The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-10-18

"A Yenuine Yentleman.' The swede of Mr..
Heege lis a delightful and unique personal
ity. He Is awkward, phlegmatic, imperturb-
able slow to anger, rarely excitable, but
, ne Is shrewd. amiable. honest, straightfor-
ward and FRANKIE 60
The Wicked Little harrison Sisters are
good for pages, not to mention columns. In
the New York papers just now. Jessie M.
Wood describes them in this spicy fashion In
an account of a press reception to the sisters
published In the New York World:
- A score OF brave men from the leading
newspapers took their lives In their hands
last Thursday afternoon. and attended the
press reception of the Barrison Sisters. M.
Fleren Husband to the oldest and wickedest
Barrlson), engineered, managed and maneu-
vered the; harrison Sisters, and Mr.. McCon-
nell. OF Roster & Bial's, managed the news
paper men,
M Fleron does not look as though manag-
ing the Barrison Sisters agrees with him. He
has an old-gold complexion and weary eye.
I In spite of the fact, however, that his fore
head ends OF very little above the bridge
of his. nose he appears to be a gentleman Of
! ability, and scatters about through his con-
trude;s precocity. think # Isl good thing
| that the, Barrison Sistefsi advance agent
made his mention of their beauty, merely in
edIless. '.-s6 : q -
Up to this date the suicide wave has not yet
begun here. Iona, the star adventures Of
them ALL is the best looking. She is round
-
looks as though she had good appetite and
sleeps well at night. She has high cheek
bones, soft blue eyes, indefinite eyebrows, a
nondescript nose sensual mouth. good teeth
shortish blond hair and manner Of exag-
gerated SAVIOR faire- apparently always on
the defensive. Her type Of beauty is Ger
man, and she weighs about 135 pounds. But
even the star. beauty Of the Barrison Sisters
will have to live up to her bad reputation be-
fore she starts the suicide wave here. Her
beauty alone will not-open up the family
vaults in Greenwood. We have plump and
pleasing blondes here already.
The rest of the sisters are huHy-headed
figures and earthly little mouths. They hut-
tered In, one by one, and two by two, brush
ing the powder from their noses and adjust
ing their personal bric-a-brac, Of which they
wore large quantities.
NJ F'leron, the manager of the sisters, and
Mr.. Mcconnell. the manager of the newspa-
per men, outrivaled each other in opening
wine" To the accompaniment Of popping
corks M. Fleron remarked that Inger was
called 1.-The sister with the aristocratic nose"
and that Gertrude was but child Miss
Iona naively confessed that the Berlin gen.
tlemen were Every fresh and that she stab
bed one in her dressing room who crossed
her career Of vice at the wrong time.
.=v 9estsfH@sses zoe
Commenting upon the merits and dement's
of the new play, Mary Pennington, Spinstey; :"
| recently produced in New York, with Georgia
Cayvan in the leading role, an able dramatic
writer in the Mail and Express Of that city
contributes this excellent analysis:
Woman's rights Is scarcely a more agree
able subject on the stage, in any guise. than
woman's wrongs, as depicted by Ibsen at his
best and Pinero ct his worst: but In Mary
Pennington, Spinster, this theme Is sympa-
ton, and amusing after the highest fashion
of comedy when it lis made ridiculous.
think a man who can accomplish these re-
suits specially in the face Of manifestly
immature experience in playwriting is very
talented, and has that In him which makes
the dramatist. Miss Pennington talks deal
too much and her conceptions OF life. when
she tells about them. seem rather silly but
she is a sincere and good woman, and she
earnestly sets about reaching her ends with
the means which life has placed Immediately
in her hands instead Of going about preach
ing foolishly or neglecting her own aHeirs TO
teach others how to conduct theirs. She is
a woman whom man must respect, VIII
like and may love; and SO she is a fit heroine
for play. as she would ne proper woman
in, real life.
role s,e seS % ~ + his
trfonic method lis JUST Shonest as self-con-
trolled, as commanding as the nature OF the
woman she personates. The effect. except for
Mary's didactic loquacity at inopportune mo-
ments, is very charming.
heroine fall into instructive argument just
whenever that particular weakness is bound
to- nuIlify an imminent situation of value and
fmpressiveness. IL he had made her less SEN
gational and had worked up his episode with
a keener eye to the curtain, ne WOulO nave
turned out q vastly better play, even without
rounding out his subordinate characters.
I will not say that theater audiences are
unable to appreciate the paradoxical COM
plexities -of. hannah nature. but they do not
care to be bothered to decipher them in the
space Of an evenings entertainment.
They are more readily satisfied with definite
types and single motives, and consequently
Mr. Walkers dramatis personae are good
The Bostonians are playing a series of
successful engagements through New Eng
land.
No less than four theatrical novelties were
produced III New York city last Monday
evening At the Fourteenth Street theater
ssThe Cherry Pickers," four-act play by
Joseph Arthur was acted for the first time.
The scenes are laid in India during the
Brftish-Afghan war, and the title of the
play is derived from the nickname given TO
fhe Eleventh hussars on account of their
famous red trousers. The cast included
william Harcourt Ralph Delmore, w. T.
Carleton. Roselle Knott and Jennie Sat
terlee Archibald G.. Gunter's dramaHzation
of his own novel. "A Florida Enchantment,'
was heard at Hoyts theater on the same
evening. The piece is a highly fantastic one
and Is based on the magical properties OF a
certain seed the consumption Of which means
change Of sex Marie Jansen played the
leading role. With her were associated Dan
CoiIyer, May Haines, Clarence Heritage. En-
fe ,.Germon, Grace Huntington and Wash
I Melville .gDs5d Il N 10 0cise..
Max9fe Cline appeared for the first time