The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-02-08
ADJUSTMENTS
Foyer Chat.

Anyone inclined to question the pop
ularity of football will have all doubt
dispelled by watching performance of
''The College Widow which comes to
the Metropolitan for three nights and
Saturday matinee, beginning tonight
The mimic game played off the stage and
described by the various : characters,
backed by "a grand stand Of swaying.
hooting ''rooters,'' works the audience to
the highest pitch of excitement, and when
at length the hero of the day is brought
in on the shoulders of the crowd, the. en-
thusiasm is unbounded Henry w. Sat-
age is sending a very strong company to
this city in the play. ~
The music in Little Johnny Jones' is
one of Its most fascinating features. The
greatest hits are Good Bye Flo" yam
kee Doodle Boy GIVE My Regards to
Broadway" but Mr.. Cohan has only re-
Gently written several others that prom
Use to be as popular. Seats for Little
Johnny jones' are in great demand and
the engagement at the Metropolitan for
the first half of next week will undoubt-
eddy prove a record breaker
Grace George will come to the Metro
rolitan for the half week opening Thurs
day evening, Feb. Is, In the dramatic
version of Mrs. Humphrey Wards mas
terpiece of fiction, THE Marriage OF Will
liam Ashe.' It is produced along the
most extensive and elaborate lines by
William A. Brady, and will be given here
with the entire New York company AS
a love story the play has that charm Of
blended romance with realism, that cap
tivating verisililitude, and that nameless
power to haunt one with its shame tinged
sorrow and happiness which testify un-
mistakably of genius.
There are enough songs in the bill at
the Orpheum theater this week to stock
musical comedy. Watson and Nor
risey open the ball with Dinner Bells
ooh, My" Bye, Bye, Ma Evelina'' and
TIN Eatin' Regular Now; while McCue
and Cahill have medley Of national airs
and old songs, another Of choruses of
popular songs, Cheyenne and ''Kar-
anna" Mr.. McCue sings "The Palms, and
Cahill is exploiting an exceedingly catchy
new one called "On a Crocodile" AL
Carleton also has soulful song about
married men and is featuring George M.
Cohan's .Life's Funny Proposition
After ALL
Thorne and Carleton, 'the American
TESTERS" who made so many laugh at the
Orpheum last season, will be back on the
same stage in new sketch next week.
Joseph Santley, the clever boy actor,
appearing in IA Runaway Boy contin-
ues to take well with Bijou patrons, and
large audiences have been in evidence at
every performance. The production is
well calculated to please that large class
of theatergoers who are partial to melo-
drama, tempered as it is with good comedy
situations. A number of pleasing vau>
deville acts are introduced in the circus
scene. A matinee performance will be
given Saturday at 2:30.
One Of the up-to-date musical comedies
which is making a particularly good I'M
and Seamon's production, which is called
I'm New York Town" and which will be
seen at the Biiou next week, commenc-
ing with a matinee Sunday. The new
piece is from the pens of Willard Hol-
comb and Loney Haskell, while, the mu-
sic was especially composed and written
| by Albert Won Tilzer The scenes in
| troduce the historic Bowery and China
town, where a party of sightseers assem-
bles group of unique characters and
| take them to the roof garden of New
L IOIh aSACluSiFe IlotSi fAstot w
themselves and their friends. "A special
matinee will be given Monday, Lincoln's
birthday.
| Manager Speers of the Lyceum has wou
| the appreciation of the amusement-lovine
public by presenting new plays at the
Lycealrn. The great success of the Ralph
Stuart company in "The Cipher Code
| illustrates the point. Next week "A
Rough Riders Romance" dra ma of the
Spanish American war, will engage the
abilities of the Lyceum management.