The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-10-04

men met on the street and greeted each other
! effusively.
LET go Of my hand. 1 want to talk to you, .
| said one.
| Here are some Of the best things I have
| heard in the theaters this week:
Tim Cronin, at the Standard theater, says
that while standing In front of the Hotel I'M
| perlal an inebrated individual staggered up
to him and asked how far 1t was to the
Grand Central depot.
about ten minutes walk
.'For you or for me7' inquired the Jagged
one.
Alan Dale has a bitter screed in, the New
York Journal on the musical melanges and
knock-about attractions now holding the
boards in the metropolis, that call themselves
comic operas. After demonstrating that
Half a King. Lost. Strayed or Stolen :
1.-THE Gold Bug0 and THE Caliph" are not
operas Of any class, comic or otherwise this
spicy writer thus concludes:
1.-The comic opera variety show is fraud
on the public, in my opinion. 1t liz an In
justice to that most delectable entertainment,
the variety show, and 1t Is a Pecksnifflan
treatment Of comic opera of the Robin Hood
|. and Rob Roy stamp. When want variety,
I'll go to Roster & Bials, and Olympia.
thanks. There I can smoke and talk, and
wander around; see the acts that I want to
see, and turn my back on those that afront
me. I'm not obliged to sit In reverent silence
while buffoons fill out entire evening with
a pretense at comic opera Thirty minutes OF
Francis Wilson in Half King twenty min
utes Of the specialties In Lost, Strayed or
Stolen few glances at Miss Marie Cahill
in The Gold Bug and one tumble from JEFF
ferson de Angels in The Oaliph' would suit
me admirably.
"Comic opera must return to it's original
ldea-that of telling an amusing, mirth-reek-
ing story with incidental, characteristic mu-
sic bright costumes and Joyous surroundings.
1. must cease to be the medium for variety
sfrIrn nj arv will NS IN
halls, and-such Is the tendency Of the times
we shall not require very hard driving"
Miss Hanna Held. the Partisan chanteuse
who constitutes one of the features of Evans
G. Hoey's revival of "a Parlor Match" is
thus sized up" by one of her own sex
Miss Jessie Wood-A pungent contributor to
the New York Journal:
ITO begin with, she, Anna Held, Is an ar
fist without the e, please.) She is know
ing, practiced thoroughbred artist, with a
splendid eye for color, form and general ef-
feet. Every charm that she possesses Is ex-
hibited to the best possible advantage, but
| there are plenty of charms equal to and even
ahead of hers in the American market. The
American girls are not artists; that's where
Nile Held scores.
The little French chanteuse wears her hair
hanging down her back, and it Is not golden.
| Oh, wise young Held! oh, admirable, self
controlled, original young. Heidi to venture
upon the vaudeville stage with mouse-col-
ored hair!
I cannot praise Mile. Held enough for this
bit of sincerity
The fault with the average stage beauty is
| that she Is too ambitious and gives herself
| away by getting too far ahead of nature.
| Think how some of them outstrip nature al
| together by means of bottle of liquid and a
| ragi how some of them lay N-carat gold
| t'hair restorer'' on their locks-that makes
| real sunlight look cold: and how health and
| youth can never produce the uncanny electric
| light sparkle that chemicals light UP In some
! lovely eyes. Ladies. the secret Of success is
| not to go to far.
| Anna Held, being an artist. is harmonious.
| stage beauty with hair that Is not irrele-
| want is worth studying. She wears It. hanging
| down her back, because she knows that all
| women look best that way. Many a plain
| Is not very wonderful hair, either In color
| or quantity, but 1t is worn judiciously.
When I come to schedule Anna Held's
! charms I should desribe her as a pretty.
| plump little woman, with a head that Is much
| too large / should say that she has the nose
| Of a clever woman and the eyes Of a siren,
| the throat, back and bust Of a goddess, re-
! markable hips, and dressmaker who must
be q person Of almost superhuman genius.
! In fact, Anna Helds dressmaker and adver-
| tiser form a great team, and / think they
| deserve to be kniEhted, or to have some fine
! big mark Of distinction conferred upon them.
| Anna Held's arms and hands are well
| modelled and expressive, but her legs are
commonplace and disappointing. There Ia
| something plebian about them that dominates
| her fine hosiery altogether. They are legs
| that were excelled easily last week by the
| known as Minnie French. They are not in
| tbs same class with the dainty supports OF
| Edna Wallace Hopper, or to be mentioned
| with Virginia Earle's.
But the way that the pink Of the skin melts
| Into the cool satin Of Annals corselet the way