The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-01-10

bust Of Victorien Sardou, which she
may exhibit at the next salon.
Reginald de Koven will write the in
cidental music for Margaret Mather's
production of "Cymbeline" at Wallack's
theater, New York city. Eugene w.
Presbrey, who is staging the play, has
received instructions from Miss Mather
not to spare expense and promises one
of the finest stage productions that has
been seen since Edwin Booth produced
''Sardanapalus" early in the '70s.
Among those who will support Miss
Mather are E. j. Henley, William Red
mond, H. A. Weaver, William Court
leigh and Mrs. Thomas Barry.
st. Paul people have all heard Of
the cinematograph and longed to see
it; few have had that pleasure, but
all may indulge their curiosity next
week Lumiere's wonderful invention
accompanying Bleis Schiller Vaude-
Vile company will entertain and be-
wilder ST. Paul theater-g oers for the
last half of this week at the Metro
politan, commencing Thursday, Jan.
IA. The Vaudeville itself comes high
ly recommended. But the cinemato-
graph-Well, the enthusiastic press
agents says the biograph is a mere
burlesQue The intricate and delicate
mechanism of the cinematograph is
run by electricity, and so steady is its
operation that the movable pictures
from real life, as thrown on the can
VaSs, are real life reproduced. Unlike
every other type of mechanism of the
kind the cinematograph does not vac
Cilate in its peculiar course, and it's
pictures are said to be free from the
slightest blurr. The eye is pleased
without being strained. All sorts of
attractive and striking scenes are por-
trayed by the cinemato graph. A brief
description of one Of the pictures will
give an adequate idea of the unique
performance offered by this instru-
ment.
For illustration, one of the scenes
shows a couple Of men playing cards.
One of the players turns a false trick
and there is trouble. There follows a
wrestling match, catch as-catch-c d
Set-to a la Sharkey and Fitzsimmons,
and all sorts Of rough and tumble pro-
ceedings. The proprietor of the place
cannot pacify the belligerents, so his
gardener secures a hose and turns it
on them. Then CONSERVATION reignS
supreme and the audience is in an up
rear Of laughter. Among the interest
ing scenes presented are cavalry
charges, marches, drills and military
manueyers of all kinds The machine
throws shadows with the same ac-
curacy that it reprOduces cOlOrs and
movements. A squad Of cavalry can
be seen emerging from the dark wood
land in the rear towards the slOping
banks of a stream over which the sun
shines brilliantly In the full glare Of
the suns rays the audience distin
guishes the various shades of complex
ion. This invention first appeared at
Roster & Balls, New York, about a
mo no n
the season in the metropolis.
The manager OF this attraction as
sures the public that there are only
three cinematOgraphs in the United
States, one at the Home theater, Chi
cagO and the other at Roster & BiaPs,
New York, and one with the BiePs
Schiller VaudeYilleS.
The vaudeville includes the follow
ing well-known artists: The Deltorelli
Brothers. Partisan musical grOtesques;
Maj. Doyle, the Lilliputian comedian;
Miss DOrathee Grey, a contraltO singer:
Sherman, an anatomical mystery; Mile.
Alberta, introducing her famous act
on the wire, entitled: The Dancing
Quakeress; Colby and Way, in their
VentrilOQuial novelty duo, and several
others.
Next Sunday evening at the Metro
politan the Martinetti-Tennehill COM
pany will present THE Nancy Hanks,
which is said to be very funny
piece. Reports of the most favorable
kind have preceded it. The Nancy
Hanks is not horse, but a gold mine,
or rather a mine that has been sailed
by unscrupulous persons and palmed
off as a rich ore-producer upon a spec
ulative Frenchman, on whose amusing
and complicated adventures the plot
hinges. The Martfnetti-Tannehill Com
edy company, which will present the
play, is headed by Igracio Martinetti;
Frank Tennehill Jr. is another member
Of the company, and Anna Boyd, who
was the widow in "a Trip to China
town." is another; others are Louise
Muldener, Carrie Radcliffe, Lillian
Florence Wickes, Ed MOrey and Lii
liam Deane.
The attraction at the Metropolitan
opera house for three nights and Sat
urday matinee, beginning Thursday,
Jan. q, will be that delightful picture
Of New England life, Neil Burgess
County Fair" This comedy drama, in
it's revised form, is said to be better
than ever.
Kathryn Kidder, the actress, tainted upon
the stage at the Columbia theater Chicago,
last Wednesday night. 1t was during one of
the greatest scenes in Madame Sans-Gene'
when Miss Kidder stopped in the middle of