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Clay Clement will open his engage
ment of four nights and matinee at
the Metropolitan tonight, presenting
his idyllic story of the American South,
"The New Dominion," which will be
repeated at the closing performance
Wednesday evening. Monday and
Tuesday evenings and Wednesday
matinee Mr. Clement will present hits
new success, "A Southern Gentleman."
The popular star is supported ity the
lxst company he has ever brought to
this city, including; such well-know a
names as Mrs. Clay Clement (Karra
Keivvyn), Phosa McAllister, Nell Mc-
Ewen, Gertrude O'Malley, Jeffrey Wil
liams, H. S. Duffield, W. B. Mack, T. F.
O'Malley, Ohas. Mason, George Dowd
and Charles Young.
Clay Clement has been known for
many years as a careful and clever
actor, but in the study and execution
of a new kind of German character he
has earned the distinction now of being
a star. "The New Dominion" still more
adding to his credit, in his own play,
and its dialogue of a quite exceptional
ly witty and pointed character. The
plot is very simple, the characters real
ly carrying the interest and carrying
It so well Lhat every act seems to be
followed with increasing attention. It
is a quiet picture of life in Virginia,
and its situations are presented in a
subdued and natural key. There ls
nothing demonstratively dramatic
The hero's love-making ie quaint and
unconventional; his jumble of German
and English Is not of the conf using
kind, for it has the feature of educa
tion, B.r.d only his occasional German
idiom suggests the usual type.
Briefly the story of the play is as
follows: In the prologue Lieut. Thomp
son is forced to fight a duel with a
blackguard, Philip Durand. Lieut.
Joseph Carroll, of the Confederate
army, acts as the second of Lieut.
Thompson. The latter does not fire
at his enemy, and is deliberately shot
down by him. His last reqtiest to his
friend is that the truth concerning his
death be kept a secret from hie wife,
who has just become the mother of a
little girl.
The action of the play proper begins
twenty-two years later.. Carroll is now
Gen. Carroll, a courtly old man, a
recluse and a scholar, whose thoughts
are given much to ancient philosophies.
Durand is on the scene, the avowed
lover of Miss Arzella Thompson, the
daughter of the man he mmdered.
The ffirl, although betrothed to Dur
and, Is really in love with Gen. Car
roll. In time Gen. Carroll discovers
the identity of Durand, and Miss
Thompson learns the true story of her
father's death and that Gen. Carroll
loves her. The love that he once bore
for the mother before she married
Thompson, is now laid at the feet of
the daughter.
Mr. Clement, as Gen. Carroll, adds
another to his gallery of successes.
The beautiful lines for which Mr. Cle
ment's plays are noted, receive an
additional charm from his rendering
of them.
Mrs. Clement, as Miss Arzella |
Thompson, has a difficult emotional
part to portray, and succeed most ad
mirably.
The cast for "The New Dominion" is:
Baron Fnanz Victor yon Hohen
stuaffen Mr. Clay Clement
Norman Edgar Randolph . . . Mr. H. S. Duffleld
Marshall Boner Mr. Jeffrey D. "Williams
Chas. McVeigh Mr. Wm. B. Mack
Napoleon Randolph, a negro serv
ant Mr. Thos. F- O'Malley
Miss Flora May Randolph Miss Nellie
Miss Flora May Randolph—
Miss Nellie MeE-wan
Mrs. Randolph Mis* Phoea McAllister
Martha, a mountain girl—
..Miss Gertrude O'Malley
Mrs. Josephine Dulaney Mrs. Clay Clement
KELCEY-SHANNOI. COMPAJTY.
It Will Be at the Metropolitan
Opera House Next Week.
The Metropolitan opera house will
have a splendid theatrical offering the
week of Nov. 14 ln the engagement of
the Kelcey-'Shannon company, headed
by Mr. Herbert Kelcey and Miss Effle
Shannon, whose success has distin
guished their company as a notable or
ganization of capable and experienced
actors. The play which ls to be pre
sented is considered the best effort of
one of tha brightest of American
dramatists, and has already won great
favor in other cities. Clyde Fitch's
new play "The Moth and the Flame"
is a brilliant Bociety drama dealing
with incidents, humorous and serious,
among New York's "400." There is
brightness of incident, dialogue and
surroundings, contrasted strongly with
the seriousness and even tragedy of
life. Tt has been declared to be the
best society drama that has yet been
written in this country. The play is
in three acts. The first occurs at a
children's fancy dress party to the
home of a wealthy New Yorker, and
the second at a fashionable wedding in
the chapel of a New York church.
