The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-10-28
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~ Id stage themes, newly Illus
trated, have been the rule at. the
u Metropolitan the past week. We
have had the hard-up comic opera king
to begin with and the stern father. of
romance getting ingloriously defeated
by his amorous, yetSrebellious, daughter
the latter part of the week. 1t has
been an instructive study to inquire
how the authors have contrived to make
the use of such ancient devices interest,";
ing. Harry B. Smith put SO many
frllls on the familiar comic opera plot
as fairly to be entitled to the epithet
"original.' Charles Major has not
been so happy in his "Dorothy Yer
non,'3' but by making his action fairly
hustle and hurry contrives IN meas
ule to cover up numerous defects. At
to old types in the melodrama Of the
wild. west-the west which 'never was
on sea or land,' but which in melo-
drama seems sempiternal. The Fraw--
leys enhanced their already fine reputa-
tomas a thoroly good stock company
by their work in 'The Clisis,' and
this in spite Of the fact that everyone
who has read Winston Churchill s book
must expert ence some disappointment in
seeing how story and characters are
twisted III Naturalization and stage pro-
tendency of modern vaudeville toward
what has happily been termed the
"tabloid drama,'' field Of endeavor
as difficult and as responsive to cultlVa-
ton as the short story is in literature.
Artistic repression was the browning
feature Of "Ace of Trumps,," as pro
duced at that theater by Rose Coghlan
and Edward Emery. -'' -
!. y !.
The week at hand is full Of promise
tering extravaganza, "The Wizard OF
Or, u will lead off at the. Metropolitan.
While by no means a new productlo
its fame gives it renewed life. Few
Hheavier" sEectacles are now on: tour.
The latter part Of the week, Maxine
Elliott, the beautiful, is to give US a
view of her newest Fitch play, - Her
Great Match This is rather pure
love comedy than a problem play, but
riages is mixed up in =, the plot and
Clyde Fitch may be depended on to
give lis at least one sensational scene.
Miss Elliott is now in her fourth year
of separate starhood and the profess
sional separation from Nat Goodwin IS
proving an excellent influence in her
DEVELOPMENT. AT the Auditorium we
are to have one night only of Y,vette
Guilbcrt and Albert Chevalier, a rather
curious alliance of Paris chanteuse and
London costermonger, that is perhaps
sanctioned by the present Anglo-French
entente. They are making a flying
10 fo ri .n cites n 'iBehind the Mask,
the .comedy-drama to be presented al
the Bijou gives promise of being OF
rather higher grade than the ordinary
thriller at that home of melodrama. i
is given up to the story Of how a syn
dictate Of social highwaymen in Colora
do came to grief The headllner :. a. a.
Self-Defense,'' in which Margaret Wy
cherly impersonates six: of the nine
persons Of the play. This If wei
done, must prove notable achieve Y
ment. The Frawley company at thu
Lyceum will present " Northern
Lights strong western melOdrama
which looks like a rare good thing
The Unique presents bunch of attrac
tive. vaudeville bookings and til,
Dewey announces the Yankee Doodl'
Girls, who promise to be patriotic ant
interesting. . .s.
this. wear is to- be Henrik, ,Ihsen s 70
The premier will be given in Ghicae.
tomorrow night, and Minneapolis vii
have an early opportunity to see tn
play and the actor. The fantasti
charaeter from which the play stakes5iit
name has often been. called the Norwe
giars. Faust. A young braggart, re
mantle poet, an 'ideaistic optimist. ali,
taenssa cynical plutocTat, he become
in the end a chastened old man. re
deemed thru the loYeof "a woman, VIII,