The record-union., 1896-02-29
ADJUSTMENTS.

gins at the metropolitan 1neaI6T tnlS
afternoon at 2 o'clock, when the Tavary
Grand Opera Company will sing grand
old III Trovatore." Tonight Car
men, with the sparkling Thea Dorre in
the title role. The Tavary Company
comes from a successful engagement in
San Francisco, we are assured, despite
the grrHnbling of the critics there, that
the company is not equipped with spec
tacular scenery and an extravagant
wealth of costumery. The company is
under management of Charles II. Pratt,
formerly manager of the Clara Louise
Kellogg and Emma, Abbott companies.
Nine. Marie Basta Tavary is a Russian
div, who has won high distinction as
prima donna assoluta at Coyent Gar
den, London. in st. Petersburg, Mu-
mich and Milan Nine Thea Dorre,
prima donna mezzo- soprano, is an
American, who received years of mu-
steal training in Italy. She is conceded
to be the best Carmen and Mignon on
the stage. Beside being a charming
singer she is possessed of great dra-
matte power. Albert L. Guile is one of
the famous among tenors, and noted for
his skill in the delicate art of phrasing.
He has a voice of remarkable sonorous
power, marked sweetness and hexibility
and dramatic impressiveness. He first
appeared in the country IN support of
Patti six years ago, when San Fran
cisco went wild over his tenor. For his
abilities he was knighted in Portugal.
BY Patti he is termed 'fthe silver
tongued little French tenor" for the
Chevalier is small of stature while large
ftf zrrf noly ~
magnificent in voice. Mile LIGHTER,
prima donna secondo, is a brilliant ar
tist, with clear-cut soprano of wide
range. Her style is viyacious and her
execution artistic Mile Bella Tomlns
leading contralto. is aT. cc----5-71piished
actress and practiccd singer The
second contralto is Mile Ryane, and the
second soprano, Nine. Romani, both ac-
ceptable and trained singers. While
Guile is the strong male attraction for
his singing and his acting, Payne
Clarke, as tenor robusto, is a very
prominent figure and deals in high C's
with abandon. Max Eugene, first bari
tone, Sig. Abramoff first basso; G.. w.
Sehuster, basso-cantata; William
Stephens, lyric tenor, and S. H. Dudley,
second baritone, are singers of long ex-
perience, and make UP strong, serv-
iceab1e male side to the troupe Nine
Tomlins will be heard at her best as
Azucena this afternoon. Clarke won
his laurels as a tenor in his native land,
England, and has added to them in
America and Mexico. Eugene makes
his first appearance in America this
season. He supported Carl Rosa in
England, and at Covent Garden was
with Sir Augustus Harris. Abramoff
is esteemed one of the best baSSoS of
the time, and as such is known in all
the leading opera-houseS of Europe
Stephens was late of the Emma Juch
Opera Company. The orchestra and
chorus of the troupe are large, strong
and are under direction of Sig. Morealli,
one of the most experienced of leaders.
The sale of seats for both performances,
to-day and tonight. has been good, and
that both houses will be large is now as
sured.
Maurice will be by Guile, who sang
this, his favorite role, in the same opera
with Patti and received from the IA
nous diva the compliment that she
had never been better supported nor by
a
Maurice. Mile. LIGHTER will be the
Leonora of the opera. Max Eugene will
sing the part of Count di Luna, Nine
Tomlins that of Azucena and Mr..
Schuster will be the Fernando. In Gar
men" tonight Nine. Tavary will ap-
pear as Michaela to Dorre's Carmen
and Stephens, Schuster, Nine Ro-
mani. Dudley and Ready will give sup
| mort will he fb11c cooy1 +hot tho loo n
ers divide the two performances with
Guile at the matinee and Tavary and
Dorre in the evening.
Two years ago the Chicago Ladies'
Quartet appeared here, with Nettie NJ
Jackson, impersQnator. Mrs. Reynolds,
the phenomenal contralto is still at the
head of the troupe. Two new members
are Pearl Hodson, first soprano, and
Grace L. Dickie, contralto. The COM
pany gave a successful concert here,
and so pleased that it returned by invi-
tation and gave a second. Several
young gentlemen have arranged to
bring the troupe here once more, and
it will therefore appear at the Congre-
gational Church March 9th.
! At the Clunie Opera house this after
| ~
night the last performances of the ro-
mantle play, From Sire to Son." if
not the best, one of the best Mr.. Mobiles
| has written. His versatility, bright
w.t. wholesome humor and breadth of
| imagination are something remarka-
bic. Mobiles has the art of writing to
i the level of the best and the common
est sympathies of our natures. There
| is in his dramatic productions no over
straining, no extraordinary demand
upon the sensibilities but the appeals
TO honesty, manliness, virtuous instinct
and the love of fair play are not the
! less strong. His emotional lines are the
most natural in the world. His char
acters feel, and think, and make dem
onstration as men and women in real
life do, or would be likely to do, under
such conditions as he creates in mimic
scenes. His heroes are not impossible
lis heroines not angels, but good flesh
and blood women of natural, womanly
and loveable promptings. His lovers
are neither lackadasical nor prosy.
neither foolshly ardent nor absurdly
languishing. In short, there is a nat
uralness. even if rough hewn many
times, about Mobiles plays that pleases
and satisfies. They do not move upon
the aristocratic levels of society. nor
do they dwell much in the slurns. They
represent rather life among the great
middle class of the people We venture
the thought that Mr.. Mobiles has not
had any of his plays mounted more
| handsomely or tastefully than the one
| now on at the Clunie is staged bv ttle.