The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-10-12
AT THE THEATERS
Bijou-"Sis Hopkins"

Miss Rose Melville has announced that
she will positively appear in new play
next season That is we'll But 1t
would have been better had she kept a
similar promise made last spring. AS the
program informs us, this Is sis Hop
kins'' - fifth season. Further reference to
the same source Of information discloses
the fact that the play is, a dramatic
comedy novelty. success" a f1ve-year-old
novelty, no longer new, even in the one
night stands. 9 .-.f - T.
Elaborated from vaudeville skit, the
ownership of which at one time embroiled
Miss Melville in a rather lively discussion
with another vaudevillian known as Car
RE Graham, isis is a much better play
than might be expected considering its
antecedents. It has given, a new charac-
ter to the American stage-overdraWn, Of
course, but genuinely funny; and Miss
Melville has made that character pecu-
| liarly her own. Her Sis is inaccurate rs
portrait but admirable as a caricature,
with just enough of verify to make the
original distinguishable. 1t is a tribute to
| the actress ability that. she succeeds: in
winning the sympathy Of her. audiences,
even as the unpardonably gawky girl of
the first act; and an illustration of her
cleverness that she does not accomplish
the apotheosis of Sis without retaining, in
the modish young woman of the last act,
| just a trace of her earlier gaucherie.
The company Is competent and the in
terpolated specialties worthy Of the ap-
plause they receive. Particularly good
| work Is done by George HI. Maxwell as
Pa Hopkins and by Florence Webster
| as his wife. u. S. Lawrence.
[ ~ Lyceum-"Norttern Lights"
| They revived the old melodrama
| Northern Lights last night, by using
strong restoratives, to the entire satisfac-
ton of Name and Lii "Have some
these young. women took seats near the
orchestra rail. tits sweeter and it don't
stick up your teeth So,
! Nov, he's the villain!' added Lii, re.
adjusting her prodigious pompadour, an6
arranging the turquoise pin in her bishops
collar: He had said merely, "Gooc
morning, Major and sihe wore the uni
form Of an army surgeon. But regula,
patrons Of the 'Lyceum could tell by his
accent that. this Sidney Sherwood, CHIEF
surgeon, U. S. A., would soon confess
that he had, killed ma nss. cholera, patients
in the spast by way1of experiment. (TIe
didn't mean to be so mean;. Lii; he was
/ experiventing.") And now, stationed a.
an army post in Montana CIt can't b.
I Montana, Lii; it's Alaska maybe, or the
North Pole-you can see right thru then
1 1cehergs'), he was going to ''experivent'
1 again and permit a squaw to- die of yellow
fever; finally, on the arrival of his frs
wife, whom he had deserted, he was coins
to attempt the murder of his illegal No.
by injecting her veins with cholera germs
| 10000 -ah!' shtvered the young ladies a.
the bastard deed was done-"Say, Name
amt he mean.'' .. s.
This conduct of the labeled villain, vii
liam H. Murdoch, annoys Charles Burn
ham, as Colonel Gray, foster father of tn,
minded victim CANT he swell!"-:'Well
I should say!'') and frets Miss Maisie Ce
Gil, her sister Florence (s'Ain't she sweet
tho!'). 1t even bothers a manly sergean
who fingers about the fcoloneIs quarter
and makes love to the coloneTs guests
as is the sociable custom of sergeants a
army posts. The recovery of the extr;
wife and the unwilling of the crime, i
! effected by A. Bryon Beasley, a half
breed assistant surgeon. % He goes bacl
to moccasin and blanket witnesses tn
| Custer massacre, is wounded, takes al
important dispatch to General Crook, ar
rives gloriously upon a real horse, an,
drops dead. Gee, I simply love him =
declares Lii. yes, amt he great! n
say, I'll, les. 6 out and get a drink o
4 water" Nsg@ ~ @>E-- .,~
But when, between acts free figh
started in the gallery the Misses Mary am
Lily were less gratifed, They frownet
heavily and Mary commented, Gee, ain
they tur-rible'' The management of tn
theater, however, will endeavor to pre-
vent a recurrence of such disorder.
/ + a.. ...-. H. 3. Curry.