The supporting company of Mr. Kel
cey and Miss Shannon includes such
wellknown names as Joseph E. Whit
ing, Bruce Mcßae, Edward See, David
Terrence, Charles Steadman, C. L.
Robinson, Marion Abbott, Grace Reals,
Isabel Waldron, Winona Shannon,
Leila Ellis, Ethel Kingston, Mary
Hansen, Mamie Dunn, Mrs. Frances
Farren, Emma Janvier, Edwin James,
George Eicihels, George Flannery.
SOUSA AND HIS BAND.
They Will Be at th© Metropolitan
Next Sunday.
Sousa and his peerless concert band
are again embarked upon another of
those remarkable transcontinental
tours. Before the end of the season
late next May, the band will have play
ed in every town and city of any con
sequence in the United States and Can
ada, No musician is more generally
known or enjoys greater popularity
than John Philip Sousa. Musicians ad
mire him for his originality and his
thorough knowledge of his art; the
mem.be rs .>f his organization for his
complete musical mastery over them.
The concert going public regard him
highly for his musical tact and felicity
in ministering to the tastes of all
classes, and also as the composer of
original, catchy and easily comprehen
sible marches and other oomipositions
of a more pretentious character. His
operas of "El Capltan," "The Bride
Elect" and 'The Charlatan" have been
more widely and generously applauded
and enjoyed than almost ainty oomic
operas in America's musical history.
It is because Sousa is so near to the
public heart in all he does that his
annual advent in this city is always
the most welcome musical event of th«
season. The people who patrondze the
Souya concerts do so with the full con
viction that their favorite conductor
will give them such music as they like
to hear, and he never disappoints them.
It is announced that Mr. Sousa will
conduct his famous band in grand con.
cert at the Metropolitan Sunday, Nov.
13. matinee and evening, with Miss
Maud Reese Davies, soprano, and Misa
Dorothy Hoyle, violiniste, as principal
soloists. These young ladles are said
to be artists of pronounced abilities.
STORY OF SOUSA.
Ho-iv the Liberty Bell March Netted
Its Composer $33,000.
This ie a simple story of how Francis
Wilson lost a success and a composer
practically found $35,000. It was five
years ago that John Philip Sousa was
masked by the comedian to write the
music to a libretto of J. Cheever Good-
Kin. Sousa at that time was anxious
to obtain a hearing as a comic opera
composer and he entered upon the work
with so much enthusiasm that he soon
completed one act and part of another.
At this point the comedian and the
composer disagreed upon terms and
arbitration was found impossible. Wil
son has never been accused of being
a spendthrift and hia Invariable rule
was to purchase outright and never
pay royalties. Sousa refused to take
less than $1,500 for a three-act piece
and Wilson refused to pay more than
$1,000. Accordingly they agreed to dis
agree and Sousa put his music back
in his portfolio while Wilson secured
another composer. The opera was fin
ally produced under the title of "The
Devil's Deputy" and has been forgot
ten now for some years. About this
time Souea signed a contract with
new publishers who demanded a com
position of him at once. The latter
thought of the march he had composed
for the Wilson opera and digging It
out of a mass of MSS., he sent It un
named to the publishers. Some days
later So-usa was In Chicago, where he
witnessed a performance of the spec-
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MR. CLAY CLEMENT.
tacle "America" at the Auditorium.
During the play a drop curtain was
used on which was painted a repre
sentation of the famous old liberty bell.
"There's the name for the new
march," whispered 001. Hinton, his
business manager, who sat with him,
end Sousa nodded assent. It was a
happy thought and when the next mail
brought the composer a letter from
his wife relating how their son had
marched ln his flrst parade ln Phila
delphia in honor of the return of the
liberty bell from the World's fair the
coincidence clinched his purpose and
"The Liberty Bell" march was chris
tened.
Within six weeks after its public on
"The Liberty Bell" had netted Sousa
more than Wilson offered to pay him
for an entire opera, and up to date has
paid the composer $35,000 In royalties,
still making him handsome returns
every month. That one musical num
ber would have carried the opera that
Wilson did not buy to a triumphant
success.
Sousa and his band will appear at
the Metropolitan on Sunday afternoon
ard evening, Nov. 13, when the latest
of the famous Sousa marches will be
features of his concerts.
"CUBA."
Over Three Hundred Colored People
to Take Part ln It.
A very interesting performance will
be presented art the Metropolitan the
ater Thursday, Nov. 10. Cuba by 300
colored performers. It was impossible
to secure the theater until last evening.
