Morning journal and courier., 1891-05-08
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 Sail for Bridgeport Co mmander
 Ingerson anSi the Entire Crew fin
 Fine Trim-A. Cruise to Hartford.
 Pinafore has come and gone. Three performances inside twenty-four hours, three full houses, and entire satisfaction to everybody. It is strange what power of starting everybody's feet to beating those first few bars of the Pinafore over ture have. Now to begin at the begin ming. Great praise is due the ushers, Messrs- Munson, Woods, Shepard, Beebe, Hoyt, Bradley and Williams. for their very efficient handling of the large audiences, as the audiences themselves will testify. It seems to us as if it was about time for benefit performance for them. Now to jump to the other end of the house and see whom we find. There's George Miller, stage carpenter; George Newcomb, prop erty man; Martin Gray, gas man; George Lee, John Finnegan and Edward Bowers, stage hands; Chas. Holfacher at the curtain, and Edward Reynolds, doorman. These eight man have been very important fac tors in the production of Pinafore The stage settings of Pinafore is the easiest, CACeptihS atlchCc, Ol any OI the OD6TaS, and this setting took seven hours to put up in place. Few people understand the value of that scenery. A duplication of it would cost about $1 900. This scenery will go to Bridgeport and will make good carload. In the darkened scene thirty lanterns, lent by the Consolidated and managed by Messrs. Lehr and Burnham, were great feature, makinga very pleas ing effect. This brings us to the stage.
 The Hyperion theatre possesses a very large stage, makingit easier, to manage the scenery. The Dessauer Opera Company filled the stage completely, numbering forty-six as they stood there. So in all there were about seventy people working for the entertainment of the audience After the matinee Miss Ingerson invited the choruses to Warner hall to dine, and they enjoyed themselves there immensely The audience at the matinee was composed mostly of ladies, and while not noisily enthusiastic, appeared to enjoy it as much as the audiences at the even- ing performances, and the matinee was fully as good in every way as the other performances, and in some ways better, for the voices were not as tired as last night. It is a great wonder that the voices could stand up under the strain of three performances inside twenty-four noure, put they uio, anu ulu we'll LOO. The orchestra surprised everybody by voice in solo singing is undoubtedly the hardest work an orchestra encounters, and they succeeded admirably. Great praise is due Max Dessauer for his able handling, and the skilful manner in which he rallied the orchestra in several critical points. The choruses must come in for several words of commenda- tion, and Herr Dessauer is responsible for their spirited singing, and Mrs. Frank Nelson, the charming wife of the stage manager, is the one who taught the girls to dance and pose so gracefully that their work was far beyond many professionals, and here are their names:
 Sopranos Misses Jennings; Annie True. Toole, Murray, Shanley, McCrann, White, Lizzie Reilly, Alice Reilly, Mrs. Howard.
 Altos-Misses Bittner, Coombs, ,Rosenbe erg Crot- ty, S. Emery, Soltau Lynch.
 Tenors-Nessrs- Woodstock Warren, Joseph smith, Arthur c. Lautenbach: Hoffman, N. M1gn, SehGl Lohma1; ph;n Murray; weiss & krat5e5 c William Holman, William Grabb, l.. Moller, J.C Collins, Max Trommler.
 Now for the cast. It reads:
 The Rt. Hon. Sir Joseph Porter, K.c.B., First Captain Corcoran, Commanding H. N s Ralph Rackstraw, Able Seaman. .'' Dick Deadey;e, Able Seaman. ..Frant Nelson BiI Bobstay Boaiswans Mate ames .s.y Kiviaa feaa Tom Tucker, Midshipmite ..... Charlie Groning Josephine, the Captains Daughter. Hebe, Sir Josephs First Cousin ...........
 ....................M Miss Hattie Schneeloch Little Buttercup, a Portsmouth Bumboat
 Woman. ...............M Madame Evelyn Oertel First Lords Sisters, His Cousins, His Aunts,
 Sailors, Marines, etc.
 A very marked improvement was visible in most of them. Mr. Nelson was so good that he couldn't improve. He certainly is, as & contemporary says, Gas good a Dick Deadeye as was ever seen on the New Ha- ven stage" Harry Ensign, according to the generally expressed opinion, was excel lent in his part and could hardly be im- proved on. Joseph Ross made typical commander. He possesses a voice which has a very sympathetic tone, as a musical authority present both nights declares, and his acting is very natural and unre- strained.
 Ben Harwood, with his sweet voice and ease of manner, won the hearts of the au- dience every time, and was applauded to the echo. Frank Nelson's acting and danc- ing was the feature of each performance It certainly was too bad that MT. Mead's part did not give him moro chances for solo work to show the magnificent baritone voice which he has the good fortune to own, and MT. Kivlan as his ''mate" mated his voice with a very heavy and power ful bass. Little Charlie Grooming did the Little Lord Fauntleroy" act for Pinafore, and everybody had a sweet word for the small boy who played his part so we'll. Josephine's part was taken by Miss Sullivan, and a sweeter | and clearer voice is seldom heard in New Haven, and the improvement in her acting is the most marked thing in the perform ances. The most charming and Iivacious Hebe who could be imagined was i'm personated by Miss Hattie Schneeloch, and many, many compliments were passed on her acting and appearance. Last and fal | from least comes Madame Oertel. and 6 better ''Buttercup' has not appeared here Her work was artistic in the extreme and showed the professional quality. This is only a little description of how the cast acted. Talk about flowers. Did anybody | ever see such lot of flowers as have gone up the center aisle in these three per formances. They were elegant and well
 distributed, but the audience applauded
 vociferously Charlie Groning's baskets
 Speaking about Pinafore remember that
 Max Moretze, who graced the first per
 formance, says the fault lay because tn,
 comedy element was not introduced more
 Then don't say the performers overdrep
 their parts. Pinafore will be given il
 Bridgeport Tuesday, the 18th, and in Hart
 ford Friday, the 18th.