Dramaticlen Tree played Imogen at the old Parktheater, ln Park row, near Ann street.Four years ago last fall Julia Marloweproduced the play In the Twin Cities,appearing, of course, in the role otImogen.

Miss Mather and company will givea Wednesday matinee performance of"Cymbeline." • * *

Ellen Terry's son appears as Imogen's(Miss Terry's) brother In the Lyceumcast of "Cymbeline," and, where tberole demands, carries her off the stagequite easily. Itappears from an arti-cle on the actress in the Deutsche Re-vue that to test her son's muscularability to perform his feat Miss Terry

made him race with her In his armstwelve times around a table.

Margaret Mather and her companywill begin an engagement nf thr^e

nights at the Metropolitan opera housetomorrow night in a revival of Shake-speare's poetic play, "CymDellr.3." ItIs nearly five years since Miss Matherlast appeared in this city, and her com-ing engagement has naturally createdgreat interest among local theater-goers.

"Cymbeline" can be called neither acomedy nor a tragedy, for !t is Loth."Cymbeline" is a play dealing with aperiod when a king of that name wassupposed to have reigned over theTrinobantes. inhabitants of Middlesex,Hertfordshire and Essex, England, aquarter of a century before the birthof Christ. This period lends itself tosplendid scenic display. The manage-ment assures the public that the playwill be staged with historical accuracy.

The history of the play Is interesting.As far as is known, it was first pro-duced at the Theater Royal. Drury

The production of vaudeville is anart (?) which is becoming abused,says Jessie Wood in the New YorkWorld. Any one with a knowledge ofstage "gags," a commercial instinct,a tendency to plagiarism and a beliefin the efficacy of lingerie, legs and dou-ble entendres, sits down betweenbreakfast and lunch and writes a"vaudeville." Men dictate them totheir typewriter between business let-ters. Every one with a theatricaltendency thinks it Is the easiest mat-ter in the world. By the most recentachievements in the so-called worldof vaudeville it looks as if a few spe-cialists were engaged and the playleft to make itself up as it goes along.Vaudevilles are made while you wait,like batter-cakes. Repartee is evolved

t>l \itl.Iltl"T MATHtCiR.

lane, London, in 1683, no cast beingextant. Twenty-eight years later itwas again played, this time at Lin-coln's Irvn Fields theater. The nextperformance was at the same house.tbe dale being March 20, 1738. Sixyears later it was produced at the Hay-market, and in 1746 it was played forthe Just time at Covent Garden. Nov.38, 1761. at Drury Lane, David Garrickessayed Posthumus, with Holland aslachimo. and Miss Bride as Imogen. In1785 Kemble played Posthumus, and. repeated his performance two yearslater at Drury Lane, with the great"Mrs. Siddons as Imogen. Then fol-lowed more performances in 1800, 180*.Wit. 1816, 1823, 18*25 and 1829, in all savethe last of which, Kemble played Posz-

l hunrtfs. Maeready played the part atCovont Garden in18'S7, with Miss Fauoita.s Imogen. Then came minor produc-tions In 1843. 1847 and 1864. Last No-vember the play was produced with re-gal magnificence by Henry Irving,withEllen Terry as Imogen. In this coun-try "Cymbeline" has rarely beenplayed. The first time, as far as isknown, was about 1847, when Mrs. El-

as the evening goes on—

and very poo-

repartee it Is sometimes.This home-made, spontaneous vaude-

ville is not a very bright and shiningsuccess. Vaudeville actors and ac-tresses are not such very brilliantand witty persons that they can expectto divert an intelligent audience bytheir ordinary and es'eryday conversa-tion and slipshod slang. Vaudevilleis rather a high-sounding name for arehash of campaign-button mottoesand the songs that have sounded inhalf a dozen combination houses dur-ing the past season.

There is just at present an epidemicof "original vaudeville" and it is .very serious complaint, indeed.* • •

The oldest actor in the world issaid to be James Doel, who has Justcompleted his ninety-fourth year. H<9keeps a public house in Plymouth,England.

