The Saint Paul globe., 1902-09-11

tion of principal with lyric organi-
cation without spending more than
one season in the, chorus. Miss Ia
belle is an Armenian by birth, al
though she is not of the Turkish va
riety. Beside Mr.. Hitchcock and Miss
Zabelle, there are in king Dodo"
Cheridah Simpson, Greta Risley, Mar
garet Mckinney, Arthur DEACON, Will
liam Corliss, Arthur Wooley and a
choral court of pretty girls, in a COM
pany of seventy-fve people.
"Way Down East continues to good
business at the Metropolitan, and is
drawing the biggest houses it has ever
played to in this city. The present
cast, headed by Archie Boyd and Miss
Phoebe Davies, is remarkably strong,
and gives a splendid performance of
this famous play
Haverly's big minstrel organization
is underlined for the latter half of
next week at the Metropolitan.
"Her Marriage Vow continues to
attract good-SiZed audiences to the
Grand opera house, and those who
have witnessed the play pronounce it
one Of the best melodramatic offerings
seen here in some time. The play is
unusually complete as to scenic equip
ment and mechanical effects, the most
praiseworthy being the railroad scene
in the third act. The company is ca
pable in every way of the demands
made upon it, and the numerous STIR
ring scenes and situations in the play
are cleverIy worked up and artistically
executed. Saturday at 2:30 the last
matinee performance of the engage
ment occurs.
The sale of seats opens this morn
ing at the Grand opera house for the
engagement, the coming week, of
David Higgins and Georgia Waldron,
authors of "At Piney Ridge" in their
latest success, up York State" Mr..
Higgins and Miss Waldron have ap-
peared here on several previous occa-
sions, but will be best remembered for
their splendid work in "At Piney
Ridge"
Adolph Adams approximations, with
only the aid of wigs and boards, at
the Star theater yesterday afternoon
good. His makeup for Admiral
Schley and the late William E. Glad
stone elected much applause.
Not satisfied with authorship Mrs.
Genevieve G. Haines, author of Hearts
Aflame," is trying to become stage
manager. Since the promising run of
the play of social life during week
last spring, Mrs. Haines has been toll
ing to make it a ''go' this year. She
says that to be playwright and stage
manager has been the goal of her am
bition for seven years. Compared with
stage management she finds outhor-
ship almost easy.
Patience! Why, I never dreamed
of the capacity of that word until
now," she said. "You take a person
and show him what you want time and
again and over and over again and he
will do it another way. 1t seems as
if he did it for spite, sometimes. At
says nasty things in brutal manner
and jars to pieces the high-strung
nerves of the actor. AS rule, he ought
to be saving wood on a farm. l find
that I must control myself perfectly.
and not until after they have finished
let the people know what they have not
done to suit me. Then, begin over
again, that's all"
Duse and Mascagni will be in Bos-
ton the same Week The actress man.
ayers, fearing that the composers ri
valry may prove disastrous, tried to
effect readjuStment of dates. Failing
in this. they now announce that they
will auction off the seats for her first
week of five performances, to be de-
voted, it is planned, to the D'Annunzio
dramas of "Gioconda, Francesca da
Rimini" and LA Citta Morte,' none of
which has been played in this country.
According to James Lederer, he has
for a ping-pong girl in sally in Our
AlIey' a sister of Mime. Melba. In the
company she is known as Vera Lawton.
but she is in reality VelYa Won Deren-