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i.-# I'x Metropolitan"Mother Goose." Mother Goose,'' the big Drury Lane I spectacle winch will be seen for the first time in this city at the Metropoli tan tomorrow night, is said to be a dream of fairyland, and no fancy ot childhood ever conjured up such a liv fe jng, moving spectacle of beauty. Oi I course, all the massing of pretty worn en, supeib gowns and ideal scenic en vironments is an intoxicant to the eye, I" and the constant rattle of modern jests end catchy ans to please the ear, does I divert the attention from the nursery legend, but every now and then the demon, the fairy queen, the good Colin and the golden-egg laying gooses (she s|n uXI AT THE THEATERS BILLS OF THE WEEK METROPOLITAN- "Mother Goose," the big Drury Lane spectacle. All the week with matinees Wednesday and Saturday. ORPHEUM- Modern vaudeville with "Town Hall Tonight," comedy- sketch as the headliner. All the week with daily matinees. BIJOU- "More to Be Pitied Than Scorned," scenic melodrama. All the week with matinees Sunday, Wednesday and Saturday. LYCEUM Florence Stone in "Thelma" Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and Saturday, with matinees Sunday and Tuesday in "Camille" Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, with matinees Thursday and Saturday. Farewell appearances. UNIQUE- Continuous Vaudeville. Bill changes Monday. Performances dailv at 2, 3:30, 8 and 9:30 pm. 5?EY- Kmckerbocker Burlesquers in "Riley's Speech," with vaude- ville interruptions. Daily matinees. Special ladies' perfor- mances Friday afternoon and evening. come into evidence, and then it takes back to days when cats and owls and all Borts of things were controlled by fairies. Klaw & Erlanger, who bring all these if great English spectacles to this country, first presented "Mother Goose" at the -New Amsterdam theater in New York a year ago last November, and nearly all the cast and great ensemble of 350 comedians, singers, dancers, specialists, and ballets which then appeared in the original American presentment, will be seen heie. Regarding this dazzling extravai- canza from a specacula viewpoint is said that Klaw & Erlanger have reached the limit of possibility in the way of magnificence, combined with artistic taste in spectacular scenes and gorgeous costuming, and all they can jiow do is to maintain the level they have gained in this, their climax of beauty spectacles. #t There is a strong inclination to assert & that the annever brilliancenof "L'Ar Nouveaufancys ha bee equaledt while "The Land of Heaitsease" and the transformation scene, Content ment," with its marvelous showers of glittering golden lam, are pictures that will be hard to excel. It is not, however, on the gorgeous aess or the grace of these three big acts NERA AYMAR, i As Colin. In "Mother Goose." that success depends. With the hun dreds of beautiful women lavishly at tired, their graceful ballets, tableaux, marches and processions, with the clever specialties and hosts ot comedians, with their prime funsters, Joseph Cawthorn in a character that brings all that spon taneous humor that this comedian has jbeeome famous for, with his amusing ^colleagues, Harry Kelly, W. H. Macart, Clifton Crawford, Neva Aymar, Cormne, Edith Sinclair, Edith Hutchins, Walter Stanton and Dawes and Sevmour, who 'W constantly add to the revel of fun, and jfj .with the marvelous aerialists, the iGrigolatis, whose premiere at the end C|[ 'of the second act causes the audience 1$ to hold its breath in stupefaction when makes the remarkable flight seventy 'feet above them clear to the gallery rail and back to the stage, all the while S' 'scattering carnations to those below, I*'Mother Goose" comes near being the 1 limit. For this engagement the curtain will l rise at 8 o'clock sharp in the evening 'and at 2 o'clock at the matinees. Orpheum"Town Hall Tonight.'* "T Hall tv Tonight"s fand laye is to be pre- senteodwant the Orpheu a the headline attraction for next week. The play- j*,** wright and producer whose triumph i "Town Hall Tonight" is, bears the Ji name of Will Cressy, a name so famous in the higher circles of vaudevilledom ?j that its connection with any sketch is & accepted by managers the country over as a guarantee of success. Cressy has gCjL written eight successful vaudeville iti sketches, six of which he plays with Fit the assistance of Blanche Dayne, a comedienne whose fame is almost co W extensive with that of her talented husband. "Town Hall Tonight" pictures the arrival of the Elite Repertoire company, by Miss Dayne, at the New Eng village, whose "opery house" is presided over by Hip Flitters, dramatic poohbah. Mr. Cressy, in the role of Hip Flitters, has contributed to the stage a character study that has fairly set Chicago wild and has been th^talk of the town in San Francisco, Los An ,geles and a}l over the circuit. Even those who laugh the loudest and longest and who go to the Orpheum with that intention, will not complain for lack of fun next week for nearly every number was built for laughing purposes. There will be the Great