The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-01-28
At THE THEATERs.
METROPOLITAN.

METROPOLITAN
Rogers Brothers have come to town
again with many new and clever special
ties, many new and catchy songs and
enough brand new jokes to keep the
very large audience at the Metropolitan
theater last night amused from the i'll
slant the curtain went UP until it dropped
reluctantly and finally on a gorgeous en-
senble picture. This time Messrs. Gus
and Max Rogers call their vaudeville
farce 1.-The Rogers Brothers in Central
Park"
The farce has everything to make it
successful, smart people, gorgeously cos
TUNED and pretty girls, bright music,
elaborate scenic pictures and no plot to
weary the brain. OF course there's a
breath Of a story. Gus Rogers, as Mar
Gus Batter, and Max Rogers, as Lucas
Stucke, imagine they have purchased
Central park in New York. The first act
shows Moneys arthur Gibson's) matri-
monial agency, where a couple of score
of pretty girls apply for husbands. From
the matrimonial agency the action-very
rapid action-is transferred to the Casino,
Central park, and from there to the roof
of the Waldorf-Astoria at night. Rogers
Brothers themselves do many funny
things. One of the funniest, perhaps, is.
their explanation of the game of golf
also very fetching, but the thing that
won the galiery's heart 1ast night was
their singing, together with Jeanette
Bageard and Edith st. Clair, of the song,
when Reuben Comes to Town" The
gallery shrieked it's approval and then
whlstled it, and many who We're not the
gallery" were not averse to humrning it
under their breaths. Johnnie Page and
Emma Francis delighted every one by
their acrobatic feats and odd grimaces.
Their song, rs It Yes or Is 1t Mop" was
one of the very good things of the even
ing. Miss Bageard, with her Cissie Lof-
tus wink, and her song, 1.-THE Duchess Of
Central Park was not the least enter
tanning of the women of the company.
Isadore Rush, very pretty woman, has
two of the catchiest songs in the farce,
"A Bottle and Bird and 'If Cabby
Told Half That He Knows" and none Of
their merits were concealed by her in
depreciation. Run, Brudder Postum,
Run and "Darktown Barbecue" were
two very melodious darky songs, sung
by chorus that can sing as well as look
pretty. Not the least attractive part of
the farce is the marching Of prettily cos
TUNED and graceful girls.
Repeated curtain calls forced from the
Rogers Brothers last evening a Joint
speech that was as funny as it was brief
Rogers Brothers in Central Pork will
X,
with Wednesday and Saturday matinees.
GRAND.
Melodrama has replaced farce at the
Grand this week and the change is not
an unwelcome one. Bret Harte's Hiss
is familiar to many, and the dramat:za-
ton is even better than the novel In
book form it was plausible, but drama
tized it must take its place among the
rest of the impossible melodramas Yet
the fact that it is impossible does not de-
tract from the interest. 1t is really a
very pretty story.
The company presenting ''M'liss" this
year might be better. Nellie McHenry,
as one might easily guess, as Miss, is
all that could be desired in
the part In the mountain home
and its surroundings she gives
very clever portrayal of the ragged little
girl of the mines, and she also appears
to advantage as the finished product of
the seminary, but in her songs she is not
the Nellie McHenry Of the old days She
does a neat little piece of work with
Ben F. GrinneI. as Templeton Fake, the
alleged actor, but aside from this, her
songs, while not bad, were not good.
Grinnell wore loud costumes and a horri-
BILE makeup and was really an ideal stage
actor. Shining out above the rest were
Joseph Brennan, as Yuba Bill; L. J. Lor-
ing as 1.-The judge and Frank Dayton,
as the schoolmaster. AS Juan Walters
the vilIainous Mexican, F. A Yelvington
succeeded in arousing the wrath of the
gallery. The rest of the cast is far.
The scenic effects are most excellent
Miss will be the bill at the Grand
for the rest of the week, with the usual
matineeS.
STAR.
M. NJ. THESES "Wine, Women and
Song" company, now at the Star thea
ter, is a production laughable throughout
From the beginning of the opening satire
to the closing farcicaI gun scene 1t IS
lively, funny, unique, surprising, and the
whole ensemble is devoid of anything
disagreeable.
The satire is entitled, 1.-THE Vaudeville
Craze" and, in view of the fact promi-
nent stars of late have seen fit to in
wade the vaudeville stage, is very muct,
in point. Successfully appeared before
the audience last night, Richard Mans
field, De Wolf Hopper, Nat C. Goodwin.
Sir Henry Irving, Buffalo Bill, Maude
Adams. Olga Nethersole, Lillian Russell
and others.
OF course Mansfield became furiously
angry when his Bergerac nose was even
limited about, and just as naturally,
olga Nethefsole was anxious to be car
RED up stairs 1t was not surprising 10
see Goodwin come dancing in, grab the
first girl in sight, kiss her, and, after
having asked her if she were married
tell her not to do anything before seeing
him again.
The satire was tnterspersed with songs.
the most interesting being 1.-THE Dago
Dodgers" Josie Kline, assisted by Misses
Griffen, Clark, Bourland and Ward, and
My Drowsy Babe" Miss Bonita and
company. Miss Bonita is clever.
The three numbers In the olio were in
teresting, but Gilbert and Goldie. the
character comedians, proved to be the
chief attraction. They had about go
jokes that were not invented near tire
time of Adam, and they knew how to
tell them. As Irishmen and Jews they
were absolutely @rich."
Bonita and company, in their Georgia
plantation songs, came in for much at
tention. !, Ia 4
Gilbert and Goldie were very much in
evidence in the closing burletta as in the
clio. All action hinged around them. and
they were not for single moment found
wanting when occasion demanded.
Crime to Die Rich.
Russell Sage. in commenting on Carne-
oia's rernar1< that orir11o for arx,