St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-03-01
PLAYS AND PLAYERS
FANNY RICE IN HER LATEST We
HICLE AT THE METROPOLI-
TAN.
in OLD KENTUCKY" AGAIN.
LITTS MONEY MAKER AT THE
GRAND ALL THE COMING
WEEK.
STRILBY" PAYS A SECOND VISIT.
sir Arthur SuIIivan,s Opera ''The
Chieftain" Almost Here-GOssip
of the Stage.

Fanny Rice, of "Nadjy' fame, will
be the attraction at the Metropolitan
opera house during the first half of
the present week, the engagement be-
ginning. tomorrow night. and includ-
ing a Wednesday matinee Miss Rice's
vehicle this year is musical comedy
Untitled Nancy at the French Ball"
Nancy is the pretty young wife
of an industrious, frugal, German shoe
maker. Poverty has deprived her of
education from childhood, and through
the unhealthy influences of a design
ing woman acquaintance, she has be-
rome dissatisfied with her humble, lit
tie home, and longs for fine clothes
and a chance to go about and see some
thing of what her frivolous friend
calls life. The Woodworking husband
Is at his wits end to undo this bad
influence, when, by a happy inspira-
tion, he sends Nancy to deliver three
pairs of shoes. to three of his wealthieSt
customers. The first act takes Nancy
to the home of the wife of a wealthy
stock broker. The second act to the
boudoir of a naughty and pretty prima
donna. and the third act to a French
masquerade ball, and in each place (al-
though at first fascinated and en-
tranced at the grandeur of these
wealthy people,, Nancy soon finds be-
meath the glitter and glamor of
wealth aching hearts. Her earnest
sympathy and anxiety to serve her
wealthy sisters, together with her hon
est simplicity, get her and the other
characters in the play into innumer-
able funny complications and situa-
tions, out Of which, however, her quick
perception and ready wit invariably
eXtricate her as we'll as those she en-
deavors to serve. Finally, becoming
convinced that the sphere of life which
she had thought all sunshine and
roses. was myth. and that the pos
session of wealth and fine clothes does
not always bring happiness, she re-
turns to her humble, but comfortable,
home a cOntented and much wiser
little woman.
of the principal cities, and Miss Rice
has been congratulated upon finding
such a congenial role.
The supporting company includes the
following singers, players and enter
tanners: Alice Vincent, late prima
donna OF the Carleton Opera company;
John Comfy, Reba Haight, Herman
Ehrent, Frank E, Morse, Era Ran
dolph, H. w. Frillman, the basso;
Ralph Bicknell, Nellie Berwick, Ed
ward Troutman and others.
The passion for dead-head theater
tickets is so engrafted in some natures
that man will spend money to secure
them. That's what one man did the
other day when he telephoned from Ell
mira to the Bijou theater in New York
city, telling Mr.. Aronson he would be
in the city the following night, and
asking if he could have the favor of
two seats. He got them after holding
the wire" some time, but it cost him
50 for telephone charges.
There are many stories told of the
brusqueness or irritabjlity of Richard
Mansfield that have had their begin
ming a good deal this side of Mr.
Mansfield, and which were elaborated
and touched up with additions and
ornamentations as they were kindly
passed along from one to another.
Suppose, for change, they shove this