Thereses in a comedy hypnotic act, used as a vehicle for the performance of astonishing athletic f^eats Happy Jack Gardner, a musical monologist and sing ing comedian, whose humor is conta gious Herbert Brooks, a fancy card manipulator and exponent of the Euro pean trunk mystery, and Louis Simon and Grace Gardner and company in "The New Coachman." The action in 1 acrobatics of Simon 60 absurd as to keep the audience in an uproar An odd creation is the sketch by Greene & "Werner called "Bab es in a Jungle," in which special scenic effects are used to reproduce an African jungle in which the actor and actress appear Hottentot "makeup," and indulge in song and dialogue appro priate to the setting. From an artistic standpoint the mu sical fantasy, A Wax Doll," by the Columbians, will doubtless meet with the greatest favor. The kinodrome's animated pictures will take the spec tators on a tour of New York. Bijou"More to Be Pitied than Scorned." "More to Be Pitied than Scorned," a story of the church and the stage, bv Charles E. Blaney, is said to oe the diamatic sensation of the season, and the patrons of the Bijou, where the play will be seen next week, will unanimously agree that the play, at least, has the merit of originality. The play, while melodramatic, does not run riot with sensationalism, yet it is promised that there will be thrills enough to please the most ardent lover of melodrama. The plot is a simple one, of the humiliations heaped upon Julian Loiame, leading man of the Amphion stock company, and Viola Keith, the daughter of a minister, who has fallen in love and secretly mar ned Julian. Vincent Grant and Julia New York audience, and the great cli max to act third, which will bring the people to their feet. In keeping with the elaborate nature of the production is the cast of thirty well-known players, prominent among whom are King Baggat, William Elliot, Harry Markhan, Charles Sutton, Wal ter Wil=on, George Ovey, Walter Dale, Lydia Powell, Bertine Robison, Louise Homer, Queenie Abbott, Mis. John Duel, Leo Mordaunt, June Dechamp, Ethel Ross, Maizie Harrison, Bessie Da vis, Nellie Hayden, Alice MacDonald and Anna Brennan. LyceumFlorence Stone's Farewell. Florence Stone's remaikable series of performances as leading lady of the Ferris Stock company, comes to a close JOSEPH CAWTHORN AS MOTHER GOO '3s At Metropolitan Tomorrow Night. Cliffoid concoct a scheme to separate next week in a double bill, in which the lovers, and produce a forged mar nage ceitificate to prove that Loraine is a bigamist. In order to shield her husband, Viola declares that she is not his wife. This is onlv one of many situations, original and startling, which, with quick action and clever comedy, singing and dancing specialties, make '5?*TT WALTER WILSON. As Garrick Gaunt in "More to Be Pities Than Scorned. the play a popular one. The principal scenes are laid in and around the Am phion theater, and the characters are real. It is promised that there will be a revelation of stagecraft in the big rehearsal scene, in which over fifty peo ple participate the scene in the lobby of the theater on the opening night opening -f _. of a new play, showing the life, color ibia latter sketch is 00 rapid and,the and. brilliancy of a typical first-night* Miss Stone will play the sharply con trasted roles of "Thelma" and "Camille." Miss Stone has proved again and again her pie eminent right to be con sidered one of the great stock leading women of the country, and her de parture for San Francisco, to take the position of leading lady at Dick Ferris' new theater, the best wishes of manv admirers here for her success, and the hope that before many months she will return to Minneapolis, accompany her. The plays in which she has appeared have included every sort of dramatic performancetragedy, comedy, melo drama and farce, and in none has she been found wanting. Among the few great women characters of the stage which she has not portrayed, here are the two which she will present next week. "Thelma" and "Camille" have been chosen by the Lyceum manage ment because they are as well suited as any two feminine parts in stage literature could possibly be, to show opposite types of women, thus illtls- Saturday Evening, fHE MINNEAPOLIS JOURNAL. 'March 25, 1905. BLANCHE DAYNE AS GENEVIEVE MONTMORENCY. WILL M. CRESSY AS HIP FLITTERS. CRESSY AND DAYNE, IN "TOWN HALL TOMCHT," AT THE ORPHEUM NEXT WEEK. trating the extremes of Miss Stone's versatility. As Camille, the immortal French courtesan created by Alexander Dumas, fils, Miss Stone will have an opportunity for work differing many respects from any that she has done. The play and the part are too familiar to need exposition. Miss Stone's conception of the most famous feminine part mod ern stage hteratuie is sure to be orig inal and strong. Dick Ferris will play Armand Duval. Miss Stone's performance of "Thel ma" is also looked forwaid to with great interest. This dramatization of Miss Corelli's masterpiece has proved a notable success wheiever presented. It has made two record breaking runs at the Lyceum. A powerful factor in