The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-19

The news that Mary Anderson in
tends to resume her stage work must,
Ike many other announcements in
these days, be accepted cautiously,
says Hillary Bell, in the New York
Press.
1t was journalism that drove this
distinguished actress into retirement,
and Journalism can hardly tempt her
once more into public life.
No doubt the drama would welcome
her return to it's honors. Mary An
derson's place has not been filled. Her
exit from the theater left a vacuum
which art as we'll as nature abhors.
She is wortheS1 900 a weekkto any man
ager. The public would pay So TO- see
her Perdita- OF Galatea. Very like the
writer who forced her out of the
theater would sit in a front seat Ito
applaud her temperance in it, a..
If the newspapers had given to her
the courtesy she showed to them,
Mary Anderson would still be on the
stage a noble figure in tragedy, an
ornament to comedy.
She was a decent woman and she re-
ceived indecent treatment. An early
apostle of yellow journalism vented
his morbid taste for sensation by at
lacking the purity of her character.
Disguised with a profession which is
frequently exposed to such assaults,
Mary Anderson hurriedly left the
theater and retired into private life.
That her dignifed action has had few
followers may be ascribed to the fact
that actresses have to earn living.
They suffer in silence the scandals that
are heaped on them, and endure in
suits the prompt resentment OF which
might entail a loss of income. Their
poverty, not their will, consents to
resignation under injury. No player
can fight an unscrupulous newspaper.
We are not of the opinion of Mrs.
kendall, who maintains that she is the
only good woman on the stage. We
have found many honest folk in the
drama and certain comic opera people
who resisted temptation. The foot
lights are not necessarily a Rubicon
which, once passed, overthrows virtue.
Julia Arthur has play by Robert
Buchanan. called "a Nine Days
Queen" which is founded on an Incl
dent in the life of Lady Jane Grey.
She will use it in case Mrs. Burnett's
"a Lady of Quality" does not succeed.
A new comedy entitled ga Coat of
Many Colors" was presented for the
first time at Wallacks theater, New
York city, Monday night and proved
to be the first really substantial success
of the season The author is Madeleine
Lucette Ryley. who with her last
nights effort, has four consecutive sue
cesses toIher credit within three years
Few play wrights of the op-
posite sex can show such record.
Mrs Ryley made her most effective bid
for fame, when. in presenting 1.-THE
Mysterious Mr.. Bugle' at the New
York Lyceum last spring, she thor
oughIy upset the popular assertion that
women have no sense Of humor. In
any event she proved a unique ex-
ception to the rule for the mysterious
Mr. Bugle' turned out to be a rollick-
ing farce, and was conceded to be one
of the funniest and yet the most leg1t1-
mate farces the American stage has
produced in a decade. '"The Mysterious
Mr.. Bugle'' will be seen in all the prin-
cipal cities this season, with Mr.. Joseph
Holland and other members of the
original cast.
Jacques Kruger and Clara Palma, of
the "Courted Into Court" company,
were down at Manhattan Beach re-
Gently, listening to Sousa's spirited rem
dering of 1.-The Stars and Stripes For
ever when Miss Palma exclaimed:
"That air is so stirring can't help
keeping time with my feet" quite
natural" rejoined Kruger, dryly. Il
observe there are clocks on your stock
ings.a The orchestra drowned the rest.
Thomas w. Keene has discovered that
there is quite a curious little bit Of history
about eThe Lady of Lyons that is not gen,
orally known. It seems that Macready had
not being doing very well at Covent GARDEN
when Bulwer Lytton offered to write nm a
play with the distinct understanding tnat
the authorship should not be disclosed. The
compact was kept for two years. Wnen
ssThe Lady of Lyons was produced the
critics proclaimed it CHASTITY failure, but
time has proved the falsity of their edict
n. A. Du Souchet's new play. ''The Swell
Miss FitZwaII which he wrote for Miss
Nav Irwin, was given its first production
on any stage at Trenton, N. j., Friday, and
scored a decided success. The star and the
pIay were received with enthusiasm by an
audience which packed every part of the
house.
r. A. Barnet has written a little idyl,
which is now being set to music by a promi-
nent Bostonian musician. Mr.. Barnet calls
IL souvenir de Ballet" and positively re-
fuses to state to whom 1t IS dedicated. 1t
runs in this fashion:
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