» • •The Actors' Society of America, which

was organized for business self-protec-tion less than a year ago, has over 1,500out once a year, for the aid of its treas-ury, an original American play, and

AMUSEMENTS.•<^v''^><^v_^«•*^v_^/-'_*y-^*-*\u25a0•^^ •__v__v__ v_fc«o

METROPOLITAN, fQ L. N. SCOTT,- - -__- Manaeer. f)

|3 NIGHTS, >Eng» ge -.»t of t"«5 MftTINEE ?ICOMMENCING Distillflllislied WEDNESDAY. I|MONDAY. April 5? Actress. \ '""ctfllot'|| MARGARET

MATHER> In Her Sumptuous $40,000 Production of 9

SHAKESPEARE'S MASTERPIECE. ICYMBELINE

§ SUPPORTED BY THE ORIGINALNEW YORK COMPANY. 9DIRECTION OF B. C. WHITNEY.

I?°h D*!' nANZ SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, 1> April I_f, »_fnii-fl ]N POPULAR CONCERT. 7

members. This association will bringwill begin on the afternoon of May

7 at the Broadway" theater, New York,with a comedy of army life by Capt.Charles King, Emma Sheridan andEvelyn Greenleaf Sutherland.

Mrs. Fiske, is playing to large

houses inher production of "Tess of theD'Urbervllles" in the Fifth Avenuetheater, and she has done a businessInall respects remarkable for the Len-ten season. The play has created aprofound Impression. Lorimer Stod-dard, the adapter, has received fromMme. Marie Scott-Uda, wife of thedean of art critics ln Italy, a letterln which she says she thinks that thepart of Tess Is admirably adapted toDuse.

Alexandra Vlarda, the Polish tragedi-enne, will tour this country next sea-son. She is said to be regarded inEurope as the successor of Mme. Rls-tori, and will appear in "Medea,"

"Marie Stuart" and other plays of thattype, supported by an English com-pany. She will also act in Englishtranslations, made expressly for herAmerican tour.

"The drama Is not governed by therules of the most noble the Marquis ofQueensberry, and although such con-duct is not tolerated in the P. R., thetheater usually hits a man when he isdown," says Hillary Bell in the NewYork Press. "An instance of this isafforded by the dropping of the lateJames Jeremiah Corbett from the castof 'A Naval Cadet.' That drama, wltnthe prize fighter as Its hero, was billedfor production at the Academy for afortnight, beginning March 29. But thebody blow administered by the Aus-tralian gladiator, whom his opponentclassified as 'a monkey-faced kanga-roo,' gave the quietus to the play aswell as to its prospective player. Gen-tleman Jim has temporarily retiredfrom the stage and is at present chew-ing that cud of blasted hopes knownin theatrical parlance as 'resting.'

Meanwhile the M. F. kangaroo has Im-measurably increased in histrionicfame by his lucky punch on G. Jim'smidst. From a financial standpointLanky Bob is now the best actor ofmodern times, excelling Joseph Jeffer-son in comedy, Henry Irving in trage-dy, and Beerbohm Tree in character.His right fist is a pastoral, his mightyleft is an epic in fourteen cantos andan epilogue. Mr. Fitzsimmons is ournew pugilistic-histrionic Sir Oracle, andwhen he speaks let no dog of a criticbark. We shall crowd the theater tostudy his illustration of the drama bycross-cuts, counters, and upperouts.Curiously enough, prize fighting actorsalways espouse virtue on the stage andabhor wickedness so vehemently thatat the end of the play its villain Isblack and blue and in need of arnica.The kangaroo is now our most distin-guished fistic player, superseding JohnL. Sullivan and James J. Corbett in trieapplause of the gallery. 'I am now,'said the bruiser of bruisers to the Yel-low Xid

—'Iam now prepared to enter

into some other profession and will tryto ornament society.' Certainly. Why

not? Any old thing of a play will dofor a medium. The Fltzsimmoas fistcould resuscitate even 'Spiritlsme' or'Dr. Claudius.'

