St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-03-22

lyn pays a good many good dollars
for Hamlet every season, Mr.. Hen
ley, and 1t sees Hamlets quite as good
as yours is likely to prove.
1t takes more than a fire to break
up a performance in a Bowery the
alter. That fact was demonstrated at
recent matinee, when blaze was
started in the parquette circle of
Miners Bowery theater of such pro-
portions that, had it been in an upper
ed a panic. In the Bowery they do
things differently. The performance
was not interrupted. While the fire
men cut away the floor and poured
from two lines of hose upon the blaze
the audience vigorously applauded the
actors, who were brainy enough to
take the burning" incident into their
dialogue. The house was we'll filled
at matinee performance, women and
children making up more than half
the audience.
Billy Farrell and Miss willie
Farrell were doing the "cake walkers
dream when the fire was discovered.
A man in the rear yelled and ran out.
Miss Willie stopped and glared in
dignantly over the curling blaze at
the retreating form of the frightened
man.
Are you fond of fire, Willie?" Billy
Farrell asked
IF I get my salary I don't mind a
fire." Miss Willie replied.
Il suppose" he said, pursuing the
idea, which was already causing
laughter, that you wouldn't run out
and holler like that man in front did?"
Not if my wife stayed, like his did,"
responded Miss Willie, viciously.
While the laugh was on the man
who had shouted Fire" the Farrells
went on with their chaff, and the fire
men tore away at the floor and poured
water into the basement The Far
rells We're called before the curtain
for a speech, but contented themselves
with the remark: ''It will take more
than fire to lose u.s.
The contest between the two rival
Juliets was short-lived, says the New
York Recorder, referring to Julia Mar
lowe and Mrs. Potter. Mrs. Potter's
artificial stilted Veronese lady has
wilted before the poetic, impassioned
Juliet of Julia Marlowe.
Miss Marlowe is an ideal Juliet.
Young, ingenious, almost the en-
bodiment of Shakespeare's heroine.
can conceive of nothing more bene-
fetal to Mrs. Potter than to close up
Daly Tor a week and sit through
seven performances of Miss MarloWe's
Juliet.
Then, perhaps, Mrs. Potter might
get some insight into the character.
The great Partisan dancer. "I:a Loie"
Fuller, has been engaged by Manager
Scott to appear for one night at the
Metropolitan opera house. THURSDAY
evening, April 9. She is now playing a
successful engagement of four weeks
at Roster & BiaFs, New York. and has
turned people away at every per-
Torrance. She is one of the biggest
sensations that New York has had for
years. She closes her engagement at
Roster & Balls this week, and makes
tour of the country, playing twenty
nights only, one night in each of the
large cities. Manager Scott has Sc
cured her by offering a large guarantee
and it is expected she will play to very
big business.
The attraction booked at the Metro
polltan opera house for the week be-
ginning Sunday, March 30, is Henry
lrVing,s version Of Goethe's Faust )"
produced by the John Griffiths com
pany, with Mr.. Grifflths in the char
acter Of Mephistopheles. It is said
that the production will be elaborately
staged.
The new opera in which Gilbert and
sullivan have recemented their part
nership is called THE Grand Duke"
and 1T seems to be a success, though
some of the correspondents regret the
necessity which the authors thought