Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1876-1904, 1901-10-01

PRINCE OTTO.

production ana rights to Otis Skin
err 5 dramatization of Robert Louis
stevenson s Prince Otto. He is
coming to the GenneLt tomorrow
or night s engagement He is oae
{ the new favorites of the American
,tage. The Skinner play is already
pretty well known, having been
Dlayed over a wide stretch of coun-
try by that author. In it he has re
rained some of the most important
.pisodes of the book and he has also
infused into it many entirely original
IDEAS and situations. The principal
episodes are bail room scene
q the palace, the council scene
ia which the prince asserts the au-
thority which he has so little used;
the scene in which the prime minis
ter makes love to the princess and Is
stabbed for his prescriptions and the
quiet and marvelously effective scene
q the last act laid in the peasant S
cottage, where the deposed prince
and princess mees. are reconclied
and begin life over. The production
is handsome one a Id complete in
every detail, requiring two 6O-foot
in Mr.. Glazier 5 support are Eliza
beth Lea as the princess; Rather
inc Countiss as Countess Won Ro-
SEM" Amelia Stoddard as "Minna;
John 2. Barrett as the Prime Minis
ter; Matthey McGinniss as DIR. Won
Waldenhof, and B. F. Higgins as
Lord SAKE. The company numbers
in all some thirty persons.
PowHATAN.
People are going to be most
agreeably SURPRISED in the opera of
Powhatan soon to be produced at the
Gennett under the auspices of the
Penny club. A PALLADIUM writer
had the pleasure of witnessing part
of rehearsal at ST. Paul's parish
house last evening and was not ex-
pecting to see anything near so good
as is this opera. 1t has not been
strongly heralded, and was rather
to be little skit for anna
tours. On the contrary, it is a fin
ished opera, as full of merit as any
thing heard here for years. The
is by Mrs. Fannie Worth
ington, the music by Louis Camp
bell Upton, organist and director at
the Chicago Musical college. This is
Mr.. Upton s first opera and is
worthy of the best of writer's. 1t is
scored for full orchestration by
and orchestration is
The music abounds in good chorus
and other concerted work. There is
not an air in it-and there are many
solos for all voices that is not mu-
steal and pretty. 1t is strongly
original and still in its opportunities
for happy effects by female voices
reminds one a good deal of Billee
Taylor, the most tuneful of the light
operas of the past fifteen years.
There are many little airs that viii
be sung and whistled after the opera
IS heard.
Mr.. Baker as a director has never
been surpassed here This is the
'ourth opera he has produced here in
The past ten years, and each of them
has been a complete success. Among
;he principals are Mrs. Myrick, Miss
Harris, Miss Chamness, Mrs, Taylor,
md Messrs. Bendfeldt, Binford, Jack
raggart and Vern Smith The cho-
.us is fully as well made up, good
7oices and well t aimed, to the mum
per of forty. About fifty children
llso take part as little Indians.
,prites, etc, so that in some situa
lions there will be nearly hundred
people on the stage at one time. The
piece deserves a packed house, from
he merits of the performance as we'll
Is of the charity which gives it. Ii
5 well costumed, Mr.. Baker carry
ng the complete settings and cos
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