"

Clement Scott, the dramatic critic,tells of a London manager who re-ceived a polite note to this effect: "DearSir

—Iattended your theater last night,

and Iregret to say Ispent such awretched evening that Imust requestyou to remove my name from yourfree list!" There was a self-respectingdead-head, if ever there was one!— E-xchange.

"The Showman's Daughter," anotherof Manager Jacob Litt's new produc-tions will be seen for the first time onany stage tonight at the Grand. Thepiay treats of certain phases of Ameri-can life, and its theme is the cruelseparation of a young couple recentlymarried, which Is effected through themachinations of a jealous woman,whose love is unrequited. In her ragent being robbed of the man she loves,by a better and nobler woman, she re-sorts to wicked expedients to keep thehusband and wife separated. In thepuhsuit of his avocation as an engineer,the husband is called to Colorado toact as superintendent of a mine, ex-^pecting to have his wife join him assoon as he is settled. Before this canbe arranged the reckless woman se-cures the aid of a confederate andmanages to Intercept and destroy allUtters that pass between husband andwife. Months pass and the young wifenot receiving a word from her husband,gives him up for dead. The husbandIn far-off Colorado entertains the samebelief until one day the postmistressof the Colorado mining town disclosesthe fact that she had abstracted theh tters at the command of a man, oneAamon, a villainous Mexican

—into

whose power she had fallen. For thistreachery Ramon kills her and escapesbefore swift and summary' justice canbe meted out to him. He makes hisnext appearance in the Eastern homeof the woman who had employed himto make away with the letters, where,with the aid of another confederate,they are scheming to obtain the richlegacy of the hero. Tbe latter turnsup eventually at his old home, In what,up to this time, has been a lons andvain search for his lost wife. Ramon,who has been mixed up ln other crimes,is being hard pushed, and his first effortto clear his path is an attempt to getThorne. the man he has so fearfullywronged, out of the way. He thereforedecoys him on board an old boat whichlies off the Jersey shore. He also suc-ceeds in getting the wife on board atthe same time. Husband and wife meetin the cabin, where Ramon locks themin. Then he scuttles the old hulk whichcan be seen by the audience settling inthe water gradually. A storm hascome up meantime, and thunder,lightning and other electric effects fol-low. Lightning strikes the mast andthe shock is fatal to Ramon, who isstanding close by. The doors burstopen and the imprisoned hero andheroine escape to the deck. They areimmediately taken off by friends whohave followed them fearful of sometreachery.

This is in brief, an outline of themain thread of the story. There areother characters than those mentioned,and there is said to be plenty of breezycomedy furnished by a genial Irishlad. who can sing and fight with equalfacility; his sweetheart and an ex-cir-cus clown whose gayety is as whole-some as his loyalty. The cast will in-clude Frank Losee, Marion Elmore.Tbos. A. Wise. Geo. W. Deys. FannyMclntyre, Chas. Gotthold and others.• * *

The attraction booked for the Metropolitanopera house for the first half of the week fol-

IlowingMargaret Mather, is De Wolfe Hopperand his excellent opera company in Sousa'sgreatest comic opera, "*BICapitan." WilliamH. Crane will play a brief engagement thelatter half of the week, presenting two playsthat have not been seen before In St. Paul,"His Wife's Father," and "A Fool of For-tune." the latter being Martha Morton'*most successful work.• • •

Thomas W. Keene thinks that ihe relationof the press to the theater U a phase of theactor's art that has been greatly slighted Inthese days of successes ln both fields. "Wecannot overlook the fact," he says, -'that theAmerican critic is a very powerful individual.

:He has made and unmade people—lamspeaking now of legitimate criticism andlegitimate acting. A thoughtful, serious re-view of a pretentious dramatic performanceis always read with interest. It should be acmuch to the public as the performance itselfIntelligent acting always merits an intelligentreview. The newspaper and the theater arebound ln closer ties than is apparent on thesurface. Let us hope the time Is near whenboth willbe

—as some, indeed, are now— ed-

ucators, pure and simple."• * #Henry Arthur Jones' new play, "ThePhysician," has been successfully produced

at the Criterion theater in London, wKhCharles Wyndham ln the principal role.• • *

The coming reappearance of Marie Geistin-ger ln New York, at the Germanic theaterln Eighth street, on April15, Is the return tothe local stage, and In and out-of-the-waytheater, of one of the cleverest, most versatile

and accomplished actresses that Germany hasever known, says the New York HeraldIt is sixteen years since this remarkable

woman first came before the local public atthe old Thalia theater, in the Bowery thenunder Gustav Amberg's management. She wasthe sensation of the season, as great a sensa-tion as was Wachtel when he came to the oldStadt theater, made it fashionable and broughta string of Fifth avehue carriages nightly tothe door of the Bowery playhouse by themagic of his wonderful voice.

