The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-04-04

members. This association will bring
will begin on the afternoon Of May
at the Broadway theater, New York.
with q comedy of army life by Capt
Charles King, Emma Sheridan and
Evelyn Greenleaf Sutherland.
Mrs. Fiske. Is playing to large
houses In her production of TESS of the
D'Urbervilles'' In the Fifth Avenue
theater. and she has done a business
in all respects remarkable for the Len
ten season. The play has created a
profound impression. Lorimer Stod-
dard. the adapter. has received from
Nine. Marie Scott IDA, wife of the
dean OF art critics In Italy. letter
in which she says she thinks that the
part OF Tess is admirably adapted to
DuSe.
Alexandra Vtarda, the Polish tragedi-
enne. will tour this country next sea-
| son. She is said to be regarded in
| Europe as the successor of Nine. Ris-
tori, and will appear in "Medea,
Marie Stuart" and other plays of that
| type, supported by an English COM
| pany. She will also act In English
American tour.
THE drama Is not governed by the
rules of the most noble the Marquis OF
Queensberry, and although such con-
/ duct is not tolerated in the P. R., the
theater usually hits man when he Is
! down." says Hillary Bell in the New
| York Press. IAN instance of this Is
afforded by the dropping OF the late
James jeremiah Corbett from the cast
| of "A Naval Cadet That drama, with
the prize fighter as it's hero, was billed
| for production at the Academy for a
fortnight. beginning March %. But the
body blow administered by the AUS
| tralian gladiator, whom his opponent
! classified as "a monkey faced kanga-
| roo gave the quietus to the play as
| well as to its prospective player. Cen
/ tleman Jim has temporarily retired
| from the stage and is at present chew
ing that cud Of blasted hopes known
in theatrical parlance as resting
Meanwhile the NJ F. kangaroo has inn
measurably increased in histrionic
fame by his lucky punch on G. Tm's
midst. From a financial standpoint
-Lanky Bob is now the best actor Of
modern times, excelling Joseph Jeffer-
son in comedy. Henry Irving in TRACE
dy. and Beerbohm Tree in character.
His right fist is a pastoral, his mighty
an epilogue. Mr.. Fitzsimmons is our
new pugilistic-histrionic Sir Oracle, and
when he speaks let no dog of a critic
bark. We shall crowd the theater to
study his illustration of the drama by
cross-cuts, counters, and uppercurs
Curiously enough, prize lighting actors
always espOuse virtue on the stage and
abhor wfckedness 80 vehemently that
at the end of the play it's villain Is
black and blue and in need of arnica.
The kangaroo is now our most distln-
guished f1Stic player, superseding John
L. Sullivan and James J. Corbett in the
applause Of the gallery. L am now
said the bruiser of bruisers to the YET
low Kid-I am now prepared to enter
into some other profession and will try
to ornament society," Certainly. Why
not? Any old thing of a play will do
for a medium. The Fitzsimmons fist
could resuscitate even 'SpiritiSme' or
DR.. ClaudiuS.'
Clement Scott, the dramatic critic,
tells of a London manager who re-
ceived polite note to this effect: Dear
Sir-I attended your theater last night,
and l regret to say l spent such
wretched evening that I must request
you to remove my name from yOu1
free listr' There was a self-respeCtinG
dead-head, if ever there was one!-Ex-
change.
1.-THE Showman's Daughter" another
Of Manager Jacob Lifts new prOduc-
tons will be seen for the first time on
any stage tonight at the Grand. The
play treats of certain phases Of Ameri-
can life. and it's theme is the cruel
separation of young couple recently
married, which Is effected through the
Vaccinations of a jealous woman,
whose love is unrequited. In her rage
at being robbed Of the man she loves,
by a better and nobler woman, she re-
sorts to wicked expedients to keep the
husband and wife separated. In the
puhsuit Of his avocation as an engineer,
the husband Is called to Colorado to
act as superintendent of a mine, ex%
pecting to have his wife join him as
soon as he is settled. Before this can
be arranged the reckless woman Sc
cures the aid of a confederate and
manages to intercept and destroy all
letters that pass between husband and
wife. Months pass and the young wife
not receiving a word from her husband,
gives him UP for dead. The husband
in far-of Colorado entertains the same
belief until one day the pOstmistreSS
OF the Colorado mining town discloSes
the fact that she had abstracted the
letters at the command of q man, one
Aamon, a villainous Mexican-into
treachery Ramon kills her and escapes
before swift and summary justice can
be melted out to him. He makes his
next appearance in the Eastern home
of the woman who had employed him
to make away with the letters, where,
with the aid of another confederate,
they are Scheming to obtain the rich
legacy of the hero. The latter turns
up eventually at his old home, in what
up to this time. has been a long and
vain search for his lost wife Ramon
who has been mixed up I'm other crimes,
is being hard pushed, and his first effort
to clear his path is an attempt to get
Thorne. the man he has so fearfully
wronged, out of the way. He therefore
decoys him on board an old boat which
lies off the Jersey shore. He also sue
ceeds in getting the wife on board at
the same time. Husband and wife meet
in the cabin, where Ramon locks them
in. Then he scuttles the old hulk which
can be seen by the audience settling in
the water gradually. A storm has
come up meantime, and thunder,
lightning and other electric effects fol-
low. Lightning strikes the mast and
the shock is fatal to Ramon, who Is
standing close by. The doors burst
open and the imprisoned hero and
heroine escape to the deck. They are
immediately taken off by friends who
have followed them fearful of some
treachery.
This is in brief. an outline Of the
main thread of the story. There are
other characters than those mentioned,
and there is said to be plenty of breezy
comedy furnished by a genial Irish
lad. who can sing and fight with equal
facility; his sweetheart and an ex-cir-
clown WI cyQI iC rb7.oIa