The Saint Paul globe., 1897-05-09
which has hitherto been record per
farrnance"


formance."
Istill hope we may have few potent
playWrights Of our own some day-a
few more besides Mr.. Gillette and Mr..
Belasco, each of whom is good for
one new play every two years, put
whose combined labors scarcely make
school of drama or even brand,
saws E. A. Dithmar, in the New York
Times. But we must have all sorts OF
moral. social and intellectual changes
before a queer mixture Of pessimlsm,
mysticism, folklore and the drama of
conjugal infelicity could pass muster
on our public stage. When. that time
comes, or before 1T, such dramas as
Byron's Manfred" and Werner ana
even Browning's "Pippa Passes VIII
have a chance on the stage.
Following ga Railroad Ticket" at the
Grand will appear the Ida Fuller
Vaudeville company, one OF the strohe-
est specially companies on the ROAD
Heading this organization is Ida Full
er, a sister of the famous La Loie
Fuller, the serpentine dancer: me
supporting company includes kallcfa-
tus, the juggler and Anita Lawrence,
high kicking and contortion artist;
Chas. and Alice Darlington, songs ana
dances, and Harry and Arthur Elllo-
and William Beech, musical trio, anu
others.
The week of May % at the Grand
will introduce a novel entertalnment
in the appearance of McSoor Lyndall,
the mind reader.
Frank Daniels will make an extensive
tour of the South and California with
'"The Wizard of the Nile" next season.
'My Friend from India" on account
of a restriction in the territory. The
two comedians played twenty-eight
weeks of one-night stands, and now
claim they cannot sleep after O'CLOCK
in the morning.
Wilson Barrett's new play, "The
Daughter of Babylon is a failure on
the other side.
Augustus Pitou has purchased of
Franklin Fyles new play not yet
named. 1t is. in four acts and five
tableauX. The scene of the first act is
laid at West Point in 1851, and that OF
the other three in the Cumberland
mountains of Kentucky. The incidents
of the last three acts occur within
tWenty-four hours. There are no bat
tie scenes. Manager Pitou has con-
tracted to produce the new play next
season, before Dec. 81. The production
is to be costly, and the cast will enlist
the services of prominent actors.
Rejecting upon the close Of the sea-
son the exuberant Hillary Bell muses.
thus in the N. Y. Press:
The entertainment season comes like
an army with banners, it goes in
goloshes Actors and singers, dancers
and mines, grand opera. comic opera,
tragedy and comedy arrive valiantly
and full of promise in the autumn, bltt
in the spring they fold their tents in
secret and silently steal away. Their
conduct in this matter is eXemplified
by the circus. Not long ago Mr.. Bailey
and his wonders came to town gayly,
their colors flying, with blare of
trumpets, a gorgeous street parade,
their pictures in the papers, opalent
! and splendid. This writer, who by
/ habit, taste ard circumstance of life
wastes few hours in sleep and is as
much of a night owl as is consistent
with propriety, was walking down
| Fourth avenue a week ago at the hour
!. when graveyards yaWn, and ne wit
messed the extraordinary, because al.
ways secret departure OF the circus. IT
was a spectacle of tragic melancholy.
The elephants were detected and had
the general air of nlutes at funeral.
The camels were woeful, the dromv-
daries were pathetic and even the
giraffe dropped his head in humility.
The giants walked hand-in-hand in
gloom, like colossal edition of the
''Two Orphans" or twin monuments of
woe, and the flesh of the fatlady' wa5-i
bled and the bones of the living skel-.
eton played oastanets dolefully in the
winds of the gray morning. Shorn of
their laurels and all their glory gone,
the formerly famous bipeds and quad
rupeds wandered silently and sorrow
fully into the darkness of the night, the
golden chariots draped, the calliope
dumb and the band with no ambition
to play even a dead march. Here, the
Press thought, is the type of, an actors
life 1t was but yesterday when we fed
him peanuts and were filed with won
der over his antics in the ring-and now
he is fallen from greatness and forgot
ten. 1t is we'll. If we keep. admiring
them all the year round public per
formers would become so inflated by
vanity that, the center of gravity dis
turbed, they would float over us like
the airships now fashionable in the
West. Perhaps those aerial mystifi-
cations are actors and singers with