The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1888-02-08
THE TEMPLEToN OPERA COMPANY.
They Appear for the Last Time Before a
Small but Appreciatiye Audience

Small but Appreciatiye Audience.
Many pronounce the Tenpleton Opera
Company to be the best which have ever
appeared in Palatka- 1t certainly is am
excellent company, and its performances
here while on its present trip We're as
good both as regards the acting and the
singing, as could be looked for in a met
ropolitan company.
Yesterday afternoon the comic opera
of "Herminie" was given for the benefit
of the Sisters of st. Joseph to a good au-
dience. In the acting the comic inten-
tions of the author were fully realized,
to the great delight of the audience.
while the inspirations of the composer
were rendered with excellent voices and
with good effect. Mr.. Alf C. Wheelan,
as Jacques Stroup, and Mr.. John Reed,
as Robert Macarie, were particularly
successful in keeping the hilariousness
of the audience at high water mark, and
Mrs. Herminle Palacio, as Rosalie, and
Miss Alice Vane, as Princess Chicadee,
and Miss Nellie Hartley, as Captain Boz
badil, were excellent. The whole repre-
sentation was ON a scale far ahead of
anything usually seen so far South.
In the evening the opera .'Girofie-Gir-
ofia" was'given to as good an audience as
the cheaper entertainment afforded by
the circus would allow. 1t is to the
credit of Palatkas amusement-loving
public, however, that SO large number
chose the intellectually higher class of
entertainment at the opera house.
''Girofle- Girofia, as is well known, is
also denominated comic opera Some
times it is a good thing that this fact is
stated in printers ink, for it is difficult
to tell from the rendition whether an
opera is a comic one or not unless one is
told so in set terms. Last night, how
ever, there was no necessity for such
plain speaking. The opera was comic,
the acting was Enthusiastically
comic, and the singing was both
excellent and comic. Girohe and
Girafla, the twin sisters, was rendered
by Miss Herminie Palacio, and her sue
cess in her rapid transformations was a
marked feature of the evening. Mr.. Alf
{. Wheelan, in Don Bolero, the father.
with a comic instinct which seems to
involuntarily seize upon the comic
aspects of a situation. and last night
he was in good trim, making even his
mistakes and lapses of memory con-
tribute to the comicalities of his role.
His drolleries were irresistible, and kept
the audience in a continued state of de-
light. Mr.. j. r. Bradley, in Marasquin,
Mr.. c. Hartley, as Pedro, filled their
parts to repletion, while Miss Alice Vane,
In Aurora, was piquant in good voice.
The movement of the opera was greatly
impeded by the numerous encores which
the different members of the COM
pany, which positively compelled the
repetition of so many of the songs and
parts. This impediment, however, was
perfectly excusable on the part of the
audience, and was overcome gracefully
and, 1T is to be supposed, appreciatively
by the members. The rendition in de-
tail and as a whole was a grand success,
and those who We're present have cause
to congratulate themselves upon their
good fortune in having been present.
The company go from here to DeLand,
and ON February 16 will appear again in
Palatka IN the comic opera of 'sOliyette.e