Getstinger Is not only a marvelous come-dienne, but is equally able in tragic roles;she Is not only an accomplished actress, buthas been a comic opera and opera boulfesinger of the first rank. F",er versatility isextraordinary, and her emphatic success onher New York debut in*lßßi in "The GrandDuchess" was fullyluphe&ted. In the measureof IUtriumph, whesVsfeflwp'ayed ln "AdrienneLecouvreu.." »

Think of it! A woman who sang "La BelleHelene" on the fareirel£. night of one of herengagements in Newg&osk, and on her returnplayed one of the classics in almost matchlessfashion, who attended "Camille" with the"Masco'tte," who equally interested the Eng-lish and the Germa»*speaklng portions of herNew York audience.• • *

The fourth week of theTlengagement of "TheSerenade." in whiclf the

1

Bostonians are ap-pearing, will be inaugurated .in the Knicker-bocker theater, in New York, tomorrow even-ing, says the New York Times. The beauti-ful serenade, the torajeal songs of the Duke,and the noble harifon*. of "The Angelus,"

rendered by Jessie Bartlett Davis, speak vol-umes with music lovers. This w-ek a duo forbass and tenor, given by Eugene Cowle3 andWilliam Philip is announced as a feature ofthe third act. • * *

Frederick Bryton tells of a curious experi-ence on the ioad while starring in "For-given." He was in a California town of. per-haps. I.COO inhabitants."It was pas; 8 o'clock." said he, ''and. al-

though the members of the orchestra were onhand, they made no effort to strike up. Mymanager fumed and swoie, _ud. finally, notseeing the leader in his place, sent for theviolinist, who asked, with great unconcern,what the trouble was."

Trouble!' said my manager, 'why don'tyou strike up? Where's your orchestraleader?'"

'He's getiln' shaved,' replied the musi-cian."

Well, why don't you play Just the same?It's nearly 8:30. Where's the local manager?'"

'He be doin' the shavin'. was the re-ply." • «- •

"The Prodigal Father" will follow "TheShowman's Daughter" at the Grand. Thepiece was constructed for laughing purposesonly, and it 1* said to fulfill its mission. Theplot centers on the escapades of StanleyDodge, who misses his ship to Africa throughflirting with an actress. His son becomes aprodigal, marries the actress and a regularmix-up results. The complications are of themostamusing kind and the fun is constantfrom start to finish.•

i•

Manager Jacob Lltt announces for thebenefit of the patrons of the Grand operahouse an Important change in the usuai pro-gramme for the summer season. Instead ofcombinations, it has been decided to presenthigh-class vaudeville entertainment, begin-ning the week of April 18, and continuingas long as there la a demand for this kindof entertainment. (Mean vaudeville la justnow the most popular form of amusement inall the large cities. So great, indeed. Is thedemand for it that It has attracted many ofthe b«st actors. People like Maurice Barry-

more. Lew Dockstader, Robert Hilllard, MarieDressier. Fred Bryton, Fred Hallen. MollioFuller, Pauline Hall. Verona Jarbeau. Sid-ney Drew. McKeo Rankin and ecuntle*s oth-ers of exceptional ability have entered thevaudeville field within the past season, andhave achieved great success. They haveraised vaudeville far beyond that which wasonce contemptuously called "variety." ThereIs no kind of stage performance more di-verting, when given by clever people. Mr.Lltt will engage the best talent available.

