The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-04-28

On the day appointed for the selling
of tickets for the first performance the
extent of the popular interest that had
been aroused was indicated by the length
of the "cue" of buyers, who made a line
from the box office all the way round
the block, and who began their session,
or station rather, upward of twentyfour
hours before the Office opened. Ac-
counts of their nocturnal experiences,
their jokes, and their good humor APP
peared in the morning papers. together
with plans of the interior arrangements
of the opera house, the precautions
against fire and panic, the unequaled
splendor and perfection of the scenery.
and the cost of the whole enterprise,
The usual safeguards against the impo-
sition of speculators were taken, and
met with the usual success. BY five in the
afternoon the house was sold from cell.
ing to cellar, and the impresario, lean
ing in an insouciant attitude against the
bar of the hotel, with his hat on one
side and his face broader than it was
long, treated his numerous friends to
drinks and received their congratula-
tions.
This was on a Saturday. On Monday
the performance took place "before the
most fashionable, cultivated and appre-
ciative audience ever assembled on a
similar occasion in the city of New
York" So recent and eminent tri.
umph is not likely to have been forgotten
by those who witnessed it, The opera
selected WAS Faust" 1t is perhaps the
most satisfactory one for IA first appear
ance, not only because of its musical
merits. but because everybody is famil
lar with it,, and can estimate the com
parative success of the newcomer i /
creating afresh the immortal char.
ter of Marguerite. There had been II
great number of rehearsals, and Mile
Mariana had grown somewhat weary of
the repetitions, and latterly had begun
to fear that when the great night came
she wonld, If not unnerved by stage
fright, at any rate be unable to 20
through the part otherwise than me.
chanically. All spontaneity of action
and sentiment would be gone from her
She staid in her apartment all day ON
even dispensing the greater part of the
time with the presence of Nine. Bemax.
She wished to dismiss the whole subject
of the opera from her mind, and to aid
herself in doing so she liked her thoughts
upon her brother Ed, and recalled all
his ways and escapades and the happy
times they had spent together. She
pictured him and herself running races.
and climbing trees, and finding birds
nests, and tending their red and white
roses, and going on hunting expeditions
after woodchucks and squirrels, and she
brought back to her memory the talks
they used to have together, when they
would lay out before themselves the
course of their future lives-what they
would do and what they would be. How
different from their anticipation it had
turned out! But he was her brother just
the same, and she loved him none the
less than she had ever done; on the con.
trary she loved him more, for he had
given her an opportunity to show hor
love by repairing IN injury which he
had donr.
II wa, pleasant to think that, when hs
returned home, expecting 70 meet only
distress and reproaches, he would find
instead prosperity as great, if not greater
than before extravaganza began, and all
owing to his own sister! II he had done
wrong, his sister thought, the discovery
that she had worked to ,repair it would
be more certain than anything else to
make him henceforward do right. Then
she began to speculate as to what sort of
wrong he had done-whether it were
anything more than thoughtlessness and
extrayagance, A few weeks ago she
would have said that it could be nothing
more; but she had been forced to see
md haor carto;n th;nno ~ lott, ,,yhich