The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-01-28

where she completed series Of concerts.
repeating the triumphs of her younger
days. Since completing that engagement
the diva has been making a tour OF the
country. In San Francisco, where she
lived as a schoolgirl, her return was made
one Of the social events of the season. Her
old friends greeted her with enthusiasm
and made her engagement one of the
most profitable OF the tour.
Seattle women will be interested in
hearing that Nine. Nevada has brought
with her to this country from Europe a
large number of concert gowns, said to
be among the most elegant ever seen on
the stage this side of the water The
New York newspapers devote much space
to description of her wardrobe, over
which the writer's grow enthusiastic.
1.-THE Little Minister" Barrie's beauti-
full story, which he has success
fully transferred TO the stage. will
be presented by Charles Frohman's COM
pany at the Seattle theater Monday and
Tuesday February 5 and 6. The comedy
ran through an entire season in New
York. having 800 performances every one
of which was given to a standing-room
audience. Never until 1.-THE Little Min
ister' accomplished 1t. it is said. has any
play succeeded in attracting, night after
night, such audiences. The play has gain
ed it's tremendous favor by reason of it's
pure, charming and simple love story.
told in the same fascinating way on the
stage that Mr.. Barrie told it in the book.
Lady Babbie. roguish and bubbling over
with mischief and fun, but with a true
little heart, is its heroine, and the play
presents her as If she had just stepped
out Of the pages of the novel. All the
quaint and picturesque characteristics of
the Thrums elders and their associates. 1t
is claimed are preserved in the mimic
panorama OF Scotch life. and The Little
Minister Is the veritable ordained young
gentleman himself. as interesting and sem
timental as Lady Babbie found him.
The story will be artistically presented
by the Organization which Mr. Frohman
has assembled in the cast. and the per-
Torrance, 1t is prophesied. will make clear
at once why the comedy has been such
phenomenal favorite.
IN three nights engagement with a
/ Saturday matinee, the Bostonians in
PRODUCED to Seattle music lovers a new
opera and a new singer. The singer
scored the greatest success of the two,
although Minkowski's 1.-THE Smugglers"
left students of music who heard 1t with
an opinion that great things are to be
heard from the new composer. Miss Van
Dresser was the singer. Her triumph
on Tuesday night In the new work was
In many ways one of the most signal
ever won by any singer in Seattle. The
success of 1.-THE Smugglers' on that night
was due in no small degree to the per-
sonal nature of the favorable impressionn
which Miss Van Dresser made.
In reviewing the four performances
given by the Bostonians the opinion which
remains firmest is that Seattle ought to
have more of them. Time was not many
years ago when travelling opera troupes.
with capable people as principals were not
so rare as nowadays. The hard times
wrought havoc with such enterprises, how
ever, and many were the hackers who
suffered in consequence Emma Juch's
tours of the West in the early nineties
in Wagnerian opera are the last to be
recorded among the really great compan-
les. Carleton Is no longer the figure he
once was, and no companies bearing his
name have appeared In the West lately.
Comic opera. the real thing and not the
jingling balderdash and tinsel of the
Wang" and Indigo" class. is a rare
treat, and that 1t is appreciated In Seattle
was proven by the fact that every seat
in the Seattle was sold for the entire
four performances on he first day of the
engagement.
IOTwITHSTANDING the loss of Eug-
IN enc Cowles. the basso, of Tom Carl,
Marie Stone, Juliet Gordon and Jessie
Bartlett Davis, the Bostonians Is
still strong organization. Mr..
Barnabee remains the central fig
ure in the company. a position
he has occupied for many years. His per-
formances of the pseudo-Spanish noble
man in 1.-THE Smugglers'' is a revelation
and a masterpiece of refined comedy.
1t belongs to the old school. There is no
trace of farce or of horseplay in the crea-
ton.
The audiences at the Seattle have much
to be grateful for in that the four per-
formances were absolutely free from that
detrimental feature and from all vulgar
ity.
THE wisdom of Manager Howe's new
rule regarding late corners at the Sc
attic theater was well displayed dur
;nr the past week. The rule was strict
lv enforced and all persons arriving after
the beginning of the first act were COM
nelled to remain in the foyer until after
the curtain fell The result was that the
splendid acting of the Warde company and
the singing Of the Bostonians was I'M
marred by the hustle Of seating belated
corners. The same rule is invariably en-
forced in all the larger cities OF the East