The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-04-13

Il IS from these that Mr.. Savage has made
his selections for the closing week of rep
ertory.
The Castle luare organization has never
sung with 4 greater show of merit than i
is showing now. All of the well-knowr
principals are in good voice, the chorus is
excellent and the stage management has
never been better. Can it be that for a little
time the public has grown tired of opera?
$500
AIr. Short has never had such a season a:
that which is now coming to an end al
the Olympic. 1t is doubtful. indeed, if any
manager has ever had such a season a
average high-class prices. There was Q
time when 5000 a week seemed pretty gooC
takings for n theater like the Olympic
Now you will find Mr.. Short in a state OF
frowns IL the receipts fall below 10000 u
week. The greatest money-maker of this
season was "Ben-Hur.' which averaged
above $1,000 a week, with n record-breaker
ment.
The big money-makers of the year, sea
son after season, are Mansfield. Sothern,
Marlowe. Irving, Maude Adams. Willard,
the Rogers Brothers and Nat Goodwin.
The Olympic Theater will have a novelty
tomorrow night with Maude Adames in ].
NJ. Barrie's new comedy, Quality Street"
1t is a simple little story of a woman's
heart. which futters first at what proves
loves false alarm. but which in the end
beats steadily in the realization Of its half
frightened desire. The soldier who goes
thoughtlessly to the wars, leaving a broken
heart behind. returns to claim it in the end.
The play is in four acts and the action
tokao uIaca ", n utrtet IIttIa cprnpor,pity- in
England about the time of the Napoieonic
wars. IT deals with the fortunes of Phoebe
Throssell and her sister. Susan. who lives
in Quality street. The spirit of the play.
which covers a period of nine years, is
suggested in the following arrangement of
the synopsis:
Act Showing how ladylike they were in
Quality street.
Act II-Of the little ladies and gentlemen
who come to Phoebe's school.
Act 1II-Provides a recipe for the making
of a perfect female.
Act IV-How Phoebe closed her school.
As the heroine. Phoebe Throssell, Miss
has added to her gallery of stage
pictures a portraiture which her lover de-
scribes in the course of the play in the fol-
lowing lines:
The lilies are her pretty thoughts,
Her shoulders are the May:
Her smiles are all forget-Ine-nots
The paths her gracious way;
The roses that do line 1t are
Her fancles walking round;
'Tfs sweetly smelling lavender
In which my lady's gowned.
Miss Adams has a large supporting com
pany. In the cast are Sydney Brough. .Jo-
seph Francoeur. Arthur Barry, William
George Irving. Frederick Spencer
Santley. Miss Ida Waterman, Mis-
Marion Abbott. Miss Helen Lowell, Miss
sara Perry and Miss Sarah Converse.
Nine. Helene Odilon. the German ac-
tress, who appears at the Germania The
ater this evening under the MANAGEMENT Of
Heinrich Conried of the Irving Place
rheater, New York, has been called the Ger
man Duse and the German Bernhard, but
alter comparisons bring her nearer the
Rejane classification. While her meth
DDS may remind one most strongly of Re.
Jane. Mime. Odiion is said to be her own
and achieves her success largely by
true to her own schooling in the the
lters of Germany. She early undertook thu
'tudy of English and has become quite pro-
icient in it..
For the st. Louis engagement. beginning
IN April 13. the attraction is Fulda's com
'dy, Die Zwillingsschwester" the Twin
sister,. Nine. Odilon has the part of Giudit-
a. the Irving Place Theater Company and
of the Heinemann-welb Stock
company OF the Germania Theater appear
ng in the other major and minor parts.
The play Is new to this country. and TIL
part was originated in Germany nv
Vine. Odflon. Both the play and the char |
tcter are said to be charming. 1t is a
costume comedy. permitting gorgeous eff
ects in this particular, and the scene is laid
n the old Italian university town of Padua
n the Sixteenth Century. The text is in
le3tly turned verse Tho plot r,,, tb,-.
husband becomes tired Of his wife. though
he Is a most charming woman. Unwilling
o lose MN by what she regards as mere
Shim. she takes advantage of her twin
ister's visit and masquerades as the WIS.,
tor. with the result (as might be expected
n a stage affair." that the husband falls in |
owe with the presumed twin sister, really
lis own wife. The humor Of the wife's ruse
5 capitally maintained throughout the four
cts. and there are several characters be- |
ides that of the heroine Giuditta which
re skillfully drawn.
The expected defect of a somewhat hack |
eyed subject, that of mistaken identity, is |
In the setting of the play, the Sixteenth
having notably been the age of
ancy. Inc play pictures the ~heroic-heroic
rom the view Of a woman's pride-the
truggle Of a wife to revive the dormant
owe OF a husband whom she adores. She
eigns a voyage which her spouse urges
lpon her with the purpose of turning his
reeuom 10 good account in amorous adj
She returns in the guise of the
win sister. her very double. whom her hus- |
and has never seen. Her husband falls
desperately In love with her and when the
flair Is at its height she eappear in
persona, tells her delinquent spouse
hat she Will agree to a separation and he
becomes Jealous. She then exposes
he plct and the discounted and Inundated
ian renews his allegiance.
Bills in Prospect.
Sunday evening. April 20. THE Liberty Relies
Ill be at the Olympic Theater. This production
y klaw & Granger IL a novelty IN the way of
MUSICAL comedy. and lie the only organization of
3 kind without . chorus. There are twenty
- lines TO speak and songs to sing. The book
IN Harry B. Smiths best vein. and MANI