The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-09-11
DRAMATIC.
METROPOLITAN.

alabama" Augustus Thomas 1dyllc
masterpiece, is not new TO st. Paul audi
ences, but it has never been more ably
produced or with better effect than by
the Neill stock company at the Metro
politan last evening. Distinctively as a
Southern play it contains many sectional
characteristics. but Mr. Thomas has hap
PLY blended the stern commerclal1sm or
the North and the sentiment Of the
South The Neill company has lot ap-
peared to better advantage in long time
and the scenic detail is complete. James
Neill, as Col. Moberly, organizer OF the
Talladega light artillery was delightful
and we'll played. His makeup was eX-
cellent and his lines splendidly read.
Squire Tucker, another eminently South
ern character. is interpreted by JOS. B.
Everham very creditably.
Miss Ch5pma as usual, as Mrs. Page,
the widow who loved and waited, makes
the most Of the part and received a lib
eral share Of the approval Of the audi
ence. Fred J. Butler, in the role of Col.
Preston, was good. Capt. Davenport, the
Northern railroad promoter, finds capa-
BILE impersonation by Benjamin Howard.
George Blomquist as Lothrop Page, and
Miss Mabel Runge as Atlanta Moberly,
the daughter of Col. Moberly, are very
acceptably given.
Miss Grace Scott has returned to the
company and last evening won deserved
applause as Carey Preston, the colonePs
daughter. Charles Wingate, as Mr. Arm
strong, found new favor with the audi
ence. Decatur, the old family servant,
was a clever bit of character work by
Emmett Shackelford.
For the latter half of the week the
Neill company will present the famous So
ciety melodrama, ga Social Highway
man. one of the most popular and Sue
cessful of this company's productions,
and one of the most fascina ting dramas
that have been presented on the Ameri-
can stage during the past decade.
GRAND.
"Mistakes Will Happen" Is a frothy
skit that is trimming with fun, and keeps
an audience in constant good humor. It
IS a mirth-provoker of more than average
merit. and the great crowd at the Grand
opera house last night laughed and ap-
plauded to its hearts content. The plot
of the comedy is the mishaps that befall
an ambitious and struggling playwright
and actor, a manager who is opposed to
marriage as applied to the stage, and the
consequent mistakes due to efforts on the
part of the leading man of the Morality
theater, and his pretty wife, to conceal
the fact that they are one. To add to the
" IL plSAlIlcS I1ldI eIlSuG are Tie expert
ences of Dorothy Maryland, the leading
lady of the Morality theater, and wife of
the leading man, who is in quest of an
"angeI' to furnish the cash with which
Tom Genowin's play can be got before
the public AS foil to the leading char
acters are Mr.. Hunter-Chase, who is a
man Of circumspection, and opposed to
things that are worldly, and Mrs Hunter
Chase, who Is unconventional and con-
virces Mr.. Hunter-Chase that she is lead
ing lady in the Chase household. Mr.
Charles Dickson as Tom Genowin, Miss
Elsie Esmond as Dorothy Maryland, Mr.
A. H. Stuart as Mr. Hunter-Chase, and
Miss Lansing Rowan as Mrs Hunter
Chase, have most to do, and do it we'll
Adah Eckert as Mrs. Price the ''board-
ing house lady who has seen better days"
Lottie Hyde as Mrs. Prices imported do
nestle, Ben Deane as the plumber and
Mr. Standish as the coachman, ably fill
in the crevices in the play, and the whole
is Of the sort that pleases and finds re-
sponsive sympathy in the risiblities of
the audience. mistakes VIII Happen"
is just what it is intended to be: A bright
spicy little comedietta that will please all
who visit the Grand during its presenta-
ton this week
Next week at the Grand vaudeville will
afford the diversion, and a splendid at
traction of this order will be witnessed in
the advent Of the Joseph Hart All-Star
Speciality company.