Despite the glories of the dramatic seasonwhich has now parsed the high-water mark ofnovelty, though not of attractiveness, thereare thousands of New who regret,as they have annu«Mj regretted for a term

of years, that our Hl#ses of Shakespearehave been so few airo/iiTbrief. says the New-York Mail and ExJ3"ifc indeed, with theexception of Irvlng.wffls a foreigner. NewYork now depends- _tP>*%' wholly upon twoor three women otrtiißP stage, and upon asingle local managet|far,,!su<h semi-occasionalproductions as we *i|»gn'ze to be worthyefforts. This comr*i«t|se monopoly by theladies. notwithsrtaudlSg rts enjoyable features,naturally confines onr "ftpcting pleasure to afew comedies and a _4p_se tragedy, and robsus of those heroic -irtage figures ln whichso much of Americaß.-'h'ftrionic. greatness hasbeen achieved ln loijfte^geHeTatlons.

That ?hakesr-Paie,t^»?*etage use, is prac-

tlcallv dead or dying _**"> man of Intelligenceand information is -rfikety to admit. He isdormant. It has hoik said that three events

in the literary history of England tendedbeyond others to -fai&s the public mindout of the barbarism and ignorance of theearly times— the traasilation of the Bib'c, theworks of Bacon and the dramas of Shake-speare. The latter may pass through anera of adverse popular taste or paucityof talent adequate to their acceptable pre-sentation, or what not, but they were uotborn to die or to rest permanenly upon theshelf.

But Shakespeare must be moderniz:yl forthe twentieth century as Colley Cibber andothers brought him up to date for the eigh-teenth. Manager Daly's presentation of cer-tain of the comedies marks the line alongwhich revival will eventually become general.Such -tinkering" as he baa been accusedof represent* the surest method of bringingback to familiar contemplation the greatestof dramatists, and in no way injures, in thediscriminating view, the value of the play. Itis true that we no longer will accept isolatedgreatness in the midst of mediocrity or worse.We want no stars supported by sticks. Whatmany now accept when the opportunity Isgiven will evenually bel accepted by the peo-ple of this and every city which pretendsto culture

—constant production of even merit.

with liberty but not license ln dealing withthe lines and the scenes, and the whole set insuch exquisite frames as have been the Dalyproductions referred to.

When we have brought back th« comedies,the tragedies will follow. Only let ua breakaway from the bugbear tradition, cut andslash If need be for the stage and reservethe bard unscathed for the library, and thenew generation will discover beauties ofwhich it had been skeptical, and become in-terested where now fit would be bored. Letus have our Shakespeare, like our coats,cut up to date. If this be necessary— asseems certain

—to rescue ft from the theatrical

storeroom. Let us encourage those who havebeer bold enough to take the initiative.

The average star tod^y Is only the lead-ing man or woman of a good stock company.This fact paves the-tway for the hope thatthe Bard of Avon will stfll be with us whenSardou and Ibsen ace forgotten. And whilewe await the mod*n treatment that willattract the modern 'auflfence, we have anabundance of ether things with which topass the time.

THE SAINT PAUL GI,OBI3: SUNDAY, APKII, 4, 1897.

JUIUSIC Ifl ST. PAULBEHKARSALS OF WK'AI, PORTION

OF THE MAYMUSHOA-L FESTIVALCHORUS.

MORE VOICES ARE NEEDED.

CMfNCEiRY OF THE THIRD INFANTRYORCHESTRA AT FORT

SNEabUNG.*

CARE NO'S VISIT TO TOE TWINS.

and thaws har public or heats them to full-blood excitement, as any great, strong, natur-al element ln an artist is bound to do. Amagnetic bond Is established directly betweenTeresa Carreno and her house. Where arethe others who of themselves solely canstraightway forge so potent a link? Amongpianists their names in three generadonscould be counted on one hand.

Technic is common; It is everywhere. Thereare players alive of whom we never hearwho might out-Tausig Tausig. But they havenot got the invisible gift and their work isdead. Technic 1« an achievement as admira-ble as it is necessary, and it is rightfullyto be gloried in aud admired, but it is notthe one thing, itIs. after all, only the mediumthrough which a -soul can send its messageto the public ear. Carreno not only thinks,she feels, and sometimes lends an addedwarmth and tenderness to a composer's Idealfrom the fullness of her own lavish nature.

