The Saint Paul globe., 1905-01-27
ROOSEVELT CLUB
GIVES A JOLLY SHOW.
Political Aggregation of Flour
City Impersonates Chorus
Girls to the Life -

The Roosevelt club, Of Minneapolis, a
strenuous organization of Flour City
patriots to whom Theodore Roosevelt
is an inspiration, gave st. Paul astaste
Of it's lyric and dramatic quality last
night at the Metropolitan. The theater
was filed with a representative audi
ence which assembled to hear and be-
hold fairy story set to music and en-
titled cinderella and the Prince"
Though fays and fairies, elfs and
sprites, all of the feminine gender, float
and f1utter through this spectacle,s let
it not be supposed that the Roosevelt
club was obliged to engage feminine
this political-dramatic organization
contains such a variety of talent that it
can portray in most convincing fashion
squad Of six-footers in constabulary
array, or with equal facility and fdel-
ity present a bevy of chorus girls-with
all their frillS and finery. Their bari
tone, bass and tenor voices are the only
incongruouS accOmpanimentS of decol-
lete gowns and monuments Of the hair
dresser's building. But these voices
are to be excused when they harmon
ize as they did last night.
The vehicle selected by the club this
year is the creation Of r. A. Barnet,
who contributed the dialogue, and
Louis f. Gottschalk and Edward w.
Coriiss, who are credited with most Of
the music. Words and music will both
pass muster, the latter is especially
rhythmic and melodieus.
OF an entertainment during which
such an ideal entente cordiale exists on
both sides of the footlights, it is i'm
possible to speak in a fault-f1nding way,
for the reason that the spectators
found nothing to criticise. 1t can be
said with rigid conservatism that the
chorus, with it's beyy of show
girls, in fiounces and furbelows,
scored a pronounced and en-
phatic hit, especially with the women
of the audience, who exhibited as keen
delight in watching a man try to ham
die skirts as ever a; man betrayed in
gazing at girl in her brothers Tuxedo
dress suit.
AS for this female" chorus of the
Roosevelt club, it is unquestionably
true that it must be seen to be appre-
ciated. A stranger happening in while
the Reoseveltian "girls" are singing
and smirking a la "Florodora" at their
friends in front would never detect the
imposition of sex, until the boys began
to sing-then he would begin to sus-
pect them. Their pantomime smiles,
gestures, bushes, etc., are undeniably
convincing even if not genuine.
The title role, which is, Of course.
the trying one. is Cinderella, who
must be comely and attractive to sup
ply any excuse for that fairy story that
made her famous. Suffice it to say
that George P. Maeder invests the
character of the girl with classic
profile and type of languorous beauty
that lends verisimilitude to the story.
Mr.. Maeder's tenor voice recalls one
to realization of the truth about his
sex. but otherwise his appearance is
deceptive, to put it mildly.
Edgar T. Hanson, a baritone, played
Gladys, Cinderella,s proud sister, and
wore the feminine f1nery to the man
ner born, and sang melodiously.
r. w. Wells as the sweetheart, the
Lilly White (lone in Ethiopian shades)
of Robinson Crusoe's man Friday lent
distinctive color to the scenes on the
Isle of Juan Fernandez, and Gilbert l..
Byron, a tireless worker, impaired life
and vim to the overworked Santa
Claus.
The scenery was all very effective,
and the shifts were made with COM
,mendable srnoothness and dispatch.