All bills were printed and considerable
expense incurred for Market hall, when
that building was needed for the* Four
teenth regiment as a camp. The com
mittee gave up the hall amd a prom
inent business Arm has written a cir
cular letter suggesting a guarantee
from the citizens to be used by the
colored men, if It should be necessary,
In securing payment for the larger ex
pense incurred in taking the Metropoli
tan theater.
This house is the one that should be
used to adequately represent the dra
matic work of the Cuban drama. The
programme is:
"Cuba"— Act I.— America— 1, Columbia's
Festal Day (an allegory) 1898. Liberty makes
a festal day for her beloved maidens, whom
she has chosen as measengers of freed nm.
They carry compassion to the Cubans, then
sail to Spain to plead for her oppressed sub
jects ln the Isle of Cuba. Music, hymn,
America."
Act ll.— Cuba— l,-Down in the Cuban Sugar
Fields, 1886. Evening; Cubans and Negroes
coming from the plantation*, singing and
dancing. 2, Home Life ln the Island, 1895.
A Cuban family. 3, (a) A Conspiracy ln tha
Hills. 1896; Maceo and his followers; (b) A
Cuban Spy, Cuban melodies.
Act lll.— Humanity. 1, The Battle of San
tiago; 2, The Red Cross in Cuba; 3 The
Surrender of Santiago. Muslo, National
American airs.
Act IV.— Freedom— l. A Jubilee in 1900.
Delegates from the nations of the world and
the new republic of Cuba. Music, National
airs.
The honorary executive committee
and the honorary patronesses ara the
leaders in social circles of this city.
Ladies who have consented to use their
influence for the success of the per
formance in the interest of the colored
race in the Twin Cities. Among them
are:
Honorary treasurer, Mrs. R. M. Newport;
honorary executive committee, Mrs. J. B.
Hoxsie. 649 Summit avenue; Mrs. D. A. Mon
fort, Mrs. J. Q. Adams, Mrs. George B.
Young. Mrs. John B. West.
The aim of the Afro-American league
ls to enlarge their field of usefullness
and to assist the colored people in all
legitimate limes to seek larger oppor
tunities for moral and intellectual de*
velopment.
- The Cuban drama is in four acts ancl.
Includes all phases of Cuban life from
the rollicking cake walk on a sugar
plantation to the Battle of Santiago.
The coma>any will be beautifully cos
tumed. The character otf Maceo is to
be ably depicted by Mr. F. L. McGhee,
the well known colored lawyer of this
city.
The daring deeds of the oolored regi
ment in the recent war are shown by
the historians, and the needs of the
industrial upbuilding of the Afro-Amer
icana of this country appeal to all. The
colored race has been a hard work
ing people and the needs of all are
enough to arouse the interest of this
community in the effort they hay*
made to portray the character of the
Cuban rebellion.
Tickets are on sale now at the Metro
politan box offlce. The prioe of the
floor is $1 and 75 cents; balcony 60 cents
and 76 cents; gallery 25 oents, and the
boxes are $8, $10 amA $12. A large
house la expected.
The oostume* ere beautiful and the
solos and choruses are finely rendered.
Almost daily for two months rehearsals
have been held and. the successful per
formance at the Lyceum In Minneapolis
have made the performers professional
artiffta, Mr. Scott has promised some
splendid scenic effects for the Santiago
THE ST. PAUL GLOBE SUNDAY NOVEMBER 6. 1893.
batttle and Cuban sugar fields and
home scenes.
VAUDEVILLES WILL RETURN.
Salinbury . oroipnny Will Fill the
Last Halt of Thim Week.
The Salisbury Fashionable Vaude
villes, which closed a successful en
gagement at the Metropolitan opera
house last nlgtht, will return to this
city for a brief engagement covering
the last half of this week, commencing
Thursday evening, with matinees Fri
day and Saturday afternoons.
The same clever artists who have
made the first week of the company's
engagement in St. Paul such an un
qualified success will again be seen ln
the coming engagement, "Chinese"
Johnny Williams, the magician; Patti
Armanti. the sand and smoke artist,
and Ernie Veronee, the "little mag
net," will appear in new and original
variations of their respective special
ties, and Ed Latell, the musical co
median, will introduce new songs and,
new business in his musical sketch. Mr.
Hugh Stanton and Miss Florence Mo
dena will present their latest original
satirical comedietta, "For Reform."
