Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1882-01-19
LIE PETIT DUO
A Spirited Performance at ~ Disad-
vantage The Audience SYM


A Spirited Performance at Disad-
vantage The Audience SYM
pathetic.
The third opera Of their series for the
week was presented by the Oates Com
pany last night-Le Petit Due. All the
seats in the theater we're filed, there being
as many persons in attendance as on the
two preceding evenings, despite the snow
storm. The least said about hat orches-
ira probably the better. The Oates Com
pany nave a hard time Of 1t with this bette
notr, growing horrid sounds at them, or
emitting none at all but if they keep on
entertaining the Eureka audience through
the week as we'll as they did last night
with this incubus upon them, they will be
able to play "Hamlet" when they take
the boards at Salt Lake, with Hamlet ,"
left out. The opening chorus Of LIE Petit
Due. "You Naughty Boy" started the
play cheerily and breezily, and put every
body in the audience in a merry mood.
The minuet in which Miss Oates and Miss
Townsend were the principal figures, was
very pretty, the steps and attitudes were
just too graceful for words in such a frosty
season as this. The duet by Messrs.
Harold and Sturgis, The Scholar and
the Soldier" was well rendered,
much enjoyed aud heartily applauded.
Miss Oates gorgeous and exquisite ap-
pearance in dress Ind figure as the Prince
was greeted with the warmth she inspired.
In the love scene between the prima donna
and her bride she appeared at her best as
an opera bouffe artistic. Her acting. was
the poetry Of amour, while her words were
the amour of poetry. Il can't say l love
you," said the Princes bride, "it's
naughty" The reply, "But it's NICE"
was rendered in such tones and action as
would have made a man of Adonis. The
opening Of the second act with the sing
ing of the convent girls was prodigiously
droll and pleasing. Following which
Fremousse stirred up more fun among the
imprisoned girls than could be expected
by anybody who has never seen cooped up
girls turned loose for a spree. The blind
mans buff of the soldiers in the convent
was a lively scene. While Mr.. Harold
was singing the message Of the Prince to
the Instructress, the orchestra failed en-
tirely, fiattened out, emitted no sound,
The audience was SO much in SYM
pathy with the players, however,
that in seeing their best efforts
spoiled, ~applauded vociferously to express
their sentiment on the occasion, as much
as to say: go on, we'll stand it if you
can" Alice was huge as the Peasant Girl,
with her always modest look" army"
was got up for inspiring terror, the like of
which was never seen. The love-making
raid that Alice made on F~remousse, the
ugliest out Of a dozen picked ugly old
ones, made the audience scream with de-
light. She added him to her conquests.
She called him "Birdie;'' he was melted,
and sang and danced until she put a pistol
under his nose and placed a sword at his
breast when he started off the stage and SO
far forgot himself as to plunge into the
orchestra in despair. In leaving for his
post in the army, Darling, It's for this I
go away" sung by Miss Oates, was rich and
eloquent. She was encored, but the glo-
rious orchestra did not repeat the music,
and thereby hindered her from respond
ing to the call of the audience. In the
third act, however, the vexed and morti-
fed singer stood out alone on the stage
and in all prettiness Of form and melody
Of voice and completely captured the whole
audience with "Good-by, Sweetheart,
Good-by," for which she received a double
encore.