The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-10-29
AT THE THEATERs.
METROPOLITAN.

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1zation of Jed Prouty. the Maine tavern
keeper, enlivened an otherwise mediocre
presentation of a mediocre play at the
Metropolitan theater last evening. Mr.
Golden's humor, while by no means Of
the highest class, appealed to his audi
ence, and curtain calls not Sufftcing. Mr.
Golden was prevailed upon to make a
speech. The speech added to the actors
popularity with the audience The play
is on the pastoral comedy order, one of
those dramas where honlely scenes fur
niSh most Of the sentiment and where
the acme OF realism is attained by the
introduction of live stock on the stage
The makeup of some of the village
characters last evening was decidedly
funny, as, for instance, that of Zeb
Hardy, long-legged teamster and Joe
Slower, the leading tradesman. These
village characters, in fact, form the
play, for the plot is so very small that it
is entirely lost sight of in the wealth of
specialties that are introduced. The
story centers about the village of Penob-
scot, the scene shifting only once, when
the audience is introduced to a Boston
fiat with an impossible French maid in
attendance.
The company presenting the play last
night was indifferently good. AS Aaron
Hemingway, the villain, Joseph Damery,
did fairly well. Mr.. Damery also essay
ed the part of Valentine Vouclure, the
matinee actor, but the role of the villain
apparently still pursues him." Kath-
crime kittleman was good as Martha
Giddens, the belle of Bucksport Nell
vile Stanley Collins as Beacon Hill, her
husband, was equally competent. Mr..
Collins ragtime music was q clever spe-
cialty. Henry Rich was a very spruce
village justice. The court room scene
and the fire were the two funniest scenes
~, fl,;,,
with a fetching lisp, was q most at
tractive Tretty, and her singing in the
fourth act was we'll done.
The play will be presented for the rest
of the week, with the usual Wednesday
and Saturday matinees.
GRAND.
After two weeks of blood-curdling melo-
drama the change to vaudeville at the
Grand last night was most welcome. For
this years TRANSFORMERS Robert Full
CORA has brought together company Of
people most of whom are clever in enc
way or another and the work done by
some is little short of wonderful. It is an
unfortunate thing that some people, who
are really unusually clever. seem to think
that q turn must have a little vulgarity
to round it out nicely. This is all that
may be said of the good turns among
those represented Ey the TRANSFORMERS
In a detrimental way. The programme
opens with some very ordinary Juggling
by the Hoopers but the Hoopers are far
from being a disappointment before max
ing their final bows. They do some work
that is really marvellous with rolling
hoops, just ordinary hoops used in making
ordinary bicycles but one is led to believe
that they might be living things, SO I'M
der the control of the Hoopers are they.
Duncan and his talking figures follow
= al fiy,1oy L. l.,
pleasing and as witty as ever and his
turn was well received. Frank Buornan
and Rose Adele do little farce called
f'The Door Key" that, in itself, is clever
think but it does not seem to be well
handled. 1t is by Mr.. Buoman and gives
evidence that he is an unusually witty
writer. but he should not try to use his
own stuff Miss Adele does the little
that is allotted to her we'll. Bessie Mum
roe is billed as a serio and a dancer but
she is a contortioniSt and undoubtedly one
of the very best In the world. Her legs,
arms and body seem to be nothing more
or less than a huge set of double acting
hinges Her singing is bad, but her other
work is.worth going miles to see Stuart
Barnes and Mabel Sisson were given an
opening hand for they are old favorites
and well remembered. They have a new
skit this year. when Greek Meets
Greek" 1t is clever thing and cleverly
done. Barnes has g quiet little way of
parting with hts vocal selections that
would make good songs out of bad ones
and he usually selects good ones to start
with. VIII H0Fox gives a burlesque en-
titled "Paddywiski" Mr. Fox is an artist
and a fair comedian. The drawback to
his turn lies in the fact that some things
that he passes out as funny sayings could
easily be dispensed with for the simple
| reason that he, in, saying them, only APP
| peals to a lower minded class of people.
He earned a just rebuke Lasts night al
though the rebuke took an odd form He
had said a few little things that might be
left unsaid and then seated himself at
the piano and gave the audience Pade-
| rewski's march. It is a beautiful thing
and was played with touch and tech
nique that stamped Mr. Fox as an artist
and earned fo1 him a tremendous burst of
applause. After that he was given but
little chance to talk. Mr. Fox should
play more and talk less. The work of the
Allison Troupe, who are from the Winter
Garden in Berlin and making their first
appearance in this country, is little short
of wonderful. They are acrobats of the
highest order. Their turn is all the more
pleasing In that their most difficult feats
are gone through without skip. They.
were recalled many times last night and