Morning journal and courier., 1881-04-25
"Patience."

Gilbert and sullivan's Satire of the
 .s Rsthetes.''
 Gilbert and Sullivan's s'entirely new and original aesthetic opera entitled Patience or Bunthornes Bride,'' was produced in London Saturday night. It is thus described in the New York Hera1d.
 The opera opens with a scene representing a glade close to an ancient castle, where twenty ''rapturous maidens" dressed in esthetic draper1es. playing lutes and mando- lins, sing in the last stage of despair, all their love being concentrated on male sesthete, Reginald Bunthorne. played by Mir. George Grossmith, jr. A troop of dragoons come on the scene of their former heart conquests, but are chagrined to find their old sweet hearts changed and indulging in the gushing jargon of pseudo-Rstheticism, and refusing to listen to the suits of feshy warriors. They have reached, as one character says, that transcendentalism of delirium that acute &C., centuation of supremest ecstacy, which the earthly might easily mistake for indigestion, but which is esthetic transfguration. "Love in the minds of the rapturous is the embodi- ment of purity, the abstraction of refine ment, the idealization of utter selfshness. " It is scarcely possible in cable dispatch to follow the details of the plot It is enough to say that the colonel, major and lieutenant of the regiment determine in the second act to become esthetes with their warriors in order to win back their lost loves. By the time this is accomplished the girls themselves have seen the folly of their ways, have grown tired of the aesthetic creed and have returned to naturalness and vivacity. GILBERTIAN QUIPs. The libretto is of course, full of eccentric ties, topsyturvydom, Gilbertiana and aston ishing rhymes. One of the conundrums put forth yuaak in London xUaa CIi1hart's no rhyme for totally" This is the solution:
 The consequence he lost totally,
 And married girl in the corps de bally.
 Mir. Gilbert's receipt for making a heavy dragoon is the following If you want 8 receipt for that popular mystery
 Known to the world as heavy dragoon. Take all the remarkable people in history,
 Rattle them of to 8 popular tune.
 The pluck of Lord Nelson on board of the Victory,
 Genius of Bismarck devising plan
 The huror of Fielding. which sounds contradictory
 Goodness of Paget about to trepan-
 The science of Julien, the eminent musico,
 Wit of Macaulay, who wrote of Queen Anne: The pathos of Paddy as rendered by Boucicault,
 Style of the Bishop of Sodor and Man; The dash of dorsay ,da dvested & of 1r.a guaGksry Victor Emmanuel Peak hunting Peveril, Tnomas Aquinas and Doctor sacheverell, Tupper and Tennyson, Daniel Defoe,
 Anthony Trollope and M. Guizot;
 Take of these elements all that is fusible, cit them all down in apipkin or crucible, Set them to simmer and take of the scum, And heavy dragoon is the residum.
 At the denouement everybody admits his or her true position in life. Bunthorne admits himself to be :-
 pallid and thin young man.
 haggard and lank young man.
 A Greenery Gallery. Grosvenor Gallery, Foot in-the-grave young man. THE MUSIC.
 The libretto contains some love ballads of poetic beauty. MT. Sullivan's music is not strikingly original It has lots of Ego" and some of the ballads are extremely pretty. A sextette at the conclusion of the first act, Il hear the soft note of the echoing voice of an old, old love long dead" is extremely sweet. Mir Sullivan has added quantity of jingle, l but it must be admitted that Mir. Gilbert's l words demand this. There are some pretty dances and taking dance music, but alto | gether the music is rather disappointing. One I scene of the opera, where the colonel, majol and lieutenant enter in aesthetic dress, one I holding 8 sunfower, another tulip, the 1 third a lily, and drill in esthetic attitudes as made popular by George Du Maurier, ii supremely funny. Patience" WAS received with much enthusiasm and many recalls by the audience. whose feet frequently battered 1 to the jingle of the music and it's rhymes Whether 'tPatience" will be a success il l America it is impossible to predict, but it i certainly well worth seeing