The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-09-04
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The opening week Of the regular the
atrical season was not suspicious. The
weather had something to do with it.
the attractions offered the public, much.
Wilbur's Offering Of comic opera drew
we'll enough, Considering the weather,
but people want something more than
chorus in comic opera, and this Mr..
Wilbur unfortunately could not Of
fer, through the serious illness Of his
prima donna, Marion Manola That
Miss Richardson so acceptably took
greatly to her credit, yet she is not a
prima. The rest of the principals were
naturally at fault in the loss Of the
leading female voice. One gets tired
Of Mr.. Comfy and his threadbare voice,
and Mr.. Kohnle cannot be funny al
ways SO the week was not satisfacto-
ry, so far as comic opera was con-
cerned. This should all be changed
this week, with Miss Manola at the
head of the company, and some good
work may be looked for.
AS for the attraction at the Grand
1t was almost wholly bad. "Ffnne-
San's BALI is one of the things the
theater-goer may have to tolerate on
the stage, but he does not have to pay
to see it. That he did not last week
is much to his credit. The house will
redeem itself at once, however, for
Murray and Mack, the worst, are sue
ceeded tonight by Mathews and Bulger,
probably the best people entour in
farce comedy.
The Wilbur opera company in the
funniest comic operas ever produced in
this country, under the title of THE
Circus Clown will be the fair week at
traction al the Metropolitan opera
house, commencing tonight. Marion
Manola, the prima donna, who has been
sick in st. Joseph's hospital for the
past week, has recovered and will ap-
pear in the role of prince Raphael"
The story of THE Circus Clown" is
brimfull of comedy.
The opening scene represents a viii
lage square, with a jugGer's booth and
a lottery office in view, and introduces
CabriOlO, the proprietor of the show,
his two daughters, Regina and Zanetta,
and his assistants, TTemoltni and
Paola. The show business proves tenn
pCrariiy unremunerative on account Of
the greater attraction of the lottery, in
which the principal prize Is a baronial
castle and it's estates Prince Raphael
and Sparadrap, his tutor, appear, and
the former enters the jugglers BOOTH
leaving Sparad ap in conversation with
Paola. The prince becomes infatuated
with the beauty of wax figure, as he
supposes, but which in reality is Zaner-
Ia, the shoNmars daughter, who has
taken the place Of the genuine wax
figure which has been injured. The
jugglers find in their receipts Of the
day lottery ticket which draws the
grand prize. the palatial chateau,
and, ovtrjoycd at their good fortune,
depart for the castle. During this act
w. h. KohrIe "The Circus Clown"
will make h'e Wort crful "balloorI as
,ctO Ill to o7I11 To 1rn-O
from the clouds, q positive stage novel
ty and entirely original. Dainty little
Anna Laugtln, as Regina, will be seen
in a novel aerial act, and numerous
entertaining and amusing specialties
will be introduced.
In the second act the mountebanks
are discovered dining on the terrace of
their new baronial possession, and are
interrupted by party of hunters led
by Prince Casimir, father of Raphael;
the latter is in the retinue, and is over
joyed at again beholding Zanetta-ths
time no statue but living, breathing,
as lively as himself They fall in love
with one another at first sight; Rap
hazel, to gain his fathers consent,
adopts the expedient of running a wax
works show on his own account De-
scrbing Zanetta as the gem of a COL
lection OF wax figures owned by
Baron" CabriolO he goes into such
raptures as to induce his father to pur-
chase the entire collection and to ap-
point the ex-juggler superintendent OF
his museum. In the second act one OF
the features Will be a cake walk, in
which all the varieties Of up tO-date
cake walking viii figure. the dude walk,
the peacock strut, the Broadway sweep,
the Boston st7op and other innovations
in the latest great American fad.
The scene of the third act is salon
in Prince Casimlr's castle: Raphael en-
ployes q subterfuge to excuse himself
from the hunt, that he may instead en-
10y a supper with his Zanetta and her
friends The Tooth ache song in this
scene is one Of the gems of the opera.
Prince Casinlir departs, but quickly re-
turns and discovers Raphael and the
iugglers in the midst Of a grand jollif-
cation. In the end Raphael Is finally
forgiven and his father consents to his
union with Zanetta and all finishes
happily. Following is the cast for THE
Circus Clown"
Prince Casinlir -. -. ..... Gus Vaughan
Gabrielle leader of troop Of Jug
blers tha circs clown 7 Hqnf Kosn.
sparaderopf tutor to Prince Raphael
Emmett Drew
Numberali, lottery agent -. p. Comfy
Patrtoclus, policeman ...... Chas. Hoskins
Uncle RUDE
The a !RSusitive dude asorr HaT WZ hans
Prince Raphael, son Of Casimir-
Marion Manola
Anetta E. ..................H Hattie Richardson
Daughters Of Gabrielle
PseSla, female ,uggier ......LiIlie Taylor
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