The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-10-25
printed in fac smile as preface to the

printed in fac smile as preface to the
book.
Beerbohm Tree. who has been playing
a remarkably successful engagement
in the provinces, has now settled def
nitely the details of his American tour.
The business department of the COM
pany will sail for New York on Nov.
Z, the company itself following a week
later The itinerary will include WASH
ington, Philadelphia, Baltimore, New
York, Brooklyn and Boston. The last
performance will be given on Jan. 80,
and Mr. Tree will open his new Lon
don theater (Her Majesty's) about
March l. The opening piece will be
the dramatization of Mr. Parker's novel
1.-The Seats of the Mighty" Mr. Tree
will assume the role of Doltaire.
c. w. Calvert has written a new
musical sketch anent the perennial
robin Hood" The score is by Dem
ham Harrison, who is we'll known to
London theater-goers by reason of his
work in connection with the Christmas
pantomimes. The piece will be first
produced at Oxford on Monday, Nov. 9.
George Alexander was summoned on
Thursday last to Wynard Park, the
marquis of Londonderry's place, in or
der to take part in private theatricals,
in which Lady Helen Stuart, Lord
Londonderry's daughter, has made a
SIedI reputation. Ine piece produced
was THE Woman Halter" Mr. Alex
ander has written to Mr.. Charles Froh-
man, canceling his tour of the United
States, arranged for 1897-98 This step
was made necessary as Mr.. Alexander
has no new plays.
Lady Pauncefote wife of the British
ambassador at Washington, and her
daughters sail for New York on Satur-
day next by the American steamship
st. Paul
Walter M. Castle has engaged Sir
Frank Lockwood @. c., as counsel for
his wife, in addition to Sir Edward
Clarke. @. c., formerly solicitor gen.
eral.
The Daily Mail, which is printing a
series of interesting letters from Amer
lea, devotes several columns this week
to Chicago, which 1t describes as 1.-THE
queen and gutter snipe of cities. the
cynosure and cesspool of the world, the
most beautiful and the most suualid:
widely and generously planned with
streets of twenty miles where it is I'M
safe to walk at night; where women
ride straddlewise and millionaires dine
at midday; the chosen seat of public
spirit and municipal Doodle"
The Truth again this week devotes
several pages to the Fourth hEussars'
scandal, the brunt of which, it says,
must fall upon the commander-in-chief
LORD WOlSley and Sir RedVerS BullWer
the adjutant general to the forces for
CLOSING over the bullying scandal
which was prejudicial to the whole
army"
Henry Labouchere also recalls the
turf scandal Of '95 in the same regi-
ment when an unknown horse. surrep-
tit1ously substituted for an outsider.
won race, the substitution being ar
ranged by officers whose horses were in
the race, including Messrs. Spencer and
Churchill
Jerome X. Jerome's paper, Today,
which is VIGOROUSLY hostile to every
thing American, has a vicious attack
this week on American bicycles, de-
nouncing them as cutter trash"
The Speaker calls attention to the
persistent rumor that the secretary of
state for the colonies, Joseph Cham
berlain was cognizant of Jameson's raid
before 1t occurred and asks for a dis
proval.
There was an enormous audience this
afternoon at the Lyceum theater, which
Sir Henry Irving lent for the occasion
of John Hare's farewell performances
prior to his American tour.