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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-03-04

strengthen and yet soften him. He has
renowned the delights of the world.
of human flesh. kundry, it has been
made known to him. So it is that when
in after years he once more finds the
castle he is able to perform the high
duty set before him.
Amfortas is typical Of the weakness
said, has been intended to typify wom-
an in all her varied traits of character,
the good, as well as the evil. King
sor, the magician, is the active force Of
evil ever at work in the world. In his
drama, Wagner has preached sermon
on the necessity of personal purity in
the service Of God, on the beauties of
depth of the curse of indulgence,
and on the nature of repentance. He
has made a drama which is a tremen-
dous play of the inner life of man s soul
when struggling with it's most formida-
bic problems, its own irresistible pas
sions. ~ - il. .,.t =
The Savage performance is the re-
suit OF q years constant labor and of
rehearsals which began last July. The
production, as such, the scenery, cos
tunes and and properties, was built from
last spring by artists sent thither for
that purpose. The company is the re.
suit Of long search for capable artists.
Some idea of the care taken in prepar-
ing this work may be had from the fact
that the ~ young women who will be
Flower Girls, are the residue left from
| testing over 1000 voices. The orches.
ira has been chosen with the same care
| The evening performances begin at
$3.50 pm. Between the first and second
acts-from 7:l5 to S:3O-there will be
an intermission for dinner. The second
act will begin at $3.50 and continue un
/ til $3.50, and the third act will begin al
/ 9:45 and end at 10:45. AS the doors
will be closed when the house is dark
ened at the beginning Of each act, it is
necessary for the audience to be in the
seats promptly. In order that the spec
tators may have ample warning of the
rise of each curtain, the custom inaug
urated by Wagner himself of having
/ trumpeters announce from various parts
of the house the beginning of each ac1
/ will be followed here. Ten minutes be
! fore the rise of each curtain, these trum
peters will play appropriate motif.
! from the music of the act to follow,
i Before the first act the audience viii
hear the s Eucharist motif. Befor,
the second act, they will hear tn,
Parsifal'' motif, and before the thirt
the Grail and the Faith motif.
A similar schedule has been arranged
for the matinee performance. Tt viii
begin at IL am, with an internlissiol
between the first and second acts from
4 1916 until 2. The second act will en-
4 at 3, and the third act will begin a
j3:15 and end at 4:15. These schedule
z will be rigidly adhered to.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-03-04

full OPERATION. A complete electric
plant is carried for this act, and big
steel plunger such as may be seen in
large steel plants, which weighs over
two thousand pounds.
Unicuc--Dunbar s Caprinc Paradox
is booked for TIC Unique thcater the
week of March L. This is the name
given to the act Of u herd OF trained
Belgian goats, which nlay at see-saw.
build pyramids. do head balancing. nil
racing and even slack and tight rope
walking.
FooILIaET FLASHES
iiirkc III, sh".le' VIA %lrc&e', C,ecir,.s,' ct
-, With IhpMas l.Oss i'll iI(a i"atNs role and
the original cast
kltw {: I:rl4r~"~'< colo: al Er:n.y Lane spec
Over thrc" hundred and thi:'S eo:lr, are con
Cerned III its present lion. 1t is SnIrd il three
acts and scvci.tcrn sa"ncs. and l:":"!I two thou
sand costumes ere wo"n
Henrietta C"us:an "a III, M"troI,olitan
for the week orcning .rrl =. ""seir:i!:,; per
G sst Se i NIL. e'"''"S " greatest success
Charles +. .Rianey'*: ncw rlsy. :':A'c"c to Be
Buster Brown. his Cog r!sc and The rest OF
the family come TO the Bijou soon as one of tho
in little Margaret Field and Hazel Harrouu
the fon ionson company conn has two of the pref
The clever Swedish American coined drama will
be seen at the Bijou soon.
The Volunteer Organist.' pastoral dramf
For Fame and Fortune" was written to or
der for Terry Mc';oyern. and is written artu,t
the experience and incidents of this famous lit
tie fgh tcr'S career.
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Orpheun1-The Great Road Show.
The best judge of vaudeville in this
country stands sponsor for the Or
Pheum s attractions for next week.
The great Orpheum road show is the
particular pride, and under the personal
direction of Martin Beck, general mana
ger of the Orpheum circuit, and it is
Mr.. Beck who, after watching critically
all the best vaudeville talent before the
public, chooses those acts which, when
assembled, are the most likely to make
, the most entertaining vaudeville bill on
the boards.
Even at the hands Of those with whom
he is in direct competition, Mr.. Beck re-
ceives recognition as one Of the best
judges of a vaudeville act among Ameri-
can managers, and the Judging Of an act
is the most difficult and delicate detail
of the vaudeville business Hence it
happens that the Great Orpheum road
4hoW is generally regarded as an aggre-
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1T THE IHEA7E
BILLS or THE WEEK.

