The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-04-18

will star next season in a new play
by Madeleine Lucette Ryley
George Backus will probably head a
company that Is to present Secret Ser
vice" next season.
High class vaudeville at popular
prices is the attractive Offering of the
Grand opera house for some weeks to
come. The regular season has ended,
and legitimate road combinations will
be succeeded by the lighter style of
variety entertainment. The summer
season which will be inaugurated to-
night, will afford several features.
The causes that have been responsible
for the long lived popularity of farce
comedy can be applied to the present
popularity Of vaudeville farce comedy,
as it is usually presented, is nothing
more or less than series of specialties
arranged perhaps with more conference
than is found in the average straight
vaudeville performance. The entire
East and middle West seem to have
gone mad over vaudeville, and many
of the most noted legitimate houses
have been given over to this style of
entertainment and it is a fact that
the business of the vaudeville theaters
has been so extensive as to materially
affect the receipts Of the more legiti-
tempted in the Twin Cities, but never
on the scale which has made the East
ern ventures of this order so popular
and successful.
Manager Jacob Lift intends to give
the departure every possible oppOrtun-
ity for success. One feature of the
vaudeville performances in the East
has been the cheap prices at which
they are presented. In keeping with
that idea Manager Lift announces a
radical change for the summer sea-
son from the prices which have pre-
vailed for the regular term. The en-
tire balcony. which has hitherto been
so cents and 35 cents, will now be rs
cents for the evening performances;
the parquette circle, hitherto rs cents
and 80 cents, will now be 80 cents,
while the parquette, hitherto rs cents,
will now be so cents. 1t is the desire
and intention of the management to
cater especially to the ladies and chill
dren, and, with that end in view, a
matinee will be given each day, eX-
cept Sunday, for which the price of %
cents to all parts Of the theater has
been established.
The first weeks programme will be
q representative one. Heading the
bill is found two familiar names
Fred Hallen and Molly Fuller. The
phenomenal increase in the popularity
of vaudeville has caused a stampede
to it's ranks from the realms of farce
comedy and the legitimate dramatic
stage. Hallen was for years associat-
ed with Joseph Hart under the name of
Hallen and Hart, and Molly Fuller will
also be remembered from her appear
ances in the Hallen and Hart produc-
tons, and her last visit here as the
star Of the twentieth Century Girl
| company. Mr.. Hallen and Miss Fuller
will present brand new travesty, in
| trouducing songs. dances, etc.
1t is a question if any lady before thf
| public has received more newspaper
| mention, has been more literally in
| terviewed or extensively advertised
| than Anna Held. The programme o
the Grand next week will include al
| American edition of Anna Held, Mis-;
| Phyllis Rankin, a daughter of the dis
| tinguished actor, Mckee Rankin. Shj
is said to be beautiful woman. MIS-
| Rankin will introduce the same songs