The Schubert club, which seems to befairly reveling in good times lately,Is to have an especially enjoyable treatWednesday afternoon, when WilliamArmstrong, the critic of the ChicagoTribune, will deliver a lecture on "Un-published Interviews With Great Musi-cians." The lecture treats of sometwenty of the greater musical artistsnow before the public, and is a seriesof studies made from personal acquain-tance and Interviews with these fas-cinating people. Massanet, the great

A meting of the St. Paul chorus forthe May musical festival was held atDyer's music store Tuesday evening,

but not a sufficient number assembledto warrant special rehearsals here. An-

FRANK "UOSEIR AND MARION EI*»IORK

other meeting will be held at Dyer'snext Wednesday evening at 8 p. m., andit is expected that a large number willbe present and that regulur rehearsalsmay commence at once. Duluth is go-ing to furnish 100 voices, and it will notbe very creditable ifSt. Paul's musicalclubs cannot. at least, do aswell. The management of theNorthwestern "May musical fes-tival deserve great credit for under-taking* to bring from New York suchartists as Mme. Calve. Mme. LillianBlauvelt, Signor G. Campanari andothers of world wide reputation to takethe principal parts, and with a chorusof about 400 voices, and the BostonFestival orchestra, under the directionof Emil Mollenhauer.thls event willun-doubtedly be the greatest in the music-al history of the Nortnwest. The ad-vance sale of seats will be advertisedabout the middle of April,and the man.agement announces that the prices willbe very reasonable. Souvenir pro-gramme books, containing half-tonephotos of the principal artists, theirhistory and other information willsoonbe ready for distribution.

The twenty-first concert and hop giv-en by the orchestra of the Third in-fantry, U. S. A., for the officers atFort Snelling, Friday night, was oneof the most enjoyable of the season.Bandmaster Graves rendered a concertprogramme of the first class, which hadin itan element of success In the factthat the opening number was com-posed by a clever local pianist, HarryM. Stoel, a son-in-law of Senator Kel-lar, of Stearna county. The attendanceof civilians was large and enthusiastic,and the hop was ln every respect asuccess. The programme follows:March— "They're Off" Harry M. Stoel

(Orchestration by C. W. Graves.)Overture

—SemlramJda Roselnl

Intermezzo Russe FrankeSelection— Said Pasha StahlMay Bells EllenbergMod-ley—Tenderloin Vaudeville Club Beyer

Carreno appears ln the People's churchMonday evejiirvg, May 3. and in Minneapolisthe evening following. Of this great playerthe Musical Courier says:

No woman pianist who ever played ln thiscountry has drawn to her so irresist&bly anadmiring and affectionate public as Carreno,for she is not only a great artist, she is aglowing, sympathetic, magnetlo personality.Itis here Carreno shines beyond her fellows,

here she gets her fascinating hold upon thepublic. She was born with the sacred fire,the fire which flames among the huge pl&no-playlng army only in rare glimp.es and farapart Carrena has It, and it runs fromher rich nature Into her muslo and melts

composer, has sent an autograph let-ter on "the trend of modern opera andthe duty of the artist to the com-poser," especially for the lecture. An-other autograph letter from Bruneau,whose new opera has just been givenln Paris, treats of the same subject.Mr. MacDowell writes also of "The Fu-ture of Composition in America." Thelecture is bright, witty and suggestive,ajid has received the warmest praisefrom all the press and societies inthe various places where it has beengiven. Mr. Armstrong has unqualifiedwritten indorsement from Mr. and Mrs.Theodore Thomas, Walter Damroschand many other celebrated persons.

The following Is the programme an-

Ifnounced for the piano cTub recital alHoward, Farwell & Co.'s Monday even-Piano— a. "Camsonetta," Italian jh. B&"iiisg^S:::;:^::Sajss

Clarence Krlnblll.Romance— "Tannhauser" ___«.