its appeal to Minneapolis audiences is, of course, its pietuie of a fast disap pearing type of Northman, the con necting link between the Vikings ot old and Scandinavians of the present day No nation in the world holds their traditions and history more dear than the Scandinavians, and all that touches upon the land of the mid night sun" and its heroic past and pres ent, is a delight to its sons and daugh ters. No story places the life of the far Northland a more romantic and clearer light than "Thelma." Leila MISS HELEN JACKSON AND MAUD DOUGLAS. Painty Singing Comediennes at the Unique Next Week. THE FAIRY QUEEN, In "Mother Goose." Shaw will again play Britta, the maid of Thelma, a delightful eccentric comedy part in which she made her first appearance with the Ferris com pany. "Thelma" will be given Sunday afternoon and evening, Monday even ing, Tuesday afternoon and evening and Saturday evening. "Camille" will be the bill Wednesday evening, Thursday afternoon and evening, Fri day evening and Saturday afternoon. DeweyKnickerbocker Burlesquers. Among the features to be seen with Kobie's big show, the Knickerbocker Burlesqueis, next week, at the Dewev theater, are La Danse de Surprise,'' "Musical Babies" and the "Jewish Ballet." The entertainment mainly consists of a two-act musical comedy, "Riley's Speech," interspersed with big numbers and specialties. The story*is as follows: RUey,'after having secured fiis election as^Slderman, is requested to make a speech. All kinds of difficulties present themselves to the alderman-elect, as it is his first effort. He gets hold of a book of "Parlor Recitations" and is heard de livering extracts. Patrick Henry, Marc Anthony and Daniel Webster are shak en up until a potpourri of the whole is produced. Howeyer, he is finally thwarted from mounting the rostrum by a coincidence which, it is said, is no less funny than peculiar. In the second act the fun is trans ferred to the council chamber, where M^tdi A Riley has entered upon his official duties. The plot teems with humorous situations and ludicrous happenings. The cast includes the following well known artists: Oscar Lewis, Sam Green, William Patton, Church City quartet, Marie Richmond, Anna Wilson and Marguerite Wagner. As a special attraction, moving pic tures of the inauguration of President Roosevelt will be shown. UniqueVaudeville. It is noticeable that the standard of the entertainments presented at the Unique theater has of late been con siderably raised and a specialty that does not win warm approval is becoming quite a rarity. The bill for the pies ent week is one of uniform excellence and while no act is featured the an nouncement for the coming week, it is safe to conjecture that as a whole the program will be satisfactory. The en tertainers who make their appearance with Monday afternoon's performances are all new to Minneapolis and include: Emma Cortreley, a juggler the Misses Jackson and Douglas, comediennes Von Golf re, equilibrist Laird, Ruppert and Fife, comedy sketch artists Eddie Mack, eccentiic comedian Miss Eloie Foster, singing soubrette, and Eddie Cannon, dancer. Illustrated songs and interesting moving pictures will be in cluded in the bill as usual. UNDERLINED ATTRACTIONS Metropolitan.Henrietta Crosman in "Mistress Nell," the first appearance of the celebrated comedienne in this city in the greatest of her successes, is the announcement for the week of April 3. No one would wish to con fess to ignorance of Miss Crosman's successes, nence everybody is supposed to know that her most pronounced fame and widest popularity have been earned in "Mistress Nell.'' So it is gratify ing to know that is the comedy she is to present here. In this play Miss Crosman made the amazing record of a two seasons' run in New York. It was a genuine triumph. "Mistress Nell" is the famous Nell Gwyn, and the character as Mr. Hazelton has drawn it in his comedy is one of the most delightful ever depicted on the stage. Gaiety, merriment, audacity and roguishness radiate from it. Nell is daung and wilful, but generous and lovable, and Miss Crosman makes her such a girl as all must fall in love with. Orpheum.Cole and Johnson, the highest paid colored artists in vaude ville, are the headliners on the Orpheum bill for the week of April 2. Bob Cole and Rosamund Johnson are graduates of Atlanta university and musicians of education as well as talent, and their loyalties from their songs is about $1,000 a week. Manv of the light op era songs as well as the most popular coon songs of the day are by them. Notable are I Ain't a Goin' to Work No Mo' and "Under the Bamboo Tree." "Lazy Moon," recently sung at the Orpheum by Wynne Winslow, is by Cole and Johnson. Hayes and Hea ly, the "long and short of it," are on the bill in an absurd skit called "The Clerk and the Bellboy" as are Ford and Wilson, popularly known as The Two Jacks," in a' fancy black-face dancing act Angie Norton and Paul Nicholson in "The Ladies' Tailor" Drako's trained sheep and dogs Myles McCarthy & Co. another of those slang classics called A Race Tout's Dream," and the five