The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-22
ADJUSTMENTS
ropoIltan-"Peggy from Paris,


Peggy from Paris captured the audi
ence at the Metropolitan last evening on
her first appearance in Minneapolis. Once
again George AIDE has succeeded in fur
n1shing two hours and a half Of mirth
and gayety and only during the intermis-
sions does the audience return to the
prosa1c. The rest of the time it is in a
realm of fun, music and pretty girls.
1t is apparently difficult thing to de-
wise musical comedy that is not rem
iniscent Of anything in particular or that
does not appear to have been cast in an
old, familiar mold. The prolog takes
place in the Occidental hotel, Hickory
Creek, Jimson county, ILL.,, the first act
on the stage Of the Paragon theater,
Chicago, and the second in the court
yard of the Honeymoon Terrace, an up
to-date Chicago apartment house. The
American fondness for foreign" artists
furnishes Mr.. AIDE with mark for his
Satir1ca1 shaft.
Peggy from Paris is no other than
Peggy Plummer, daughter of the lead
ing citizen" Of Hickory Creek. Unable to
send her to school at Galesburg, he al
lows rich relative to send her to Paris
For some strange reason she prefers the
French capital to Hickory Creek and at
| length finds herself on the stage. An
American manager "discovers'' her and
brings her to America at delightful sal
airy, believing her to be a great find in
the foreign artist line. When her rustic
father, sister and Hickory Creek Sweet
heart rush at her on the stage of the
| Chicago theater, whittier they have come
| to greet her. she Is Mile. Fleurette Cara
melle, not Peggy, and she is obliged to
| give them terrible throwdown. If 1t
were to be discovered that instead Of be-
| ing a Parisienne she first saw the light
Of day in Unison county, Illinois, her bril-
liant career would end suddenly.
! There is something doing all the time
Not for an instant does the interest lag.
Things go with a dash and vim. The
popular AIDE brand Of humor is much in
grams are plenty. Some of the lyrics are
particularly typical of the Chicago joke
smith. 1.-THE Advertising Dream"
whose references to familiar contribu-
tors to the back pages Of the magazines
delight the audience; 1.-THE Limited
Train, Helen from Helena ''The Girl
from the West" "Lil, My Easter Lily
and Birdie" are particularly enjoyable.
Mr.. AIDES efforts to chase dull care
away are ably interpreted by the COM
pany, which, altho small contains some
clever persons. Arthur DEACON works
the hardest and contributes most largely
to the pleasures of the occasion. Arthur
Is the same breezy, gorfllalfke, pugilistic
young man who enlivened 1.-THE Belle OF
New York He is as tough, strenuous
and combative as ever and his really
superb, powerful voice is unchanged
Julia West is pretty and vivacious in the
| title role. but fails to impart to it any
individuality. The comedy work Of e
H. OConnor as her bucolic father i'm
poses a severe strain on the diaphrams
present.
Clara Martin, who portrays Peggy:
sister from Hickory Creek, has a face
and form that delight the eye. smile
like June morning and a. voice that I.
In perfect harmony with the rest. Mrs
Montague Fish, a sinuous nightmare, il
a scream. Altho the part is small one
Minnie Olton Is peculiarly adapted b,
nature for it's enactment and her make
up, costumes and writings are works O
art. T. L. Drew, as the nightmare
husband, "the other half Of the sketch,
is rather slow and insipid. r. H. Burton
as Cicero J. Cramps, an elongated the
atrical person, has a style all his own.
Like the incarnation Of gayety is Ev:
Bennett in the role Of the soubrette a
the Paragon theater. She is the person
ification Of the ideal soubrette Ligh
on her feet as thistledown, she dances
like a fairy and her slender ankles fairl,
scintillate. She seems effervescing WITT
sheer joy. Percy Bronson is very, yer
conventional juvenile, and Olivett
Haynes, as Mile. Caramella's maid,
not there with the goods If Mr. Ad
had in mind any particular reason for tn
existence Of the two conventional Pari
sian gentlemen who appear periodically
is not apparent. The chorus, tho sma
in numbers is unusually sprightly, viva
cious and we'll drilled, and nature ha
been lavish with its female members
A novelty at the beginning of the frs
act is the rise of the curtain on tn
: scene shutters at work on the stage {
. the Paragon theater, when the audi
= ence has the privilege of seeing the or
: GRAFTON of setting the stage just as it
:, carried on when the curtain is down,