The age-herald., 1900-03-03
Packard Opera Company

Dan Packard, manager of the Packard
 Opera Company and Orchestra, which ap-
 pears at the Auditorium all of next week,
 is a great believer in advertising, espe- cially when one has a capable organization to back the often exaggerated accounts of the advance agent, who greats over the
 "superb' excellencies of the company he represents.
 The Packard company brags of a career
 of many years, during which time it has
 never received a line of adverse criticism,
 but the general verdict pronounced it one
 of the best comic opera organizations ell
 tour.
 The Packard company numbers thirty
 five members-count them next Monday
 night-besides a large orchestra of capable
 musicians. The company is represented In
 advance by two agents. both of whom have
 seen long service In advance of clever com
 panies, and know how to advertise.
 While here the company will sing rep
 ertoire of popular operas, many of which
 are new in this city.
 The engagement opens with a splendidly costumed production of Said Pasha' sang to the original scene, which is owned by the Packard company alone. The Christian Hall Gaines play, "The Christian,' is un- doubtedly the most talked of play on the boards today. Birmingham will pass judg- ment upon it next Wednesday at the open
 ing of the Jefferson theater. The interest
 manifested in the engagement is marked, and the indications are tF he p'zf s@'d
 company will receive ro5l f=a=YtaH
 here.
 When the Celtic inf 1n aH. 'tsz erature comes to be re np, sH Caine will have to be 1l=l, "A 1T oa of his proudest boasts tha ls7fsfss tan== man. and the Isle of 2.ar ' f 1zeitf .t l he resides, is already on the way to becom- ing the Manxsmans Abbotsford Its ten ant is of the middle height, has some- what pointed face, a vast brow and eyes capable of both passion and dream. He is l not at all what some of his cynical critics, who know only his public manner imagine | him to be. There is nothing infated' or | windy, or immodest, but something very 1 winning and gentle, and even appealing, | about his manner. Anthony Trollope used l to say that he liked to be liked, and though | there Is no available authentic record 10 | prove that Mr. Caine uttered the same | sentiment, it is writ large In his ways to- | ward his friends. Doubtless he believes l highly in himself, but not in a pompous or l podsnappian or coercive way, but as one | who carries a burden of responsibility which can be borne only with labor and | travel. l The sale of seats for this engagement will l take place next Monday morning at | o'clock at box office of O'Brien's opera | house.
 Richard Mansfield Mansfield is coming He is to give .1,vrano de Bergerac." These are good tsdings. They suggest events to lovers od l the best and greatest that the drama af- fords. The great actor will appear here | for one night only on next Thursday Richard Mansfield has made "Cyrano de l Bergerac" the hit of the period. The story | ia known almost by heart. Its exquisite | literary character has appealed to the | highest intelligence, while the noble un- ! seafishuess of Cyrano has found in the hu- | nan heart every where a warm and sincere l sympathy. Of all the reasons which ac- | count for the success of the play this bast is tare best. It is at least reassurinS 10 see A play succeed which panders not 10 the | nr,,r.jent taste Ones fa15h in the ultimate | frt,ymph of the pure and noble Is revived wg,en Cyrano succeeds. It ss no small thing | that out of the unhappy atmosphere of | Paris there has come a drama which sounds | the keynote of unseifish devotion and that such a story takes 0 maSterful hold upon
 the American people.