The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-02-05
M|KADO.
First Night of Home Of
Homeless Opera a Pro-
nounced Success.
TALENT HOME AND IMPORTED
Ko Ko From Newark Who
Couldn't Kill a Mosquito
Miss Twist as
Yum Yum.
TALENT HOME AND IMPORTED

Gilbert & Sullivan's opera, The Mi
kado,' was most successfully produced
last night in the Jersey City Club The
atre for the benefit of the Home of the
Homeless, under the stage direction of
Mr. C. E. Aacomber, Of Boston, with
chorus of ffty-eight selected and well
trained voices. The principal parts were
portrayed as follows
Adikado of Japan, Mr.. Edward v. Cot
ter; Nanki Poo, his son, disguised as
wandering minstrel and in love with Yum
Yum, Mr.. George Kirwan; Ko-Ko, Lord
High Executioner of Tititpu, Mr.. John
NJ. brennan; Poo Bah, Lord High Every
thing Else, Mr.. William 7. Woodruff:
Pish Tush, noble lord, Mr.. John Cot
ter; Nee Ban, Umbrella Carrier to the
Mikado Mr.. John E. Hazard; Yum Yum,
Pitt Sing and Peep Bo, three sisters,
wards of Ko-Ko, Miss Agnes Louise
Twist Miss Grace NJ. Winants and Miss
Ida May Chapman Katisha, an elderly
lady, in love with Nanli Poo, Miss Elsa
Vandervoort.
The club itself was very prettily deco
rated with Japanese lanterns, and six
young ladies, Ofrs. William Y. Dear, Miss
Muller, Misses Francis, Misses Elsie and
Ida Whyte, IN Japanese costumes, acted
as ushers. The audience, in spite of the
storm. was good.
There were two acts, both the same as
to scensry. The stage was hung with Ian
terms and the scenery had all the appear
ance of garden party and set off the
pretty japanese costumes of the chorus
to perfection. The music was fine and
catching, and the principal characters
were that rare combination of good
voices and good business rolled into one.
In fact it seemed as though each player
possessed as many high attributes as the
Lord High Everything Else.
The Japanese costumes were complete
in all else save mems shoes. These were
distinctly American, of the policeman type
in some instances, and brought the chorus
on something like TRAMP, Tramp the
Boys are Marching" with thud, thud,
thud-not with the rhythmic little "pitter
patter.' pitter patter of the girls.
Miss Agnes Louise Twist made a very
cute Yum Yum. Her voice, notwith-
standing a cold, was in fine trim, and if
she wondered in her little Japanese way
why she was so beautiful" the audience
didn't. She had the little japanese walk
and fan business down to a fine point, as
did Miss Winants and Miss Chapman, too,
for that matter, and they made an en-
ehantingly cute trio.
NanlN Poo was a Brooklyn man, grace
ful as to form with a fine tenor voice.
40 Ko was Newark man, and a bet
ter Ko Ko could not have been found-a
Ko 10 who couldn't kill a mosquito"
and lives to tell the tale.
Poo Bah and Tish Tush, Ko Kos right
and left hand men, were also very fine
specimens of the race, tall and stately
with good voices.
Katisha was also imported from Brook
1yn, and she was worth all transporta-
tion duty, to which fact the audience
gave evidence by mote of hand
The AIikado came on in a yellow and
back gown, like a Princeton mascot on
football team with a "centre rush. for
the middle of the stage. He was fine
big fellow with a fine big voice there to
make things z.h. His portrayal was as
near that of Stevens in the same part as
permissible in an amateur.
He was followed by Japanesed Amer
icanized Irishman in a Scotch costume,
me Ban" who carried an enormous par
asol and did a little dance all his oFn
on pair of legs not all his own. ds
was not speaking part, but 1t was the
Ioudest part of the whole performance
The whole effect was splendid, and The
costumes gorgeous. Miss Twist looked
exceptionally pretty in her bridal dress
and sang exceptionally well, under the
calcium light.
1t was through and through amateur
performance on high professional SCALE
and much credit is due Mr.. Macomber for
his painstaking in the matter of detail
The climax tableaux were especially
strong, leaving a pleasant sensation with
the audience after the sdrop."
Those who took part in the chorus were:
Miss Agnes Louis Twist, Miss Grace NJ.
Winants, Miss Alice Stringham, Miss Lulu
Post, Miss Elizabeth Reed Miss Clara
Reed, Miss Bessie Halsey, Miss Ida May
Chapman, Miss Geraldine Ruppell, Mrs.
M. E. Meconnekin, Miss Bessie Stringham,
Miss Alice B. Nickols Miss Isabella Bale,
Miss Mae C. Ryer, Miss Florence A.
Jacob, Miss Kittie A. VIII, Miss Jennie
Van Reipen, Miss Bertha Morreil, Miss