Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-11-07
GRAND OPERA GALORE
Misfortune to Lambardi Company in
Recognizing Proves Good
Fortune For Us.
Several Dates Lost and Ike Gets
Them For Two Nights in
Marshalltown.
Carmen" Friday-"Lucia Diam
mermoor' Saturday Night
Sixty Artists from Milan.

Its an i'll wind that blows nobody
good. No thanks to the wind, however.
Manager speers, of the odeon, is to be
congratulated, for he has succeeded in
engaging the Lambardi Italian Grand
Opera Company, of Milan, Italy, to app
pear here not only November IL, but
on November 10 as we'll.
Mr.. Speers had thought himself ex-
tremely lucky to get a single night, but
the gods of misfortune are playing him
in good fortune to the extent that two
nights of grand opera will be given in
stead of one. When seen this morning
Mr.. Speers said that in all his exper-
fence in the theatrical business no such.
opportunity had ever before occurred
to him to secure such a high classed
attraction for his house.
A company like the Lambardi aggre-
cation can III afford to sing in any but
the largest cities, and it is owing to a
series of mishaps. or rather, mistakes
in bookings, that they are to be in Mar
shalltown at all. In the process of re-
Organization undergone at Kansas City,
the discharging of an undesirable man
ager and the securing OF substitute,
the company lost several dates. The
discharged manager wrote to several
theater managers in such cities as
Omaha, Council Bluffs and Sioux City,
cancelling his contracts, and before the
new manager could resume the business
the dates in each city had been filed
When Mr.. Speers heard of the situation
it was only by such solicitation and in
ducements known only to the king
that the company was persuaded to
consider Marshalltown a all. So when
the company finally decided to put in
/ its time here our Ike never cracked a
smile, but Immediately struck the
manager for two nights and got them.
On Friday night of this week they
| will give the dramatic and beautiful
opera Carmen and on Saturday night
Lucia D'Lammermoor. The prices
Will be 81 for parquet, s1.50 for dress
circle, 81 and Is cents for balcony and
30 cents for gallery. The free list will
be entirely suspended for these enter
| tainments.
Mr.. Speer has investigated the record
of the lombard Company from the
time it landed in Lima. Peru, four
years ago until it was reorganized in
Kansas City on Nov. /, and he says ii
4 is without question the most worthy
and superb grand opera organization
that has ever appeared in the western
|covntry. He says his sole object il
town is to give the music-loving publ,
y, f,tI n
Hot heretofore, and to do this has beer
compelled to make terms that will alb
solutely preclude all chance for prof
ito himself.
This company left Milan, Italy, foul
years ago and have since then beer
1 playing continuously throughout ths
4 spanish American capitals of Soutf
I America. During that time they madt
4 some of their grandest successes ant
some of their greatest financial fail
ures, brought about by the Chillan ant
Peruvian war. Probably their mos
Iartistic success was achieved in Lima
4 Peru, where they played continuou
engagement of seven months and
half, producing in that time forty on
different operas. 1t was here that tn
, famous mezzo- soprano, Signorina Ste
fania Colarmarini, Joined the com
pany, opening in a magnificent produc
ton of Carmen.
Since then the company have trav
eled northward playing long engage
ments in Central America, and durin
Hast winter We're six months under tn
subsidy of the Mexican government
playing at the Teatro Rationale IN tn
City of Mexico. During their stay i
the Mexican capital they produce
forty-two operas.
Since then the company has playe
on the entire Pacific coast to the salts
faction of the music lovers of Los An
geles, San Francisco and the northwes
country. Journeying eastward the
played an engagement of four week
and a half at the broadway Theater
: Denver and have just finished an en-
gagement of three weeks at the Coate
, Theater at Kansas City.
!. After the 18th of the month they Wi
resume their regular route and will &
from here to Des Moines, from thet
, to Memphis, Little Rock, Nashville
Chattanooga, Louisville. Atlanta. BIZ
. mingham and New Orleans.
Surprise Melbourne Pastor.
The Melbourne Record tells of a hal
e nv surprisa given Rev. c. r. Giffor,