The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-06-18
LAST OF THE OPERA.
The OBeill Company TO Return TO
Charleston To-day.

Miss Humphreys Makes hit as
"Bettina" in the "ndascot''~The I'm
gagement Not as Successful as the
Management Expected IL Would Be.
The Patronage Good but Not Large
Enough to Maintain the Company.
The O'Neil Opera Company closed its
| engagement last night with the Mascot. -
/ Miss Humphreys sang "Bettinan with
the artistic grace which charaoterlzes her
singing and acting of any part she as
/ sumes. Miss Delaporte was seen as
/ ''Frederic,u and Miss Won Doenhoff as
! ''Fammetta. Mr.. Long sang the part of
''Peppo" and Mr. Hamilton that of
'Rocco." Mr. Bigelow as the
| 'sPrince", kept the audience in laughter
with his comedy. 1t was the first oppor-
tunity he has had to appear in comedy,
| and as Lorenzo XVII. " he made the most
! of it.
The opera was splendidly sung through
out and the acting and Instrumentation
merited the applause they received. Miss
| Humphreys was the recipient, of many
favors and was presented a beautiful bas-
| ket of flowers. The Gobble duetby Miss
Humphreys and Mr.. Ling was roundly
applauded.
Mr. O'Neill will return with the COM
! pany to Charleston to-day, where he will
begin an NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. tomorrow
night. The engagement here was not as
| successful from the standpoint of patron
age as the management expected it would
be. Mr.. O'Neill came to Savannah for
two weeks engagement but the patron
age did not Justify more than one week,
and hardly that. The fault was not with
the company that it did not draw. Sum
mer opera at this season was an expert
ment here. 1t had never been tried before,
and coming so soon after the close of the
regular theatrical season the people do
not seem to have wanted it. That is about
the only reason that can be assigned for
the lack of sufficient patronage to make
the engagement success. Mr.. O'Neill
has an excellent company and it will be
welcome at any time it may be brought to
Savannah again.
AS a rule concerts are not popular in
Savannah, but there is always certain
class of people who enjoy talent, and the
young miss who comes so highly recon-
mended will not disappoint the large au-
| dience that is already assured for her
concert at Masonic hall tomorrow night.
Miss Visanska, who is only IL old, gradu-
ated with the highest honors at the
National Conservatory of Music,
and William Steinway was so i'm
pressed with her remarkable talent that
he presented her with. a magnificent con-
cert grand piano. Miss Visanska is as
sisted by her brother, IA years old, who is
likewise q talented yiolinist The Young
Mems Hebrew Association, under whose
| auspices they appear, has always been
! successful in its different entertain
ments, and is to be congratulated in
presenting Savannah with such gifted
performers, Through its courtesy an
informal and complimentary recital will
be given at the Ludden & Bates S. M.
II. Monday morning, to which the
musical people and Others are cordially
invited. Following is one of numerous
compliments of the press. The New York
Herald says of performance in New
York: "IIittle Miss Bertha Visanska ac-
quilted herself with honor in her playing
of the Weber 'Concertstruck. Her tech
| nique is of steel and she showed more
feeling in her work than it could be sup
| posed that mere child would possess. !"
Manager Frank Maeder of the Law
renee Hanley company is in New York
booking his star for next season, a task
that is not difficult owing to last sea-
| sons success, Dunlap's Stage News says.
Every theater in the country seems open
to the clever young tragedian, and many
| of the well known managers
accompany their signed contracts with
complimentary illusions to young Han
| ley. Last week John w. Albaugh, known
and liked in every town in the union, sent
| Mr.. Maeder the following letter from his
| pretty country home on the Jersey coast:
! Il have carefully perused the matter sent
me. If Mr.. Hanley can in the next five
| years fulfill half of the expecta tious
! guaranteed in the extracts of the various
! ntS ~ V1A nj hnfn HI
! future should be assured beyond doubt
| There never was time in this country,
| in my opinion, when the prospects for a
! bright career were so imminent as the
present to young man that can properly
interpret legitimate tragedy"
Some interesting particulars of the
career of Sir Arthur Sullivan are given
| by Mr.. Charles Willeby, in his recently
| published Masters of English Music y
| Sullivan's first impulse to compose for the
| stage was received when he saw Mr.
| George du Maurier and Mr. Harold Power
play Offenbach's Les Deux Aveugles"
! C"The Blind Beggars'') at private house.
1t struck him that similar extravaganza
in English would be no less happy. On
his way home from that party he mem
toned his thoughts to Mr.. Burnand. The
latter was equally struck with it, and
| proposed an adaptation of Madison Nor
toms farce of BOX and Cox, This was
in 1866, and the result was ''Cox and
Box" which was first performed in pub
lie at the Adelphi theater in London, on
the occasion of benefit" organized by
the staff of Punch
LotJie Collins has met with an accident
in trying to live up to the triumph of her
"Ta-ra-ra boOm-de-ay'' dance She APP
peared with a new song, Queen of Gay
Paris" accompanied with a new dance a
riotous, high-kicking, elbow jerking af-
fair, designed to satiate the audiences
thirst for a climax to "Ta-ra-ran But at
the end of the dance couple of nights af-
ter its first exhibition, in putting her
whole soul into a final masterpiece of a
| kick, she overbalanced, her foot slipped,
and she upset and came down fat on her
! back on the stage, spraining her back
badly.
Lawrence Hanley was the last to look
into the face of Edwin Booth and he was
so much affected that he had to be led
away from the coffin by Manager Maeder.
1t appears that the last words spoken by
the great tragedian to Mr.. Hanley at the
beginning of the latter's starring tour
we're; when you look at my bier, hope
you will take my place. Prove true to
yourself and then you know you cannot