The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-08-22

pany and feels safe in asserting that if
will be the equal of the original cast
that proved such a potent factor in the
plays great run of one hundred
and fifty nights in New York city.
Among the names of well known play
ers already engaged is Miss Mildred
holland late of Augustine Days COM
paily, VINO mas been especially engaged
70 portray the leading boy part of Fan
Fan"
Digby Bell, who scored such a sue
cess in Augustus Thomas play. ''The
Hoosier Doctor" last season, win soon
De seen in this city in his latest
triumph. Mr.. Bells manager. Duncan
3. Harrison, has surrounded him with
company consisting of the following
ladies' and gentlemen: Laura Joyce-
Bell, Mabel Strickland, Viola Miles
Emma Butler, Ethel Strickland. Mar
garet owen, Jeannett Wilder, Clara
Pattee. Little Ethel Vance, and Messrs
arthur Hoops, Frank Monroe, Gage
Clark, Herman Hirshberg, Frank
Rushton, Edward Riddle, Charles GIL
man, Harry Upshur, Frank Knight and
others.
News has reached this country from
england Of pleasant recognition of
the talents of Nine. Emma Earnes
10 OSBORNE House to sing before this
queen. Her majesty was delighted
with the wonderfully clear and vet an
peallng quality of the young Amerf-
can singers voice, and with her charm
ing presence, and at the conclusion Of
the concert ordered that Nine Eames
be decorated with the jubilee medal.
Superba," the greatest of all If
Hanlons productions, will be elaborat-
ed this season by the addition of a
most OF pantomimic novelties.
There is every reason to believe that
a PROSPEROUS period is at hand for our
theaters. Amy distinct Improvement
IN the business Of the country, after a
term Of depression, is inevitably re-
Hected early and generously in the
playhouse-if the playhouse offers what
Is worthy, says the New York Mail
ana express. The moment that money
begins to circulate more freely its ex
penditure for pleasure is extended and
the box Office is among the first re-
cip1ents of its favor With prosneritv
present and its stay assured, the man
ayers may well turn smilingly toward
the future.
Inc annual tour of the Herrmanns
opens the last of this month at the
Grand opera house, Chicago. One of
the features of this years tour will he
the appearance of Adelaide Hermann
as prestidigitatrice. She will appear
IN an effective japanese act and exc
cute some surprising sleight of hand
and other illustrations. She will hear
the distinction of being the onIy
woman on this side Of the globe to an
pear In an act of this kind She also
mas some new artistic and original
dances, while Leon Hermann, nephew
and successor to Hermann the Great
mas been preparing to surprise lovers
OF the mystic art with a number OF
ieats that have never been ATTEMPTED
before. The Hermann the Great com
pany will comprise nearly twenty per
sons this year.
1t has not taken long for Rarnev
Barnato to pass from the tragedy of
life to the comedy Of the stage He 10
now treading the boards of the Wind.
sor theater, the hero Of THE Diamond
hlng, a naelodrama of the most ex
IRENE type, says the New York Press.
Barney is shown in the several
Stages OF his career, from WhitechapeI
10 Park Lane. by way of Kimberley.
an OLD CLOS man, circus tumbIer, a
miner, dealer in diamonds, a mine
owner, Croesus, q philanthropist. a
suicide-these are the characters in
the successive scenes of the play.
The author = NJ. Hourwitz = has
drawn little from history and good
deal from the realms of his magma
ton for his facts. He has tried to
make Barney both an example and q
warning. The ambition to be rich is
apotheosized, but the selfishness that
makes one willing to sacrifice every.
thing and everybody in the acquire,
ment Of wealth is anathemized.
1t is difficult to take such a play Sc
riously Barney in the first act is a
constituencies '-puller-in" who glortes
in his skill to deceive a customer; in
the second he performs deeds of hero
ism. On the whole, though, the author
has sought to make him type of the
material shrewdness and ideal senti-
mentalism Of his race.
Mr. Hourwitz's geographical and
meteorological informatio is limited
He has got Siberian convicts anS
Kaffir miners badly mixed. and he evil
IDENTIFY believes that diamonds are
mined with pickaxes in deep shafts.
No hat stock is complete without thu
Gordon!