METROPOLITAN
Richard earle in The Tenderfoot comic OPERA March s.
6, Z and s, with Wednesday matinee. 4 ,
Nanette Comsock The Crisis drama, March 10
H. with Saturday matinee %@s
ORPHEUM---
The Orpheum Road Show select vaudeville. All the week
with daily matinee. -
BLJOU-- #sz
1.-THE Fatal Wedding comedy drama All the week with
matnees Sunday, Wednesday and Saturday. IT.
LYCEUM--- @...
Ferris Stock Company in Sign of the Four detective
meodrama. All the week with manees Sunday, Tuesday,
Thursday and Saturday s#@ &>S
UNIQUE
Continuous vaudeville Cole Bower Cali
forna contralto the liner -Four performances daily
at 2, $3.50, and $50 pm Bill changes Monday
DEWEY r.. -
The Runaway Girls in buresque and vaudeville All the
week with daily matnees Ladies performances Friday aft
ernoon and evening"
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how, at the Orpheum

cation Of vaudeville talent of unusual
merit.
!. AS in past seasons, the bill will be
headed by those pastmasters in min
K. Heath. For something like three
decades, MacIntyre and Heath have
given to the public a painstaking and
faithful picture Of southern darby life
as southern people say it is. Their
original sketch, "The Georgia Min
strels, has been aptly described as an
epitome of hard luck and has probably
made millions of persons laugh.
In drawing upon Europe and America
for vaudeville acts which combine nov
city with merit, Mr.. Beck has secured
par excellence in Sepa ssardy's bears
and ponies Natural comedians be-
cause of their ungainly gait and great
weight, the Sepassardy bears are. also
athletes extraordinary, turning hand
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-03-04

for success equal to that of "The Girl
Sis 1t has been played in every city
from Maine to California. Local play
goers will see ''The Crisis' under the
most favorable conditions. The play
has been provided with an entirely
new scenic outfit, said to be more
beautiful than an ~ yet provided for
this play, which has always been one
of the most sumptuously staged in the
country. Nannette Comstock, who is
now starring in the play, is regarded as
one of the most charming of American
actresses. She has created more I'M
portant characters in American drama
than almost any other young player.
She was the original Jennie Buck,
thorn in Shenandoah, and played
the part as it has never been played
since: She was the original Mollie
Wood in ''The. Virginian' and has
been seen in nearly all the important
Broadway productions for the past ten
years.
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Lyceum-''The Sign of the Four


Sherlock Holmes, DR.. Conan Doyle s
famous detective, will entertain Ly-
ceum patrons next week in his most
famous case, "The Sign of the -Four. -
A fine dramatization of this interesting
story has been secured by Dick Ferris,
and will be given a production in ac-
cord with, lyceum standards. :
Those who have enjoyed the exploits
of this ingenious and daring detective
tanning books, or in other plays in which
The figures, will enjoy an opportunity to-
see him conduct what many consider
his greatest case. ''.,
"The Sign Of the Four contains all
the clements of good play, and differs
from the other dramas of which Shcr-
lock Holmes is the hero in that it is
not merely detective story only. There
is romantic love theme, stirring advcns
the introduction of strange foreign
Indian dwarf, who kills with poisoned
tropical thorn shot thru a blowpipe, is
one of the weirdest characters ever used
in story or play, and Lal Chowdar, the
mysterious Hindoo kitmutgar, adds
much of the picturesqueness of the
play.
ioHcllOcN IlOllucS, lOl we IHuiucIei VI
Major Sholto, a retired army officer.
His services are requested by Mary
Morston, beautiful orphan, to unravel
the mystery of the disappearance Of her
! father, some years before, and in fer
reting out this problem Holmes is led to
the murder. Both murder and @disap
pearance prove to be connected with the
secret of the Agra treasure, fabulous
fortune in gems and gold brought from
India, where it was discovered by foul
men who entered into solemn compact tt
divide it. One of these men proves
faithless, and the remainder pursue hin
with their, vengeance. The "sign OF
the. FOUR is the bloody cross with
which they mark their tragic deed.
f Florence Stone will appear as the
beautiful orphan, Mary Morston, the
most appealing feminine character ever
drawn by DR.. Doyle, whose pen usually
sketches men better than women. The
part Of Sherlock Holmes will be playe,
by Frank Monroe, the new leading MAJ
Of the Ferris company. g..
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give way to a western amber, an-au
thorcss from the cast and a prairie
waif, and then arc introduced all the
picturesque characters that the divid-
ing line of Texas and Mexico affords.
In absolute and solitary contrast to
all these is Zachary Pettibone, LID,
B.A., of st. Johnsbury, Vt. The profes-
sor is conducting a class Of girls on a
summer tour and stops to visit his
niece, the owner of a large ranch. He
comes in for traditional "tfnderfoot -
treatment He is roped while at din
ner, made to drink more than is good
for him, has to dance under the stress
of revolver shots, and is the common
prey of the cowboys and rangers alike.
In all these situations the professor cx-
hibits disposition that is nearly: lamb
like, and the author has found char
acter that is not only Immensely funny
but entirely new. in musical &"produc:
tions. ..'" g:
OF the song hits the principal one is
my Alamo Love, - which popuarized
"The Tenderfoot'' the country over
long before it left Chicago.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-03-04

