St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-03-17
SOLDIER OF FORTUNE"

Doors open at 1-2 p. m. Commence
at IA p. m. precisely.
A programme of a bill at the opera
house, when under the management OF
Charles Plunkett, announces the APP
pearance IN tn. ligh- Of June IL, 1858,
of Fanny Morgan Phelps, supported
Ly the Flu ,kett Constellation in three
splendid pieces-'The Lady of Mum
ster,' followed by the laughable inter-
lude the Wild Irish Girl the whole to
conclude with the screaming farce, The
Little Rebel.
The programme which heralds the
appearance of Josephine Tyson, az
Emilia in "Othello,' adds in note,
| 1.-The tragedian, c. Plunkett, will pers
senate his great character of Othello
as played by him at the Theater
| Royal, Drury Lane, London; the
| Academy of Music, New York, and the
principal theaters of Europe and Amer
| lea, it being the character in which
the press of both countries has pro-
nounced him without superior"
| The performance, SO the programme
| states, will conclude with the farce
1.-THE Four Sisters in which Miss
| Carrie Storms is cast for Caroline
| Diana, Eugenia and Ellen, with
| songs"
Another attraction popular in those
| days was Mile. Marietta Ravel, 1.-THE
| greatest pantomimist in the world"
HER FAVORITE PLAYS
were "Wizard Skiff or the Greek Cor
sair,' the Dumb Boy of Manchester "
| and "Wept of the Wish-ton-Wish OF
| the Last Of the Narragansetts."
At the Athenaeum John Templeton
and his wife, Alice Vane, who brought
| the erratic and gifted Fay Temp1eton
| into this world, used to hold forth in
"Fanchon, the Cricket" Plunkett
| played at the Athenaeum also. One of
his favorite roles was Shylock, which
he played in conjunction with Charles
J. Fyffe as Gratiano, after which Will
lam Marble, whom the programme de-
signated as 1.-The Son of MomuS,"
would appear as Christopher Strap in
the famous farce. Alice Vane would
| play Pauline in the Lady of Lyons"
and Evadne in E adne or ties at IL s, -
in which she introduced the song, Sad
Sea Waves" When Lady of Lyons
was the bill, the programme announced
that lowing to the length of the play,
the performance would conclude with
a beautiful song and dance by Miss
Vane and Mrs. Wildman," who played
the Widow Melnotte.
Faust was sung at the Opera House
Oct. %, 1867, by Sig. Lotti's grand
opera troupe. Marie FREDERICK was the
Marguerite, Franz Himmer the Faust,
and Joseph Weinlich the Mephistoph-
eles.
Miss Susan Denim was wont in those
days to harrow the emotions of her
audiences in the role of the hysterical
Mrs. Halter in 1.-The Stranger and
the equally fearful Julia in 1.-THE
Hunchback" She was also at home
in East Lynne" and "Oliver Twist ;,
Miss Mollie Williams and Felix A.
Vincent way back in 1867, played
Topsy and Uncle Tom to the delight of
all, without the addition of dancing
pickaninnies and a complete olio Of
SpecialtieS.
Mexican Buchanan, another star.
was fond of appearing in CORY crea-
ton entitled 1.-THE Robbers. or the
the Verdict, or the Dark Deed in the
Wood" The programme of this last
piece always contained the following
caution: This drama should satisfy
all that jurieS should not condemn a
man to death upon circumstantial evil
| dence alone
One more programme and the list
will be long enough. 1t announces the
| following bill, in which the beautifui
Fanny Morgan Phelps appears in three
| splendid characters:
Somebody Else'A comedy by blanche
| Comic Song. Little Eliza Burt
Matrimonial Sweets''-A comedy bJ
Mrs. Charles Kimble
| Fancy Dance. Little Eliza
And the comedy,
Mature and Philosophy, or The Youth
Who Never Saw Woman"
"Queer shows these I fancy I hear
| you say, but those who saw them de-
| rived from them a pleasure as keen
| and a benefit as great as can be ex,
| tracted from our modern theatrical
| performances. Most of these PLAYERS
| have gone to another world, but they
| have left behind them grateful hearts
| that will cherish their memories For
| players, you know, are:
"The abstracts and brief chronicles
of the time. After your death you
were better have bad epitaph than
| their i'll report while you lived"
| FRED G. HUNT.
James Gordon Bennett has commits,
| stoned Lawrence Kip to purchase a