"Diana," the mirror dancer, will intro
duce a number of new effects in her
prismatic dances. The moving picture
machine, the kinedrome, will pre
sent many new pictures, including the
Brooklyn, Schley's flagship, returning
to New York; troops landing at Bal
quiri, and army mules swimming
ashore through the surf; the trooping
of the colors of the Grand Army of
the Republic in the peace jubilee pa
rade in Chicago, Oct. 19, and many
other pictures. The Aerial Austins
will close the performances in an act
embracing daring and difficult feats in
mid-air. In addition to all this a new
specialty artist will apepar with the
company in a novel act.
The entire performance will be more
extensive and elaborate than ever be
fore.
"WHY SMITH LEFT HOME."
"t_romll.ur_.fn Sparkling Comedy at
the Grand This Week.
Never ln the history of local and
state elections has there been more ex
citing Interest than at the present
time, and, in view of this fact, Man
ager Hays, of the Grand, has arranged
for a most complete reading of the re
turns next Tuesday, election night.
In addition to special Western Union
wire and operator on the stage, there
will be special telephone reports from
the city clerk and county auditor, and
also special information from the dif
ferent papers. The reports will be
strictly non-partisan, and' every effort
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Hal
MARION GIROUX.
In "Why Binith Left Homo," at the Grand.
will be made to secure the latest and
most correct reports to be had.
The present week at the Grand will
be given to comedy, and one of the
senson's greatest novelties of the order
will be witnessed in the advent of the
new comedy hit, "Why Smith Left
Home," a clever fun play from the
pen of George H. Bropdhurst, the au
thor of "What Happened to Jones,"
the laughable sketch which recently
played to such a successful engage
ment at the Grand opera house, and
whioh was generally noted the oomedy
hit of the season. Manager days
most certainly deserves credit for pre
senting such an excellent attraction at
popular prices.
The action of Brotadhurst's new farce
all takes place during one Bummer's
day ln the home of Smith, Three acts
are used in which to tell the »toryj
the first being morning, the second
afternoon and the third night, aud the
plot all hinges on the very natural de-
sire of a loving bridegroom to have
his home to himself during the honey
moon, at kast. Smith, a prosperous
self-made contractor about forty-two
ears old, has been recently married to
the girl of his heart, a dashing clever
young woman twenty years his junior.
Business has prevented tneir taking
the usual wedding journey, and to
Smith's inexpressible dismay all their
friends and relatives had thought it an
excellent time to drop ln on them and
stay a few weeks Just to show how
companionable they were. By the ex
ception of his maiden sister of about
forty-five, and to get her off his hands,
he has invited her old and faithful
admirer, Maj. Duncombe. to visit them.
The night before the opening of the
S ia £i. ma J° r had proposed to^iss
femith, and her brother's joy on hear
ing the news is so great that he in
advertently reveals the reason why he
had given the invitation to the major;
the result being that the faithful suit
or is rejected.
To make things pleasant Mrs. Smith's
brother, a young man still at college,
, elopes and brings his bride to visit
them, and to fill Smith's cup of hap
piness to overflowing, his wife's aunt,
who is an aunt by nature, but a moth
er-in-law by instict, also swoops down
on them accompanied by htr husband.
Then Smith begins to plan on how
he can get rid of all of them effective
ly, but gracefully, and it is around his
efforts to do this that the author has
built the main series of complications.
Two manor roles run through the play.
One of them concerns Mrs. Smith's
maid, an apparently very demure and
unsophisticated but in reality very
clever and knowing, young woman who
cannot understand why Smith hasn't
tried to kiss her during the two weeks
she has been in his employ. But she
is not worrying about it, as she knows
that in the natural course of events
he will get around to it. The author
has contrived a scene at the close of
the first aot, where Smlih, through mis
take does actually kiss her which re
sults in decided pecuniary benefit to
the girl and in great discomfiture for
Smith. The second of the sub-plots
deals with Mrs. and Miss Smith. Mrs.
Smith is much the younger woman and
when Count Wilhelm yon Guggenheim
sees them together and is told that they
are Mrs, and Miss Smith, he falls
desperately in love with Mrs. Smith,
thinking that she is the unmarried
one, and that Miss Smith is her mother,
and from this misunderstanding arises
a number of situations which are ex
pected to be unusually funny. The
scenery is from the brush of Henry E.
Hoyt, and is said to be most elaborate.
The acting is said to be uncommonly
good and those familiar with the stamd-
Ing of actors can see by the following
roster that the company is an excel
lent one.
It includes Maclyn Anbuckle, Fred
Peters, Harry Webster, Maurice Darcy,
M. B. Snyder, Marion Glroux, Annie
Yeamans, Dorothy Usner, Jessie Oo
nant, Gertrude Roosevelt, Rose Snyder,
Blanche Chapman, and of the above
there are two people who have gained
a great reputation in this piece— Maclyn
Arbuckle and Marion Giroux. Mr. Ar
buckle is a splendid comedian and Miss
Giroux a handsome and clever actress.