Dewey theater next week. This happy
anal gamation of graceful girls and au-
dacious comedians comprises magnet
that is certain to draw most excellent
business during their engagement here.
There will be girls--lots Of them--in
the minor roles and also in the en-
sembles. And such girls! Manager
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opolitan-Nannette Comstock il
stThe Crisis -


1.-THE Crisis
The engagement of Nannette Com
stock at the Metropolitan for three
nights and matinee, beginning next
Thursday evening, in Winston Church
ill's decentralization of his own thrill
Ing novel Of love and war, f'The Cri-
SIS is one of the most important of
the season. The fact that Miss Com
stock is starring under the management
of James x. Hackett, the clever young
actor-manager, who has come to the
front so rapidly as a manager of high
class attractions, is in itself guaran-
tee Of the high artistic merit of the
entertainment. Then, too, "The Cri-
SIS needs no introduction. The play
has proved one of the most popular of
all American dramas. For three years
it has been before the public and has
yet to receive the faintest word Of
condemnation. No other play produced
In this country for years has a record
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-03-04
Homeseekers' Excursions.

The Northern Pacific Railway viii
sell the round-trip homeseekers' excur-
sion tickets to points in Minnesota,
North Dakota and Manitoba every
Tuesday during March and April, and
to points in Montana, Idaho and central
Washington the first and third Tues
days of the same months.
One fare plus So for the round trip.
Minneapolis city ticket office, Nicol-
let and Washington avenues.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-03-04
THE MINNEAPOLIS JoURNAr

a85 \ ! y i Z +
Clark, always a connoisseur in this re-
spect, has tins season surpassed all pre-
of the most handsome and .dashing
"show girls it has ever been the good
fortune Of the patrons Of this house to
vile contingent supply the olio inter
vening between two musical burlesques,
and among the acts thus presented are
new sensational act Of "a aerial h e descrip.
ton; MlurR R1 ,Marche and Reilly,
termed The Horseshoe Trio" in a
Reynolds and GuhI, eccentric German
comedians; Davis and Rosalie in re-
fined and clever sketch, and the Burg
Sisters, beautiful and talented
CHANGE artists. ~
Uniaue-Girl With the Double Voice.
"The girl with a8double voice., Cole
Frances Bower, also known as the, Cali
fornlan contraIto, heads Che list Of en-
tertalners at the Unique theaterasfor the
coming week. She is said to be a really
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-03-04
MUSIC

Madame Maconda left yesterday to
return to her home in New York Dur
ing her stay in Minneapolis she found
an old school friend in Mrs. A. L. Gere
of the Franklin Heights, and enter
famed her Wednesday at the West hotel.
Madame Maconda s real name is Mrs.
William Walters and she found her pro-
'fessional cognomen in her mother s mid
die name. She has no children and. az
she lives with her husband s people in
New York, no household cares. SO that
she is free to come and go as a popular
singer must. Minneapolis people will
always have special interest in
Madame Maconda for her part in MAX
ing the musical festival such suQ-
cess.
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Biiou-HThe Fatal Wedding.O


