The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-04-21
OTIS Skinner THIS WEEK
GREAT ROMANTIC ACTOR TO BID
AT METROPOLITAN THREE
DAYS
DELLA FOX ALSO COMING
GO-WOn-GO Mohawk in CLEANING
Arrow at the Grand-Fen-
nessy's Ramblers at
the Star.

"P; ince Otto," the attraction at the
Metropolitan Monday, Tuesday and
Wednesday, is Mr.. Otis SINNERS own
adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's
play of the same name. In the play he
has developed the love interest almost
as quickly as the curtain rises. The
prince has been married some time prior
to the opening of the story to the daugh-
ter of a neighboring grand duke. The
marriage which was contracted for rea-
sons of state only has proved a loveless
one The princess is ambitious and the
prince has no other care than to enjoy
himself with out Of door sports. She
has become the real ruler of the princi-
pality, the prince having gone so far as
TO delegate to the princess the right Of
signature, and he is never seen in the
councils Of the principality The prime
minister IS a Schemer. OF foreign ex-
traction, he has none of the love of tho
tatherland so characteristic of the Ger
man races at heart, and he is secretly
6cheming for the overthrow of the prin-
clpality and the establishment of a re-
public in its stead with himself as the
nrst president. The prime minister DOM
mates the princess to a degree, and she
is little more than his puppet, although in
hef arrogance she belives that she is in
V1ncible in her position. In a way the
prime minister loves her. but he is tied
py a larson to a certain countess who
while she is fond of him, has also a yer-y
soft spot IN her heart for the prince
The opening scene of the play is placed
IN the cottage Of one of the farmer peas
ants of the principality. Here the prince.
Whlle separated from his hunting party.
meets ms wife, who is forced to seek
SheIter from an approaching storm as
her coach has broken down To his sur
prise the prince finds his wife, away from
ali or the pCmp and ceremony of iha
court. very lovely and charming wom-
an ana he proceeds to tell her so. She
VII! nave none Of it. 1t is in this act that
the prince discovers that the plot is on
loot TO overthrow his prdncipality and
that the prime minister is the leader of
It. With this knowledge in his possess
slon ne returns at once to the palace at
Lauterheim, in one of his salons of which
IS pfaced the locale Of the second act
oped on the lines of the book At the
end OF the third act which is placed in
the council chamber, the prince unmas's
the prime minister. In the fourth act
winch has for It's locale one of the state
apartments of the palace, there is the
scene between the princess and the prime
minister as in the novel, where the lat
and she appalled, at what has been done
and the declaration, wounds her advar-
eary, the blame of 1t being taken bv
the prince who is arrested and taken to
4ne fortress OF Drahenstein, which is the
rrst scene Of act fifth. He is restored to
liberty by the countess, who has wrurg
from the princess an order resembling the
one of arrest Upon the princes release
he Immediately seeks his wife and finds
per at the home of her farmer peasant
Here charming love scene takes place
Ind the curtain goes down on the re-
united couple. The engagement Is for
Shree nights and Wednesday matinee. 53