The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-03-18
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massive Drury Lane spectacle, Mother
Goose the first of the great English
spectacles to be seen in this city, will
day, March 81. While the story of
g Mother Goose is mainly comic in it's
interest, it has as it's foundation a moral
-contentment. The scenes are more
elaborate than those utilized in any
previous Drury Lane spectacle and this
production with its scenery and the two
ballets and one transformation will be
accepted as representing the highest
achievement in scenic art. The two bal
lets have logical place in the develop
ment Of the story. The Art Nouveau
ballet is shown as demonstration of
the Demon King to Mother Goose that
money cannot purchase good taste. In
a scene in the first act, the exterior of
Mother Goose's cottage, in which she
is threatened with eviction because she
cannot pay her rent, just as the magic
goose that lays the golden eggs arrives
to her succor; in the hall of gold, where
Mother Goose is extravagantly rich, in
the country home of the Laird, where
Mother Goose and her friends have been
invited to fOxhunt, and in a scene
called Gooseland in the third act, many
comic situations are shown, all of which
tend to establish the moral of the piece,
g contentment.
Orpheum-Will Cressy. "dean of the
tabloid DRAMA is the feature for the
week of Feb. 26. Cressy has written
and staged more successful vaudeville
sketches than any one and is reeog,-
nized as the most versatile writer and
producer on the vaudeville stage. He
Blanche Dayne, his greatest success,
Clown Hall Tonight" in which his
character work as Hip Fletters, village
E'Pooh Ball. will be high order of
merit. It will be great laughing bill
thruout, including the great Thereses,
in a comedy hypnotic act; Harry
monolog; Greene and Werner, in their
Jungle romance; Herbert Brooks, card
manipulation and trunk mystery e1pon-
emit; the Columbians, in a new dancing
and posturing act; and the Simon and
Gardner company in HThe New Coach
man. sketch of the uproariously
funny order.
BJou.-"Mor to Be Pitied than
Scorned' is a new play that will fol-
B Bro " The play is by Charles E.
Blaney and is said to be far above the
average melodrama. Mr.. Blaney has
left nothing undone to make it mag
innocent prouuGtlon IN SCENIC enects ana
costuming. The, play deals with the
stage and church and is in four acts
and eight scenes, and tells OF the un-
happy consequences of a clandestine
marriage between Julian Lorraine, the
, leading man in a dramatic stock COM
pany, and Viola Keith, the daughter Of
a neighboring clergyman, who regards
the theater as house of evil and play
! folk as servants of the evil one. The
author, in unfolding this tale of jeal-
ousy, intrigue and domestic misery, has
utilized the knowledge gained of life
behind the scenes in his career as a
theatrical manager. There is cast of
thirty, chorus of twenty and many
supernumeraries are used.
Lyceum.-A great double bill will be
given at the Lyceum the week of March
26, when Florence Stone will appear in
the two great name parts of 'Thelma -
and "Camille. - The announcement is a
most interesting one, as two plays could
hardly have. been selected that would
show the wide scope of Miss Stone s
talents more strikingly than the pure
maiden of the land Of the midnight sun
and the pitiful beauty Of the Partisan
demimonde.
FooTLIGHT FLASHES.
The April attractions at the Metropolitan in
clude Henrietta Crosman for week. pre-
senting mi .tress Nell'' and other plays: Flor
ence Roberts in a repertory of standard dramas
Raymond Hitchcock in The Yankee Consul
Lawrence D'Orsay in The Earl of Pawtucket''
Creston Clarke in Monsieur Beaucare,'' anG
Nat c. Goodwin in 1.-The Gilded Fool
Next week will be souvenir week at the Ly
ceum theater, when exceptionally beautiful the
arical souvenirs will be presented to all patron.
Monday evening and Tuesday and Thursday af
ternoons.
lyon Yonson'' is to be seen at the Bijou
This excellent comedy drama goes merry or
its way, welcome visitor year after year.
In For Fame and Fortune Terry McCiov
ems new play. not only does Terry play ms
to whom he told the old old story Rose
McGovern, Terry's wife. is his leading
Dangers of Working Girls a melo
drama, Is coming the Bjou in April.
ME, Him and L." the high-class musical
spectacle that will be at the Bijou in April
is said to be the brightest, snappiest and mer
riest of this seasons musical offerings.
The announcement of the coming of The Way
of the Transgressor' to the Bijou this season
will be welcome news 10 theaterPoerS.