At the Bijou next week the success
full comedv-drama, ''The Fatal We'd
ding will be the bill The play has
been seen here before. and has met with
much praise, as well as in New York
city, where it had highly successful
run. 1t is from the pen of that most
successful writer, Theodore Kremer,
who has exceeded all former efforts,
making this his strongest work. He
has chosen original scenes and real in
cidents in the great metropolis and WOW
en- them together into one of the strong
est dramatic stories possible. He Sc
cures the attention. of an audience from
the outset and holds it thruout the play.
The plot is full Of heart interest, and
it's development is accomplished in an
original manner. d. ,e]::;. :. : @s.,>+.
One of the strongest characters calls:
for an interpretation by an 8-year-old
girl, and for this have been secured the
Misses Quinten and Kiefe, alter
nate in the role. This is necessary, as
the strain would be too great for re-
comedy characters are. those of Il
Frenchman and an Irish servant girl,
and are really very funny The scenic;
effects, which are unusually elaborate,
include the interior of Grace church at
night while wedding ceremony is in
progress, the interior of the. criminal
court and the famed Palisades on the
Hudson while a snowstorm is in prog
reSs.
The great east is headed by Julia
Ralph, and includes May Thurston, Yes
sic Farrell, Nestor Lennon, Bcrton
Churchill, Frank Montgomery, Richard
Quilter and Charles Western. A special
feature will be Gertrude Haynes and
her choir celestial Of twenty five boys,
with Master ROY Charles as soloist. !
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remarkable vocalist, possessing a voice
OF phenomenal range. The rest of the
does not lack in novelty. Among the
features will be barrel Jumping by Rose
and Lively, acrobatic comedians. The
Savoys, james and Millie, arc sprightly
song and dance artists who also do u
bit of tumbling. The two great Fowl
ers, a man and a woman. arc Sud to be
Conkcy, whose speciality is Inc ian club
Juggling, and the .]ansen-lLcrr com
pany, presenting a, comedy illusion act,
complete, the bill with the. usual feat
ures Of Illustrated songs and moving
pictures; ThSS[scTippff ggss, Of program: is
made MONDAY, aftsrnoon . and tonight
and tomorrow IS "BerYormance will in
cllde the last appearance Of the great
Gay. the handcutf king, whose peculiar
knack of libcrating himself from shack
les, which are guaranteed to restrain
completely the most dangerous of crln-
mails, has been the talk Of the town the
past Wecl-. -
UNDERLINED ATTRACTIONS.
Metropolitan-''T The Isle of Spice,'' a
its last appearance in this city has had
long and successful runs in New York
and Boston, is underlined for the half
| week, commencing March IL. The com
| edy thruout this piece is unusually good
and the music is of the tuneful variety
| The most prominent musical numbers
are "The Goo Goo Man, Peggy
Brady "You and - "Star
Of Fate,' "Mercenary Ma ry Ann,'
"'Uncle Sans Marines,' and
"The Broomsticll Witches.'' Mil
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-03-04

Miss Rose Wagner will make her
debut as a violinist Monday evening in
the First Unitarian church. Miss Wag-
ner is pupil of Mrs. Verna Golden
Scott. She will give an unusually heavy
program for debutante, Bach IS Sonata
in B Minor, Spohr's Concerto, No; IL,
and Polonaisen by Vieuxtemps. Harry
F.. Phillips, the st. Paul baritone, will
assist with two groups of songs and Mr..
and Mrs. Carlyle Scott will be the &C.
companists for the program.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-03-04

Dewey-The Runaway Girls.
Agreeable information is contained
in the announcement that Clark 8 Run
away Girls will be the attraction at the
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-03-04

The pupils of the Northwestern Con-
servatory will give recital Tuesday
evening in Conservatory hall. The Con-
servatory ochestra will make its first
appearance in the program and numbers
will also be given by Misses Crow, Boil,
Prodger, Ostoot, Berenice Morrison;
Godfrey, Stewart, Ida Jones, Irsfeld
and Chandler
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To Southern Texas, s27.76 Round Trip.

