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

Fellow men is beloved by them; the man
who despises his fellow men is rejected
| by them. The pea green painters of
Paris are neglected by folk who pay
heavy prices for the honest landscapes
| of CorOt and Diaz. A thousand people
read Charles Lamb. where one opens
the pages of Dean Swift. In these adj
vanced days it is the fashion to sheer
| at the old fogy ways of Goldsmith and
! BulWer and Sheridan. Yet no decadent
| has written so good a play as she
Stops TO Conquer" "The School for
| Scandal" or 1.-The Lady of Lyons"
| Here is our ancient friend, William
| Shakespeare, with three rival per-
| formances by three rival actresses Of
his Anticipated heroine, Juliet. Now
this excellent sweet lady had no past
| no problem, no realism, nothing to tell
US except the tale of her love for her
| lover Yet Juliet has emerged from her
tomb at frequent intervals during the
| last three hundred years. and try as
| we may to be fortified by Howells and
| lbsen and Sudernlann the lovely maid
| still woos us. Why? Because, although
he has lain for three centuries under
the chancel Of a quiet church beside
| the Avon River, Shakespeare still loves
! humanity, still thinks all men are
| brave, still holds all women honest
| There are, indeed, doubts about Ophel-
| ia,and we fear that Cressida was way
| ward But the gentle poet loved his
fellow men and had no thoughts
| against the ladies. 1T is not Juliets
| diction that haszkept her youthful long
! after the final decay of Ninon de PEn-
clos. 1T is her honesty, her purity, her
modesty, her 4wonnans love for Romeo
| ~s,,41
| told until Gabriel rings down the last
curtain of life on the actors and their
audiences; and a thousand centuries
after Ibsen, Howells, sSudermann and
the rest of us have been forgotten in
ignominious graves, the great, warm,
generous heart of Shakespeare will, if
|, we may use metaphor and his own
words, smell sweet and blossom in the
| dust. For there is nothing that lives
except love and art All other things
are dross.
OF all her many pets Sarah Bern
hardt has but one with her this sea-
son. That is magnificent Scotch
collie which she calls Game" The
great st. Bernard which madame
brought from Australia to America
with her on her last trip, four years
ago, dislikes travel as much as the
comes his servant, who bears the tedi-
BUSINESS of travel, but reaps the gold
| Ell reward of four years accumula-
! ton, While the st. Bernard and ten
other dogs belonging to the Bern
hardt household luXu1iate in "Paree'
Sarah still possesses her lion, her tiger
cubs and most of her other pets. al
though her leopard and wondrous ag-
gregation of monkeys, which she picked
up during her South American tour,
have been transferred to the Jardin
| des Plantes.
That clever little ingenue, Miss Amy
Lee, assisted by the comedian, Frank
Doane, will be seen in a comedy writ
ten for Miss Lee. called Miss Harum
| Scarum,' at the Grand following Cor
rlnne. The piece is said to be bright
and Miss Lee exactly fitted for the IT,
! tie role. She is favorite in the East,
and will undoubtedly add st. Paulites
to her list of admirers.
David Henderson's comedian, John
new comedy-drama called "The Doc
tor" Mr.. Burke is said to have made
hit in the title role.
Manager Lift has had time offered
MIN at no less than six first-class
theaters in the metropolis for his new
| play, "A Tanlmany Tiger" which will
be produced the early part of April.
Ella Russell, the American opera
singer, who is popular in London, has
won $500 verdict for libel from a
manager who, in announcing a series
OF concerts, printed Miss RusselPs
name second to that of Miss MCINTYRE.
who also has sung in grand opera sue
cessfully, and later "sandwiched it in
between the names of two other la
dies. Miss Russell held that this vas
slur on her professional reputation.
and jury agreed with her.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Taber produced
three plays in New York last week,
She Stops to Conquer" Henry w.
and las You Like IT.
E. E. Rice, of whom it may be eaid
that he made "Evangeline, and that
"Evangeline" made him, is having that
phenomenally long-Iived burlesuue
music and its libretto, and proposes to
stage it again. 81
Fay Templeton, who has made a
great success by her impersonation of
the Man-About-Town in. Excelsior
Jr.," has received an offer to go to
London this summer to appear at the
London musics halls as male imper-
senator.
After the closecof his next American
season Nat Goodwin will go to London
for long runs playing at the Criterion.
The coming summer Mr.. Goodwin will
play in Australia, and may present
1.-The Prisoner of Zenda" there.
The tour of Minnie Maddern Fiske
has been changed to permit her APP
pearance in New York, where she is
playing two weeks under the local
management of A. NJ. Palmer, at the