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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-06

dream of happiness Of Karl Heinrich.
the heir presumptive to the throne of
one of the small German states, is the
motive Of the drama At old Heidel-
berg, the famous university town, the
prince breaks thru the shackles of court
life, joints his fel]ow-students in their
pranks, shares their joys and sorrows,
and tears down the walls that caste has
built between him and them. Love,
the leveler Of rank, greets him in the
eyes of Katie, the vlvacious barmald.
when the death Of his father, the old
prince, puts stop to the happy life
and forces the heir to take up the duties
OF the ruler. "Minna Won Barnhelm -
is one of the classics Of the German
stage, having been writer, by (Gotthold
hTam dessng and p so%aST 6 HyGf
with the military, life of that period and
the realism of it's pictures make it, like
Shakspere dramas, full of interest to
the people Of the present generation.
The Saturday matinee bill, "Die Jour
nalisten,' is by Gustave Freytag, the
! German Thackary. An election furnishes
the theme for the complications. Kon-
rad Bell, the. editor of large paper,
date is successful, but by this very sue
cess endangers Belz' position with the
paper. But Adelheld Won Runek removes
all dangers that threaten Belz. This
comedy is one Of the masterpieces of
the German literature. Its language is
without flaw, it's plot constructed with
skill, and the complications solved in
manner that holds the interest up to
liam Tell'' Is familiar to every school
boy. It is from the pen of the famous
poet, Schiller, whose name is every
where revered and honored.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-06
Orpheun-Modern Vaudeville:

The first season Of the Orpheum thea
ter-and the first season of high-class
vaudeville the local public. has ever
known-comes to a close two weeks
from today, and in pursuit Of its pol
icy to maintain it's self-set standard to
the final performance, the Orpheum Cir
cult company has engaged an almost
unequaled array Of talent for the week
commencing with the matinee tomor-
row.
The quintescense of quality and the
spice of variety combine to afford such
an excellence Of entertainment as the
Orpheun offers on state occasions. The
variety is secured thru the engagement
of John G. Rice and Sally Cohen, in
sketch work; troupe of Russian dan.
GERS, a monologist, sister act in burnt
cork, a local vocalist, a wonderful wire
walker and an expert bicyclist.
The quality is indicated by the rec
ognized worth and ability of the head
liners. John c. Rice and Sally Cohen
will be remembered most happily il
care You a Mason,' Vivian IS Pa
pasO and Others Of that ilk. Rice is SC
funny that he invariably breaks up the
orchestra which is a rare thing fol
comedian to accomplish. The vehicle
fol. the Orpheum engagement is Ou1
Honeymoon, written by II. III. Win
slow.
Orpheum audiences have seen per
formers of almost every nationality
from Chinese jugglers to Spanish Amer
lean nightingales and Hungarian imper
| senators. And now comes the Russian
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-06

Two entirely new burlettas have been
provided as a vehicle to exploit the
talents of this unusually large COM
pany. The opening burlesque is "The
Country Angel and the .sbusiness
and ensemble numbers are all new as
well as the costumes and scenery. The
chorus is composed of pretty girls and
the music has jingle that is infec-
tious. The closing burletta is entitled
The Wrong Mr.. Corbett,'' and it is
an. original conception Of Mr.. Open
heimer,s, and is presented for the first
time. The olio includes Kitty Bingham,
the possessor of splendid voice and a
burlesque actress Of much merit; lHonan
comedians; tie Faust Trio, Ac presenting
"The Haunted MiI,'' which has
enough newness in it to place it in the
list of real novelties and clearly shows
the cleverness of these artists. Cum
bingham and Smith have one of those
laughing successes that easily assure
them a hearty reception, and Captain
Kellar's Royal Zouave Girls still re.
tain their position as the real "bie
act y Of the bill. The bright English
girls elicit rounds of applause for their
precise drilling and wall scaling. Miss
Louise Dacre is a character actress of
high order and her singing of smart
songs and her confessions Of matrimo-
NAL trouble are among the real hits of
the entertainment The costumes are
most effective and a new show can be
relied upon. s.--
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-06
sTJncle Toms Cabin. -

