The Saint Paul globe., 1904-07-17

Mrs. Alfred Lyttleton, wife of the sec
matte and Social circles were prirned
Tor sensation before the curtain rose
on the first performance.
Ihey We're not disappointed, for the
play was aimed directly at the butter
fles OF society. The shock has discon-
certed them and thereby given the
play a good deal of advertising. For
all that, however, it is declared by the
majority OF London newspapers to be
nearly hopeless from dramatic
STANDPOINT, being described as dull and
heavy except in one act.
Charles Frohnan has secured "Jo-.
seph Entangled," by Henry Arthur
Jones, Tor Henry Miller for next sea-
son; MISS Hilda Spong will be in Mr..
Miller's company.
Mrs. Patrick Campbell mas signed a
contract with Charles Frohman to ap-
pear under his management for twen-
ty-slA weeks in the principal cities Of
the United States She will begin her
tour on Oct. 3, opening in New York
Win Sardou's new play, The Sor-
ceress, IN which Sarah Bernhardt is
One of the finest compliments paid to
Garrick is paid by Fielding through
Farlriogess comments in tom Jones"
on that actors Hamlet.
Which of the players did you like
The king, of course" replied Par
| fridge.
The king! Why all the world agrees
that Hamlet was played by the best
actor ever seen upon the stage"
he the best player!" cried Partridge
with contemptuous sneer. why, I
could act as well myself. I am sure II
l mad seen ghost / should have looked
! In the same manner, and done the same
as ne did. And, then, to be sure, in that
scene between him and his mother,
| where you say he acted so fine, why,
Lord help me! any man-that is, any
good man-that had such a mother
| would have done exactly the same.
The king for my money! He speaks all
his words distinctly and half as loud
| again as the other. Anybody may see
he is an actor. Chicago Tribune.
The Maid and the Mummy will
continue at the Garrick theater. with
Richard Carroll, Eddie Garvie, Mar
garet Mckinney, Janet Priest, Mrs.
Yeamons. May Boley, Edgar Norton
and Louis Wesley in the cast. Two
hundred members of the press club
attended the performance Wednesday
night. Afterward the club gave the
| members of the company a supper at
| its rooms. In the impromptu pro-
| gramme which followed, Miss Mar
garet Mckinney, Miss Janet Priest,
Miss Annie Pelham, Richard F. Car
roll and Mr.. Edgar Norton took part.
+ Still further proof of a poor theatri-
cal season in London is signified by
| the decision of Forbes Robertson to
withdraw "The Edge of the Storm for
a revival of Mice and Men. Mr..
Robertson, in speaking of the depres-
sion in theatricals, said: 1T is ex-
| tremely difficult to account for bad
| season, but I should say the cause of
| the depression is the want of money
| When money is tight people prefer to
go to a light entertainment rather
than to serious drama. In every
branch of art-whether it be painting,
sculpture, novel writing or the drama
it is the rubbish that appeals to a
large section of the public"
Mrs, Henry Clay Barnabee has an
original method of securing and pre-
| serving the signatures of famous per-
sons. She has a beautiful tablecloth
| containing the signatures which she
| has embroidered of notable lights in
the political, musical, dramatic, liter
| ary and financial worlds. Among the
names that are conspicuous are Calve
| Schumann-H Heink, Jean de Reszke,
President Mckinley, Secretary Root,
President Roosevelt, Grover Cleveland
Edwin Booth, John Mccullough, Will
| liam E. Gladstone, Eugene Field and
many others, all of whom Mrs. Barna-
| bee has met. In the center of the
! cloth is an embroidered facsimile sig
n a Mrc Pny.x oI<aa
| above all others. 1t is that Of Henry
| Clay Barnabee.
| A gentleman who objects to the prod
| of another mans toe In his back sug-
| gests that theater seats be built so that
! the penetrative shoe point cannot reach
its object. But when the toe cannot
| annoy the knee can. What plan of
| construction will battle the person who
continually knocks the rear of your
chair with his knee and shakes you out
| of your absorption in the play? And If
| you succeed in ridding yourself of him,
what are you going to do with the one
| who persists in telling, for the benefit
| of every one within ten feet of him,
| what is going to happen next? Not
| theater chairs, but some theater-goers
need remodeling.-New York Sun.
Sgr. Novelli, an actor. has signed a
| contract for number of performances
| in the United States, beginning in Jan
uary, 1905. He will spend half his
| time in America in New York, and will
| appear in both tragedy and comedy.
His company will be an especially
| strong one and will include Signorina
| Olga Giannini as leading lady.
| One of the first of the big dramatic
offerings of the coming season in the
| South and West will be Frances Aymar