The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-02-21

this season masterpiece Of negro COM
edy entitled 1.-THE Georgia Minstrels.
Nat M Willis, the happy tramp, seen
here number of times. will have new
budget of rarodies and fun. Miss Idalene
Cotton. wonderful iIapersonator and
Nick Long, star from the legitimate
will be seen in a sketch entitled The
Critic and the Lady" which permits Miss
Cotton to do her famous limitations OF Mrs
Leslie Carter, La Tartoona and others.
Mignonette Kokin. the winsome singing
and dancing coincidence, has probably
travelled further and appeared in more diff
ferent parts of the world than any other
young artist The native bushmen Of
Australia are the. only people in the world
that ever mastered the art of throwing the
boomerang. In their hands it is as deadly
as bullet from sharpshooter's Mauser.
Rawson and June are the only whites that
have ever been able to master the art of
throwing the boomerang. For four years
they practiced daily before their extra Or
binary act was presented in public. One
Of the feats consists Of throwing the
boomerang over the heads of the audience
into the balcony and gallery and causing
it to return to the hands of the thrower on
the stage. The Melani trio, vocalists and
instlumentalists furnish the musical
number. These young men are graduates
with the highest honors from two Of the
principal Conservatives of music in
France. Other aetssf include Galetti's
NAL acts ever presented, and Albert Kar-
tell, the famous gymnast.
The famine sufferers of northern Sweden
and Finland wi have ia benefit Curing the
engagement, and Swan j. Turnblads who
has the matter in charge, reports a large
sale of tickets 81 already. 2 - "A
"A Young Wife,
be presented by the FerrisSS took o1npany
at the Lyeeu1n next week. eissa vigorous
and plausible drama Witch does not trans
cend the possibilities and does nothing
more than the mildest violence ITO ! the
probabilities. The person Incapable Of a
sympathetic response to the Wholesome
sentiments of 50: plausible a splay1as ":A
Young Wife, should keep wey away from
the theaters. Virtue is mot 1.-The issue
Martial fidelity. instead Of being called into
question, as in q. problem play is the
dominant NOTE The wife stands ready tC
| confess herself an assassin to protect hel
husband, whom she believes to be the
murderer Of thissfather-
i The plot is exceptionally strong. 1t re.
4 wolves arounS the bride of a capitalist
son, whose half-brother lis the ''blacl
II sheep Of the family! The villain, Eerber
Douglas (alias Charles Clemers) belong!
to a gang of burglars With one of then
he robs his father S: sa fe, but is interrupted
by the father, whom he kills after a hare
struggle. The bride 4nd daughter Ethe
7 Douglas, arrives in time to hear from
/ her. dying father that his own son was tn
murderer. Unaware Of the existence O
this half brother, she thinks he must meal
> her husband, who is his own son. Tn
: dialogue is plain and sensible, not stillte
/ and mawkish as is the manner Of tn
t sterotyped variety.
l Will D. Corbett will play Clarence Doug
S las, adopted son Of Judson Douglas; VIM
: II. Murdoch is Clarence's half brother
Herbert, alias Charles Clemens; Rober
! Folsom is Judson Douglas and st. John,
S dectective; Ben Johnson will characteriz
$ Marks leader Of a gang Of burglars; C. {
n Gunther will be Louis Marks. his son,
0 gambler and burglar: Herbert Brenor
d cast as Horace Greengage Dobbins, jus
. from the country; Master Harry Cour wi
e play Bill Dempsey, a, newsboy. Miss Grac