The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-01-29

In the first act Mrs. Haynes is best, AID;
Rehan is next, and Miss Wainwright Il,
last In the second Miss Rehan excels, anc
Mrs. Galc-Hayncs is least good. Thercaft
er Miss Rehan overtops her rivals immcas
ur;lbly. and Miss Wainwrights lack O,
finesse rather than Mrs Gale-Ilaynes' merit
entities the latter to second place.
The sporting editor would probably have
this to say of the Orlandos: "Plymptor
jumped off in the lead and was never head
ed winning under pull by ten lengths
from Bourchier, lngersoll being distanccd. ,.
Before the Bostonians paid their annual:
visit to the Garden theatcr last fall it was
announced that they would produce 1.-The
knickerbockers" during the engagements
They came to town, started with "Robr
Hood" played to enormous business and
naturally did not care to tempt fate with b
chtnge of bill. This gave rise to n rumol
that The Knickcrbockers" had been rele
gated to perpetual oblivion.
OF course well informed persons knew
that this was the ver;cst bosh, but there
were many who believed it, and its un
doubted success is all the more pleasing tt
me on that account. While Harry Smiths
DOCKS are scarcely up to the level of De
hoven's music, these young mems names
arc rapidly becoming rs famous in America
as are Gilbert and Sullivans in England.
1t is possible, though, that the firm may
like the English one, soon go out of exist
ence, for have been informed that Glen
Mac Donough, the talented young author OF
THE Prodigal Father" and Innocent as
Lamb" is under contract with Reginald
de koven to write several comic operas dur
ing tho present year. These two younu
men ought to make great team, for Mac
Donough's superiority over Harry Smith
In everything that goes to make up n sue.
cessful librettist is as clear rs day to any
one who has compared the work of the two
men.
One Of the De Koven-Mac Donough Cd
eras is. l understand, for j. NJ. Hill, who
Will produce it as soon as 1.-The Fencing
Master" shall have outlived it's usefulness,
which will not be for many day if present
indications count for aught.
Quite common expression on Soubrctte
row is. Have you heard Baroness Blanc's
dresses in Deception Few persons. |
take it, have been to the Fifth Avenue the.
alter Tor any other purpose since the bar.
oness has been there. Some persons are
charitable enough to concedc that the lady
has the premonitory symptoms of incipient
mimetic ability. This is construed to mean
that Mrs. Blanc may some day shine in
light comedy, but tho great preponderance
of opinion is that the lady will never shine
on the stage except in diamonds, rhine
stones or calcium lights
No one, however, has yet been found bold
enough to claim the lady lacks confidence
In fact, the consensus of opinion seems to
be that the lady's belief in her own ability
approaches sublimity in it's unwavering in
tensity. But, after all. she is, or rather her
dresses are. drawing pretty well, and IS
that is the great desideratum the new as
tcroid-it seems too utterly absurd to call
her star-can afford to smile with COM
placency mt her detractors, who arc so in
tensely stupid that they will not accept her
as Adelaide Nelson's successor.