The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-08-29


Bonnewitz Elsie Esmond, Grace Turner
and Annie Richards.
Curiously enough nearly all the young
er women stars of our stage VIII essay
dramatizations of more or less widely
read and popular novels during the com
ing season Julia Marlowe essays
when Knighthood Was in Flower"
Mary Mannering will be seen in Janice
Meredith, Viola Allen presents ''In tina
Palace of the King" Marie Burroughs
appears in THE Battle Of the Strong
and Annie Russell in "The Royal Fam
Ily." Grace George, the youngest, but
by no means least ambitious of them
all, Will enact the c0nyent-bred queen in
.'Her Majesty founded by J. 1. @.
Clarke upon Elizabeth Knight Touehins'
charming tale Of a mythical Kingdom.
Her Majesty will be the first Of these
ceives its first production in Washington,
Oct. 1, and soon thereafter goes On at
the Manhattan theater.
| Wilton Lackaye will play Jean Vatican
In his own dramatization of Les Miser-
ables.''
Charles F. Tn,,,lc 49, .,--4-.---
--.-.---.-,,-,..--un1 be the business
! manager of 1.-THE Rogers Brothers in Cen
trail Park the coming season.
! It is predicted that Della Fox will
make one of her old-time hits In the
song, IF Cabby Told Half That He
Knows in "The Rogers Brothers in
| Central Park" In this speciality sha
will be costumed as a swell cabman and
will be assisted by twelve very handsome
! girls.
The New York downtown street organ
! establishments promise the public a trim
] ity of new cylinders with the advent of
] The Rogers Brothers in Central Park, -
The three now tunes to be added 10 the
popular whistling and grinding roper
| toire are: The Duchess of Central
! Park, sung by Miss Jeanette Bagoard;
sally" by Miss Grace Freeman. and
| Della Foxs latest, eff Cabby Told Half
| That he Knows"
Manager Joseph Brooks announces the
postponement of the opening of Maclyn
Arbuckle's starring tour to November 8.
AS this is Mr.. ArbuckIe's first stellar
! season, Mr.. Brooks is considering a mum
Der of plays and finds it impracticable
| to organize his supporting company until
! the full repertoire has been decided on.
F. Marion Crawford's novel. In the
/ Palace of the King" now running in
Munsey's, was pUrposely cast into the
form Of play and then remodeled into a
novel, reversing the procedure The
reason there Is little Or no sale for pub
lished plays, as "a cGTmer times, Is
/ easily accounted for. The old-timt
! dramas were in most cases written If
! rhyme. or blank verse. The public was
as DESTROYS of reading the verse as see
ing the play upon the stage. Hence
the dramatic author had a double rev
enue, Just as the novelist nowadays re.
ceives royalty from his novel and from
| the play modelled after his story To i
! mer Stoddard, 1t is understood, will re-
| Vive the former custom of publishing th5
play. He is dramatizing Mr. Crawford.
| I'm the Palace of the King" and vii
! publish it after Miss Viola Allen has pre-
! scented the play upon the stage. Mr.
| Crawford will, of course, receive a por,
/ ton of the profit, hence from his story
he will have three sources of revenue
from the novel itself, from the royaltie:
on the play and from the play Ia printed
form.
Chauncey Alcott, in "Mavourneen." will
be the second attraction of the season
at the Metropolitan opera house, appear
ing at that theater for the entire weel
of Sept. g. Olcott opens the regular sea
son at the Metropolitan at Minnea poli
state fair week.
''Tke Dairy Farm" which has Jus
closed a fifteen weeks run at the Grea
Northern theater in Chicago, Is under
lined at the Metropolitan for the Weel
of Sept. %.