Al w. Martins "Uncle Toms Cab
in' will appear at the Bijou next
week. On Friday evening prize buck
and wing dancing contest will take
place. Amateurs only will be admitted.
:. No play ever written is better known
than '''Uncle Toms Cabin not even
the plays Of immortal SHAKESPEARE, for
the play Of slavery has been given in
every village and hamlet in this coun-
try. It has been played steadily and
constantly for the last phalf century
and it is being played somewhere in
this land Of ours every day of the year:
It has developed distinctive class of
players called "Uncle Tommers lin de.
rision by other actors. But this refers
to the cheaper representations. 1t has
been given as handsome and expensive
mountings as have ever been seen in
any play, and as played by the AL w
Martin company, the production leaves
nothing to be desired, either in scenery
or in players. A large company Of
negroes from the south will be seen il
plantation pastimes and festivities ex
actly as INDUCED in by the slaves il
the antebellum times. All the old-time
glees, refrains and dances will be sung
with the rich plaintive voices of the
southern negro-buck and wing dan
cling, cakewalk and "voodoo scene. ,
The role of Uncle Tom is in the hand!
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-06
CYCLES OF SENTIMENT
IN POPULAR SONGS

tyaller gals names Hannah to jet
black ladies it showed the way senti-
ment was drifting. I saw that the
songs were. going down the anthropolo-
{:ical scale and predicted the end. When
the negroes were as black as they could
be, the Zulu song came in. After the
Zulu came the Hottentot, 'She s My
Sweet Forget-me-not' and then King
of the Cocoanut Grove IN Lonely,
Dear Little Chimpanzee, I Love You
Only And now we have the plain
monkey song of 'zanzibar;
'The Honeysuckle and the Bee
went still farther down in the scale of
evolution and marked the change from
the animal to the vegetable kingdom.
The Star that Loved the Rose was
getting clear back to the nebular
hypothesis. 1t was too ethical for the
common mind and did not last. But it
was certainly following the evolution
theory to the bitter end.'
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-06


was there by invitation, and that Syl-
vaine, about to be married, cannot af-
ford to face scandal. But Sylvaine
has no intention of having her ar
rested. He tells her she may go free,
but first he questions her; learns of her
childhood and training and gradually,
by his sympathy and pity, breaks down
the barrier Of callousness and bravado
and rouses the moral sense Of the real
woman within. When Leah walks out
she is resolved that It shall be toward
a new life. The threats and pleadings
Of her father count for nothing. She
would take death rather than stay.
Her last act as she goes is to save her
father from capture. Leah IS mother,
dead years before, was an Austrian
peasant woman, laborer in the lettuce
field near Neustadt. It is to these
fields that Leah returns to labor as
her mother had. Here she finds peace
and happiness such as she had not
known before, and here Sylvaine comes
to her to make her his wife
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-06
*. 9 s,t /. ..s;;

A sweet voice and a natural gift Of
expression have brought, if not fame
and fortune, at least good luck to lit
tie orphan girl in Minneapolis. She is
Irene Mason, IL years old, who is sing
ing ballads at the UNDUE theater. Back
OF her. appearance on the stage thus
early in life there is a pathetic little
story Of the death of her parents, leav-
ing her and baby sister charges upon
an aunt already burdened with cares
sufficient to make life s struggle hard
one.
"Amateur night was responsible
for the stroke of fortune that enables
little Irene to earn enough to support
herself and her little sister and save
something for the future in way that
| is genuine pleasure to her instead OF
| a task.
| Every Friday evening at the Unique
| theater amateurs are given opportunity
to appear. Some sing, others recite,
dance, attempt "play acting, - or other
forms of entertaining in which they
hope to win agpTT99v al Vaudeville ma,
ment, and success usually means a vast
improvement in conditions of life.
With real talent as a starter, stage
experience is requisite to success
Amateur night is the crucial test of
the first requirement, and furnishes the
| opportunity Tor the second. line audl,
ences are not very charitable in passing
| Judgment. They are ready to laugh at
the first symptom of awkwardness, and
are really mischievous in their enjoy
ment of tyro's confusion in the
agonies of stage fright Yet they are
quite as ready to detect glimmer OF
genius and applaud it, or to cheer q
brave endeavor. Misguided ambition
inordinate conceit, and self-satisfe6
complacency, however, are winnowed
out in this grinding of the gallery
gods, whose mill grinds not slowly anC
yet exceeding fine.
It was before one of these big crowds
of laughing people that little Irene
found herself one Friday night about
two months ago. There was the glare
of the footlights before her and bach
Of it the blur of a thousand faces. He
first inclination was to run, but sht
happened to look down and she saw the
face of the big, fat orchestra leader
He smiled encouragement and leaning
forward played the first note of tn,
song she had rehearsed.
Then she suddenly remembered VIII,
she was there and unconsciously he
; voice followed the violin. She forgo
about the audience and herself ant
sang to him. Her voice grew stronger
she stopped twisting her fingers in tn,
folds Of her dress and it was not hare
to breathe any more.
When she finished the first vers
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-06

