St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-04-21
STOCK COMPANIES RETURN.
Nancy & Co. and Little Lord
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Nancy & Co. and Little Lord
| FnuntIerOy Mt the Grand.
Commencing tonight the Giffen
| and Neill stock company will pre-
sent at the Grand the brightest and
best of adj the long series of Au-
guStln Days clever adaptations
from the German, entitled Nancy
& Co. 1t is written on the broad
lines of farce comedy, and abounds
in bright dialogue and clever fdra-
matte situations. 1t enjoyed inn
! mense favor during its original run
in New York, and was recently re-
vived by Mr.. DAILY with the most
gratifying results. It was adapted
by Mr.. Daily from the German of
Julius Rosen, and the excellent
stage craft for which the adapter is
/ famous is much in evidence. None
of RCsen's original humor has been
lost, but rather added to.
Nancy & Co." is farcical in char
acter, and it's situations are ludi-
crous in the extreme. So cleverly
has the adapter constructed it that
| it ait no time grows unnatural or
| falls to the level of horse play. The
| humor is real, and from the rise of
| THE curtain in the first act to the
| closing scene, 1T never drops or
! becomes tiresome. 1t will be admir-
ably cast, and will offer better ad-
vanItages to the individual members
Of the company than 1.-THE Jilt,"
| which created such a splendid i'm
| preston. Mr.. Denham will appear
as Ebenezer Griffings, the merry
| villain; Charles Kent has the hui
morous role of Kiefe O'Kiefe, the
| playwright; Mr.. Nein plays the roll
| licking Capt. Paul RenSeller, U. S.
! A, mild Lo.hario; Mr.. Maher has
a very clever hit in Skies Stock
| slow, lanmb from Wall street; Mr..
/ Perry will have equally as good a
| part in Tippy Brasher. AS the i'm
| pulsive Nancy BraSher Miss Cros-
man will have a role we'll suited to
| her capabilities. The part of Mill
cent in THE Jilt'' afforded her very
little scope, as Miss Crosman is
essentially comedienne. Her
Nancy ought to make decided
| hit. Miss Kate Blancke as Daisy
Griffings and Annie Blancke as Bet
F! parts. Miss Blanche Stoddard APP
pears as Oriana, and Fanny Burt as
Mrs. Huldah Dangery.
Nancy & Co." differs from most
, comedies of its kind, in that it pos
sesses a clever plot and story. A
/ young wife in Indianapolis secretly
collabera'tes with an author of some
| note in New York upon play which
is to be produced in the latter city
on a certain night. In ecstasy she
| leaves home with a different eX-
PLANTATION to her husband, and, ar
| irving in the metropolis, Immediate
ly sets a small portion of society in
| a domestic uproar, which involves
the honor and happiness of her coll
| laborateur Her husband discovers
| a half-burned letter in the CRATE at
| home bearing the masculine non de
| plume of his wife, and chases her
! to New York. She forbids the dis
closure of her identity by those who
know it until the night of the pro-
duction, and this conduct is con-
duclV6 10 most OIL ul6 lTOuple. L l.
| nally it scores a great success, and
| all jealousy and intrigues disap-
| pear. The action of the play in
wolves only eleven hours, beginning
in the morning and successfully pre-
senting periods during the aft
ernoon; evening and midnight of the
same day.
Nancy & Co." will be continued
until Friday night, when it will be
replaced by Mrs. Frances Hodgson
Burnett's play, Little Lord Faunt-
leroy The title role in this pro-
duction will be assumed by Miss An
ME Blancke, Miss Blancke's per-
sonality is such as to particularly
fit her to the part. The lovable
Little Lord" heretofore has been
interpreted only by precocious stage
children whose portrayal of it, while
even extremely clever, was always
more or less parrotty. Miss Blancke
is the only experienced actress who
has ever attempted the part, and her
portrayal Of it must naturally ex-