The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-11-28
PLAYS OF THE WEEK.


The Whitney Opera Company. present
ing Lost. Strayed or Stolen which Is TO
appear at the Seattle theater tor three
nights beginning Tuesday. is the largest
and strongest musical organization that
has visited the Coast since the National
Opera Company. 1t consists of over fifty
people. prominent among whom are such
well known artists as Anna o'keefe, the
central figure of many of the most nota-
BILE of New York Casino operate produc-
tons; Harry Clay Bianey, who last Wis
tied the West at the head OF his own
company; Lucius Henderson. the princi-
pal figure I'm Friends" and Captain I'M
pudence." together with Harry Allen Burt
Thaver, Chas. F. Burke c. ]. Alden. Al
Yolbrook, Mabel pouton, oriska Worden.
Marie Ma,her, May Mitchell. Louise Mar
shall Adelaide Nye and May Melbourne.
n large male and female chorus. troupe
OF Spanish dancers and a host of aux
iliaries. The opera is in four acts. reguir-
ing four elaborate full stage scenes. and
four separate casts.
The story OF Lost. Strayed or Stolen"
is French the scene IS Paris. and the
characters creaed by the author are as
French as France Is herself. Never for
moment does any member Of the cast or
chorus approach anything local. coarse
or vulgar that might in any way dis
tgrh the general Partisan atmosphere of
the entertainment. The music Is OF
light. catchy order. and generally consid-
cred the most ambitious OF Woolson
ncrss's efforts
In the first act a French florist Invites
his friends and employees 10 assist az the
christening Of his only child. Through n
htunier three different friends of the fam
ilv are requested 10 act aS gudfa Their:
they arrive one after the other. SIS DO All
the christening guests, clad In holiday at
tire, and Just as POOR Bidart is endeavor-
Ing 20 explain this unusually large cror
Of Eodfathers 10 the godmother. and as
the situation Is becoming embarrassinEfv
complicated. the hahy's nurse PUSHES In
With the startling announcement that the
child has been lost. The second act in,ro-
tfuces the father ard the eaafa theirs int,
the barracks Of the Twensy-second regt-
merit IN search % the nurses husband
Who Is n member Of the Twertv-serona
and Is IN the guard house for absence
without have Here the quartet Is sur
pFised by the commander and his star
and - order 70 escape punishment are
obliged 80 ioa limiting uniforms ard ~
tempt 20 pass themselves of as raw "a
cru.ts. in which they are NET successful
ana mere solos. chor8seS and sftie-xp9lt-
ting situations arc The result. In the third
act theF Invade the toutioir Of Rose A. Etc
In the hoVe Of finding from hrv maid wha,
became q the baby. They are SURPRISED
tr = Jealous Cuban who Is Roses rrs,-
fecfor. and aTe disguised as wovkrran
ha!rssreSser ard cloCk repairer. - excsrse
the vengeance 81 the Cuban. This ts ,hA
s'ronsssi coEnedy set % fhs four. Ia TIE
fe"rth act al! The Characters find their
WAYS 20 the gardens az the Luxembourg
one Of the EodfssheFs thinks ne has 6tx-
covered Tire baby and before Alternating
10 wheel the carriage containing {: swav
Is seized as stdnasser and thrown irto
the fountain. THE osh6r goafatners >,yea
70 his rescue, and AS the three are s9s.,s,s
Is SEX vengeance Ter their vroaEs ana
haadte T~>2T Bi'iaTt rather roughly The
christening party returns from ths
church. the baby having been foara So
ehTiStegsd during thel~ absence. and az
erything ends happily 70 everyone exeert.
sng Rldart gaa the three goafathers.