The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-10-29
a WEEK or OPERA.
The Grau Company opens Its En-
Engcment With Tar and Tartar

-H-tHAeht Win NJ AhH "AA+tH-
Tar and Tartar: comic opera in three
acts. By Adam Itze and ". =. Smith
ne asst Of Character
M-rIley Hassans shipwreelked -, ,,-.-
Cardamon. isdo,,r chief slI fsu rear
----.-----............Nr J. Aldrich Libby
Dr. Pajama. Court Physician 49,
,-;---.-----... --....-...-.Alr- Herman Waldo
ment .............-..--.-.Ai r. Tom Martin
Ygsssf, Attendant to c5rda- -.
MoE S Sultan Of Morocco ST 60 T. 1A'iiOi1
.---.-----.......--Air. Frank W. Woodman
tarina, professional beauty
-..-.----.--..----...Ali Miss Adelaide Randall
Iaueta, her companion. Miss Amy Leslie
Alpaca, former wife o. Muley
Hassan ....-..........Miss Hattie Arnold
La4N s9sIl Lady q f,.g he Ha.o rr.,.r
Iolu, Village Girl Miss Matte Reeves
OluAi ------.-.-...............-N MI II. Brand
A glance at the cast will show those
who are familiar with the Grau company
as it was constituted last seasOn-and
there are few Savannah theater-goers
who did not attend its performance one
or more times last year-that the com
pany is made up this year Of almost en-
tirely new material And almost, # not
quite, without exception where there has
been change, there has been an i'm
provement Mr. Grau says the combina-
uon this year is the best all-rOund COM
pduS tndt ne has ever brought south, ana
ne has been coming here for number of
years. His leading lady this season is
Miss Adelaide Randall. one of the best
known and most deservedly popular So
pranos on the light opera stage to-day.
Miss Randalis stage presence is the per-
sonlncation OF grace and refinement, her
voice is one Of cultured sweetness, and
her acting is refreshingly wanting in the
obtrusive stage business" which fire.
quently seriously detracts from the per
Torrance of persons qualified in the mat
ter OF voice to take leading parts in opera.
Differently stated. Miss Randall can sing
and can act. and she does both with con-
summate artistic skill without once de-
scending to the "staginess" with which
we are all too familiar Her art is aided
by personal beauty also. but that may be
called secondary consideration. She does
not depend upon beauty for her success
upon the stage. The part she played last
night did not afford an opportunity for
the development of her powers. though she
was a charming 'Farina." She will have
more fitting roles as the engagement pro-
crosses. Mr.. Grau says each opera of
the series VIII be stronger than the one
which preceded it,
Fred Frear is doing the leading comedy.
lie is very funny fellow, when the
libretto says it is time TO be funny, and
very sedate fellow when 1t isn't time
TO laugh. The character of Muley Has
san, the shipwrecked sailor, afterwards
Sultan of Morocco, affords him an OPP
portunity to get in some of his best rib
ticklers. 1t also requires him to sing as
a shipwrecked sailor-out of comic opera
never sang before And he can do IL.
His funny business is ably seconded by
that of Mr.. Martin and Mr.. Waldo, both
OF whom have pleased Savannah aud
fences many times before, though in the
case OF Mr.. Martin, 1t was with another
company.
Mr.. J. Aldrich Libbey is the tenor-ro-
busto. 1t may be mentioned, without
suggesting comparisons that he has fine
legs, as we'll as a good voice. These are
deslderata that ought always to go to-
gether in the leading man of an opera
troupe But they sometimes don't. The
best tenor singer who came here last
year-no names called-had the legs of
a bench and the head of a bullet; and
while ii would be the proper thing, ac-
cording, to custom, to give Mr.. Libbey
credit first for his good singing the lib
erty is taken of mentioning first his good
legs. His voice Will speak for itself at
each performance of the opera.
The balance of the cast were uniformly
clever In their several parts. Want of
space necessitates this blanket common
dation. The chorus girls are the brightest
and the freshest looking lot that has been
here for some time. And they can all
sing Generally speaking, that is what
times occurs that they are put in to be
seen and not heard. These will bear both
hearing and seeing, and acquit themselves
with credit in eacn instance. The cos
tunes worn by both principals and chorus
are rich.
The opera tonight win be the ''Black
Hussar." 1t is one of the favorites of
the people Of this city. 1t is worth men
uOnlng that the company played last night
to nearly one hundred more people than
II did on its opening night here last year.
All three sections of the house were liber-