Miss Donalda Donald.Song— 'Love .in Life".. MattelMiss Esther Crosby.Polka de Concert.... H. Bartlett

Mrs. J. W. Copeland.Cascade ,

Bende!Miss Mattie FroiseVh.Song~? ••••••• .S*»tect-dMiss Bather Crosby.

Piano Solo Miss Jessie O'BrienHexenlanez MacOowel!Miss Bessie Godkin.a. Caprice Cfiamlnadeb. Staccato Etude .ScfcarwenJc.

J. A. Detzer.Overture— "Semiranlde" Rosstßi^Clserny

Misses Davis and Schutte.

The last concert of the Chamber Mvsic ensemble will be postported unti'Thursday, April 22. It was advertisedfor the present week.

The Schubert club has extended itshospitality to the New Century club onnext Wednesday afternoon on the occa-sion of Mr. Armstrong's lecture,

M. Onet will give a reoitat ofoperatic songs the week after Easter,assisted by an orchestra. Many of th-other teachers have in preparationprogrammes to be given by their pu-pils during the closing weeks of theseason. These, together with the ad-vent of some of the stars who haveshone with most luster in the EasternArmament, Calve, Carreno, Stern andGregorovitsch, will persuade us thatthe winter has been good, despite thelow business pressure.

Miss Nellie Pottgieser, while in Chi-cago lately, sang for two of the lead-ing voice teachers, Dr. Ziegfeld and Mr.Castle, who complimented her high-ly, and advised immediate work withthe best teachers. Miss Pottgieser willprobably go abroad soon to completeher study under the masters of tinold world.

The West Side Choral society giveaan Easter concert April 20.

A concert of unusual interst will begiven at the First M. E. churchWednesday evening. Miss Anna Stu-art Hansel, the contralto, of Chicagowho was obliged to cancel her dab'with the Schubert club, owing to theillness of her father, is in the city, amiwillsing two numbers. Percy Church-illwillappear in solo work, and also Ina duet with Miss Hansel. Mrs. WilliamA. Topllff will give a whistling solo,and Miss Clara M. Mott a piano num-ber.

The annual Easter Sunday concertof the Seibert orchestra will occur atthe Metropolitan opera house under thedirection of George Seibert Jr. TheEaster Sunday concerts of this famouslocal musical organization have formany years been recognized as eventsof considerable Importance ina musicalway, and have always occasionedgreat interest amongst the music-lov-ers of this city. An excellent pro-

gramme has been selected for this oc-casion, and will be presented by thefull orchestra, numbering forty of St.Paul's most Skilled musicians.

I'AMI'AS CAT IN VIOVV YORK.

•tuicr \uIuuil Received Prom Far

l|ithe AmuioD River.

NEW YORK. April3.—A pampas cat.or Jung'» oat as It is also called, hasJust arrived in this city on board oftbe steamship Hubert from Para, Bra-zil. It was brought to Para by a boatfrom far up the Amazon river, and waspurchased by a sailor on the steamship.On arriving in this city he sold It toan animal dealer. Itis a pretty littleanimal, and is striped and mottled inyellowish gray and black and brown.Itis full grown, although young, andIs much smaller than the average do-mestic oat. ItIs like an ocelot In ap-pearance, except that Its markings areof a different color.

\u25a0i»___U AMUSF MENTS.

POAiin BEGINNING

bRANIL^...^omGHT!^First presentation on any stage of a New and Stirring W

| Comedy Drama, entitled w\

\u25a0 THE \u25a0 fI SHOWMAN'S |

\ DAUGHTER. |< PRODUCED BY JACOB LITT.J MAGNIFICENTLY STAGED ! &

PERFECT VIEW OF CRIPPLE CREEK !NEW YORK BAY BY MOONLIGHT!£'

Special Scenery by Arthur Hurtt. New and Beautiful Electrical £[) Effects by Mayrhofer, New York. £\j A STRONG CAST.' £I FRANK LOSEE. FANNIE McINTYREj MARIONELMORE. THOS A WISE fj G-EORG-E W. DEYO, CHAS. F. G-OTTHOLD,j AND OTHERS.

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NEXT WEEK "THE PRODIGAL FATHER."