The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-03-26
AT THE THEATERs.
ANNA HELD MAKES A HIT.


Imagine a marble bacchante, with cor
seted figure, the frozen diablerie of it's
face warm and human, Paris creation
instead of the acanthus vine on It's head
and you have Anna Heidi She pirouetted
and sang her daring chansonettes before
big audience at the Metropolitan the
alter, in Minneapolis, last night, and the
people of the Flour City bravoed reck-
lessly. Naturally, Miss Held can act A
bacChante coem to life could not possibly
be stick. She babbles in delightful
broken English that Is half French. She
looks things acknowledgements I'M
utterable. She moves her lissome figure
with a sinuous grace that somehow sug-
gests scales And her eyes-well, 1t was
surely those long, lambert orbs OF hers
that made the little French woman an
"arrivee." They are eyes whose ex-
pressed knowledge of the world almost
makes other eyes wink. They are eyes
that made the French song last night
rather tame by contrast.
Papa's Wife," the play that exploits
Miss EIelds peculiar and very individual
genius, is vicious little skit, coated
with surface cleverness that does not
at all conceal the murky waters beneath
1t is French, like Miss Held, in the SUI
perlative degree. A convent girl welded
to roue, the old motif of mistaken iden-
t1ty, the late supper, the champagne, es-
pecially the champagne-all the usual
things are to be found in "Papas Wife,
But there is a gorgeousness of appoint
mentS, laViShneSS of costume, general
chicness and up-to-dateness that not all
comedies possess. And there is pleni-
tude Of pretty girls, and there is Charles
A. Bigelow. Mr.. Bigelow furnishes most
OF the fun Of the play, and 1t is clean,
neat, inimitable fun. And there is Miss
doll Dow Il
be funny and who certainly deserves the
title first aid" But the catchiest things
in the play are the songs Jolly, tuneful
and new are they, and one of them was
sung by Miss Held herself, perched on
the top Of an automobile. It brought the
singer curtain calls innumerable, and
she was finally compelld to stay the tu-
multi of applause by murmuring in her
broken English herSsincere thanks for the
reception accorded.
METROPOLITAN.
''The Dairy Farm is playing a retpn
engagement at the, Metropolitan Opera
house this week, and in spite of the I'M
pleasant weather is drawing good sized
houses.
One of the most important musical
and comedy events of the season is the
coming of Anna Held and her company
to the Metropolitan Opera house Monday,
Tuesday and Wednesday of next week
GRAND.
Alberta Gallatin scored another hit last
night at the Grand in her performances
of Nell Gwynne." Her version Of this
play is enc in which she appears to adj
vantage. Tomorrow at ESQ the first
popular priced matinee of the engage
ment will occur.
Because She Loved Him So,'' VIM.
Gillette's comedy, will be presented at
the Grand Opera House next week.
STAR.
The Might Owls burlesque COMPANY
Wh1ch is playing at the Star this week,
is giving a pleasing programme for. peo-
pie who like the regular burlesoue az
traction, and it will be followed NEXT
week by double show, in which the
New York Stars" and the t'Tammany
Tigers" will be combined. Next SUNDAY
this double bill will begin a weeks en-
gagement at the Star -theater, and will
show the wonderful act the Artists
MODEL, and all the novelties of both
shows, which have been travelling sen
arately until this time. It takes a
double guarantee to get the attraction.
winch is being given for the first time
In Minneapolis this week