The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-11-04
UNIQUE
CLAIRE MAYNARD

son has jumped from comic opera plump
into the legitimate, is rated by his ad-
mirers, by reason of his achievement in
HThe Education of Mr.. Pipp,' as
worthy of niche in the temple of
fame alongside Joe Jefferson and John
T. Raymond. The play, too, is built
by Augustus Thomas, which is guaranty
of good workmanship, and is unique in
that it is the characterization Of series
had a surfeit, but the dramatized car
toon looks new and interesting. Gibson
never drew anything more instantly
nopular than the vicissitudes of MI.
Pipp and the play has every chance of
being attractive. Of course, there will
be Gibson girls in literally and truly
Gibson girls. The second Metropolitan
offering. "The Vanderbilt Cup is
succinctly described as a gasolene
comedy,,dra That would seem to
cover the ground. Yet it. has another
claim to distinction in that, while en-
phatically musical, it hash It single
chorus girl in the company. The press
agent has offered me writing wherein
he deduces from this fact and the fur
Their. fact that "Forty-fve Minutes on
broadway. has no chorus girls, the
generalization that the chorus girl is
going out of style. Public, says the
Piooo eaSoAI, 70 GlIeu u cnOfuS girls ana
they are moribund as a feature of cur
rent theatrical life. Maybe so. One
con do no less than hope for the best.
Yet the fear assails me that we shall
have sprightly chorus girls with us for
many a day and oft.
To the >Bijou comes Rose Melville.
Surprising as it may seem, she is to
produce isis Hopkins.'' Miss Melville
would like to try something else. She
ls lit for. many other triumphs than
this Of eight years agone. But "Sis
!Hopkins' the public wants and will
have and Miss Melville is compliant.
There are other instances in dramatic
history where the public has been SINH
larly tyrannical. It always would have
Jefferson in Grip Van Winkle,' for
instance, and the gentle Joseph finally
gave up and let the public have its
way. But wouldn't it be wise for Miss
Melville, while in the heydey of her
powers, to try something else, some
thing new and within her grasp9 Her
period of growth surely has not passed
as Jetferson's had, and there may come
a; time when she will need other crap
ping hooks on the public's affection.
The Orpheum s headliner is Nine.
Rentz, equestrienne extraordinary, who
may Pc Ia rs give our local r1derS-
whose number; IS swelling day by day
some new points in bestriding their
steeds. The Frawleys, having fond
that E; tn their clientele is hqngering for
Jeans'' this week and the buzz Of the
stage sawmil will be heard in the land.
The Unique with its sheaf of vaude-
yil5e talent, and the Dewey with its
NHiigh. School Girls - ,(don't let DR.,
Jordan hear of IT'D complete the menu.
It is now admitted that the dramati.
cation Of Edith Wharton's ssHouse of
Mlrth, = recently put on in New York,
is far from success. It lis unthinkable
that it could succeed. AS a novel #
was study in futility and failure, a
mastery depletion of moral degenera
ton slowly but linexorably wrought.
Such topics and such slowly cumIlIa-
tive effect are not for the stage, where
the canvas is small and it's story sim
pie. Mrs. Wharton herself misdoubted