The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-09-30
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ENTERTAINMENTS.
Hyperion Theater.

Jefferson De Angelis fares forth sec ond season as a star. Two years ago he first made the venture and was not rewarded with success. Last year he appeared in the Lillian Russell-Della Fox combination, sharing the honors with these women, and now he is tempt ing fortune again at the head of his own company. His abilities as a comic opera comedian are great, but he has hardly sufficient authority and presence to make a successful star. MT. De An gelis must be given credit, however, for making the effort in very creditable manner He has surrounded himself with a capable company and the piece is put on the stage in the most gorgeous fashion. Money has been expended lavishly on scenery and on costumes which are at once elaborate and artis- tic. The company numbers such clever people as Bertha Waltzinger, Maude Rollins, Harry Marlborough and Van Renselear Wheeler. The last two are pleasantly remembered in "The High wayman" and must be missed from that organization. Maude Hollins has never before appeared in so prominent a light, yet she proved herself worthy of her part. Bertha Waltzinger is a town woman who does the people hon. or. Her singing is delightful and she is constantly gaining in repose.
 "The Jolly Musketeers" is by Julian Edwards and Stanislaus Stange, who have worked together before in the pro- duction of His Wedding Day and other like operettas. The book and the music are both of uneven merit. Some of the music is decidedly pretty and tuneful and well written. Some of it is barren of melodic invention and involv- ed and clumsy Especially is this true of the concerted numbers And Bertha Waltzinger certainly deserves a better opportunity to exhibit her vocal skill. The plot is not coherent and the situa- tions do not provide occasion for the exploitation of De Angeiis comicalities and droleries. It can easly be worked into shape, and 1t would seem that with the cast and the splendid accessories it should go through the season. Some numbers were cheered to the echo and others were met with absolute silence. The second act is better than the first, cOuIIdIy u lle uSudl rue. ue Dlbtt is still new and it will undoubtedly i'm prove as the people work into their roles. It will be repeated tonight.
 THE IDOLS EYE.'
 Lovers of light opera will have offer ed to them at the Hyperion on Satur- day matinee and evening that highly popular production "The Idols Eye" The Hartford Times says of Frank Daniels: Everybody is amused by his quips, his genuine belief in his own character, his droll turn of a situation, his laugh when nobody else laughs, his preposterous seriousness when the au- dience is shouting. The story of "The Idols Eye'' deals with an American balloonist, who is dropped into a great temple in India at about the time when the Juggernaut is expected to come to life-once' in a hundred years-and when lovely Indian brides and grave Brahmins wait for the gods awaken ing. After some preliminary dancing and singing Frank tumbles the God from the altar, puts on the horned crown and garments and represents Juggernaut, who comes to life. A pret- ty conceit is that of the two ruby eyes, the right that of love, the left of hate. The right has been stolen long ago and by some arrangement Frank carries it in the pocket of his sailor jacket. When he has that jacket on everybody loves him, when off all detest him. This is very amusingly illustrated through the second act. There is a preposterously funny Scotchman, on the usual lines, whose "Hoot, mon," is a constant sig nal for laughter. The music is very good, especially that of the principal songs, and of the temple choruses in the second act. The orchestral score in this is above the level of the opera, !, one delights in the composition of which, by the bye, was very well play ed It is pompous, tuneful and of mys- terious color quite suitable to Indian temple atmosphere. The ladies of the chorus are quite handsome, the chorus singing fresh, strong and showing fair training. "The Idols Eye is pictur- esque, graceful, richly costumed and staged, wittily conceived and of agree able and good music And it has Frank Daniels.