The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-08-09


were fed to hear him., How good! How
kind! and he is gone" Mathews died In
1878 at the age Of "a.
Dramas founded upon the life of alex
ander the Great" promised until recently
to become epidemic next season. Botn
Richard Mansfield and James j. Hackett
announced plays Of this title, but from
latest reports the only play of this name
to be actual produced is that which Wa
genhals and Kemper had written for Louis
James and Frederick Warde. Among the
engagements made for this company are
Miss Margaret Bourne, the leading lady,
who will appear as Roxanfla, Norman
Hackett Wadsworth Harris and Thomas
Coffin Cooke.
|'sfCeeelia LOTUS. as she is known to the
legitimate stage, will become Cissie
Lotus again next week. jut for the period
of seven days. Incidentally she will do her
old vaudeville speciality Of mimicry on the
roof of the Masonic Temple, in Chicago,
Hyde and Behman. by whom she was fea-
tured at the head of Hyde's comedians
She was female baritone with magni-
f1cent voice and popularfzed great many
songs.
Hard-luck stories are no novelty tc
Broadway. but the following has aroused
and his wife, who having made somewhat
of a hit in vaudeville, We're given chance
to go on tour at the head of a farce com
edy company. They were featured on the
posters and furnished a good half OF the
show. so the manager really needed them
In his business. 1t was down In Texas In
the midst of collection Of one-night
stands that the trouble came. All hand:
to start at $3.50 a. M, but the pair did not
get UP until that hour, and, although they
rushed to the depot it was no use A tele-
gram to the manager brought this reply:
chO fnnipphf until
don't catch up will hold you for entire re-
ceipts." That settled it and the pair go
busy. at once. They discovered there was
another road 80 miles away on which there
there on time, so they hired a dunn
my engine aud made connections, ar
irving at the theater, with just time
s7S. After the first act the manager came
back with the box office statement. which
showed that there was exactly $31.50 In
the house.-Cincinnati Enquirer.
Blanche Walsh's portrayal Of Maslova
in Tolstoy's 'Resurrection'' viii be seen
on the local stage during the coming sea
son; Although other plays similarly nam
ed nave Hooded the country. there is only
one play In existence that is responsible
for all the comment that has been pub
lished. and that Is the work of Henry
Batalile originally produced in Paris. In
and in America the sole rights are vest
ed In Wagenhals and Kemper, who pro-
cured 1t for Blanche Walsh.
The appearance of an American flag on
the roof OF Klaw & Changers New Am
Sterdam theater last week marked the
placing In position of the highest piece Of
IRON work In the structure. which is really
Two theaterS. one on top of the other. The
force of men has been increased to 1,40O
and the progress made each day Is pro-
digious. Work Is being mainly concentrat-
ed on the lower theater. or the New
Amsterdam, the opening of which will be
comparatively but little delayed. The up
per theater will be given a distinctive
name. The magnitude of this undertake
Ing can be judged from the cubic contents
OF the two theaters,J which Is given as
2,350,0OO cubic feet. The structure will
tower about 100 feet1 above the sidewalk
| line when completed, It contains one Of
| the largest single pieces of iron ever put
into any structure in the yworld-the main
/ girder and support of the roof theater
which is ninety feet in length. fourteen
/ feet in height and weighs seventy tons. 1t
| is SO large and heavy that 1t could not be
| handled in one piece and had to be as
sembled on bridge structure of the
! riyets, each welded while red hot, were
| used in putting it together There VIII
not be column in fhe line of sight in
either the lower or the upper theater yet
| the balconies will possess all the strength
and so1idfty of playhouse built with a
| forest Of posts in the auditorium Both the
! new playhouses. when completed. will re-
| veal many novel departures in the archf-
lecture of tfeaferS