The Indianapolis Sentinel

PRETTY LITTLE MINNIE PALMER.

This charming, vivacious little lady, with her big bright eyes, nimble feet and funny dow of buoyant spirits, and all aglow with her recent European triumphs, will be with us again the last three nights of this week, at the Grand Opera House, presenting her greatest success, "My Sweetheart." Little Minnie had all London at her feet for over six months, and they are still calling for her to come back. This will be her first appearance in Indianapolis since the departure for England two years ago. "My Sweetheart," now everybody's sweetheart, is steadily winning her way to fame and fortune, as her wonderful success both abroad and at home must testify, the result of which is due to combined talent, youth, beauty and the determined industry to perfect herself in her art and give pleasure to the public. The play of "My Sweetheart" is now nearly an operetta that in a very short time it will be completely transformed into if we can credit the general reports regarding the matter. In a conversation with Mr. John Rogers, who has been with the little darling during the past three years, we are led to more than believe that the Indianapolis public will be more delighted than ever with the bewitching Minnie when seeing the many new features in the newly revised play. At the close of the present tour the entire company return to Europe for an indefinite period. Showing the estimate in which Miss Palmer is held abroad, the following from the London Drama will be read with interest: "Her beauty need not be disputed. She is as fresh as the flowers of spring. She has a clear and strong soprano voice that trills so the nightingales themselves might almost be expected to pause in their singing to listen, and she is so light of foot that she seems to dance on air. Very graceful is all her dancing: very pretty is the twinkling of her feet. Tina, the part played by Miss Minnie Palmer, is a little rustic hoyden, utterly wayward, wholly self-willed, as rough and untutored as a wild colt, as playful as a kitten, as mischievous as a monkey, as gentle as a gazelle. She is the pet of her playmates, the torment of her friends, the belle of the district. Everybody tells her she is the prettiest woman in the world, and she believes them: she has daily proposals for her hand, which she regards as her natural due. She chaffs her mother, and plays practical jokes upon her; she reclines against her humble lover's breast, and asks him if she is not real nice; she catches flies to let loose in the face of a friendly doctor, whom she has nursed through a fever, and she twitches his mustache and kisses him; she watches o'er her humble lover when he succeeds to a title and fortune, and is instrumental in saving him from the designs of a wily woman of the world, and when he is blinded and the title and the fortune are again torn from him, she is eyes and hands to him, and eventually, when his sight is restored she becomes his wife and all ends happily."