The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-02-07
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Foyer Chat.

~ Foyer Chat.
For unequivocal success, George AIDES
comedy, 'The College Widow" which
comes to the Metropolitan for the half
week opening tomorrow night, seems to
have captured the palm for all time. Its
New York vogue never surpassed by any
play, was duplicated both in Chicago and
Boston, and now the western states have
yielded, to the widows" wiles with even
more ready grace. San Francisco for
three weeks went fairly wild over the
piece, and this record was sustained in all
the coast cities.
Everybody is talking about the coming
engagement of Little Johnny Jones' at
the Metropolitan the first half of next
week, and it is foregone conclusion
that George NJ. Cohan's merry singing
and dancing players will be greeted by
audiences that will test the capacity Of
this popular place of amusement. "Lit-
tie Johnny Jones' has enjoyed phenome-
nal runs in New York, Chicago and Phil
adelphia, and comes here direct from it's
recent triumph. in the former city.
Miss Grace George, who is to appear
at the Metropolitan the latter part of next
week as Lady Kitty in "The Marriage of
William Ashe." had an amusing experi-
ence recently in one of the New York
settlements: Miss George went to attend
the free kindergarten classes of a friend
Of hers and was pressed into service
amusing the little waits. Miss George
wanted to tell them story about the
sky and clouds, but she wished them to
guess what her, subject was. Suppose,
children she said, t'you went out in
your back yard and looked away way up,
what would you see?" 1.-THE wash -
promptly answered a young Italian-and
all the others agreed with him.
The mail order system which has been
put into service for the engagement OF
Nine. Sarah Bernhardt at the Auditorium
Feb. %, %. "a, will no doubt become the
rule at this house in all future cases
where heavy advance sales are assured
The primary reason for this step will be
the convenience to the public and the op-
portunfty that is allowed of securing g
thoro check on all tickets that are Sent
out This will insure, among other
things, that there will be no opportunity
for spectators to get hold of large
blocks of tickets and raise the prices. Al
least one enterprising Minneapolitan has
already been made aware of this fact by
the return Of a check for $3.50. AS s
method of saving the public much incon.
venience the mail order system will be
readily commended by many hundreds Of
Minneapolitans who have already taker
advantage Of the opportunity of orderfns
tickets by mail and are already happy II
the possession Of seats for the variou.
performances that are just as well 10.
Gated as tho the purchasers had spen
several hours standing in line at the DO,
office.
"a Runaway Boy at the Bijou is play.
ing to good business. There are four act.
in the piece, and each is replete will
novelties and thrilling scenes The thire
act shows a big curcus in full operation
in which several entertaining vaudeville
acts are introduced.
Lovers of comedy and new and catchy
| up-t o-date music will have an opportu
nifty of witnessing one of the best offer
ings of the season at the Bijou mex
| week, when Hurtig and Seamon's new
musical oddly, "In New. York Town,
Will hold the boards. The piece is from
the pens Of Willard Holcomb and Lone.
Haskell, while the musical numbers wer,
| especially written for 1t by Albert vol
Tilzer, and include number of positiv,
| song hits. A special matinee will b,
given on Monday. Lincoln's birthday.
Acrobatics hold high sway at the Or
pheum theater this week. The thre.
pretty and perfectly formed Kloes sister
| perform seeming miracles on the Roman
| rings especially when Martha, the talle.
OF the trio, holds the weight of her sis
ters with her teeth while she is sus
pended by one foot from the rings Sh
also demonstrates her almost phenomena
strength by hanging by one foot and al
lowing the other two sisters to do hori
zontal bar work on her extended arms
Among the remarkable feats accom-
plished by the Freyde brothers, also Eu
ropean acrobats, is pull up from foo
| to hand to- hand stand without any othe
| contact than that of the hands. The tricl
has never been duplicated
"The American Tommy Atkins vii
be at the Orpheum theater next week II
| the person of Agnes MaeG one of tn
best of the good toe dancers
! The Lyceum's great melodrama, g
Rough Riders Romance is now in re
hearsal by Ralph Stuart and his excellen
company. This play will be the attrsc
ton all OF next week. following the bril-
liant society drama, 1.-THE Cipher Code,
which is attracting large audiences thi
week
j The Buckeye trio, acrobatic wonders
are proving strong drawing card at tn
/ Unique this week. Annie Leslie VIII
liams, the Alpine warbler, Florilla San
ford. the beautiful girl cornettist; Bur
White. the versatile monologist an,
/ comedian are other headliners in one o
/ the most enjoyable bills of the season.
1 49,
50 WILL ALL OTHER KINDS
i Baltimore Sun.
The proposed new 81 coin to be is
sued In commemoration of the James
town exposition will be much sough