The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-02-16
CHASER MAKES A HIT
HER NEW OPERA DOLLY VAR
DEN" CATCHES NEW
YORK
OVATION FOR YOUNG STAR
Bostonians Return to Metropolis
With sMaid Marian',-Newsy Co.'S
sip of Men and Women
of the Stage.
Special to The GIohe

CpSCAGA TO me GlODes
!. NEW YORK, Feb. l5.-Seyeral chang
es have taken place at the Metropoli-
tan theaters since the opening of the
month Lending spice of variety to
Rialto affairs.
Lulu sGlaser's reception In Dolly Var
den, at the Herald Square theater, was
an ovation. This charming actress, fol-
lowing In the wake of so many favoriseess,
eclipsed herself by her sprightliness and
dainty acting
The story of Dolly Warden" relascs
to the adventures of an unsophisticated
and charming young country girl in Lon
don in the beginning of the eighteenth
century, and during the reign of King
George /. Of England and Louis XIV of
France, in the year 1870. Demure and
dainty Dolly Warden, who is the embodi-
ment of unconscious grace and radiant
beauty, comes to the English city fresh
from the odor of green fields and the
perfume of wild flowers, accompanied by.
Jack Fairfax, her guardian, to attend
the wedding of her sister, Lady Letitia
Fairfax, the belle of the fashionable sea-
son of the English metropolis.
Being desperately in love with his fair
young ward, and wishing to marry her.,
principally on account of her wealth,
Fairfax fears to leave her alone at her
home IN the country, as she has many
admirers among the rural gentry; one
of whom she has shown a decided pref
erence for. and which has not escaped
the eye of the scheming guardian. While
in London Dolly falls in with a smart
set Of the period, and soon loses her
rustic charm of manner She rapidly
acquires the modish ways and advanced
ideas of her newly made friends, the
gay London beaux and bellies. During one
of her madcap escapades she meets Dick
BelleviIle, handsome and manly young
officer of his majesty's infantry, captain
of the Kings Guards, and, of course,
falls in love with him. Fairfax is not
long in discovering the wooing of the
young people, and does all in his power
to prevent their ciandestine meeting, but
all to no purpose, for love always finds
the way, and in the end the schemfng
Fairfax is prettily outwitted, and as a
natural sequence, Dolly and Dick are
married.
The book breathes with bright points,
and the play bids fair to prove big
New York success.
The return of the Bostonians to the
Garden theater for their annual engage
ment with Maid Marian a romantic
light opera, written by Harry B. Smith
and Reginald De Koven, is another fea--
ture of the week. The company was
enthusiastically received, and the play
moved with exceptional smoothness- The
chorus is voted one of the handsomest
that has appeared on Broadway this sea-
SON.
Amelia Binghams appearance at the
Bijou in Lady Margaret brings us an
other translation of the play from which
"Frocks and Frills'' was taken, and fur
nisles opportunity for another elaborate
display of costume, combined with some
excellent acting Miss Binghams oppor-
tunities in the play are scarcely on
par with her versatile talents, or equal
to those furnished in her usual roles
She is, however, charming as usual and
drawing large audiences to the Bijou
during her stay The play would be inn
proved by giving Miss Bingham greater
prominence although her excellent sup
porting cast lend plenty of spirit to the
performance Miss Bingham never look
ed more fetching than she did in the
first act as the Highland lasse Of sweet
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With the close Of 1.-THE Christians
return to New York of Blanche Bates,
as Cigarette, in Under Two Flags"
The production at the academy will be
the same that was used at the Garden
theater during the seven months sue
cessfu1 run of the piece there While
the Garden theater stage is well adapted
to big melodramatic productions, still
it was entirely inadequate to the require
the like of which for thrillingness and
power has never before been seen This
storm will have plenty Of scope for dem