The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1905-04-03
At St. Paul Theaters

SpectacieS have come and spectacleS
nave gone. but none of the magnitude
Mother Goose" disclosed at the Met
ropoiitan last night has ever visit
ed ST. Paul before. Fortunately. ST.
Paufs metropolitan opera house pos
ScsseS the stage room for such
wealth of scenery and abundance OF
chorus girls. Without such capacity
such a show could not be adequately
given
This attraction was heralded In
superiatives. some of which were sun
pressed by I h Globe because they
looked too big and sounded too loud
for credeRce. But 1t must be confessed
that they did not exaggefate the dis
play. and some of them may justifiably
De reproduced, now that the show has
positively indicated the press agent
a rare achievement these days.
AS spectacle. which is all Mother
Goose" pretends to be. this exhibition is
immensely beautiful and beautifully
immense. It's music is not remarkable
nor its libretto literary fancy
charged with subtle wit, but it's girls
are legion and their raiment a fantasy,
not TO say dream. of varied and beau
teous design and rich coloring The eye
Is fairly surfeited and bewildered by
the combination of costumes and wom-
en- that people the stage in the finales.
On the girls march, the successive
piatoons -attired in various dreSS-in
which skirts do not figure-and carry
ing the numerous. ornate insignia of
fairyland. As they appear, march
down to the footlights and form grace
ful groups at the sides you begin to
wonder when the procession will cease.
After $50 or more have appeared-you
have ceased trying to count them by
this time-the scene back of the foot
lights has become as striking a picture
as light, life. color and pretty women
can make Ii.
This array of natures most pictur-
esque handiwork aided. and abetted by
the costumers and scenic painters art
and the electricians science as mani
rested by the manipulation of the sub
tie light. Is presented again and again
at the finales, of. the. second and third
acts, whose picturesqueness Is rarely
enhanced by the aerial ballet This
consists of seven women OF graceful
ngures who soar way over the heads
OF the others and form artistic groups
and poses in mid air. One of these
young women makes q fight over the
audience even to the celestial abodes
of the theater, lightly rests a foot on
the rail, and gently floats back to the
stage, while showering roses on the
admiring spectators
1t Is a spectacle indeed-this Mother
Goosei" s.-.s-. 49,.
Like all extravaganzas its comedy is
OF the buriesque order Joseph Cav
thorn plays the title role, and still rolls
his RS in such irresistible fashion that
one OF the assistant comedians Sug-
gests he ought to take a cup of coffee
with that roll. - Cawthorn's cleverest
stunt is in the song, Social Eclat."
in which he relates in fetching
melody the correspondence he received
as editor of a department of a we'll
known publication for women In a
legitimate comedy some of the wit
ticisms might be considered in ques-
ttonable taste, but in a burlesaue of
this character they seem to be relished
as sauce to the varied bill of fare.
Cawthorn is undeniably funny. He is
ably assisted by w. H. Macart, as the
Scotch laird of Borderl and Clifton
Crawford as the mayor of Chatham
and Harry Kelly as Mother Goose's
son Jack.
The goose, Priscilla. who lays the
golden eggs, was capitally done by
Walter Stanton.
She who was once known as Little
Corinne played the leading juvenile,
Colin, and played him delightfully."-.
Never In her most precocious starring
days did Corinne look so pretty or act
with so much animation. Her figure is
trim, her manner viyacious. She sang
the song Reminds Me of Home, Sweet
Home" in a manner that won her a
hearty encore.
daughter of Mother Goose, was a vi
sion of dainty beauty. and Edyth st.
Clair as Caroline Evelyn Gwendolyn
Scraggs was a more substantial expo
nent Of the same feminine quality
F. G. H.