Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1900-02-16
THE SEA QUEEN
The Home Production a Vo>
cal, Scenic and Dramat>
ic Success


splendicly appointed stage.
Never before in the history of the
Carson Opera House has the town wit
messed such a lavish display Of realistic
and artistic scenery as was given the
audience last evening.
The plot Is taken from the fascinat-
ing story of "Undine,' and gives the
artist full rein for the brush and the
imagination, and Larry fairly wallowed
in color with over sixty separate pieces
of scenery. Well, that's Lary's reeu-
lar business and he showed himself
master of it. There were SUGGESTIONS
of ocean caves "where the mermaids
dwell" and fairy grottoes through
whose roofs the diluted Moonlight
comes filtered down from the upper
sea, and the floors were strSwn with
gold sands to beat Cape Nome al hol-
low. Mingled with these was all the
rare and delicate dora OF the SCI 6lmy
and tremulous with the swell of TIE
waves and gorgeous in color.
Then there were the fish ad lib to
make the anglers in the audience feel
crazy to get out hook and line.
There were twelve pound mackerel,
Columbia river salmon and Tahoe
trout. as natuI al as if they We're fresh
from the fish stalls on Main street and
Ealing At twenty cents pound.
Their there were the era bs. some of them
beautiful pink and green crustacians.
were two feet wide and had claws a
yard long. One of the chorus girls
(who were all very beautifully happened
to catch glimpse of one OF those era bs
near her and it was SO life like that she
r nearly tainted. Lary's painted crabs
seem good enough to stew. Then
there were some ,nortipg sea horses at
the entrance of the cur,u caves and
/ they spit red fire and electricity and
: purple tinsel, and the little sea serpents
l. spit calcium lights and gold tinsel and
u made the gallery holler, good boy
Larry" and proclaim that it was ali
y right" and hot stuff
=. AS the play progressed. it showed VI
q more scenery and then some more. and
there We're more gaps and breaks in tn,
scenery and the men up ia the loft kept
winding up caves and sea weed and
gold rocks and hay fields If sea flowers
C with skulls and cross bones auu builio,
t slabs and mermaids in swimming and
!, sea snakes as big as barrels and poll
+ wogs as long as your leg and other ses
It monsters of the vast deep.
b Then Meder would hit the soft peda
IS and green light would sutfuse tn,
lie scene, and then an indigo blue ting
5 tue water and flash among the SCI
r. weeds and coral caves. and then Mede
= would turn On the loud pedal ant
Ia whack down hard On chord with 81
of flats and the audience would Jump an
2 squirm in their seats and in wou
~ clad in creamy robes and dance an
march and CITRATE and the boys in tn
ut benches would almost stamp the foe
an through. Wow but it was great. an
:" the lime and calcium and inca ndescer
- lights all going at once and a man {
each stove examining ia the wood wit
the idea that it all helped. This Va
never done before, but is mentioned t
show the excitement
by Then came the transformation seer
to in the last act where Luriline is owe
ho sleeping herself in the grottO. She
of the center of bower OF oceanic beaut
so and hat a dozen scenes lift one aft,
sal the other-Meder still at the soft pc,
ne al-and the whole theater is a success
ia ion of 'Oo-o-o- o-o's' and "Ah-a-a-,l
drawn out foot. Then the sceI
Nd shutters worked right mp in 6 and III
scenes and the mis- Ell scene and tt
lights and the music and the audien,
all worked in unison and half of the il
describable effect couldn't be put in
fc paper that printed less than tina
&C twenty pages and supplement-.
Strewn through the play were spiri
witches, gnomeo, acrobats, dragc
,a1 flies and Holsters.
The play was applauded from sta
TO finish The singing and actin
~. (Which will be treated more fully
: tomorrow 5 iseue) was right up to tt
scenery. The audience was smp
astonished, and had nothing but prai
for all the performers, and Larry al
Meder, who managed the productio
were pelted with bouquets (met
Il phorically).
Mrs. Torreyson played the S,
I Queen, James Torreyson, the Soor
King. Miss Carrie White was Lul
line and Mrs. Frank Wilder the Wat,
Witch. Ollie Tenant was the con
edian, Frank Wildes King of the Go
Mines, and Mrs. Tenant Neptune
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