The daily morning Alaskan., 1900-01-12
He Comes Up the Bay from
 Over the Sea.
HOLDS LEVEE ATARMORY
Evervbsdy Said There Never Could Be- "whnt, Never; No, Never; We'll, Hardly Ever |"
"Th.re never was such perform ,uce in

''There never was such perform ,nce In ,ll Alaska" "
 'Whft, never1"
 "No, never."
 And To- the next W ek or two the etho his unique persifa will shake from
 he twenty wears of dust in which
 ught resting pl ee, and again be % from mnutb to m iu'h with all llw wv, iiv of its youth For never. nevrr. never h s Six Rwav e jN-j SO thorpughlv.an evening su.b as th t Of list night. which nc ,rlv everybody spent with Sir Joseph Porter and his iuneiul relatives at the Armory.'
 The presentation of "Pinafore" WIS an immense success from start 10 finish sni In every important and minor particular, and s, brisk and bright was the movemet and the music that the oilv possible erlii- csm Is that it seemed sI much shorter than when most oI those prrsent witnessed !t wears ago and hundreds of miles away, What host of pleasant memories surgeI up with the notes of the first chorus Inst night, and no doubt the local am teuis were mentally compared with the famous singers last heard in its jinglng melodies. Even were that SO, the amateurs lost lite by the comparisons.
 Mrs. E. A. Gllbault's voealizaiion was as near perfect as permissible, and her high notes were clear and bell like and given with precision and apparent ease.
 Miss Joanna Browne's Cousin Hebe- we'll, the few who were not there can Imagine how we'll Miss Browne would fit Into just such a character. and, in fact. she Is likely to be known among her ioii- come.
 Dear little Buttereup" had the quaint est sort of froek, and such a love Ct bonnet, and just the eutest little basket with plugs Of tobacco in i'; and she not onlv sang eharminglv but acted the part. Miss Mlllicent Latimer was Buttereup.
 The mere makeup of MT E. Quinn as Sir Joseph Porter was in itself a wonder for an amateur production, and while his voce rang out in the solos there was J1st that suggestion In the voice of the quaVer of age to make It realistic.
 As Ralph Raekstraw, B L. Randall had ample opportunity to display superb tenor voice, one that with proper eul'iva' tion would place it's possessor upon an even scale with many professionals.
 Mr. R. T. Randall's makeup of Dick Deadeye was also good He had adopted the Svengali glare, and his duet with the admiral, "Oh, Captain. I've Little ln- formation" was one of the marked sue e.sses of the evening.
 E. M. Tavlor WAS a capital Cap'aln Coreoran, both in his songs and lis s''l"g of the part, and all the sisters and cousins in the comedy are wondering why he does not always veal a mcustache. And those sisters and cousins looked their prettlest Tn . ilr h Is and white navy suits win
 z blue adornm-nt. and they gave
 iuSes with viyaeitv and precision lIn,N $ excellent.
 Bo's'n W. P. Allen. although corning at the end of the progr m, was at the head of the performance, and the male chorus was beyond criticism. The orthrstral ae- ompaniment was practically without a ftw.
 In short Dr. Keller. who has worked so ariuouslv and earnestly to make the per form ,nee what It was, was last night as , proud as Roman eonquer1r There WAS scarcely hitch in the whole performance } and if there was one 1t will be iefulv eliminated in the second performance 10 be given this evening.