The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-19

W " done in some one Of the
v v eastern shops whose pro-
prietor happens to possess
a reputation, the work OF
placing it before the public may be said
to have been fairly begun. The manager
who pays out his money for a work OF
the kind merely buys pig In poke,
and he is more than likely to find that the
pig requires fattening to make him mar
ketable.
Certainly this was the case with the
local men who are to produce 1.-The
Sleepy King shortly. The opera was
written by George V. Hobart, while the
music was provided by Conterno, but
after the piece was put in rehearsal II
was found to be hopelessly thin" A
good company was secured, but even their
best efforts failed to make the thing go
and heroic measures were determined
upon. .E
Claude Madden was called in to provide
a new orchestration. Then he went tc
work on the music itself. In collabora-
ton with Oscar F. G. Day he wrote g
new opening chorus. retaining only a
bar or two of the Conterno melody
Madden was then employed to go thru
the whole piece, rewriting the music
wherever he thought necessary
= The book. too, seemed to require nu-
merous alterations and Oscar Day turned
wrote the music; a song with music by
George Koehler, another local man, anC
another song fitted to Conterno's meas
ures, several other lyrics and portions o.
lyrics which were used to bolster up the
piece. Fiji .....
Arthur Berg of st. Paul also had hant
in the alterations, and contributed foul
songs. So that, in fact. 1.-THE Sleepy
King has become thing Of shreds anC
matches with unite Donch Of the WOrl
of local men as of the liberettist anC
composer whose names appear upon the
program. m ... 81
When these radical changes were de-
cided upon, George V. Hobart at once
interposed a strenuous objection. He
finally agreed. however, that the change:
might be made, provided no other name
than his was used as author So it /:
that the SLEEPY King" is still by Ho
barton the bills
Local bills next week: 1.-THE Sleepy
King" and Kelley and Shannon at til,
metropolitan; 1.-TWO Little Waits" at tn.
Bijou; 1.-THE Cherry Pickers' at the Ly
ceum; World Beatera at the Dewey
The INDEPENDENTS and the trust
people are giving a continual perform
ance Of Tit for Tat" which is amusing
to the onlooker, and possibly diverting t.
the performers. The latest idea ema
mates from the fertile Frohman, who ha
decided to vie with Weber & Fields il
burlesque. r.
Bobbie Burns wrote something q lon,
time ago relative to seeing ourselves a.
tthers see u.s." but that does not do 70
the theatrical cOnqueror. Mr.. Frohmal
will reverse the old saw and have us SCI
successful. plays as the writer's Sc
them. For instance, when one Of Bar
rie's. plays makes "a hit, hit, pal
'pable hit the author himself will writ
the "skit'' upon it which will be produce,
as curtain raiser at Days.
Some doubling critic has ventured t.
suggest that the So called big writer's ma,
be lacking in the sort Of hippant wit whicl
goes to maketa burlesque amusing, but II
the mind Of the originator Of the ide
there Is nothing but the most placid con
yfidence in it's success. ~
The Garrick theater, in Chicago, for
smerly the Dearborn, opened it's doors t.
the public last week under new manage
ment, with musical comedy, "a Cir
From Dixie The book of the new offer
ing, which was produced here for the frs
time ON any stage, is by c. Hodgso1
and H. b. Smith, the music being TIL
combined efforts of twelve composers
yMessrs. Victor Herbert. Cole and Johnson
Manuel Klein and Ludwig Englande
gamong them. --. -
The songs are for the most part pleasing
and range from plantation melodies t
conventional trifies reminiscent of curren
hits. Good bits of character acting ar
contributed by Arnold Daily, Ferdinan
Gottschalk and George Schiller. The pic
is cratic, opening in country school i
maryland, where the future heiress abou
Whom the story Is woven, is introduce
and Is being sought by an English lore
The other scenes are a woman's colleg
campus and a ballroom where prepare
tons for the marriage Of the principal
are in progress.
The Garrack with it's fresh decoration
In white and gold, new upholstery, brigh
carpets and a few architectural change.
made an suspicious debut and it's initis
offerings We're well and vociferously re
cetved by an audience that taxed the seat
ing capacity of the house.
4 The week now drawing to a close ha
been the most important, Electrically, {
the new season. 1t has been signalized b
the production in New York Of stephe
aPhlHlps poetical drama, ulysses |
which Tree failed in London, but whic
bids fair to be successful upon this sid,
Other interesting openings were provide
by John Drew, who produced a pla
founded upon Anthony Hopes story {
Captain Dieppe''; Charles Hawtrey
The Man From Blankley's," and .Webe
81 Fields, who presented their new bun
lesque, "Whoop-Dee-Doo.' Mrs Fiske re
vived Mary Of Magdala," in which st
was eminently successful last year. an
Blanche Bates reoccupied the Belasco the
gater, with her Japanese drama, "Tl
Darling of the Gods"
Ulysses" is comprised in a prologr
and three acts, and is written, for ii
most part in blank verse-not such sono1
Gus, stately, and splendid blank verse {
that of Tennyson, in his Ulysses" an
5Lucrotius," and not such majestic di,
ton as that Of Matthew Arnold, in h
'Merope" and ''Empedocles,' but such {
Is prompted by occasion and produced /
expert artistic labor, and such as answer
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