The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-04-25
ATHLETES IN THE OPERA.
CLEVER INTERPRETATIONS OF THE
"PIR4TEs OF PENzANcE."

Mr.. Molten Was Ill and EIr. Herrick
Acted as Chief of Police-The Ladies
in the Cast Were Loaded with Bou-
quets and the Men with Applause
Mr.. Frank II. Molten is down on his
back with pneumonia, and Mr.. George
w. Young, chairman of the Revenue
Committee, gave that fact before the
curtain rose on the rocky sea shore on
the coast of Cornwall, at the Jersey
City Athletic Clubhouse last evening,
as the very good and sufficient reason
why Mr.. Molten could not be a Chlef
of Police.
George r. Herrick was there in his
stead, however, and he discharged hls
functions with all the skilful coward
ice the exigencies of the situation re-
quired of him. His tout ensemble was
simply immense, and the audience
broke into an involuntary roar OF
laughter the moment his pompous
little figure hove in sight from the LETT
wing. at the head of his blue coated
detail.
No one is to infer, from what has
DCGil SAUL. DlldU III SfIotIAIS C0OAAS -
new appointees Mayor Cleveland had
invited Mr.. Moltento becomea Chief OF
Police. and taken Mr.. Herrick in his
stead. The particular duty of the po-
iceforce which Mr.. Molten was to have
commanded last night, but didn't,
was to down the wicked PIRATES OF
Penzancep who raided Major General
Stanley's pretty daughters at a given
signal from the stage conductor.
They were all pretty enough and pic
turesque enough, in their many hued
costumes, to have been raided by even
less sentimental and impressionable
fellows than the Pirates, and there
was not a man in the clubhouse last
evening who didn't envy the Pirates
the delightful land job to which the
playwright called them.
EVERYBODY knows all about the
PIRATES of Penzance, y so it is needless
to 90 over the story of their careers.
John D. Shaw made an excellent
Pirate Chief, and Will Vidal came
fully up to his usual standard as the
Stuffy Major-General. The singing
of the various parts was all that could
have been desired. Mrs. Clarke and
Mrs. Molten won applause and
bouquets in their solos; the friends OF
Messrs. Clarke, Vidal and Herrick
s'omitted flowers" but gave generous
applause and an encore or two. The
choruses were SO tunefully rendered
that the audience made the choristers
repeat their selections every time.
THE CAST.
Richard, a pirate chief 49,. Mr.. John D. Shaw
Samuel, his lieutenant. -. Mr.. Elliott w. johnson
Mr.. Charles Herbert Clarke
Major-General Stanley, of the British Army,
Mr.. William 7. Vidal
Edward, a sergeant of police. -. Mr.. G. R; Herrick
Mabel, General Stanley's youngest daughter,
Mrs. Charles Herbert Clarke
Isabel, Daughters, Miss Nettie H~elernan
Mrs. Emma Wheeler Smith
General SANKEY'S Daughters-sMrs. W. Hunter
Brown, Mrs. P. E.. Bird, Miss Luna Barns, Miss
Fannie B. Crossman, Miss Martha Dalzell. Mrs. L..
Hewettson, Miss Ida Hogan, Miss Louie L;Hornig,
Miss Minnie Nelson, Mrs. H. G. Nichols, Miss
Grace Patterson, Miss Annie smith, Miss May
Smith and Miss Lena Marie Vreeland.
Pirates and Policemen Mr.. Alexander a.
Ahrens, MIR. Ed. P. Baggott, Mr.; =. G. Bennett,
MI. w. Hunter Brown, Mr.. L. W. Burton, MI,
VIII. H. Kase, Mr.. j. S. Newkirk MIR. H @.
Nichols. Mr.. III. v. Piaget, Jr., Mr.. Charles Purdy,
Nr, George Rice, Mr.. William Robertson, r.,
EIr. Charles A. Stenken, Mr.. Herbert Scott, Mr..
James G.. Young and Mr.. John Alvin Young.
Musical Director and Conductor-Mr. Louis R.
Dressler.
The performance was under the i'm
mediate supervision of Mr.. Louis r.
Dressler, and under the auspices of
the Revenue Committee of the club,
consisting of Mr.. George W. Young,
chairman: Mr.. w. L. Vidal, secretary
and treasurer; MI. A. G.. Evans, MI.
G. d. Ridgeway and Mr.. L. r.
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