The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-04-24

Butler, Alfred Hudson Sr. and Evelyn
Vaughn who were very popular here as
members of the stock company support
ing Miss Haswen last summer, will be
members of the company during the COM
ing summer engagement at the Grand
opera house June T.
A middle-aged gentleman of respectable
appearance who apparently had wined and
dined a bit too much. kept his seat after
the performance Of The PITT Monday
night, and was finally aroused by an ush-
er. ssz
You'll have to meve on and get out
of here said the usher. We're closing
The arowsy gentleman gradually OPEN
ed one eye, and grasped violently the lapel
OF The usher's coat Are you drunk?" he
No" replied the usher
well, then, you can move out a d-n
sight easier than can" and the middle
aged gentleman's head dropped again.
The report has not been denied that this
may be the last season of the famous
BoStonians. OF late years this once pOpu-
lar organization has gone, back trifie.
The east is not up to the really high
they have encountered the almost impOs-
Sible task of securing worthy successor
to robin Hood If the organization is
disrupted it is said that Henry Clay bar
nabee will be seen as a star in a new
musical comedy to be written for him.
The Jean Richepin play which Otis
skinner is to produce next month is lie
Ghem1lneau., The play will have for its
English title "The Harvester" Support
ing, Mr.. Skinner will be Lizzie Hudson
Collier, James Wilson, George Clarke.
Marion Abbott, Walter Lewis, Ben Ring
gold. Russell Crawford and Maude Durbin,
in private life Mrs. Otis Skinner, who will
return to the stage TO appear with hel
husband. The play will be seen here in
October.
". Fl. Thompson is one actor who does
not believe that everything is gained
when stardom is reached. Although the
veteran player has lately arrived at that
honorable distinction which gains large
type. he still clings to the belief that the
stock company is the true standard of ex-
If can go down with the reputa-
ton Of being a first-class stock actor
to me. In the old days it was a great
honor to be a star, but now it is no great
distinction. There are no parts 1 ever
played that 1 would give cents to play
again. except those in which 1 was ex-
And this from man who began his
stage career as a call boy in the old
Broadway theater; who made his first
appearance as a page in Romeo and
Juliet who has played more than 1900
portant characters.
II has been decided by the managers
Interested in the all-star revival of 1.-The
Two Orphans at the New Amsterdam to
send the company on the road next season
for at least the rest of the year Grace
George IS to continue in the role of Louise,
and others in their present roles will be
Clara Norris. Eiita Proctor Otis. James
O'Nein Annie Irish and Frederick Perry.
kyrle Bellew, Charles Warner, F.. NJ.
Holland and some of the other performers
will retire but their places will be filled
by actors equally well known. Louis James
has already been engaged to succeed
Charles Warner, who is to star in a new
play under the management Of Charles
Frohman. Negotiations have been begun
with Charles hickman to play the part of
the Chevalier in place Of Mr.. Bellew.
Eddie Foy says no one can imagine how
the railroads are run down ia Lower Cali
foTnia unless they have been there. Last
summer Mr.. Foy was journeying down In
that part of the country, and on the par
ticulaT trip taken as an example he was
en- route up the coast to a junction where
he was to connect for San Francisco. The
train had been running at about the rate
Of a Broadway dray wagon for three
hours when suddenly it whisked around
curve and started down the grade like
the Empire State let loose.
Mr.. Foy tried to walk up the car. and
was successfully dumped into an elderly
Woman's lap and against the lunch basket
of fair tourist before he could reach the
tottering in
Say. what's the matter?" asked Mr..
Foy. Engine running away?"
''WelI. not 'zactiy," returned the of
fetal, steadying himself and changing his
quid into his other cheek, but thar's
sort of rottin' bridge ahead, and we
always git cross it as quickly as posi-
ble."
A young writer with an aptitude for
saying clever aphoristic things in a man
ner which recalls Emerson, NietZsche and
Benjamin Franklin has furnished us with
the following analysis of dramatic criti-
cism and critics, say the New York Sun.
His name is Benjamin De Casseres, and
he is not afraid to speak out his mind He
says:
Dramatic criticism is of three kinds.
There is the critic who goes to the the
alter to tell the public what he sees; there
is the critic who goes to the theater to
tell the public what he knows and there
is the critic who goes TO the tbeater to
tell the public what it shouldn't see or
know. The first is impersonal; the second
is egotistic; the third is atavistic. The
first will tell you what D'Annunzio says;
the second will tell you what he ought to
have said. and the third will tell you what
he shouldn't be allowed to say at all. The
method of the first is inductive; the
method of the second is deductive; the