The latter was not particularly well
known to fame prior to her appearance
with May Irwin, and there she was
hidden under a bushel basket, as are
all people who act with the rotund
comedienne. It is said that Mrs. An
nie Yeamans' work in the new farce Is
the finest thing of the kind since Marie
Bates' sketch in "Chlmmie Fadden."
Mrs. Yeamans can be as funny aa any
woman on the stage when she has a
good part, and It is claimed she has
it in "Why Smith Deft Home." The
following presents the complete cast:
John Smith Mac yn Arbuckle
Gen. Billetdoux Fred W. Peters
Count yon Guggenheim Harry Webster
Ma]. Duncombe M. B. Snyder
Robert Walton Maurice Darcy
Mrs. John Smith Miss Maria Giroux
Miss Smith ..Miss Blanche Chapman
Mrs. Billetdoux Miss Rose Snyder
Rose Wal'ton Miss Gertrude Roosevelt
Julia Miss Dorothy Usner
Elsie Miss Jessie Conant
Lavinia Daily Mr?.. Annie Yeamans
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SANTIAGO NAVAL BATTLE.
It Will Be Pictured ln "The Dawn
of Freedom."
The naval battle off Santiago be
tween the American fleet under Ad- j
miral Sampson and the Spanish squad
ron commanded by Admiral Cervera,
and which is reproduced with true
realism ln the last act of "The Dawn
of Freedom," is the most costly naval
engagement itt the history of the
world. According to Le Naclonal, the
cost of CerverJfs defeat is figured as
follows: The Vizoaya, $3,600,000; Cris
tobal Colon, $4,400,900; Pluton, $500,000;
Furor, $500,00*} artillery, $3,800,000;
Oquendo, $3,600,000; Maria Teresa, $3,
--600,000; a total of $20,000,000 which
Sampson destroyed In a few hours. In
a like manner the presentation of this
great battle upon? tbe stage will be
the most expensive spectacular effect
ever attempted ln the history of the
drama. Sixteen complete men-of-war,
modeled after the actual ships that
took part in the engagement, will ap
pear at different periods of the fight,
and the entire action produced with
a fidelity to detail never before wit
nessed. "The Dawn of Freedom" will
be at the Grand following "Why Smith
Left Home," with Paul Gilmore and
the original cast from the Fourteenth
Street theater, New York.
METROPOLITAN, \ H^r
MR. JOHN H. MARTIN PRESENTS MR.
COM \mf \ TUESDAY ~ E,ection returns j
BB I_F sby special wire to the theater f
Jpdfi ) » n d road from the stage as <
1 and Wednesday, Nov."". l|j[ PftW UlJlll IllUn
Mm. mwenber I n nm ti mii nriiT riinsi
Tussaay. Noremusrs. and 0 \ -MJn i-W -MIIM
RUHtr un, -m 9, n OUU I HLI III ULN 1 LU l Mill
PRlCES— Nights, 25c to $1.00. Matinees, 25c and 50c.
Friday, Saturday and Saturday Matinee....
RETURN OF**** SALISBURY'S \f AL/DEfVILLES.
ALL NEW FEATURES
DRAMATIC NOTES.
"Tho Christian," Hall Caine's new play, in
■which Vioia Allen is starring, took in $27 897
ln three weeka at the Knickerbocker ODera
house. New York.
To the ffcet that Charles H. Hoyt, that pop
ular delineator of American humor, always
keep* faith with the public, considerable of
his phenomenal success may be due. His
plays are always popular with the people,
and they are always sure of a hearty wel
come at the hands of theater-goers. "a
Contented Woman," one of the brightest
skits this playwright has turned out, is book
ed for an early presentation in this city. Miss
Belle Archer will be seen ln the title role.
Phylis Young, "Jack" Warner and Beatrice
Mannering, the famous beauty trio, with
"Jack and the Beanstalk," last season, have
been specially engaged.
An elaborate production of "A Female
Drummer" at the Grand opera house, to
gether with the engagement of Miss John
stone Bennett to play the leading role, was
a wise move on tne part of that astute au
thor-manager, Charles E. Blaney. The com
pany is a very large one, and almost eaual
to the presentation of a oomlc opera, and in
cludes, among a lot of popular artists, such
well known players as George Richards,
Eugene Canfleld, Willis P. Sweatman, Tony
Williams, Nellie O'Nell and thirty-five oth-
"At Piney Ridge" fully demonstrates that
a play may be modern and romantic, and still
be peopled with characters that are every
day ln their ideas and conversation and life
like in their relations and mutual efforts to
get at happiness. Without a bid for the fa
vor of our rural longings or recollections, so
much In evidence ln the popcorn and elder
melo-domestio dram*. This play pleases
without the sturdy and oommon-sense qual
ity of its incidents and characters. It Is a
first rate story of people we can and do sym
pathize with, and it holds by these very
qualities. It will be given at the Grand soon.
