St. Paul daily globe., 1896-04-26

cities. It Is said to furnish two bours
and half of solid, healthy fun, in
cluding plentiful supply of the latest
songs and specialties. Mr. Burke as
sumes the role Of an escaped lunatic
who passes himself off as one of the
doctors in the asylum where he Is con-
fined, and creates no end of confusion
in the institution. It Is said to be the
best thing he has ever done. Appre-
ciating the fact that no one rerson
can give a whole performance, Mr..
Burke has surrounded himself with a
company of metropolitan artists, in
cluding Miss Alma Earle, Miss Grace
Forrest, Miss Edith Ward, Miss Ida
Valance, Miss Susie Winner, Edward
Eagleton, John Magee, William Mitch
ell, A. E. Davidson, Nettie Fields, Clara
Nelson and others. The engagement
includes the Wednesday and Saturday
matinees.
The John Stapleton company, which will
appear at the Metropolitan next Thursday
evening, is the same organization that pre-
sented "The Wife, Americans Abroad" and
Sweet Lavender" during its recent engage
ment In this city. By special arrangement
with the New York Lyceum theater manage
ment, this is the only road company produc-
ing the Lyceum successes, namely, "The
Wife," Americans Abroad" "The Charity
Ball. and Sweet Lavender" which consti-
tute the repertoire of the John Stapleton
company. The favor with which 1.-The Wife"
and Americans Abroad were received upon
the former engagement was due largely to the
skill and taste shown by Mr.. Stapleton in pre-
serving the same high standard of excellence
which won fame for these plays when first
produced.
The members Of the Stapleton company in
clude Paul Gilmore, Herbert Sears w. F.
Courtenay, Morgan Gibney, Francis Kingdom.
Walter Campbell Joseph Francis, Bernice
Wheeler, Helen Strickland, Grace Root, Ann
hutchinson, Mabel Strickland, Ethel Hender-
son and Jessie May.
They will present Victorien Sardou's comedy.
Americans Abroad" commencing Thursday
night. Sardou's play proved an immense sue
cess in St Paul. 1t belongs to the high order
Oh comedy, and there is just the least flavor
OF the French about it to send it through three
acts with interest unabated During the re-
mainder of the Stapleton company's engage
ment Belasco & Demille's strong and charm
ing society drama, 1.-THE Charity Ball." will be
presented. ''The Charity BALI is a play of
genuine human interest. BrimfuI of caustic
| touches on social and business foibles and fol-
lies, 1t will interest all classes and will live
in the memory of all who see it, Mr.. Staple-
tons company has received much praise for
its performance of this comedy
A spicy writer for the New York World
who signs the name of Miss Jessie Wood. in
discussing the personal vanities of such
stage celebrities Lillian Russell, Henry
Miller and others, concludes her remarks
with the following:
rkq
CIT touching on Herbert Kecey would be in
complete. We know, Herbert, that YOU travel
on your shape. We have had you before us
ever since you were first imported-War-
ranted solid British make-and you have
never disturbed our emotions or tickled our
nerves.
lnatlng statuesqueness, and in this nervous
age have found it useful. Westerners who
nave come to New York for a few days to do
the sights have taken you for a living pict-
ure, worked into a play as a sort of spec
tacular speciality.
Yes, so far you have travelled on your
shape But we have noticed an alteration
In that shape. We have noticed tendency
on your part to emulate the example of
LllllanoLillian of the shelving busts and
hips. oh, yes, we know corsets when we
see them. It's an awful confession of weak
ness, Herbert-in fact, one might almost saw
naapDlness-when a man takes to corsets.
AFTER tnat comes toupet and padded shouI-
oers. The futures of your matinee living
pictures, when obesity and years begin to
oVertake their strutting footsteps, is indeed
serious. The Eden Musee has been suggest
ed, but the wax figures are formidable and
cheap rivals.
Some day some enterprising, charitably
disposed millionaire will organize home for
the the ex-beauties OF the New York stage. The
charity of the scheme will really extend
more to the public than to the ex-beauties.
and the home will be called Home for Cor
pulent and Untalented Actors. 1 am full of
suggestions for this home, and can see many
candidates who are quite ready and in prime
condition to enter it,
There is cock fight in 1.-THE Wicklow
Postman," which is said to be as realistic
as any novelty or sensation ever introduced
in play, and when the play was originally
produced at the Fourteenth Street theater, in
New York city, last summer, a great many
people used to come in the theater simply to
see the cock fight scene, which occurred in
the last act.
"a Tammany Tiger" was produced at the
Empire theater, Brooklyn, last Monday night,