The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-11-16
At St. Paul Theaters

Maggy Wellington. ngenue sophocles
Dramatic Company can rattle off Des-
demonia in such shape that Bill Shake
speare would rise in his grave and give
me the glad hand 1 could make Mrs. Pat
Campbell and Sarah Heartburn look like
a bunch of rural mail carriers at a corona
ton banquet!
Maggy-Down the aisle come the
Manager Fly see nothing but bald
heads
Manager Fly-Pack up and leave the
The cook-n I pack up. can't leave
the house.
steamships were selling for a cent,
couldn't buy splinter. ca
From 1.-The Show Girl at the Grand
'sThe Show Girl" is the attractive
title of a musical comedy, new to 81.
Paul, which entertained crowded
house at the Grand last evening.
To begin with it is better enter
tainment in the musical comedy line
than many of it's predecessors in this
city that have been more loudly her
aided. It's music is pleasing and
ventional, it's chorus girls are comely
to look upon and the company is COM
petent. An atmosphere of originality
pervades it. It's theme is not hack
neyed. Its specialties amuse.
Miss Stella Mathew is the leading
spirit of the organization. A clever
woman is Miss Mayhem. Unlike the ma
jority of her sex, she possesses lively
sense of the ludicrous, and is essen
TALLY a burlesquer. She finds a multi
tude of opportunities to indulge her
talents in this direction, for she imper-
sonates the ingenue Of a dramatic
company stranded on the isle OF
Cyprus. Her delivery Of the mock
heroics in the scene with the bank
rupt manager Dionysius Fly is irreslst1-
bly, funny.
Heretofore Miss Mayhem has been
associated with negro character parts
Of the "ole nanny" style. Her new
venture into the field Of musical COM
edy is welcome and promising.
In the second act Miss Mayhem ap-
peared for a few moments in the guise
of a colored cook and, Of course, cap
tured the house with her speciality.
But 1t was in her original character
that she proved the most entertaining.
Her song in the first act, isn't 1t
Lovely to Be on the Stage" was de-
cidedly clever, while the number, I'm
der a Panama" which Miss Mayhem
sang, with chorus accompaniment
proved one of the most diverting OF
the entire performance. Miss Mayhem
possesses a clarity of enunciation al
ways welcome from behind the foot
lights.
The company is in the main satisfy
ing. Sam J. Mylie, in the role of Man
ager Fly, proyokes many a genuine
laugh, even though he does occasion
ally resort to horseplay. Fred Trues-
dell displays an agreeable though light
tenor voice, and presents genteel arr
manly exterior as Capt. E. Ross Ar
NOR. Jhonnie Jhones, the property
man, is a typical tough, as played by
r. B. Warren, who, with Daisy Faust,
executes Bowery dance. that brings
down the house.
Miss Fern Melrose, to whom is al
lotted the role of Cecilia Gay, the show
girP Of the Sophocles Dramatic COM
pany, dresses effectively, but her vocal
accomplishments are mild.
Among the melodious numbers char
acterized by clever accompanying
business" are the quartette, Some
time, Perhaps" Psyche" song and
chorus; champagne and Terrapin,'
the finale to Act l., and in the second
act the octette and "Reggies Family
Tree" which latter is an ingenious
piece Of word juggling. F. G. H.