, 1884-03-02
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The Coming Of Colonel MapIeson, Patti
Gerster and the Remainder Of
~ Grand Opera Company
to Cheyenne.

Ii choii o"u Splcuulu, special UralD,
Colonel Mapleson's grand opera com
pany will arrive in Cheyenne on Tues
day afternoon, amid the plaudits of our
citizens and the music OF the Ninth
Infantry band.
The reception will be the grandest
and the greatest ever accorded to hon.
ored guests in our fair city. 1t will be
the event Of events, long TO be pleas
antly remembered by every one partici-
pating therein.
THE PERSONNEL.
There will be aboard the train just
n hundred persons connected with
the Mapleson opera company, besides
servants, male and female, and thu at
taches Of the train and railways.
The two rear cars contain the shin
ing lights of the organization, as fol
lows:
Mime. Gerster, Mile. Dotti, Mile.
Valerga, Mime. Liozzo, Nine. Blanchi
Florio, Signor Vicini, Signor Relic,
Signor Rinalrdipi, Signor Anton, Sig
nor Giovanni, Signor Bieleto, Signor
Galassi, Signor Cherubini, Signor Lom-
bardelli, Signor Caracciolo, Nine. Sac
conf, Signor Arditi, Signor Rasori, Sig
nor Ventura, Signorina de Sorts, Sig
nor Parry, Signor Belasco. signor Ia
rini, Colonel ]. H. Mapleson, Signor
W. Raper, treasurer, and Signor Gahan.
private secretary.
Count Zacharoff, who controls the
Mann system of ears, is also an occu-
pant Of these cars.
There are also the servants Of the
most distinguished of the party.
The six cars further to the front are
occupied by the lesser solo artists and
the members of the orchestra and Choir
us. Their quarters are fully as COM
Portable as those of their su%periors.
Madam Patti will be in her own pri-
vate car. She proposes attending our
opera house in the evening, though she
will not sing with the company. How
ever, the patrons Of our opera will have
an opportunity of then viewing the fair
diva who has secured a world wide fame
which brings her thousands Of dollars
nightly when she sings.
APPEARANCE OF THE TRAIN.
The train of Mann cars bearing this
company Is really the finest that has
ever trayersed the American continent.
For comfort, conveniences and luxuri-
GUS ease they are una4proachable.
Count Zacharoff, who controls the sys-
tenn, should certainly derive a fortune
from them. They are rapidly growing
in favor and are being adopted on a
number of the eastern roads. The
Mann boudoir car was first introduced
some eleven years ago in Europe, but it
was not so perfect as it is now, the
matter Of ventilation being of recent
addition, and then only on American
cars. 1t is only designed for wealthy
travellers, who can afford to pay for the
comforts they are given. The cardinal
merits Of this system of cars are: The
placing of beds across the car, instead
Of lengthuise; the substantial lessening
Of danger in case of accidents or fire.
The cars are sixty four feet long, and
in construction differ radically from the
American cars. The trucks upon
which they rest are of special pattern,
each having six forty-two inch paper
wheels, with Krupp's crucible steel
tires. The interior is altogether novel.
"LA soNNAMBULA."
This was the opening opera in Dem
yer on Friday night, and it was a grand
success. This is the way the Rocky
Mountain News speaks of it:
Nine. Gerster's Amina in la Son
nambula" is sweet and splendid beyond
praise. Others. sing the part as well,
perhaps, but no other prima donna Of
the present time can sing and act 80
well as Gerster. 1t is an old and often
absurd form of paaise to say that this
or that actor does not act the part so
much as live it; but this well-worn
statement comes nearer to a correct
expression of the truth regarding Ger
ster's Amlna than anything else that
car be said Of the part. All her emo
tions seem real and all her actions are
entirely natural.
From her first appearance till the
curtain finally went down on her finest
effort of the evening. She had the
hearty good wish Of the audience, and
no singer ever received such warm ap-
plause in the opera house as was
showered upon the fair Hungarian last
night. Gerster has grown stouter and
better looking since her FIRST season in
the United States. She is not hand
some but she is very ginsome. II she
had not been a great singer she might
have been a great actress, for she
possesses dramatic ability of a very high
order. Her voice has grown in volume
and sweetness, and the audacity she
displays in yenturesome efforts in the
highest notes ever sounded by a human
throat is only exceeded by the ease and
certainty of her execution wherever
the danger and difficulty seem greatest.
Her Amina was a grand success, and
the highest praise it needs is the GER
tainty that it will live in the memory
Of all who were present last night.
Signor d, Vicini as Elvino sang well,
but he is a poor actor. Cherubina as
Rodolfo. was very good, barring his
clothes, which gave him the air Of a
country cnrata