The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-08-21

the latter to please her father and
yet maintain the independence of her
new life make some exceedingly ami
mated situations The termination of
the play is highly dramatic and a fit
ting conclusion to the unsolved prob
lem with which the father is confront
ed. The following is the complete cast
| of the play:
Lieut.. Col: Schwartz ......... Kendall Weston
Magda ........ Sarah Truax
Mrs. Schwartz .......... Carrie Clarke Ward
M MISS is Franziska Josephine Bonaparte Rice
P paesesa Hetft..d;n ....... Rose Swain
Councillor Councillor Won Keller ...:: Guy. Bates Post
Gen. Won Kleb Eussel R sasaait
ThurstGy night Giiiette's great H1 War
drama Held by the Enemy" will be
given.
At the close Of every performance
during the coming week the Farms
worth Visions Of Art will be presented.
These life pictures have been so well
received that the management has re-
engaged them for the coming week
and an entirely new series Of pictures
will be given.
The regular season at the Metropol-
itan opera house will open next Sun
day evening, Aug. %. The opening at
traction will be the Wilbur Opera COM
pany, undoubtedly the best known and
| most successful operate organization
In this country.
The company this season Is headed
by Marion Manola, prima DONNA
beautiful and attractive woman and
very clever actress, supported by j. E.
Conley and W. H. Kohnle, both we'll
known and popular favorites in this
city; Gus Vaughn, Emmett Drew, AL
Lamar, Ethel Robinson, Lille Taylor
Hattie Richardson and fifty others,
under the direction Of Miss Maud Dan
iels. The organization Is said to be
stronger than ever before, and the en-
gagement should be a brilliant sue
cess in every respect.
The WiVburs will present for the first
half of the week, including Wednesday
matinee and evening, the tuneful op-
era Mariana with Marion Manola
Don Caesar de Bazan. The production
will be handsomely staged and COM
plete in every way. The Amazon
march, a most attractive feature of
the Wilbur performances of former
seasons has been revived, and will be
presented by a ballet Of thirty girls.
In addition to the regular performance
numerous up-to-date specialties will be
introduced, and the entertainment will
Wilbur Living Pictures.
Following the present weeks engag e-
ment of the Henderson company at
the Grand the regular fall and winter
season Of that playhouse will open,
with a return to the regular season
scale Of prices and to the system of
playing travelling combinations. The
opening attraction will be Murray and
Mack in a revised and up-to-date YER
siou of Finnigan's ball.
Fair week will be celebrated at the
Grand by the advent of one of last
seasons most popular hits-Mathews
comedians in their new ragtime oper-
attic comedy, by the Sad Sea Waves"
No team of comedians enjoys with local
theatergoerS a greater measure of
popularity than has been won by these
laugh makers.
A new play from the pen of Joseph
Arthur is an event of Importance to a
large class Of theatergoers. His Blue
/ Jeans" 1.-THE Still Alarm" and 1.-THE
Cherry Pickers" have been as favorably
received in Great Britain as In this
country Although Edward c. Whites
most notable production up to the pres
| ent time has been that Of 1.-The Little
| Migrants he is nevertheless a strong
| believer in the American drama. He
| proposes to send out Mr.. Arthur's la
| test work, "On the Wabash upon the
| same elaborate scale that characterized
| his presentation Of Pierre Decoureelle's
| great French melodrama. Mr.. Arthur
| considers his new comedy drama his
| masterpiece. 1t is said to have most
| original plot, striking situations, and
clever, crisp and sparkling dialogue.
| The scenery Is unusually elaborate,
and rural realism Is given the piece by
! live animals, an old-fashioned country
| dance, "a quaint, backwoods celebration
J Of tin wedding. picturesque observ-