According to the New York papers, "Sport
ing Life" ls the biggest thing in the way
of a melodrama which has been seen ln the
metro-polls for many years. It ls now in Is
seventh week of tremendous business at the
Academy of Music, the biggest theater in the
metropolis. The play has sixteen Immense
scenes, employs over 200 people and 20
horses, and a small army of carpenters is
required to handle it The New York Sun
says It easily outranks "The Sporting Duch
ess."
W. M. Wllklson will soon launch a new
comedy called "A Stranger ln a Strange
Land." It is by Sidney Wilmer and Walter
Vincent. The scenes are laid ln England,
and the story Is a satire on the Britisher's
idea of America. The "hero" is a young
Englishman sent out to the states with t3ie
Intention of quieting down by sojourn on a
cattle ranch, though he doesn't get west
of New York. "The Stranger" Is a thieving,
dissolute Indian, brought over to England by
a Western quack as an advertisement for
'Dr. Boiler's Indian Bitters." The doctor
and the Indian become tbe guestß of the
young Englishman's aristocratic relatives at
their country home near London, the former
us a supposed American oattle king, and me
Indian as a representative of tbe ncble red
man, and the savior of the young English
man during "a massacre on his ranch at
Buffalo, N. T.," and on whom every atten
tion is showered in appreciation of the fam
ily gratitude. The complications are said to
be extremely funny. Mr. Wllklson will pro
duce the play next month, and an excel-ent
company of comedians is bolng engaged.
The apoearance of Phoea McAllister with
the Clay Clement company at tbe Metropoli
tan this week recalls some of her earlier
triumphs in this neck of the woods. Pho3a
was one of the first to essay stork produc
tions In the Northwest, and ber old company
at tbe Pence opera house ln Minneapolis
was ia source of great entertainment to the
then rapidly growing community which ha:l
yet to attain to the glory of its present
handsomer but not more genera^y patron
ised theaters. Miss McAllister Is tbe con
necting link that binds theater-goer 3of six
teen years ago in Minneapolis to Clay Clem
ent and his "New Dominion."
In Music's Realm.
Every effort is being bent by the
management of the Library-Schubert
club concerts to make the series,
financially, a success.
It is necessary that 1,000 tickets, cov
ering the series of concerts, should be
sold. The price at which these tickets
are placed on sale — $6.25 — should call
out a ready response. This places each
coneerfat about 90 cents. These tick
ets are on sale at the music stores,
and the purchaser, beginning Monday,
will be able to reserve seats for the en
tire season if he or she so desire.
The Thomas concerts will open the
concert series. The flrst concert, Dec.
1, will be under the Library-Schubert
club agreement, and two extra con
certs will follow, Dec. 2 and 8.
Manager FeQdhauser reports that
there has been a favorable reception of
the announcement of the Thomas or
chestra concerts and that tickets are
selling readily. He has personally dis
posed of a large block and is work
ing in every way to establish the suc
cess of the season's enterprise. This
will be more than assured if representa
tive audiences can be got out for the
three Thomas concerts. Every effort
will be made to accomplish this end. If
citizens cannot be got out from purely
artistic motives, then their patriotism
will be attacked.
The reserve seat ticket sale for the
concerts are obtainable at Howard,
Farwell & Oo.'s, where beginning
Monday, it will be possible to obtain
tickets for one or more concerts of the
Thomas orchestra The tickets, pur
chased In this way wiM, however, be at
a higher rate than purchased ln con
nection with a season ticket.
It looks as if St. Paul alone was to
have the best musical features this sea
son. Up to date Minneapolis has not
made any announcement, A series of
entertainments of minor note have
been atmou n < J « ,d by the Institute of Arts
and Letters, and the probability is
that St. Paul can, under the-manage
ment of Mr. Feldhauser, secure the po
sition which the city merits, that of
being the musloal and art center of
the state. A block of seats for the
Thomas concerts will be pilac*d on sale
in Minneapolis.
This has the right sort of ring. There
has been too much BL Paul going to
Minneapolis In the past. Let us hope
that the ball will be kept rolling.
