The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-01-11

/ Charles FrOhman intends to place
+ ulysses" the poetic spectacular play
winch he has announced for some time
IN Fehruary. Contrary to managerial
custom, he has not divulged the name
of the theater he has in view, and
there is a good deal of random guess
ing going on in consequence. ULYSSES"
was first shown by Beerbohm Tree at
His Majesty's theater in London, where
1t not alone attracted large houses, but
commanded the most earnest attention
by reason of the splendor of it's pic
tor1al environment and the perfect
drilling of its horde of supernumer-
aries. Mr.. Frohman, it is understood,
has brought over to this country all
the. scenery, costumes and properties
made use of by Mr.. Tree on the far
side of the Atlantic, and viii employ
some zoo persons in the New York re-
vival-a condition of affairs indicating
that the exploitation OF Ulysses here
Will at least require the use of one
of the largest stages IN the city
The return of Edward Harrigan to
Broadway next Monday night at the
Bijou theater, in THE Bird in the
Cage" the newest of the Clyde Fitch
comedies, is looked upon as something
Of an event. BY an odd condolences
1T was at the Bijou that Harrigan was
last seen in New York, upon the occa-
sion of the production of one of his
own plays. This was not successful
and afterwards, until he was engaged
for the Fitch piece, Harrigan passed
the larger part Of his time in the vau-
deVllle theaters. "The Bird in the
Cage" has been played in Boston and
elsewhere, and report is to the effect
that Harrigan has been enabled to fully
rehabilitate himself in an artistic sense.
The engagement at the Bijou will be
for five weeks only, owing to the con-
gestion of theatrical attractions in this
as well as all the other Broadway
theaterS.
The holiday business of many of the
New York playhouSes last week was
entirely phenomenal. and in some in
stances ali previous records were out
stripped. The largest audience of the
week was drawn to the New York
theater on New Years eve, when the
receipts of a single performance of
When Johnny Comes Marching Home"
touched the $4,000 mark. This melo-
dramatic opera of the Civil war period
appears to- have taken solid hold up-
on the regard of the community. being
quite out of the line of the regulation
musical works of the lighter order. The
crinolineS worn by the female members
of Mr.. Whitney'S large company have
been an occasional source of mirth. as,
for instance, the other evening. when
one Of the chorus girls, while engaged
in the execution of a waltz became
entangled in her hoopskirt and fell over
the edge of the stage, plump into the
big bass drum. She was extricated
with considerable difficulty, the audi
ence receiving the episode fairly in
commissions of laughter.
Lanetry Fills the House.
There is no indication that Mrs.
Langtry will nave any need to change
her bill at the Garrick theater during
her brief New York engagement. She
has held Mile. Mars" in reserve in case
her own play, The Cross Wavs.'
should prove ineffective, but the rush
to see this last named work-or. rather
Mrs. Langtry herself-has been SC
great as to render the second produce
ton inexpedient. All feminine New
York seems to be talking of the Ianr-
try dresses, which are spoken of as far
and away the most gorgeous and bean
tiful examples of millinery art ever
imported to this country from Paris
Heretofore it has not been usual tn
bllI' New York Tor incoming attrac-
I lions more than four or five DAVIS nrio1s
to their advent, but E. r, Revn0Ids the
manager of De Wolf Hopper. has cast
precedent aside by plastering tba to11r,,
from one end to the other with bapd-
somely printed announcements re
the coming of his star three fun weeks
ahead of that event This action baS
been the occasion of awakening nro9
tests from various other n1anaoo,.e = ~ =.
the ground that interest in their own
announcements of current attractio,,e
is drawn away by the Hopper nostaTe
Which they hold should not have haaT,
put up until the Thursday nrior - ~
production of Mr.. PickWielT. az t t1,e
Herald Square. Mr.. Reynolds how