The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-05-01

Emily (the Doctors Daughter) Miss Della Palmer
Lady Hammond.".."".Missl Ida Van Cortland
Margaret (MeeKers Housekeeperj. .".........s.. -
.;................ Miss Kate singleton
MISS Ida ward
Mary. Emma Wilbur
The Baby ..""."............"....By Himself
Pixies Opera-house.
THE PIRATES OF pENzANcE.
Mr.. D'Oyly Carte's Opera Company has
this week been presenting Messra Gilbert
and Sullivan's "Pirates of Penzance." This
is the second appearance of the Company
here this season, and the good impressions
| made on the first visit are more than con-
| frmed. The Company is much improved,
both by several months work together and
by few judicious changes. The "Pirates
OF Penzance" will be produced at the matt
nee this afternoon and for the last time to-
night.
THE FROG OPERA. -
On Friday and Saturday evening and
Saturday afternoon of next week, May 7th
and 9th, we are to have the novel extrava-
ganza Frog Opera" with Pollywog chorus
for the benefit Of the Widows Home, and
given supplementary to the Widows Home
Festival, which proved such success. 1t
is given under the auspices of the Board of
Managers and a list of patrons, whose
names we have already published. As the
cast was given in yesterdays STAR 1t is un-
necessary here to repeat it. Some descrip-
ton of the entertainment is in order, and
| the following from the Boston Advertiser
appears to be complete and satisfactory:
hThe work OF the author, Mr.. Charles T.
Miller, it must be remembered, does not
belong to the region of broad burlesque.
1t IS the fine fun, the fairy revel of Tita-
MAS court. Those who have read Mrs
Mhitney's Mother Goose for Grown Folks
have seen something of what the united
sense OF fun, fancy, and fact can do with
nursery lore. Mr.. Miller's fancy is struck
one day with the quaint oddity of that oil
est of old English nursery tales, The frog
he would wooing co., and conceives the
project of celebrating 1t, aud setting it in
the framework of a burletta. But this was
not the work of day. Two or three years
these gay sprites Of the Imagination were
weaving their spells in the authors brain,
and by and by we get the result in this most
unique and art site of burlettas. The orig.
inal fable of the wooing frog has certainly
the dignity Of antiquity to recommend it,
IOr IL III DTOuRut up hoih ouCu q ldT-dWdy,
misty past that its derivation escapes all in
quiry. The first we hear of it is from the
traditional nursery lore of the Midland
Counties OF England above century and a
half ago. 1t used to be sung then to the
old English tune OF 'Fa, la, Lincoln lane.
From this we get our modern Froggy with
the Opera Hat When the curtain first
rises and we see the pollyw. gs crouching
| AZ ,ybslo fbay nhar ~, o~,,s
the curious creature resemblance which
has been brought about without destroying
the human element, and which at the same
time creates weird kind of picturesque
ness showing at once to what real genius
the art of costuming can reach. In the
rest of the representation the same skill in
producing fine effects is shown. In the chor.
us, songs and duets. as in other burlesques,
old familiar airs greet our ears. And SC
throughout-now an old English air, r a
popular tune, land scraps from famous operas
carly the quaint ord-absurdity oft frog,
story to its cl Sc, and make of it all com
bipation of effect which is never marred
from beginning to end by the rank growths
which invariably crop out in the broad
burlesque to which we are accustomed"
Hsuok's Opera House.
BIG FOUR MINSTRELS.
The "Big Four" Minstrel Company hav,
been playing at Heuck's this week to larg,
audiences, and will close their engagement
tomorrow night. Matinee to-day and to
morrow.
rRAaEDIANs OF KALAMAZOO.
Beginning Monday night the Tragedian
of Kalamazoo will appear at Heuck's fo
one week in Charles Browns musical com
edv in three acts entitled "Our Schoo
Days', or "Boys and Girls Again, with tn,
foil wing cast Of characters:
Ressie Mulcahey. ............ Miss Gertie Granville
Frances E. Mulcahey~" Hugh Fa!
Prudence Mulcaney "''...'..' r.. .Garne ~ Grissl.
Ludovico seymoure n: M NIL n. ~. Brow.
Tommy Tuck mr. Aionzo Scnwart
% Wsddy OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES John e Burn
Georoinia Ketchum. ........... Miss Addie C. Reet
Madam Arno. ..,.............Mis Miss Connie Thompson
MARY MARY Jane anne s5sYsns. $i'son..Th The Bale
Act 1.-The home Of the Null
cahpys reduced to theatrica
boarding house. Serio comic sing
ers. clog dancers and Haverly's BIZ
Fifty among the boarderA Bessie and he
lover. Little Tommy Tucker. 'Oh Aim
He Sweet.n Ludovico the Adonia H,
4 wed me for my money; 1t has gradually
wasted away, and now have writ /
plav." All, look at de peaches. Musica
finale. "Will You 60 out"
| Act II-Still farther, reduction Of the
Mulcaheys in the social scale; now it il
school in their own house and Bunch o
Girls and Boys" in attendance. The slip
perry stairs. The clog. Dancer in trouble
| It was Tommy Tucker. Come here.
What's an election? FloridaI First class IL
horizontal diphth.ria. Recess and its con
sequences Let her fyl
Act IIL-The play what was writ mus
now be rehearsed; now, now, right here
Not original, taken from the Irish. Tn