club-throwing Mo watts. Bijou.The stirring comedv-drama of Swedish life, "Yon Yonson," is now in its fourteenth year of success. It is on ifes way here for its annual visit and will be seen the week of April 2. A feature of interest will be the first appearance of David Brattstrom in the title role. Besides having the merit of originality, Mr. Brattstrom's characterization is said to be an amus ing and faithful presentation. $32.90To California$32.90. Sunny California is not far away, and the "Rock Islan d" can get you there quicker than any other line. The tour ist rate is but $32.90 and you can go in a through tourist car every Tuesday. For full information apply to A. L. Steece, City Passenger Agent, 322 Nicollet Ave., Minneapolis, Minn. How Big "Mother Goose Spectacle Is Managed It is no small task to organize a com pany like that of "Mother Goose," which will be seen at the Metropolitan next week, where the chorus alone num bers more young women than could be easily counted. The drilling of such a body involves much hard work in "lay ing out" the productions. First the company is recruited up to the number required by the producer to present the different scenes and musical numbers properly and to obtain costume, vocal and "business" effects or striking originality. Each member is obliged to undergo a voice trial so as to be clas sified as soprano, a contralto, tenor or bass, after which the height, weight, bust and waist measurement of each is taken. Then they are divided ac cording to height and appearance* Then the girls are divided into two classesvocalists and specialty girls and ballet girls. The duties of the vocalists are to sing and to look well, while the specialty girls have to bear the brunt of the 'performance, singing and dancing and "looking" to the best of their abilities. All that the ballet girls have to do is to dance and help form pictures with ensemble posing. Most of them have learned the English style of dancing, but the specialty girl is the distinctly typical American chorus girl. These girls are in constant demand and are better paid than the ordinary vocalist or ballet dancers. The discipline of the "Mother Goose'' company is as rigid as that of an army. Each member, including even the little children, is numbered from I to 365, so as to keep record of at tendance. Each person is required to be in the dressingroom bv 7:15 at night and 1:15 on matinee days. There is a regular system of penalties for any neglect of" duty. For instance, no one is allowed to utter a word above a whis per, after leaving the dressingroom, "BY SPECIAL REQUEST" How Rossini Came to Compose the "Stobat Mater." An interesting story has recently come to light of Rossini's Stabat Ma- ter," which the Philharmonic club will give at its next concert, April 4, in the Auditorium, and illustrates how often wrong is a composer's estimate of his own works. A few years after Rossini had written his opera, "Bar ber of Seville," when he was yet in the twenties, he visited Madrid, and while the city was received like a king by an archbishop, who lodged him in his 'palace and treated him as a su perior being. When the maestro was leaving, he said: "Most reverend sir, what can I do to prove my gratitude for vour hospi tality?" The priest pondered: "One thing you, and .you alone, can do for me write me a service." "Impossible," replied the composer of II Barbiere." With the memory of Pergolesi before me, I cannot touch sacred music." He was oveipersuaded, however, and before long returned with the manuscript of "Stabat Mater." MMtWHMmMMMMMMWtMmmmWMWWWt MECHANICAL LADY TURNS OUT TO BE REAL FLOEEHCE VH VALCt. Hada V9 as "Hftrfaigai Walkns Woman. Seldom are audiences so completely deceived by cleverness in makeup an actingt as those that have witnessed V"V'T7 "~'Z "*""-"'"d Florence Ver Valin's imitation ot a mechanical walking woman at the Unique theater this week. Ver Valin, the ventriloquist, introduces several au tomata in his act. One is "Happv Hooligan," and there is, of course, the saucv boy who is shut up in a box be cause he refuses to keep still the little nigger boy, the old soldier and the little girl. These figures are used by the ventril oquist to show his proficiency in imi tating different types of voices. Then the mechanical walking woman is in troduced. She resembles a regulation dummy, with stonAr opens and shuts in response to the pressing of the ventriloquist's hand upon a spring at the back of her neck, and she is wound up by the turning of a crank or key, just as with a mechan ical toy. When lifted from the floor her legs work with a pendulum motion, and once, when the ventriloquist is looking the other way, she nearly walks off tne .stage into the orchestra pit. Finally the ventriloquist "sights" her for one of the flies and she walks out 01 the sight of the audience, which ap plauds the mechanical imitation of the walk of a human being. An encore causes a second appearance of the me- ROBIE'S "KNICKERBOCKERS'' AT THE DEWEY THEATER NEXT WEEK i M*AiStiSkz^ WWW except as required by the action of the play. As a result there