The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-03-03
TON SEIBR(llKE COMING
UNCTUOUS COMEDIAN BRINGS "THE
FOUNDERS" TO THE MET
ROPOILTAN
MELoDRAMA AT THE GRAND
Butterfly Extravaganza Company to
Held the boards at the
S:-:r This
Week

Thomas Q. Seabrooke, whose art as a
creator of hnarity has kept him at the
very top of comic opera stars since he
leaped to enormous distinction years ago
in The Isle Of Champagne" is booked
for appearance here for four nights, COM
mencing Sunday, March 8, at the Metro
politan, in The Founders" THE Round
ers'' is described as comic opera Vaude-
vile in three acts, by Harry b. Smith,
and the music is by Ludwig Highlander.
The story Of THE FOUNDERS" opens in
BiarrittZ, q Partisan watering place, at
the height Of its gay season. Among the
guests are the Marquis Baccarratt and
his young American wife, a Philadelphia
girl who has been carefully brought up
by worthy family of Quakers. Driven
desperate by the Quakerish prudery Of
his wife, which she really carries to the
laughing point, the Marquis seeks conso-
lation in the society of Thea, q dancer,
who is the pet of the Paris boulevardS.
An accident betrays her husbands at
tention to the dancer, and lands the wife
in the French capital simultaneously
with the arrival of her husband, who is
there by appointment with Thea. With
American decision, the jealous little
QuakereSS penetrates boldly into the
greenroom of the theater In which her
rival is appearing, where she discovers
her tickle husband at the SIRENS feet.
this point, but there isn't. The wife waits
until her husband has vanished and then,
without revealing her identity, wins the
sympathetic interest of the actress. The
little Quakeress asks the actress the Sc
cret of captivating and holding the af-
fections Of men, and the dancer, by hid
ing her visitor behind a screen, gives her
an object lesson in a scene which follows,
using the wife's own husband as one of
the foils.
Chagrined and defiant, the good little
wife determines to try her own powers
Of fascination as soon as she can find a
suitable man. She has not long to wait
She finds an all-too-willing subject in
Maginnis Pasha, an Irish TuTk-that is
to say, an ITishman wrecked upon the
coast of Turkey. who has been adopted
by the Sultan. who is now running the
gamut of Partisan gaiety 1t develops
that in his wildcats days Maginnis had
broken the heart Of Seraphine, the aunt
of Thea, and now the stage maid of that
celebrity. Seraphine discovers the ident-
ity Of her recreant lover just as he is
about to repair to a rendezvous with the
QuakeTess, entered upon by that very
proper little lady for the sake of the les
son it may convey to her husband. Ma
ginnis, however finding the wife in
Thea's dressing room, believes it is Thea
herself with whom he is coquetting. The
wife schemes carefully, with the result
that her husband is sent to a hotel to
wait in vain all night for Thea, while the
lady Is decoyed elsewhere. Seraphine,
who, by the way, is fair, fat and fifty,
discovers Maginnis in Paris, but meets
him when he is IN such state Of intoXi-
cation that he imagines she is Thea. AS
the Marquis knows Thea could not have
met the Irish Pasha and doesn't know
Of SerapEine, and every other thing
POINTS to the certainty that it is his own
good little QuaReross wife who is the
reckless partner of the Turkish Celt in
the orgies of the night before, is anxiety
in the extreme The end of the piece of
course, clarifies the wifes conduct, en-
liGhtens Mag.nnis, and deals the husband
a needed lesson. The company includes
Jeanette Lowrie, Bertha Waltzinger,
Nellie Lynch, Win c. Vaudeville, Harry
Stuart, Jake Bernard Herbert c. Trips,
Emma Naylor, Francis Tyson and Mabel
Blake