The activity displayed musically by
METROPOLITAN "kT^^"
Sunday, Nov. 13
MATINEE AND NIGHT.
THE MARCH KINO'S COMING,
sn a
bandtP-^
JOHN PHILIP SOUSA
CONDUCTOR.
MAUD REESE DAVIES, Soprano.
DOROTHY HOYLE, Vlcllniste.
PDIPEQi Evening 80c to f1.50
rniULOi Matinee 200t051.00
Sale Opens Thursday, Nov. 10.
St. Paul this season is attracting out
side comment. Harper's Weekly has
the following- to say in its music de
partment:
"St. Paul, prompted by Its wealthy
Commercial club, ls organizing a series
of symphony concerts, managed by
Mr. Feldhauser, to come from the Ber
lin Philharmonlo orchestra."
The Harper's Weekly man ls a little
off In his information, hut, neverthe
less, it win be noted that the activity
displayed in this city is attracting out
side notice. It ls in this way that a
city may be materially benefited. Tt Is
an evidence of the intelleotuail growth
to the outside world.
The Musical Courier, of New York, it
may be noted, also favorably notices
the musical movement ln St. Paul
* • *
>.. n J cl 1. w L n - be # v * n Thursday evening
17 ♦ S e ». ,A ? f tihe Fourteenth regiment, as
sisted by local musical talent., at the People's
incurred E* l " t0 aefra y ««» «pense
incurred in securing cots for the boys.
• • •
h/^JK mdi nd military entertainment will
ft?-*™ in People's church Thursday even
h«f,, _ ! _, Th9^ ffair wll l - 30 "™*"* draw a largo
house, as the proceeds are to go for the com
ae 1 cUv h€^ h ° f lmerß Quarter^ ?n
Tt . L/^_, Tb* "rtertainment will consis-t
of a grand band concert and an entertain
ment^ 11 by ,ent the ranked re£
-BCen_* from . S* 11 "^ and Manila^
Arrangements are ln charge of Lieut G
R." DfTßrlen.^ 1 - F ' W * MaU ° n "« Lieut
• • •
Perhaps no better illustration can be found
ntul th_ n n ÜB _h' an 7 . Z° tk bein * done '»
rail than the latent concert given by the
Arlon society in Mozart hall. Th™ o-rform
tonirST e a tefn a keen Mf<Sn
lv drm °nn^ hn , S - Gro<le ' t0 wh * 8e "«"rt^
iy drill and vigorous encouragement tbe
status of the society is largely due
. *&, ens T ble fe y the m*le chorus in the
rendition of Abt's "Own H«.r."' ~^_.
satisfaction and i lent £n aXd K-tF^n
Fred Bender's superb tenor toWilllam
ft. tm t?. na tos P irln * baritnno. WlJl,am
o t he ,^** lss€ s Ka-therlno Heddenrelch Amelt*
Schmidt and 1 Fran^oa a«..«iUf ' Alre , Jl *
by a mixed c™^ ,& .% " C^^ panls * J
Rhein" witb flattering Sect wbHe thfin^S
Fi^'hinT*? 1 *" 4 by th * mL^' Simmer^ind
and Ooda's "CaT.riccio•• f«„r,7i ™L*iT terfly
sions through £* sMliftY jL WOrthy e*Pr«»
sicianly spjfit of Mi™ wfr 1 " _. and mv "
"StancheTam Mor^n " by X^m* « Rentz *
George aerial k and T tal ol^S er< » M «*«.
j The diversion of the ££. «,
duet by Jacob Simmer and Mw *?? T" 10
the W. C. T tT h«JL^L al "o^eaition of
pared and will L' J^ 9 b *^ a ca ™rfully pre
erfn^X^rs^ **" ***
M? fa TSi'; Sun^li_, P r of - Titcomb; JfontUiV!
Mr Gehan, assisted by Mrs. S. W. Harris
™,^ IM ., 1 ? 0 £ t * i f ser * and Tue^ay evenin* the
music will be ln care of the PhilomatWn
quartette, of Hamllne university
• • •
The BL Paul Mozart club will open ttoe*r
£ason of 1898-1899 at Mozart halltonight
President P. J. Gleeon has determined to in
troduce a new style of entertainment this
seasoo. so that Instead ot opera the cluto will
devote Itself to a number, of concerts mad«
up o fvocal and instrumental numbers. The
programme for tonight is a m-.st Interesting
and varied one. Miss Millie Pottgieser the
popular local oontralto, has been secured for
this concert by Mr. Glesen. This will ln all
probability be her last appearance before a
St. Paul audience beifor© her departure for
Europe, whire she will remain for several
month-. The instrumental part of the pro
gramme ls made up of numbers furnished by
Prof. Claude Madden and Mr. Arthur Bergh,
both local favorites. The programme on the
whole is a very good one for the opening of
the season, and Mozart hall will doubtless be
weil filled tonight.
