Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-17
This Weeks Attractions.

THE Casino Opera Company will give us q
couple of capital comic operas at the Bijou
this week. If there is anyone among the skep-
teal few in this community who questions
Pauline Halls legitimate claim to one of the
first positions among the comic opera singers of
to-day, let him see and hear her in "Nadjy."
As Etelkd, ward of the Emperor, she is not
only the vision of loveliness, but an actress of
sweet and commendable ways, and further, a
singer of such positive ability that but few
would care to dispute her worth. Never be-
fore has Miss Hall been given SO excellent an
opportunity to manifest her powers. "Nadjy"
is in itself delightful opera. The music is by
Chassaigne, the composer of "Falka," the
adapted libretto being by Alfred Murray. The
Opera had its first production at the New
York Casino last May, and held the stage
there throughout the summer, being with
drawn after over $50 performances to make
room for the new Gilbert and Sullivan opera
which has recently withdrawn and "Nadjy'
put on again for another run. The action is
pl aimed in three acts, and the scene is placed
in Hungary during the exciting times in which
the patriot RakOczy was prominent the
development of the plot largely concerning the
fortunes of Nadjy. the then reigning premier
danseuse of the Vienna Opera House. The
story of the book maybe briefly told, as follows:
Princess Etelka, ward of the Emperor of
Austria, is the missing Queen of Hungary
The Emperor has decided to force her to marry
the Count de Rosen, nephew of the Margraye
of Bobrumkorff, and she is sent to the Castle
of the Margrave for that purpose. Rakoczy, a
Hungarian patriot, is in love with Etelka and
she returns his love and is very averse to
dancer, and the Count are anxious to marry
each other, and an understanding is arrived at
by which the Count and Etelka are to carry
that he is to annul the marriage
within "a hours Before the time is up Rakoczy
becomes impatient and goes to the castle to see
Etelka. His presence and the rank of Etelka
are betrayed to the Margrave by Faragas,
Rakoczy's follower, and the couple fly to Hun
gary where Etelka is proclaimed Queen, an
nuls her marriage and weds Rakoczy The
Of the So Ms
furnished by the efforts of the quartet of
lovers to bring about the desired unions and
more or less amusing situations result from
three acts Of the opera. Mr.. Wilson is a genius
as funlnaker. and as Fdrd0dS, professor of
eloquence and dancing, surprising his best
efforts ,! as oadsan1; @ .. "Nad1y" will be given
the original home company and this will be
their only appearance in this city. The COM
pany will give '.Erminie during the last three
days of the week IN the exact shape it took at
the Casino.
AT Harris Theater the remarkable Nelson
Combination will appear this week. An ex.
change says of this company: The collection
of artists gathered together by the Nelson
World Combination, which opened a eek's en-
gagement at Waldmann's last evening, present.
ed programme that has not been excelled by
any vaudeville company this season, and one
that would be hard to equal. The entire per-
formapce was one of much merit, and can be
justly commended to the most exacting The
Twin Brothers Wems, assisted by Coyne Sis
ters, presented an amusing sketch, in which the
brothers create much merrIment. John Cole
maNloes some neat dancing. Neiman intro
duces q novelty in ventriloQuism. Les Freres
Obeine are clever French grotesques. Mile.
Forgardus has flock of trained pigeons and
Mexican dogs. The Nelson Family, seven in
the public. Griffin and Langan as the "FIying
Tailors," receive repeated encores, Richard
Pitrat is o French mimic of unlimited re-
sources. The delightful programme concludes
with laughable skit entitled SIS Marriage a
Failure" There will be grand holiday
matinee on February q.
THE appearance of the fair and glitter vhis-
tier. Mrs. Alice ]. Shaw. promises to exert a
converting influence in the minds of MANY that
regard whistling as inevitably and dis.
tinctlvely masculine. The Shaw whistle
is as delightfully."- feminine as lovely pucker
and woman's lips can make it. 1t is q dainty,
womanly whistle, no more like mans than is
soft soprano voice like q vibrant bass. The
lady will be assisted by Miss Ollie Torbett
violiniste; Miss Edith Pond, singing reader;
Tagiiapietra and Mr.. +. v. Downey' pianist.
Mrs. Shaw's gift found hearty admirers in En-.
gland, where she whistled her way into the
hearts OF our English cousins. Possessed of a
notably fine presence and q handsome face,
the lady wins admiration before the first sound