The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1888-10-09

soon to become widow, Phoebe cajoles
Fairfax's maiden and obtains the key OF
the cell.
THE MARRIAGE PROCEEDS.
The marriage takes place, Immediately
after which the real Fairfax has beconss-'
the supposed son. The Merryman
and the commandment next have jests and
patter song 10 divert the formers atten-
ton while the marriage proceeds. Soon
re-entcrs the maid with rectatiye and ball
lad beginning
IT'S done, an bride. Oh, little ring that bear
est
In thy clrclet all the gladness
That lovers hope for and that poets sing
What bringest thou 10 Inc but gold aud sadness?
bridegroom all unknown,
Are Ia this wise as welcoming a brother-in-law
that Is 10 be.
WHIMSICAL SCENE.
This scene is followed by n whimsical
one, in which the real Fairfax, as the new
yeoman, has gone after himself to bring
the prisoner into the presence OF the heads
man. The bell is tolling 10 n chorus as
the prisoner comes TO meet his doom at the
Block The chorus is interrupted by tho
entrance OF Fairfax, as the son, and some
yeomen, who announces
We've hunted high, we've hunted low,
The man we sought, n truth will show,
Ihe man we sought with anxious care
Has vanished into empty air.
The act ends with a frenzied ensemble
in which tho commandant bewails his
negligence, the maid her i'll luck in still
being wife and cannot marry the coun-
terleit son, and Merryman his loss OF a
sweetheart. She faints in her real hus-
bands arms All the others rush Off TO
hunt for the fugitive, leaving the husband
and wife, each ignorant that they are so,
and the gaunt headsman in possession of
the stage.
THE SECOND ACT.
Two days elapse and the second act
opens with chorus OF women, wardens,
yeomen and the contralto dame ANNOUNCE
ing the unsuccessful search, followed by -
comic dialogue between the torturer and
Merryman, at one losing his captive and
the other wife. patter song in Gil
berts best vein occurs, beginning:
Oh, private buaoon
lisa ligbiheartcd loon.
Running to five long verses in catching
double rhymes, when Fairfax, alias the
son, and the maid have the stage alone in
a duet, and he with q solo afterwards:
Pound to an unknown bride,
For good and Ill
All, II not one yet tied,
prisoncf stir
He is soon joined by the sergeant, his
supposed father, and the contralto dame,
who Is trying to marry the wdowcr ser.
geant. In the course Of conversation
Fairfax inters from the danes account Of
the maids mu,erings in her sleep that
the latter IL his unknown bride, and no
eNults in song. Meanwhile. 20 alsolye
lao Ion. Ia. 1.
J ust shot Fairfax swimming the Thames
all in the secret iear that il is the real son
who Is killed, and in the chorus everybody
drdgs the river.
PARDON ARRIVES.
AZ this juncture a maliciously DELAYED
pardon for Fairfax arrives lie and his
on enter in tn true character and nll il
Joy, except 10 Mcrrymgn, who has lost his
wife, and TO the sergeant, who has had to
marry hated dame, and 20 lhWbe aud
the toIturcr, VINO have also welded and
lcel marriage 10 be indeed . failure. The
maid aud Fa.r.aN are especially happy.
Al this unrayeling hIs been illustrated
with songs, concerted pieces aud clJru,.s,
he piccc ending with ia Caro- OF tho
early soag, 81 Have Song a. SING, Oh"
lnd the curtain drops over ihc Jester,
~ - iH"As hlh bEuraihilHt WHO SNuuus
lron despair.
Tho plot aud libict,o show ingenious
apt huilc2qGe OF ideas, no men.
verbal cOnccits. very taking RHYMES.
dialogue intrinsics.lly witty rather than
humorous, and successive conircicnus
u'l OF whimsicaliiy, all without a break
IA interest for q moment.
But now for The music anil the PLAYERS.
sULLiyAS's hest WORK.
When the audience departed il was with
he unanimous conviction that the new
presented Sulliyan's best
~ 'ratic work in his series. although,
perhaps, not destined 90 prove 10 popular
,ith the masses Ms some OF his previous
.iloris. Tho general characteristic Of tho
numbers consisted ia their uniform suita.
,ility 10 ideas and situations conveyed by
he librcito. The overture opcncd with
.cttlcdrum tap, expressive of firing tho
lower gun, instantly followed by mill
airy march with the brass pfclominating.
then turned into a pathetic waltz move.
ncnt IRON flute and next passed to a string
aFiety and thereafter skinned essays III
lac best themes throughout tho opera.
he composer conducted the work amid
hcers welcoming him 10 his new triumph.
Is Ia the "Mikado' the overture at once
implied that "A musical lrpat MA In Ia. ex-