is no confusion behind the scenes in handling so large a number of people in the limited space of 40x60 feet. All the groupings, movements, "business" and action are planned to fit the music, bar by bar, or to suit the book, line by line, and these are faithfully carried out with mathematical precision at each per formance. Not one person in the or ganization from the tiniest child to Joe Cawthom, who plays the title role, is allowed to deviate from the manu script, either by voice or action, with out the permission of the stage direc tor, from whose ruling there is no ap peal. The entire performance is di rected by him without uttering a word, by a system of signals. The entire company and stage force are made to understand his slightest wishs by the simple raising or lowering of his hands. Some idea of the magnitude of an organization like this may be obtained when it is known that there are five assistant stage managers, four call boys, three ballet mistresses, and a working staff of twenty-five heads of departments, all regular members of the traveling company. It also re quires a special staff of stage hands to handle the scenery in addition to those of the theater in which the play is seen, numbering at least seventy-five, and there are nearly forty dressers and maids employed, whose only duties are to dres6 and attend the chorus people and children, while each of the princi pals has an individual valet or maid. The playgoer who sits comfortably watching the performance has no idea of the wonderful organization neces sary to bring about the smoothness of stage effects which seem to be purely a matter of course, but which, in real ity, have required months of careful preparation. Years elapsed, and the good priest died. In looking over his papers the executors found this manuscript, and took it at once to a Paris publisher to see if it was worth anything. "Worth anything!" exclaimed the publisher "whv, it is an original com position of Rossini's and here is his signature!" So he bought it and advertised it. Rossini saw the notice and sent a law yer to the publisher to threaten an ac tion for defamation of character. "But it is his," said the publisher, in answer to the declaration that Ros sini had never written such a composi tion. I have the manuscript in his own writing." Then came Rossini, and, on seeing it, said, "Ah, yes, I see it is mine. Please give me the rights of the au thor. On being asked bv a friend if this was true, Rossini said, Yes, I quite forgot it you cannot remember all the foolish acts of vour youth." He received $2,000 for his author's right. chanical ladv, when she adds waltzing to her other frats. Suddenly the sup posed dummy comes to life and runs from the stage with an agilitv that reveals to the audience the hoax. There is invariably a shout of surprise that shows how the great maionty have been fooled. Minneapolis audiences, however, have not been quite so completely deceived as some others. Heretofore Ver Valin has simply allowed the "mechanical lady" to walk off the stage without betraying that she is flesh and blood, and thousands have never guessed that she was not really an automaton. WILL WANT TO SEE HIM Curiosity May Draw Many to Jacob Riis' Lecture. Possibly curiosity will draw many to the lecture by Jacob A. Riis, April 3, at Plymouth church, under the manage ment of the Young Men's Christian as sociation. They may not care so much to hear about "True Americans" as to see the president's biographer and per sonal friend. Mr. Riis always announces himself as a police reporter when he begins his speech or lecture. He thinks that he onlv reports what other people do to help things along and "roasts" those who get in the way. Yet he has had more to do than anyone else in New York city in tearing down rickety rear tenements establishing small parks looking after the enforcement of sensi ble tenement laws doing away with police station lodging houses, and let ting light in on the dark East Eide. A writer in the Bookman has said of Mr.e Riis: "He did say in th bookh that he did these things *it would, for 1 on reason betravnot his method,e whic dio features stiff loint and jerky movements. persuadaec somea goodi,l rich or influential men and women to stanodk fopr' it,c then%er go to work and have the remedv ap plied. ev lo a HIS TWO WORLD TOURS Luther D. Wishard Will Describe Them Tomorrow. Luther D. Wishard of Chicago, world-traveler and lecturer, will give an address at the Y. M. C. A. hall to morrow at 3:30 p.m., on the subject. Her mouth j'' Observations from a Trip Around the World." The Westminster quartet will give a program of music especially pre pared for the occasion, and Kenny's or chestra will open the meeting with a sa cred concert. Mr. Wishard is a speaker of ability and power, and as a former interna tional secretary of the Young Men's Christian association, he made two world tours to establish the associa tion work in foreign fields. An invita tion is given to all the men of the city to attend his lecture. See Stock-well SoonThat life insur- anceThe Penn Mutual. Andrus bldg.