Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-02-18

ger Geo. II. Hazard was presented with a
handsome morocco autograph album as a
token of esteem from the members of the
legislature. 1t contained their signatures,
and in acknowledging the souvenir ne
made happy speech.
IOIanthe
EMMA ABBOTT IN THE NEW GILBERT & sULLI-
VAN OPERA.
The admirers of Gilbert & SulIivan's
compositions are so numerous that the
production of new opera by them as
sumes phase of interest entirely foreign
to an ordinary operate presentation. The
production of their new fairy opera
'Iolanthe, or the Peer and the PERI" at
the Opera house next Tuesday evening by
the Emma Abbott company, is looked for
ward to with anticipations of pleasure,
and the following selections from Mr..
Gilbert's bright and witty story will serve
to heighten the interest which is already
felt in the approaching presentation.
The curtain rising on the first act
discloses and Arcadian landscape with
view in the background span
ned by rustic bridge. Three fairies en-
ter and finding the spot clear, beckon to
their sister fays who come tripping, in
fairy fashion, upon the stage and in a song
they explain their presence and some of
their distinguished traits as peris. At the
end of their song they unite in lamenting
the fate of Iolanthe, their favorite sister,
who has been banished years since for
marrying mortal. The banished peri
has taken up her abode at the bottom of
river for some unexplainable reason.
This is lamented by the fairies. "Think
of the DAMP" says one, land
her chest was always so delicate"
The queen enters, stately in car
riage and weighty in avordupois. The
fairies beseech her to pardon Iolanthe and
urge their great love for her as the reason.
The queens reply is as follows, and its
humor arises from the association of her
physical proportions with such facts as
| she describes:
What was your love to mine? Why, she was
invaluable to me! Who taughtme to curl my
self inside buttercup? Iolanthe!-Who
taught me to swing upon a cObweb? Iolanthe!
! Who taught me to dive into a dewdrop, to
nestle in a nutshell, to gambol upon gossamer?
| Iolanthe!
Iolanthe is summoned and arises from
the river clad in somber garments. She is
welcomed and pardoned amid the rejoic-
ing of the assembled fairies, who then
! learn that she has chosen her river retreat
| in order to be near her son Strephon, who
is an Arcadian shepherd. Strephon enters
! singing a verse expressive of his gratitude
| at the prospect of being married to-day"
and accompanying himself upon the hageo-
let. Strephon is half fairy and he finds
his peculiar construction highly inconven-
lent, expressing his annoyance thus:
What's the use of being half fairy? My
body can creep through keyhOle, but what's
the good of that when my legs are left kicking
behind? | can make myself invisible down to
the waist, but that's Of no when my legs re-
maia exposed to view. My brain is a fairy
brain, but from the waist downward I'm gb-
bering idiot. My upper half is immoral, but
my lower half grows older every day, and some
day other must die of old age. What's
to become of my upper half when I've buried
my lower half, really don't know.
After the fairies have tripped away,
Phyllis enters and INDUCES in a pretty
duet with her lover, Strephon.
A fanfare without and martial music
in the orchestra then announces the ap-
proach of the House of Peers, who enter
in stately and dignifed procession. The
lord chancellor next appears and in song
and succeeding dialogue explains the I'M
pleasant position of lord chancellor, who
has the misfortune to be in love with one
of his own wards. His situation is stated
in the following quaint fashion:
Id. CHAM thank your lordships. The feel
| ings of a lord chancellor who is in love with a
ward of court not to be envied. What is his
position? Can he give his own consent to his
| own marriage with his own ward? Can he marry
| his own ward without his own consent? And if
| he marries his own ward without his own con-
| sent, can he commit himself for contempt of
! his own court? Can he appear by counsel before
| himself to move for arrest of his own Judgment?
All, my lords, it is indeed painful to have to sit
upon a woolsack which is stuffed with such
| thorns as these.
The peers, one and all, can appreciate
his feelings, for they are too ready to
throw themselves at the feet of the fair
Phyllis, who is the particular ward that
causes the lord chancellor's perplexity.
Phyllis is summoned and all the lords are
infatuated anew with her beauty and grace.
| One of them, the Earl of TolloIler, giving
vent to his emotions in song:
| OF all the young ladies know,
This pretty young ladys the fairest;
| Her lips have the rosiest show,
Her eyes are the richest and rarest.
| Her origins lowly, it's true,
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