• • •
Here Is a charming etory about Verdi Just
hot from Itajy, says the New England Home
Magazine. A farmer, living in the depths
of the country, was very desirous to hear
one of tbe llluatrloua composer's operas. So,
better late than never, he took hl3 ticket,
traveled up to Milan, and securing a good
seat, heard "Aldsu" He was very much dis
appointed, and wrote to Verdi to cay so, add
ing that he did not like ths music at all, and
that under these circumstances he hoped
that Verdt would see the reasonableness of
at once returning him his money. There was
iffiuttmsnti.
I SUPPOSE YOUR
NEIGHBOR
SHOULD ASK YOU
/why\
/ SMITH!
V LEFT /
\ijoivse/
ik nun;?
What Would Yon Say ?
What Could Yon Say ?
REFER THE PARTY
TO THE
The Laughable Domestic Episode, by
George H. Broadhurst, Author of
"What Happened to Jones."
THE CLEVER COMPANY!
MACLYN ARBUCKLE,
IN. B. SNYDER,
FRED. W. PETERS,
HARRY WEBSTER,
C. J. WILLIAMS,
JESSIE GONANT,
MARION GIROUX,
MRS. ANNIE YEAMANS,
GERTRUDE ROOSEVELT,
BLANCHE CHAFMAN,
ROSE SNYDER,
DOROTHY USNER.
/why\ I
I SMITH!
I LEFT / I
\h©me/ I
This Attraction r.layed the follow
ing cities at
$1.50
COLU/IBIA THEATER, Chicago.
OLYMPIC, St. Louis.
NATIONAL, Washington.
CHESTNUT ST. THEATER,
Philadelphia.
EUCLID AYE. OPERA HOUSE,
Cleveland.
Begius a Six Mouths' Engagement
MADISON SQUARE THEATER,
New York,
Shortly, Where the Prices are {3.00.
I SMITH ¥
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COMPLETE special §
ci CfPTiAii TUESDAY
CLtlillUN ELECTION
RETURNS night.
Special Western
111 Union Wire on the
111 staxe. Special
Telephone Reports I
mfrom the County
Auditor, City
Clerk. The
PITY Pioneer Press,
US I I The Globe.
GET SEATS EARLY. I
NEXT WEEK
"PAWN OF FREEDOM." I
CAMBRIDGE HALL.
Seventh tn t, bet. Robert and Jackson Sts.
T.'urlvaled Accommodations for
Social Entertainments,
LECTURES AND CONCERTS.
FOR TERMS APPLY TO
J.J. WATSON Gsrmanla Ufa EIJ3.
his railway fare, hia ticket of admission, and
his supper at Milan, for which he Inclosed
the bill. The grand old maestro entered fully
into the humor of the situation. He wrote
back a polite letter regretting this his muslo
had failed to please, and Inclosing the rail
way fare and the price of admission. But
he added that, as tho farmer would have
to provide himself with supper at home, he
could not admit the Justice of that part of
his claim, and he absolutely declined to pay
far hie supper at Milan.
• • •
Prince Prederio, Plgnatelil d'Aragon, who
is conducting the orchestra with "incompar
able maestrla" at a theater in Naples, ls
"a great attraction."
Princes who visit this country prefer to
marry heiresses or serve as waiters ln &
restaurant.
But this prince is "90 passionately fond of
music that be spends his days studying and
playing on the piano the works of the great
composers. He has formed a lyrical troupe
and an orchestra "dl prhno cartello," and
proposes to give free performances ln the
large towns of Italy."
• • •
The Seldl orchestra, which since th© death
of the leader who gave his name to the
organization has been conducted by Henry
Schmltt. ls Just returned from a concert tour
undertaken under the management of George
W. Colby. Miss Sara Anderson accompanied
the orchestra, and concerts were given ln
Syracuse, Toronto, Jamestown, '\Feiadvllle,
Cleveland, Buffalo, Ecranton and Wllkesbarre.
• • •
Henri Marteau. the French violinist, offers
1100 In cash to the American-born composer
who will submit the beat unpublished sonata
for -violin and piano before Feb. 25, 1899, and
further agree* *o produce the work during
his coming tour in this country. People In
terested may learn the condition by address
ing "The Concert-Goer," 8t James buiiding,
corner Twenty-sixth »treet end Broadwaft
New York. \