The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-03-09
WAVE OF WORDS
REACHES NEW YORK
BREAKS WITH A SPLASH ON THE
'SUN'S' REEF.
Minneapolis Is Quietly ''Kidded" by
the Manhattan Scribes-'' Indefinite
Cosmopolitanism Of Perfume That
Goes with Stylish Audience Makes
a RIG Hit
a Big Hit,

Minneapolis has been made the I'm.
willing victim of "sign painter. -
In newspaper parlance, sign painter is
a writer whose vivid Imagination and
fuency are not bounded by ordinary
rules of composition, and whose enthu
siasm. does, not allow a lack Of facts
Minneapolis 1 Newspaper Ss named i iate en-
was turned loose on the defenseless
public at the time Of the opening Of
the Auditorium, and was told, evident
ly, to "burn 'em up.''. He was filed
with great thoughts and aspired to do
wonderful things with his pen. He sue
ceeded-probably beyond the limit of
his most sangulne expectations. His
story was noted in Minneapolis at once,
and now it has attracted the attention
of the east. Such a notable addition
to the literature of the northwest could
not long remain hidden violet in the
dell Of newspaper seclusion. The New
York Sun has dragged it forth, that the
world might gaze upon it-and wonder.
1t was appreciated in New York
greatly appreciated:
Allen R. Brown first spied it in the
Sun. He is a graduate of the Univer-
sity of Minnesota and is now a resi-
dent of Gotham. He sent the Sun ar
ticle to his father, E. G. Brown, assist
ant cashier Of the First National bank,
with request for more certain infor-
appeared "decollete, and with Zeal
cined congratulations to Minneapolis.
The Sun g editorial, under the head
ing Dressy Night in Minneapolis, -
is as follows:
Minneapolis has an Auditorium. St.
Paul has the blues. The opening of
that Auditorium makes Minneapolis, as
the. Tribune Of that town says, the
| bright star in grand musical frma-
ment; it marks epoch in dramatic, op-
west.' It lifts Minneapolis to a high
rank among artistic ~centers of the
| world T 'other twin wears peniten-
tia1 garb, the st. Paul Dispatch whim-
pers. But let us leave that house of
mourning, enter the house Of feasting
and get "a picture of one of the great.
est, events to which the people of the
metropolis Of the northwest can point
with pride:'
| The six boxes were filled with the
elite, and stretching wide and far wa:
the mammoth parquet, with its Thousand
and a half Of humanity in gala attire
and above, the fringes of humanity occu
plying the balconies, no less dressy, no les
gltttering, no less representative Of met
ropolitan citizenship.
Imagine all this. lighted with thous
ands Of lights and to spare, glinting tn
toilettes of the ladies, rejecting the jew
els of the wearers, flooding everything
with almost calcium radiance, and yo'
have the total effect produced at the frs
performance Of the new auditorium
| "Only six boxes Of elite! It is some
compensation to see that even tn.
fringes of humanity in the balconies
were 'dressy.' 1t was grand 'dressy
occasion. The glitter Of it, and tn.
calcium radiance Of those thousands O:
4 'sparklers turn night into day, even a
this distances: p
"'Crowded was the place, and yet no
crowded, for the broad aisles, the ampl
seats, the lofty ceiling, gave everything
generous appearance, and there was moth
ing cramped about anything in the ney
venture. Add to this the mammoth stage
almost the largest in the country, with it
chorus in place, its great orchestra ready
the evening toilettes, the countless whit
. bosoms of the men, the quivering al
grettes, the fiuttering fans, and above a
, that indefinite cosmopolitanism of per
, fume that goes with a stylish audience
| and you have the first general impressio
, Of the beginning of the evening. 1t wa
like a theatrical, operate festival, magni
fled many fold. 1t was the first metro
politan step into music made by Mime
apolis, and every Minneapolis person wa
proud of being there, and fully satisfied
, "Was it Mr.. Beecher who asserte
:. that the best smell was no smell? MI
Beecher was of Brooklyn and mistoo
the murmur of his rustic burg for tn
: great wave that eddies round the world
!, The 'stylish' and 'dressy' audienc
emitted an indefinite Minneapolitan COS
mopolitan perfume, a tempered multi
fragrance, the exact composition an
l. esthetic appeal of which only Profe.
;, sor Harry Thurston Peck, who has mad
all Smell his province, can appreciate
Now one more feast for nostrils, ely
and ear:
When finally the signal was give
and the curtain rose to disclose row aft'
row and tier after tier Of men and wome
= the former with pink carnations as bou
= TONER'S, and the women dressed uniform
: In white, the first realization of the MAJ
: nitude Of the performance struck the a,
IS dience and was answered by burst
r wild applause
"The poet whom we have been quo
ing predicted that the attendance O
: the second night would be lin ever
k way as stylish as on the first. Pc
10 haps; but can those fringes Of human
Il ty keep their cosmopolitanism of pc
r, fume9 Can perfection come twices'