Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-16
THE PLAYHOUSE.
Attractions Past and Future-The First
Opera Company of the Season
This Week.

There was n good attendance upon the
| matinee yesterday but light crowd at
the night production of the Still Alarm
While there are weak parts in the plot
and dramatic features of the Still Alarm
rs produced here, yet there are sufficient
points of interest in it of spectacular
and scenic nature to merit favorable
comment. OF the spectacular melo-
dramatic order, it is superior to
the average play of its character
brought out here, and while its character
may not suit the fastidious critic or the
cultivated lover of the high in art, yet it
meets the approval of large class of
people, and as far as it is intended to
catch that class it is decided success.
''LosT IN NEW YORK. -
The ever welcome aquatic comedy
drama, "Lost in New York; will be
presented ct the opera house next Mon
day and Tuesday evenings, November
II and Is.
This company and play are popular In
Fort Worth, and are ALWAYS greeted
by overfiowing and enthusiastic suden-
ces. The play is one of the very strongest
American sensational dramas, and Is
mounted superbly. The river of real
water with Its pretty little steamboat
and q beautiful prismatc fountain are
among the realistic features, and the
scenery, which IS all new this season,
comprises the East river by moonlight,
Grammercy square, showing the resi-
dence of the late Samuel j. Tilden, the
Randall Island insane asylum and New
York city illuminated, as seen from
BlGckwe!l's island. The company
is the same seen here last sea-
son. and includes Lottie Alter, Florence
Slower. Henrietta Scott, Norma Yeager,
Baly, Ricca Cable, Gus Pixley, George
A. Wright, William H. Ryno, Chur es
Jackson and William Ballert. The con-
pany is under the management of Gen.
William B. Barton, late manager of the
Bijou theater, New York, and the Old
California theater, San Francisco.
THE GREAT METROPOLIS.
The Great Metropolis, sensational
melodrama, with rich scenic effects and
elaborate stage settings, holds the boar 70
on "Wednesday and Thursday nights, with
Thursday matinee. After the perform
ance the audience will be invited on the
stage and shown the method in which the
stage mechanism is arranged to produce
the great rescue scene
THE 'GoNDoLIERs.
Grau's opera company. with their own
orchestra aud special scenery, will pro-
duce for the first time in Fort Worth,
Gilbert * Sullivan 8 latest comic opera
success. the "Gondoliers, - at the opera
house, Friday evening, November 2l.
This company comes direct from
the Chicago opera house, and Is
under the same management as "Blue
Beard, Jr.,'' SO that is guarau-
tee, besides the name of Grau is enough.
The following is taken from the Calves
ton News:
The stage setting was fine and the cos
tunes elegant. Miss Fatmah Diard, who
has soprano voice of great strength and
sweetness, captured the audience from
the first aud was loudly applauded. Miss
Marie Lauren singing ID the second act
received a -ouble encore, and Miss Lille
Alrich, as Tessa, received her
share OF well earned plaudlts. The
parts OF the two gondoliers were
most acceptably filed by Messrs. Shack
ford and Paxton, and MIR. Mountjoy |
Walker as the duke was feature of the |
Maurice Hageman as
the great inquisitor made marked hit. |
The company is good in its entirety, and |
the chorus exceptionally fine and well |
balanced.