sists largely in promoting laughter.
The first verse of this lugubrious
monarch's entrance song is: Is
regal sadness sits on me; g
Also wrapped in deepest misery
Far blacker than the tomb.
The reason why all this should be-
l cannot solve alone; y
MY m1nds so dark / cannot sec
Now melancholy, you'll agree
Has marked me for her own.
This melancholy is no sham 10
Nor eccentricity.
Since birth I've been leaking dam.
A weeping mystery. ar
In addition to Bernard Shaw's "CanG
dida," which Richard Mansfield is to
produce, the actor has also in active
rehearsal a play called 'sThe Great
Philanthropist." It is said to be out
and-out melodrama, quite as lurid as
1.-THE Fatal Card" and containing a
character of an arch villain, which Mr..
Mansfield will play, just as w. H.
Thompson plays the part of an arch
villain in 1.-THE Fatal Card" "The
Great Philanthropist' takes it's title
from the character Mr.. Mansfield is
to playa man who is a thief in the
employ of another thief, and who. be-
cause of the stricken conscience of
his superior, distributes to orphans.
INDECENT persons and charita BILE insti-
tutions large sums of money, ae-
CURED by means which the law does
not countenance. The desire on the
part of this seeming phiianthropigt
to retain the money he has been or
6ered to dispense is the opportunity
for the playwright to arrange his
clash of interest.