"Did you ever notice how popular
songs 90 in cycles?' asks Lew Sully,
the veteran monologist who is on the
Orpheum bill next week.
81 have made a study Of the pet
phrases that go with any particular pc
Rod. For instance, there. was long
time in which every sentimental song
some form or other, the moon was
gently shining from above Of course,
there is where the moon usually shines
from, but for long time the song
writer's seemed to think that their ef-
forts would be in vain if they didn It
have the moon shining down instead of
up. That idea came in to supplant the
first place, dropped back to make way
for another and finally disappeared al
together. Usually there are three such
phrases in all popular songs; one Just
coming in, the one in full sway and the
one past its prime and disappearing.
- A fair instance Of this is seen in
the song, Sunny Tennessee The
moon was It in those days. My sin
gle sweetheart was the man, in the
moon,' and it was shining bright to-
night on my old Kentucky home and on
the banks of the Wabash, far away.
And that brings us to another phase
Of the subject.
HDid you ever notice that nothing
was worth singing about until it was
far away? 'On the banks Of the Wa
bash h. far away, mid the green fields
Suwanee river, far, far away But
to finish our example. The last line
about the girl we love who sleeps in
sunny Tennessee was the forerunner
Of the geographical graveyard element
in song. There was Mary who slept
by the banks Of the Wabash, Mary who
slept in sunny Tennessee, Mary sleep
| Georgia, and the girl T loved out in the
Golden West
remember that just before the
| passenger train came into the song
they all started out on walk. While
strolling down the street one eve upon
mere pleasure bent,' man met the
girl who said, tell them that you. saw
me, while wandering in the shadow
of the pines. He left his sweetheart
and while 'strolling along in the city s
vast throng on day that was bitte1
and cold he met another girl and she
may have seen better days.
girl songs. ! suppose that day thai
was bitter and cold saw the inception
. of the weather condition songs. 'Or
a morning bright and clear to my ole
home l drew near, just village dow1
in sunny Tennessee. And S'twas
bright and sunny day when youns
wife went away from her husband, VIII
had wrung her heart with pain Sh
was happy till she met him.
"That was the beginning Of the do
nestle difficulties idea in songs. You
mother, child, left home one night il
sThere'll Come a. Time and Tho sh
fled with another she is still my baby !
mother, in | Live Her Just the Same.
IsI,d Leave My Happy Home for You,
transferred the breaking up. Of HON
ties to the colored population. An
. hence just Take Your Clothes an
Co. All Coons Look Alike to Me,
IF You Amt Got Any Money, Yo
!; Needn't Come Around For Ion
! period then every nanny was drivin
!. her old man away from home. Th
next thing to expect was the reaction
and the logical result was Bill Bailey
: Won t You Please Come Homeq'
Talking of what ito expect, whe
{ the coon songs began to change frol
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-06
ST. ANTHONY PARK

Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Reeves were guests Of
honor Friday evening at dinner given by Mr..
and Mrs. Thomas Fowble Of Hamline.
Mrs. Thane, who spent the winter with Mr..
and Mrs. ]. r. Stewart, has returned to stur-
geon Bay, Wis.
The Junior Endeavor society Of the Congrega-
tional church had picnic and May day party
Monday afternoon at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
c. w. Chase.
The Ladies' Aid society of the Congregational
church was entertained Tuesday afternoon at the
parsonage.
The ladies of the Methodist church were en-
tertained Tuesday afternoon by Mrs. Dean of
East Bayless avenue.
Mr.. and Mrs John Hummell entertained the
Young Peoples Card club Saturday evening
Miss Chase and A. NJ. Bull took the favors.
The young people enjoyed May day party
Monday evening at the home of Ray Cary.
Mrs. Frances Parker is entertaining her daugh-
| ter Mrs. Harry Roe of Vancouver.
| Miss Olga Molnnder is entertaining Miss Edna
| Danforth of Sandstone.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dooley Of Merriam Park have
The Congregational ladies gave a sale of home
sewing and baking at their church yesterday
Miss Nettie Wilson entertains friends this eve
ming.
Miss Katie McRae of Princeton who has beer
a guest OF Mr. and Mrs. George Craig, has gone
to British Columbia.
Mrs. Margaret Blair spoke at Owatonna yes
| terday and at Austin today, before the Won
ems Institute clubs.
| The Congregational Ladies' Missionary societ,
VIII meet Tuesday at the home of Mr.. and Mrs
j. T.. Stewart. "The Ancient Religions O.
Japan" and present Educational Work IL
| japan" will be discussed.
Mrs. w. B. Kelley is entertaining her pa
rents Mr.. and Mrs. Swan of Belfast, Me-
/ Mr.. and Mrs. Fred C. Genge gave a dancin.
party at the Midway Manufacturers club room
Thursday evening in honor Of Miss Laura Wins
low of Kenosha. Wis.
Mrs. Reed of Spokane is a guest of Mr. an
Mrs. George Shellenbarger
| Mrs. William Liggett has returned from Wash
1ngton, d. c., and Marysvile. Ohio
Mrs. j. Deyoe of Chicago and Miss France
Bachenholf of Wfnona were guests of Mr. an
Mrs. George Elmer last Sunday.
| The Ladies Reading circle met Thursday AT
ternoon with Mrs. E.. II. Burghardt
The L. b. I. v. club was entertained by Mis-
Gertrude Good Thursday afternoon
Mrs Walter Hill and Miss George Hill hay
returned from Eau Claire and Chippewa Falls
Mrs. A. @. Dunn and daughter have returne
from Fargo
Miss Christine Nelson, sister of Mrs. c. n
Loyem, and Leonard Howard were married o
Wednesday evening at the home of Mr.. and Mrs
o. N. Lovem of Bayless avenue. Rev. J. W
; Fryckberg of st. Anthony Park Methodist churc
read tn emarriage service Miss Lillian Hou.
ton and William Dean attended the bridal couple
Mrs. A. P. Nelson assisted the hostess Th
parlors were decorated with palms and sprin
, flowers. Mr.. and Mrs. Howard are living on Te
ritorial road.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-06
MRS. Fishes NEWEST ROLE
THAT OF A GIRL BURGLAR

To see Mrs. Fiske as burglar, with
jimmy, dark lantern and other aces
series, will be novelty. But it is in
this guise that she is to appear with
her new Manhattan company at the
AUDITORIUM on May Is, IS and 20 in IN
Kleschna.o And it is as this girl thief
that she won a success that was the
talk Of New York for months. The
success has added another to the gal
axy of her transformations that in
cludes the unfortunate Tess, the re-
sourceful Becky, the disconnected He'd
da, the spiritual Magdalen, the. child
Lea Kleschna is not only new role
for Mrs. Fiske. 1t is new role for
the drama. There is no character in
stage literature like this girl, brought
up to steal and to regard stealing as a
calling worthy Of pursuit.
THE profession you re in,' says
her father, whose, exploits have made
in my estimation. Hundreds of men
are, playing the same game and calling
it business principles. We fancy fell
lows 60 the straight road, that's all. -
Kleschna is no common thief. He
plays for big stakes, and has cour-
age, ability and intelligence that would
have brought him distinction what
ever he turned his mind to. Leah in
herits these qualities and is trained
| to his views. Automatically, not in
stinctively, she is thief
Thus is Leah when a, new influence
| begins to exert itself over her. In a
shipwreck she has been impressed by
the bravery and unselfshness of man
who had saved the lives of herself
herself, and his identity is unknown to
her. But his nobility Of nature makes
her think about her own life. She
wishes it might be different Her
father and his assistant, Schramm, no.
tice the difference.
| Here we get to the basic theme of
the play-the Tolstoy theory that there
is in every human being an instinct fol-
good; that one person can arouse this
instinct in another and that the way
to reform criminals is by an appeal tc
theory is illustrated rather than ex
pounded, for "Leah Kleschna' is q
drama Of action and not treatise on
ctrimilnology; For that reason the fact
that the Tolstoy theory is mingled with
love gives an added interest.
i The turning point for Leah comes
when, while she is robbing a safe, she
is confronted by the man who has been
influencing her. He is Paul Sylvaine
member of the chamber of deputies and
a believer in moral suasion for Grim
inals. Even at this time he is true tc
his convictions. Leah, trapped, is de-
faint, bold, as she has been taught tt
be. She says, as her father told her
that if arrested she will declare that she
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-06
AT THE THEATERS
BILLS on THE WEEK.

