Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-10
The ProRrnnnle.

A SEASON of opera comique, which promises
to be of unusual interest, is that which will be
inaugurated by the McCaull Opera Company
at the Bijou Theater next week. Won Suppes
latest opera, Glover" will then be given for
the first time here, and the event promises to
be of note both from theatrical and a social
point of view. Glover" was adapted into
English from Suppe's "Die Jagd Mach Dem
Gluek," ," and was arranged to suit the capabili-
ties and peculiarities Of the well-knoWn men,
6 6eTs Of the MeCanll operate organization;
"Bellman" and "FaIinitza," Glover" is said to
exceed even these in the qualities which go TO
make well balanced opera comique The
opera is in prologue and three acts, and
the scenes transpiring as they do in four
different countries, give opportunities for .
variety OF costumes and scenic effects very
rarely witnessed in comic opera. Some OF the
most charming music that has vet emanated
from the prolific fancy of Franz Won Suppe will
be found IN Glover" In spirit, freshness and
grecefulness nothing finer could be asked for,
and IN its sentimental music there are melodies
sufficient to stock ballad singer with material
for year. The cast of Glover" is perhaps
the strongest that is to be seen to-day in comic
as De Wolf Hopper Marion Manola Nine.
COttrelly Eugene Oudin, Annie Myers, Jeffer-
son de Angels, Carrie Burton, Josephine
Indsay; dsp; MORSE Morrison ~ Edmund Stanley GedpTPes, GpPs,
Wade Louis Shrader and George Cerbi The
only introduced bit in "Clover" is the now IA
nous topical song, "But There Are Things it is
Better Not to Dwell On" which was written by
Sydney Rosenfeld for De Wolf Hopper.
"Clover'' will be given here with the entire
original cast.
THE sale of seats for "Siberia," which will be
the attraction presented to the patrons of the
Bijou Theater the coming week by Manager
Gulick, is already very large-a substantial
compliment to the merits of this most success
full drama, to its author and manager. When
question that commanded the attention Of
all thinking people, and so cunningly did he
handle the subject that the play has outlived
the interest in the movement that inspired il
1t is a truly realistic picture of suffering
in the Russian empire, appealing directly to
the heart and sympathy of everyone
Always interesting as stories of Russian life
are, this one seems TO have secured hold upon
the public attained by no other, and with in
creasiDg years its success does not wane The
unfortunate and persecuted sisters are com.
mendably unprecedented by Misses Eleanor
Morrett and Agnes Proctor, the former show
ing considerable power and skill, and the latter
displaying strong and artistic acting in the mad
scene. Mr.. Adolph Jackson, as RfchoIat
Ndi0O0, the hero, is pronounced natural and
graceful and Charles y. Waite, as the rascally
court interpreter, undeuiably clever The
servant, NoLSky is, in Mr.. Fairbanks hands, a
source of continual amusement, and Messrs
Gotthold, Mcdonald, Dellwyn and Howard
and Misses Lizzie May Ulmer and Kate VIII
son, are all capable people. Lizzie May Ulmer
will be remembered as an erstwhlle star, and
her rendition of Vera, the flower girl is an
artistic performance There is a carload of
scenery and mechanical effects used in the pro-
duction, and the costumes are new and elab-
crate.
THE numerous class of persons who 60 to the
theater in quest of laughter are familiar with
the names of the popular farces, "a Rag
Baby" "a Hole in the Ground" )" and others,
But the general public does not know equally
well the name Of Mr.. Charles H. Hoyt, the
author Of these jumbles of rough and timely
foolery. Mr.. Hoyt was a newspaper man be-
fore he became playwright, and wrote jokes
for the Boston Post. In that way he learned
what kind of fun the capricious public enjoys,
as his success as a farceur shows. Tomorrow
evening his latest and greatest success, "A
Midnight Bell" will be produced for the first
time in the city at the Grand Opera House
in this city, In "a Midnight BeIln Mr.,
Hoyt has made a most successful effort to rise
to a higher plane as dramattst He is an ad-
mirable sketcher OF CHARACTERISTICS and uses
said to be shown in "a Midnight Bell" There
is an absence of the farce contrivance and OF
the rough and tumble situation. The meat of
the piece is the picturing OF the characters
and scenes of New England village. Some
melodious music and few specialties intro
duced naturally add to the attractions of the
performance. All the scenery used in the piece
Is carried by the company, and Is said to be
wonderfully realistic. the same having been
painted from photographs taken from various
scenes around, and about Mr.. Hoyts country
home at Charleston. N. 81.
THERE ought to be many light hearts and
scarcity Of the blues in this city this week, for
Reilly and Woods Company viii begin .
weeks engagement, commencing tosmorroW