The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-05-29
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Only two weeks will now elapse be-
at the Grand Opera house. Manager
Lift was in the Twin Cities the past
week. completing arrangements with
Mr.. Neill for the repertoire Of plays to
be presented and for other details in
connection with the stock departure.
The selection Of plays is promised to
be a most worthy one. embracing, in
addition to some of the noted successes
of the day, the first presentation on any
stage OF several entirely new dramas
from the pen Of prominent authors.
The Neill company, now sojourning
IN Minneapolis, is meeting with splen-
did success and the attendance has
been uniformly large.
Mr.. Neills producing cast has never
embraced list of more versatile or
clever players than is included in his
company of today. The new members
have all proved themselves artists of
genuine merit, while Mr.. Neill and the
old members who have seen service
mere before. no comment is necessary.
The season opens June 13.
The price for the summer season will
be popular. For the evening perform
ances the balcony, which has hereto
fore been thirty-five and fifty cents,
Will now be twenty-five cents, with the
entire parquet circle fifty cents, and
the parquet seventy-fve cents.
AT the matineeS a general admission
OF twenty five cents will be charged to
all parts of the house except the boxes.
The staging and costuming Of the
various plays will be a feature of the
season of stock, and much beauty and
elaboration is promised in this depart
ment.
David Belasco writes from London
denying the report that his new play
will have its original production in Lon
don. He he had an offer to present
the play in the English capital at the
opening of the autumn season with Mrs
Carter in the leading role; he has de-
elined it, however, ana VIII present it
in America first. If successful it will
be taken to London in due course of
time. The new play is said to be en-
tirely different in style and character
from The Heart of Maryland" and
will present Mrs. Garter in a character
entirely unlike any which she has here
tofore played.
Nine. Melba, who dearly loves a
joke, has been pitching a tall yarn to
an eminent American" of how she
Joachim. and Patti last summer put on
Old. clothes and performed for two
hours at one Of the locks of the
Ihames, says the London Daily News.
The party. she says, took in rs Cd in
the two hours. The tale is, of course.
a hoax and similar story, equally
faneiful, was told twenty years ago Of
an apocryphal performance by Joachim
or London bridge, when the great vio-
lln1st was supposed to have collected
In his hat only eightpence after playing
Tor an hour. But there is nothing in
7herently improbable in the smalIness
OF the collections. If these famous art
lists really had experience in street pro-
fesslonal life, they would know that
for money making it is necessary TO
wear masks or to burnt-cork the face
Inc announcement that Sydney
Grundy is hard at work for Beerbohm
Tree on new version of Les Nous
quetaires de la Refine" of the elder Du-
mas mas great interest to playgoers,
OLD and new, says the London TeIe-
graph The last record Of "The Three
NJ usketeers" that I can trace was on
oct. 10, 1856, when Charles Dillon was
manager of the Lyeeum theater, the
year and the manager being :instrl-
mental IN Introducing two celebrated
and popular artists tosthe London 81 pc
IN the play of s'Belphegor.'' They were
MISS Marie Wilton, now Lady Bancroft.
VINO is slowly recovering. from a severe
illness, and our dear old friend. John
me Ioole, who, 1 am glad to say. is in