St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-02-17

Prince Carnival and his 'kleine rstr"
Little council. The prince-AndreW
heckler-wore cap of towering mag
n!tude, ut for the biggest fool of tae
ocGaslon. His vest was of canary
yellow. his shirt vibrated with rufftes.
he waved an Acknowledgement of lis
ioyal reception with the ailded toy
WHICH served him as a sceptre Then
ne seated himself on a chair Of xtate
Deneath prodiStous goggle-eyed owl
.HllherVas oesecrated bird On his
right was the traditional ..bpett orr
barrel; at his left, a painted rass
board Pegasus
The winged horse was there for hin,
who should delight his fellow fools rljtI,
the most stupid poetry. The barrel ts-s
long been used in similar German gath
er1ngs to support, in wagering upright
ness, befuddled brother called upon
10 speak or sing. The princes sec-e-
tary. Henry Bockstruck, with his great
feather pen, led the little council"
composed Of himself Ed Helnicke. nag
CARRIER; Ferd Hinrichs. Peter V. Lar
son, George ". Rodenburg. Ionfs
Schierrnan, ]. Q. Haas. Louis Mari, p.
II. Hanson and A Fromhoefer. The
prince made witty address. touch
ing upon city and national affairs. The
assem- plage sang with excellent effect
a jolly old chorus OF the fatherIaud.
Then Adolf Hinrichs DOTTED his FOOLS
cap and took position IN the big bar
rel whence he was allowed 10 MARBLE
a song more comic than his own ap-
pearance. Thereafter except when
TanDhauser was being burlesuued, the
contributions of Individual members
from within the barrel, or from the
pack or the Pegasus, alternated with
lntermissions for refreshments. or with
cnoruses as charmingly sung as they
were funnily worded Each eradIIa "a
l.
received his reward at the e--acior,a
hafios or Prince Carnival Abour the
neck OF one was strung a beer bot+Ie
Another accepted a paper frog, ard
all the fools were favored quite 90
foohshly. Prof. Frank StoIlWert< zr,,-
phed an admirable piano accompani-
meht TO the various sons, while the
supervision of the entire musical pro-
gramne had been confded to the skin
OF Prof. Claude Madden.
Inc evenings best fooIery-aInnst
TOO good, indeed, for genuine fools
was the burlesque of Tannhauser
Prof. Mad Cloud" or Madden, directed
an orchestra OF maestros-Herren Pap-
lninl-Marr, Liszt-Bremer, Olaf Thyf.-
Yason-Larson, Bernadotte-Jacobson
Ole Bull-Bosch. Paderewski-Danz.
Sousa-Schiermann, and Gilmore-Ort-
man. Making occasional discordS-
abon1nable screenings and bellowings
formed numerous yaria tons from the
music of the future with exquisite
taste. Tannhauser was presented by
a grand company of 400 persons, of
whom $50 were invisible behind the
scenes. Paul Kraniger was the Land
grave Herman; Andrew HeckIer was
his voluptuous daughter Caroline;
Louis Betz, Wolfgram; A. Franhoefer.
Walter; a. Heckler Jr, the shepherd
boy George w. Rodenberg proved a
handsome Tannhauser in spite of him
self, but the froth of the sapphire Med
1terranean would have been too gross
an origin for the ethereal loneliness Of
EDWARD Helmeck's Venus. The cos
tunes of the opera were gorgeous in
color, and the actors accoutrements
were or phenomenal development The
altered text, the mangled score, were
SO absurd that even a fool was COM
PEELED to laugh. The ambitious Rich
ard never heard at Bayreuth his ell
makes more Unanimously developed,
nor exploded with more thunderous
crash of dynamite bass.
With the conclusion of the final cho-
rus THE Return From the Carnival"
at an early hour this morning, 1.-The
fool said in his heart, Great is Prince
Carnival and the Narrensitzung Of
1896"