The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-08-15

theater, Paris, in September. and M.
dc Courcelles,. the French translator
OF the work, were in the boxes. The
Engl1Sh newspapers criticise the per-
formance unfavorably.
Inc Morning Post says: "The charm
OF retlcence and delicacy of treatment
due to the subordination of one part
TO another, SO noticeable in the Ameri-
| can company, has almost entirely van
lshed and in its place we are given
the glare of crudity and the noise that
uhhappIy mar our native produc-
tionS' So"
The Daily Telegraph observes: Gil
lette and his company have read US a
lecture. The players at the Adelph1
raise on the polished surface of this
play such blistersiof emotion as utterly
transform and r. distort the work,
though we must not withhold our com
passion for the ladies and gentlemen
doomed to tread in the footsteps of the
genuine artists.P' +
The Daily Telegraph observes: "Gil-
lette and his company have read us a
very salutary lesson. If the visit of
Secret Service to England wakes up
| our excellent players from their
lethargy the visit will not have been
| in VAIN
| Mr.. Terriss took Mr. Gillette's Fart
| and the cast included the best of the
Adelphi stars. including Miss Millward
| ana Harry Nlcholls,4 but the result was
| q depioraple failure, as is confessed by
| every dramatic critic in London. The
| change has taken the life out of the
play, and the American phrases ut
tered with an English drawl, sound
ridiculous and incongruous 4@ AZ
London critics do not hesitate to say
that if the play had been originally
/ nrO6InG6 -ics. 1r-, -Io.,s
company it would have. been a failure
from the start. =" ''i'
zct tse5 to-* Is e4uo soz 41.
The company engaged by Vernona
Jarbeau for her forthcoming tour in
! Smith andsDes. Ravens network, "a
/ 1,ar1s DOLL Gaquestionably will prove
! the largest ever sent out ina musical
comedy, the company numbering about
sixty, the tour embracing the entire
country. ~
A peculiarly attra active by-product Of
! the illinois Manufacturers exposition
| to be held in Chicago next month is
the scheme for an art display, which
| Shall include the advancement Of dra-
| matte production and of theater con-.
structlon and appliances during the
second half of the nineteenth century
says the New York Mail and Express.
The incentive for this novel feature is
found in the fact that Illinois claims
as natives many men and women who
nave become distinguished in a profess
sion that today enlists the talents of
| a greater number of highly educated
and cultured workers than ever before.
and In addition has. achieved a com
merclal Importance surprising the wild
est dreams Of fifty years ago.
This exhibit will be of value as well
as interest to all lovers of the play,
will he CHI
in comparison with the new, and ex-
ampleS of the old-fashioned and effete
manner OF placing plays on the stage
will be contrasted with the artistic and
| splendid mountings with which recent
years have made us familiar
In other words, putting aside the art
of the actor which vivified the stage
then as now, there will be emphasized
by juXtaposition the educational ad-
vantage and Wondrous delight that we
enjoy today in our sanitarily perfect
and luXurieusly appointed playhouses,
in the marvellous effects wrought by
| the scenic artists brush, in the historic
accuracy of costume and minutest ac-
| cessory, and in the astounding optical
illusions made possible by science and
managerial enterprise, under the direc-
ton of a perfect art.
1t ought to be a fine show. But we
live rapidly in ~ the matter of stage
device and mechanism, and the best of
today is apt to be surpassed tomorrow
A complete show in September may
| not represent the highest in American
| achievement in December. This rep
resents habit, rather than an eccen-
trieity, in our theaters.
/ ''~ 't.t *
Robert MeWade, Herbert; Fortier and
Ethel Kate Mollison have, been engaged
by Arthur Lewis to appear in "a Lady
OF Quality" in which Julia Arthur will
star the coming season.
Steve Brodie, the bridge jumper for
sakes the legitimate to make his vau-
deville debut at the Pleasure Palace
the middle of next month. "a Night
at Steve Brodie's on the Bowery'' is
the title of the forty-minute sketch in
which he will be assisted by fifteen
speciality people.
Speaking of new plays and the good
American dollars invested in them. the
virtue of the amendment to the Copy
right law passed by the last congress
is likely to receive ample demonstra-
ton during the coming fall and WIN
ter. And this interests not only re-
sponsible. managers and hard working
playwrights, but every one who has
sense enough to acknowledge that a
drama is entitled o(equal protection
with any other invention.
Until this amendment was adopted
the dramatic pirate enjoyed compare
tive immunity and an income not
rightfully his, because an injunction
against his theft was operative only
in the judicial district where it was
obtained, and the task of pursuing the
criminal in his rapid flight from place
to place, and constantly securing new
restraining orders which might be is
sued too late to restrain, proved too
I.ar acciT7e No
erage owner.
Now, with a United States circuit
court order issued in any district valid
in all other districts throughout the
country. there is reason to hope that
men who can be honest, but won't be
honest. will be forced p be honest.
and that brains and infested capitai
will receive their JUST reIard, A prin-
ciple vital to the well-being of the
American stage Is indicated In this