Galveston, Fort Worth, Houston and
Beaumont. To New Orleans and return,
$780,. Tickets on sale February 81 and
March and 81. Limited twenty-one
days. Stopovers permitted. Call on
J. G. Rickel, city ticket agent, 424
Nicollet ay.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-03-04

Do you like good coffeea Ask for
Mclaughlin s Coffee. 1t is the best
and sold at reasonable prices.
Mclaughlin & Co.. Chicago importers.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-03-04
S26.6o. New Orleans and Return-Sa5hl

On March It'll and 21st the Rock
Island System will sell tickets to New
Orleans and return for $3.50. Full
particulars at city ticket office, 30
Nicollet avenue. A. l.. Steece, CITY
Passenger Agent.
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sensitive souls in the world. His
nature is as tender as woman IS, but
his wit is big enough for half a dozen
ordinary men. So, still keeping up his
business conversation for the benefit Of
the rival company, he puts his hand over
hear him, and he says:
bill, you, just rap for me; ain It
got any cane ~
'Along in 1873 Mr.. Heath and I
closed the circus at Alabama, Ga.--then
getting So apiece week doing song
and dance Sin the concert We had a
little money and lots Of ambition; 50 we
get our $50 capital stock together and
organized Mcintyre and Heath's Min
eve went to store and we paid Sc
cents apiece for our yellow plug hats
and 25 cents apiece for our linen dust.
ers. And
"And,' interrupts Heath, the only
plug hat in the whole outfit that would
fit me had a mourning band around it as
high as mustard plaster.
WAnd,0 continued Mcintyre, "we
started out thru Mississippi showing in
From the start it was nothing but hard
luck. Our first stand was Where did
we catch up with the agent?'
aThe second day out, responds
Heath
"Then, of course, we had to go along
| without show bills, continues Mc1n
| tyre. s The agent had fallen down or
us, and with the exception of one town
we had to depend on our parade for adj
acted you'd thought they thought we
was the comic edition of the Salvation
Army.
/ - Our first stand was at town II
Georgia where we had been billed
1 When we got there it was to find thai
] a special license was required There
Yas town law. the sheriff showed us
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1905-11-15

Cheyenne was a wide open town in
&c cd days, and every hotel and bar
had its little faro game and roulette
wheel and stud poker game" said a
man who was there. Our party was
staying at the Inter Ocean hotel. A
long, loose jointed Alissourian ambled
in one night and butted into the poker
game. There We're two or three card
sharps at tie table, and every citizen
carried his shooting iron. This long
Missourian looked rather easy, but be-
fore he had been playing an hour he
was $500 to the good. John Chase,
proprietor of the hotel, became inter
ested and watched the game. In few
moments he saw the Missourian turn a
trick that was not strictly according
to Hoyle, and he called the Missourian
outside
Now, see here said Chase, I want
to warn you. You'd better be pretty
careful Those fellows are all profes-
sional gamblers and are armed to the
teeth. You don't seem to realize what
you're doing
J" Say replied the long Missourian,
with look of childlike innocence, are
they cheating me?' San Francisco
Chronicle.
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prevention netter Than cnre.

In these days, when most medical
men are on the still hunt for miracu-
lous cures, specifics in one or other
form, it is easy to lose sight OF, at
least to fail to give sufficient attention
to, the matter Of the cause or causes
Of disease and of the means Of proven
ton as well as of the really scientific
because so often simple measures cal
culated so to help nature as to enable
her to successfully perform cure.
We all remember how the profession
ransacked the entire earth for some
medicament that should "cure" sour
Wy. No better Illustration of what good
old DR.. Oliver Wendell Holmes de-
clared to be shameful to the profession
could be given than the various treat
ments" for scurvy till some thoughtful
layman discovered the true cause of
the disease to be lack of vegetable
food a rational supply Of vegetables
or fruit and fruit juices and a dimin-
ished ration Of salt meat suficed to
render all the armies, navies and camp
dwellers Of the world immune" -
Health Culture.
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Some interesting phases of Siberian
life are described in Samuel Turner'S
book on that country. OF the exiles he
writes: when l told Siberian friend
that / carried a revolver as a protec-
ton AGAINST wolves I was promptly in
formed that l had much more reason
to IS re human wolves might en-
COT. a., and this, | found, was a gen
ersl view of the case. About one-third
OF the criminal exiles escape all con-
troll. Armed with stick, to which is
attached a strong piece of cord or cat
gut, they will approach the unwary
traveller from behind, throw the cord
round his neck and quietly strange
him by twisting the stick, to rob him
at their leisure of whatever he may
possess or secure his passport in order
to make their escape from the coun-
frv'