The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-02-14

after year. with the only aim of ex-
altlng her art. 1t is a great thing to
nave an actor and an actress capable
or producing the finest plays in the
language with adequate scenic effect
and accessories, with knowledge, dig
nifty and good taste commensurate with
the originals.
1t was only last year that New York
became fully aware that there was
such an actress and such an actor In
America. Julia MarloWe and Robert
Taber came here just a year ago practl-
cally unknown and almost unheralded.
Their first performance was a reVela-
ton; in week they had firmly estab-
Hshed themselves as artists OF the nrst
consideration. Tomorrow night they
begin at Wallack's a months engage
ment. and all who saw any Of their
extraordinary performances OF last
year will look forward to the month as
full of the highest possibilities.
1t is not altogether a pleasant refec-
ton that Julia MarloWe was for seven
years the greatest delineator of Shake
Speare's women before New York had
a chance to recognize her greatness,
nor that she had to win the recognition
elsewhere by a long period of hard and
often discOuraging effort You know
perfectly well, all of you, that If she
had been an English woman. coming
over here, let US say, with smlrched
reputation, or with some strange &c
centrlclty Of manner er method, ana
not one hundredth part of her ability,
we should have broken our necks to see
her. That is a truth, fellow patriots;
lay 1t to heart. But because she was
only an American and honest, and go
ing about in a quiet way attending to
her business, she has been seven years
winning a place in our favor.
Dat lyn1xy
those who admit with repentance the
national fault, reputation thus slowly
gained and gained by character and
merit, is surest and longest. In any
case we know now what Julia MarloWe
is, and not likely soon to forget the in
sight, poetry, grace and inspiration
with which she Eliminates the Shakes
pearean text. The public has not fail
ed to intelligently appreciate that pecu-
liar and sympathetic adaptability to
the great masters heOrineS Which
Shakespeareans like Rolfe. Furnlss,
Talcott Williams and Ingersoll recog-
nized in her long ago.
She begins her engagement In
Romeo and Juliet the play which
last year made her famous, produced
with the exquisite taste and careful
setting which has made Mr.. Taber one
of the greatest of American stage man
ayers Three other Shakespearean
plays are promised during the engage
nent and two productions new to New
York. These two will be dramas by
American authors.
when London, Sleeps" is the taking
title of a new sensational melodrama
from the pen Of Charles Darrell,
noted English author. 1t is play In
four acts, treating of the exciting in
ciGents attendant upon a professional
circus
Under Martial2Law' is the title of a
new drama by Milton Mobiles, which
Manager Jacob Lift has just bought,
and which will Reproduced in the Twin
Cities early in March. While not eX-
actly war play,5t time of the story
is set during the war, and several of
the characters are military men. The
first act is laid In South Carolina and
the other three 2acts il Washington.
New York artists are now at work
preparing the special scenery which
will be required.
The new one-act play, Thirty Min
utes Of Matrimony," written by Arthur
James Pegler of Minneapolis, was pro-
duced last Friday night at the Bijou
theater, in that city, by the Emily
Bancker company. The piece made a
very decided hit, and Mr. Pegler the
He announced the sale to Miss Bancker
Of a new three-act piece, my Girl
Bella The reception given Thirty
Minutes of Matrimony''s was altogether
satisfactory both to the writer and the
company. ..ty,...s,.
Sousa's concerts band, will shortly ap-
pear at the Metropolitan opera house.
Sousa has the faculty of catering to
all classes of ears. The Wagner en-
thusiast, the lover of sentimental Ital-
ian music, and the everyday American
who likes soulstirring marches, will
! each find something to please and
thrill His programmes are composed
of extracts from the works of the best
writers Of modern music and the old
masters, so arranged as to form pleas
Ing and effective contrasts, and while
the expression of a military band Is
mere limited than that of a grand or
chestra, owing to the absence of
| strings, it is far more virile and inSpir-
ing, and Sousa does not fail to lend a
charm even to those excerpts from
Wagner so frequently introduced in his
programmes.
K:rke La She'll, of the theatrical firm oil
La She'll & Clark, proprietors and managers