The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-10-08

been seen on the stage Of the Metropou-
tan theater. The transformation scenes
and the calcium light effects are excel
/ lent
The company is q large one, and so
tremendously does it fit together 1t would
seem that each member was principal:
"A very amusing Interpretation of the
character of old Peter Stuyvesant does
| Harry Davenport give, and into his SIS it
possloie? he manages to compress more
run than the phrase suggests to the more
| imaginative.
Knox Wilson was an excellent Doodle,
! and his Saxaphone specially a very taking
one. Mr.. Tom Ricketts, imitation of Sir
denry irving was a clever burlesque, and
as b. Booth Talkington, an actor in hard
luck, he was equally successful Mr.
| Wdham Riley Hatch, strong voiced and
Dfoad-chested young man, as 1.-THE Har-
lem Spider" scored decided hit, and his
song, The Modern Gladiator" sung
with group of Bowery girls. was a
| clever piece of work. Miss Edith Yer
r1ngton, a young woman with a pretty
! race and prettier figure, takes the part
/ OF Willie Won AStorbilt, and her male i'm
peIsoDat1on was refined bit of work.
Lhe kangaroo" song, which Miss Yer
| rlngton sings with Lillian Coleman and
| Mr.. Davenport, was repeatedly cncored
/ The gallery gods paid the singers an
unusual tribute, for they oblinginly
caught up and whistIed the refrain.
Laura Joyce Bell, in her impersonation
! OF Phoebe Kummagin, gave a neat little
| burlesque of the Soulful woman" that
| the audience was not slow to recognize
| MISS Lillian Coleman was a daintily
| gowned Ruth. Her songs, ST Love you
and The Summer Girls were very well
| sung. speciality that was very clever
was the Sapho" scene between Miss
Bell and Mr. Hatch. The al1usion to
Mayor Smith, Mr.. Wez, Chief Cook and
Louis Retz tickled the audience i'm
mensely.
/ Perhaps one of the cleverest things in
| the play Is the cake walk in the sec
| ond act. The effect wrought by the pref
! ty dancers and their gorgeous costumes
is heightened by colored lights mat are
thrown on the scene, and the ensemble
| is a gorgeous one.
| The play VII be repated the remainder
| OF the week, with the usual Wednesday
! and Saturday matinees
GRAND.
| In "a Free Lance" Robert B. ManteIl
| has found something to which he is more
suited, and which is more suited to him
than anything with which he has in the
past favored a st. Paul audience, and
ne is by no means stranger in this city
| The story is from the pen of w. A Ire
mayne, and is good. While 1t differs but
| little from any romantic drama, for they
are all similar, it serves the purpose of
giving Manten an opportunity and he
Is not lacking in his capability. 1t is a
story Of the middle ages, and the scenes
are laid in the little province of VOLTS
perg, North Germany. Prince Rudolph,
as baby, is placed in the hands of the
court Jester, with instructions that he be
he IF
Gottfrled Won Bergman, chancellor of the
court, who has ambitions for his own
son, oscar. 1t so happens that Oscar
has cousin, Hilda, who is the ruling
princess of the province, and it is the in
tentton of the schemerS that she marry
Oscar and thus give him the throne. but
events change, and instead the princess
is charged with witchoFaft. Rudolph has
not been murdered, but has grown UP as
a peasant lad, has become a leader of
the common people, has been charged
with crime and sentenced to death has
been pardoned by Princess Hilda. to be
come her slave for a year; has been ban
1sned for one year, and now he returns
and proclaims himself as the rightfuI
prince of the country. He offers himself
in combat to defend his princess, and the
| curtain falls for the last time with Ru-
dolph in the center of the stage with his
rival dying al his feet, and virtue has
triumphed over vice.
IhlS is the story, and the part of Ru-
dolph is admirably played by Mantell This
well known player really needs no intro
ducton, for he is an actor of merit and
In this new piece he simply adds new
laureis to those already won But he
has made the mistake of surrounding
himself with very poor supporting cast,
with the one exception of his leading
lady, Miss Marie Booth Russell AS Priri-
cess Hilda she is splendid. The role is
one that calls for much talent and Miss
Russell is not lacking but with this
much praise one must stop Miss EVELYN
Garter, as Magda, a designing woman
with an ambition to displace Hilda and
reign in her stead as the wife of Oscar.
might be said to he fair, but she could be
improved on, and the rest of the cast
is simply bad. The parts of Oscar and
his father, the chancellor, are most i'm
portant and much could be made of
them by capable people, but Reginald
Darlington and John Sutherland are lack
ing. Both may be men of talent in other
directions, but they do not show it in the
parts assigned to them in this piece
For the rest it may be said-t that it is
we'll that Mantell and Miss Russell are
given so much opportunity, for one loses
sight of the bad in the good There is
one minor part that is deserving of men
ton, the portrayal of Frau Schulz, by
Miss Ada Rivers. This is good "a
ICE IAdIte, however, is We'll worth see
ing. 1T opened the week at the Grand
last night to a packed house and to an
audience that showed its appreciation for
Mantell and Miss Russell by giving them
numerous curtain calls at the end of
| every act.
THE STAR
| Fred Riders New Night Owl Bur
lesquers. The name is decidedly sug-
gestive-so is the production itself, espe-
cialfy the last part OF it.
| Pretty girls surprising, startling, stun
ming costumes, imported" songs, taking
comedians, a newsboys quintette, high
! class acrobats "a term well deserved)
and good dancing is what is to be seen
and heard at the Star this week.
The production last night began with a
/ burletta- 1t was-true to it's name-a
; light musical farce, but the costumes
suggest Iconoclast BrannS comment on
| the statues on the worlds fair buildings
| in 93:
Now there is the very old Nick to pay
and a stringency in the money market"
| But, not to be unnecessarily prudish
| the audience, apparently, individually
| and en- masse, seemed well pleased with
| the burletta
| Larry McCale and Mabel Carew in the
! sketch, IAN Irish Lord were the cause
of a great deal of genuine, irreprnssible,
whole-souled laughter McCale, as the
Irish comedian, is just exactly where he
| belongs. His carica tures were carica-
lures, and he always was possessed of a
| look of injured innocence.
The four SilvlniS, acrobats and novelty
creators, did splendid work. Their pyra-
nlids were of the kind that are worth