METRoPoLITAN-Harry Corson Clarke May Z in Lost
Twenty-four Hours farce comedy The Players, Mime
apois amateurs "A Crazy Idea, arcica comedy, May
and Wednesday matnee Young Mrs. Winthrop, society
comedy drama, May and TO-
Milwaukee German Dramatic Company Alt Heidelberg
May II; "RIinna Barnheln May IL; in 'Die Jour-
naisten matinee May 49, and in William Tell May 49,
ORPHEUM-NEodern Vaudeville All the week, with daily
matinees.
BIJoU-A w Martins spectacular ''Unce Toms Cabin all
week. with matnees Sunday Wednesday and Saturday
LYCEUN-Feris Stock company in "A Royal Slave Mexican
melodrama All the week. with matnees Sunday, Tuesday,
Thursday and Saturday.
UNLQUE-Connuous Vaudeville Four performances daily at
2, 80 $50 pm. Bill changes Monday
DEWEY-Miss New York. Jr, burlesquers All the week,
with daily matinees Ladies' performances Friday after
and evening"
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-06
Wisconsin Central Railway Summer
Rate Bulletin.

Savannah, Ga-Tickets on sale May
IL to Il, one fare plus 50 round trip.
st. Louis, Mo.-Tickets on sale May Is,
%, one fare plus 80 cents round trip.
Milwaukee, Wis.-June 16, 10 inc, one
fare plus so cents round trip.
Toronto, Ont.-June Is, 10, 81, %, one
fare plus So round trip.
Baltimore, Md-July 1, 3 inc., one fare
plus So round trip.
For full particulars call or address v.
C. Russell, G. R. & 7. A., $50 Nicollet
avenue, Minneapolis.
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Lyceum-s'A Royal Slave.'

Lyceum-'A Royal Slave"
England, France, Switzerland and
Spain have been represented in recent
productions at the Lyceum theater, and
next week another part of the world,
rarely used as the setting for drama,
will be pictured in special scenery Of
unusual and novel beauty. +
The lovely coast and sun-fooded in
terror Of old Mexico form the scenes
in which is enacted the bright, color,
full and intense story of ga Royal
slave,' Clarence Bennett great pic
torial, romantic drama.
n6 S s1enss Of taEepca qsHFa4 nee
striking Story of IA Royal Slave, =.
and the conception is no less pic
turesque and unusual than the en-
vironment. The royal slave is Ell
Aguila, the. last Of the vanished Mon
tezumas, that royal Aztec house whose
only ruler known to history is so known
because he was conquered by the Span
symbol for all time Of the downfall
| Of his nation. .. 80
Ell Aguila has all his life been in
servitude to Countess Inez de Ora,
whose magnificent country seat lies at
the foot of the volcano Popocatapetl
and his chief pleasure is in watching
and serving Isadora de Ora, who has
been brought up, as the daughter of the
old countess. The dominant interest
of the play centers in the paternal love
of an old servant for his young mis-
tress. The devotion of the solitary de-
graded scion Of the royal Aztec house
to child of the race which conquered
his and holds him in bondage, is a
most, appealing and unusual medium
for dramatic expression, and is woven
thru the thrilling incidents and subtle,
daring plot. Of "a Royal Slave like
a, thread of silver in fabric of pur-
Eva Taylor as Isadora will have
she has SO splendidly carried herself
and her audiences since she has been
the Ferris company's leading lady.
Isadora de Ora is "a noble Spanish girl,
both by birth and nature, and the
breathless, dangerous and trying ex.
periences she endures before she is
brought to happiness. and the arms of
OF the old Aztec prince, form story in
which interest and suspense are kept
at white heat. To tell the story would
be to deprive Lyceum patrons Of many
novel surprises and entertaining de-
lights which the play includes.
! Lawrence Grattan will be most in
teresting in the great and bizarre char.
dcIel pdlL OI AZ ulld. LJS requirements
are SO exacting and so entirely differ.
ent from anything he has yet played
here that Mr.. Grattan s versatility will
be proved conclusively.
Dewey-''Miss New York, Jr.'' Bur
> lesquers.
Manager Joe Oppenheimer Mis-.
New York, Jr., y company will be the
next attraction at the Dewey theater