Omaha daily bee., 1896-03-01
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in sight lie runs in a double now and
: then to stlll further confuse his audience
But while Bush is the feature OF the piece.
he is not all OF 1t, having material assistance
in the funny business by clever character
artists and pretty girls that anybody might
be pardoned for wanting.
Music lovers of this city can anticipate
with much pleasure the coming OF the
Heinrich French and italian Grand Opera
company, which will be heard at Boyd s
theater during the week OF March 16. At
the present time II seems more than likely
that the Omaha repertoire will include the
following operas: Lucia di Lammermoor, -
Faust la Traviata" and "Cavallerla
Rusticana" and "Poglecci," the last two
comprising bill, unless the management
should substitute the rev fairy opera.
"Hansel und Gretel," in Difference to a uni
versally expressed desire. The company was
organized for the purpose OF giving vim
ter season of grand opera in Philadelphia.
a number of wealthy citizens OF that city
having guaranteed the enterprise to the ex-
tent OF $50 900 The season began on No
vember IL. 1895, with the first performance
in America Of Ernest Reyer's heroic
opera Of "Sigurd," and continued uninter-
rupted for fourteen weeks during which time
twenty-four of the most famous French and
Italian grand operas were presented. The
company is made up of artists Of worldwide
reputation. The leading sopranos are Nine.
| Emma Nevada, who has stood at the head OF
tne IlSJ OIL lyric SOptduUS Vi Tue Noiiu ioi
the past ten years; Miss Minnie Tracey. Mile.
| Amelle Loventz. from the Grand Opera
house, Paris, and Nine. Selma Kranold-Koert.
a dramatic soprano. The mezzo-soprauos
and contraltos of the company are Miss
| Katherine Fleming. Mile. Amelie Grasst ana
| Mile. Synneberg; the tenors are Nj. Henri
| Provost NJ Jules Gogny. M. Brazio Piroia
and Sig. Fernando Michelena; the baritones
are Sig. Giuseppe del Puente. M. Louis de
Backer, Perry Averill and Signor Pietro Sap
Off Tba haes inr1uda MOnSipurS Eugene
| Lorrain, M. Maur.ns Malzac. Signor Alfonso
Rosa and Signor Casimiro Saporetti.
There is chorus Of fifty voices, most OF
| which were engaged in Italy last summer.
and an orchestra of fifty musicians which
| has been selected by Director Hinrichs among
| the instrumentalsts Of the large cities of
| this country. There will also be corps de
ballet led by Mile. F. Paris. and the company
is one of the most complete and efficient that
| has ever made a tour OF this country
| Katie Emmett always popular with local
playgoers. will be the attraction at the
Creighton for four nights, commencing with
a matinee Sunday, March 8. Supported by
competent company she will present her
latest success, "Chat, an American Boy
which will be produced with all the ad-
vantages of an elaborate scenic production
An explosion of dynamite. exciting fire
scene, a real fire engine. four thoroughbred
horses. mounted policemen and the singing OF
the Gate City quartet are among the
features of the production.
Della Fox with her excellent company.
including that popular comedian, Jefferson
D'Augelis, comes to the Boyd the third
week of the present month and will present
the new opera, "Fleur de Lis"
Sol Smith Russell and his fine company will
be seen at Boyd's theater on March q and
g. presenting 1.-THE Rivals" and two new
plays which he has never offered here before
Sousa's peerless concert band will give two
up-to-date concerts at Boyd's theater on |
Saturday March IA. Sousa will introduce !
some CT his new descriptive music here.
which has made such wide comment where |
ever he has played it this season.
Not 50 many seasons ago when Mr.. Mans
field gave his first performance at the Union |
Square theater, New York. of the character |
of Baron Chevrial. in "a Partisan Romance,
his talent was comparatively unknown
quantity. When the curtain fell upon his
final scene in which, amid the reveling of
his last banquet, holding the wine glass in
his shvering hand with that ghastly, death
stricken face. confronting the bon vivants
and the women at the tables. he falls back
in his mortal agony. there was the revela-
tion-the revelation that great and hitherto
!nrecognized artist was brought into the
light of fame. No such example Of character
acting had been seen on the American stage
In years The character Of the baron was
originally offered to J. H. Stoddard then a
member Of the Union Square company. The
veteran comedian read the part and returned
1t with the remark: There's nothing in 1t
for me; it's only bit" Mr.. Mansfield was
especially engaged to play it, and that per-
formance made his name famous throughout
the country. He made 1t the central figure
Of the play. Without his wonderful por-
traiture of the old roue, "a Partisan Ro-
nance" would have been signal failure.
When on the night Of October 8, 1889, Mr..
Mansfield. at the Globe theater, Boston,
brought forward his revival of Shakespeare's
"Richard Ill.," before an audience composed
Of the leading patrons of the drama In the
modern Athens, there was another revela-
ton. Audience and critics were dazed az
they beheld new Richard, not the terri
BILE creature that the old stage formulas had
shown them, but an animated portrait OF the
mediaeyal courtier whose physical defects
and ambitious desires were imperceptibly
and deftly concealed in silk and ermine In
this Mr.. Mansfield had the courage of his
convictions, convictions based upon thor
ough analysis of his subject.
But few actors can so successfully hide |
their identity and lose themselves in the
character being portrayed as Mr.. Mansfield
No better illustration of that fact could be
desired than that which he gives at the
Creighton theater next Friday and Saturday
nights, when he Is to be seen In two char |
acters as wide apart as the two poles. On
Friday evening he Is to portray the suave,
courteous, yet insolent, "Beau Bummeli" |
and on Saturday night the broken down old
roue, Baron Cheyrlal, in "a Partisan
Mr.. Mansfield brings with him his entire
stock company from his Garrick theater,
New York, an organization numbering over
half a hundred people. and comprising such
well known artists as Beatrice Cameron
mrs. Mansfeld), Jennie Eustace Johnstone
Bennett, Eleanor Carey, Annie Alllston, Alice
Leigh, Florence Ethel Harriet Won Ganahl,
Nora Lamson, d. II. Harkins, Orrin Johnson,
Edmund ID. Lyons. A. G. Andrews, w. H. |
Griffith, ]. w. Weaver. Louis Dutton- Kenneth |
Lee and others. Mr.. Mansfield also brings
with him all the scenery and stage para
phernalia for all of his pieces and the above
named plays will be presented here with the |
same scenic inyestiture and artistic environ
ment that have always distinguished Mr. |
Mansfeld's reproductions.
Reserved seats for the coming engagement
of Mr.. Mansfield at the Creighton will be
placed on sale at the theater box office to-
morrow morning at o'clock.
Among the attractions to be presented at |
the Creighton In the near future are Robert | J
Mantell, the Tayary Opera company, "The
Merry World the Frawley Stock company, ,