St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-11-25
s.vICTOR LIE BIAS BLEU."
An Immense Audience Greets the
Boston Ideals..An Ovation.

1t is not stretching the truth to say that
more delighted 800 people never left the
Grand opera house than those which COM
prised the audience last night. Something
seemed to be wrong on Monday night, and
Just how to account for it is more than any
mortal can undertake. Adam never wrote
bad music and the story of ''Giralda" is
pretty, if perhaps naughty in certain
places. The opera of s'Giralda" was
the last addition to the repertory under
the ODER management. and last
night the first addition under the Foster
management was witnessed by St. Paul
audience. There are many charms in both,
but we have now to do only with the latter,
''Victor, the Blue Stocking" Surely the
name is sufficiently Bostonish. The work
is most essentially opera eomique. and who
wrote it is a mystery, unless we accept the
statement of Manager Foster that he and
Ed Johnston were the composers. The
librettist, Oscar We'll, is probably for
eigner, and he undoubtedly got his ideas
from the French, but he has managed to
Americanize the words in the fullness of
unobjectionabe slang, and he gets in the
contest of current idioms in a pleasant
manner.
The plot of ''Victor'' is entertaining and
nobody is wearied in its unfolding, tor
there is not a sombre or heavy passage
in the entire development. 1t is not pro-
posed here to read the story to those who
have the treat in store for Friday evening.
The play opens in a bright crisp style
that follows through all its movements, and
happy scene proceeds that where Zelie de
Lussan trips on to the stage, and leaps
straight into the hearts of her auditors with
pretty peddler's song. The debutante is
petite, graceful lady, with flashing black
eyes, wealth of black hair and figure
which is perfection in miniature. Her man
lerS are of the most fascinating, coquettish
style, and in her dainty costume of lace and
muslin, with two tiny feet and most sym
metrical limbs, she catches and entrances
the eyes as well as the ears of the audience.
She produced an effect last night which
must have been most fattering to her van
ity, If she possesses such an unfeminine
trait. Her voice may be termed
light. clear, pure soprano, with perhaps not
the compass of some, but exquisitely Guilt
waited and deXterously manipulated. 1t is
singularly even throughout and has feel
ing in it which gives it charming individ-
uality. Without the heavy substance of
satin it has in an eminent degree the SOFT
yielding richness of pure costly silk. Her
work throughout the opera showed the ut
most conscientiousness and painstaking,
while not an effort was visible. She was
very fascinating in her song, There was
Little Sailor Lad" i'll her first act, and her
duet with Victor in the second was gem
of vocalization. The waltz song in the same
act gave her another fine opportunity, which
was admirably improved. But her grand
effort was reserved for the jolly song and
dance near the close. when she fairly
brought the house to her feet and responded
to four encores with the most perfect ADAM
don and good nature. 1t was jolly car
niyal scene. De Lussan is
A ST. PAUL IDOL.
Miss Huntington had an ungrateful part
but some fine music, and she fully sustained
the splendid impression she produced on
Monday night Her voice is truly fine, and
with the expression which she is gaining
she will fully sustain the reputation which
Anne Cary gave her as ''the best contralto
on the American stage"
Pretty little Miss Cleary is deserving of
more than passing notice and she is thor
oughly entitled to the batteries which the
audience bestowed upon her by its applause
| and encores. She showed much skill as a
vocalist and many charms as an actress,
and she Is certain to charm in 1.-THE
Musketeers," where she takes the role for