The Savannah morning news., 1902-10-17


Miscaela. ...................H Helene Noldi
Frasquita. .............. Pauline Johnson
Mercedes .............,....E loise Bishop
Don Jose. Joseph Fredricks
Escamillo. .............. Achille Alberti
Zunega. ............. Anthony Swinton
Don Cairo. ..............John Dunsmore
Morales. .."......George Francis Beard
Remendado. Adam Lehman
This is the cast that will sing Car
men" tonight. Miss Rose Cecilia
Shay, the prima donna, is an American
girl who was born in Summerset, O.,
so few years ago that to enumerate
them some ones Veracity might be
questioned. Despite that fact she has
had wide experience Tecla Vigna, of
the Cincinnati College of Music, made
the plain statement that Miss Shay's
voice was by long odds the best she
had trained-a statement that was aft
erwards confirmed and indorsed by the
elder Leoni, the master OF Milan.
The other artists of the company are
little behind Miss Shay in reputation.
Among them are Helene Noldi and
Pauline Johnson, sopranos; Louise
Taylor, contralto; Charles Bassett and
Walter Wheatley, tenors; John Duns-
more and Edward JOY, bassos; and
Achille Alberti and Andrew lyman,
baritones. In addition to these the
COMPANY Capable singers WHO
fill the minor roles. The production
promises form an artistic standpoint to
be a brilliant one. and with the large
sale Of seats a brilliant audience is
assured.
The sale Of seats for Frank Daniels
in Miss Simplicity" Saturday night
began yesterday morning. There was
a long line in front of the box office
when the window was opened and it
was after 10 O'Clock before the first
rush was over.
An observant Philadelphia dramatic
writer once pointed out that the most
essential ingredient in the formula of
the libretto of a successful comic OPP
era for a comedian Is some unique
form of soul-harowing, heart-rending,
marrow-chilling and Embarrassing trou-
BILE or peril through all the stages of
which the star in question must go
during the two and a half hours of the
performance. A hasty review of the
principal successes of Frank Daniels,
Francis Wilson and De Wolf Hopper
verj1es the correctness of the above
theory and 1t seems true that, in the
case of the comic opera comedian,
trouble for the comedian spells fun for
the audience. This rule has been ap-
piled again and again in the case of
PRANK Daniels newest Offering. Dam
iels is supposed to have been former
trolley-car conductor who suddenly
finds himself the valet to young
king This combination would be
enough to make most men feel shakey.
But Daniels, or Blossoms" as he Is
known in the play, has to manipulate
an automobile and his first comic op-
era exploit is to appear coming through
space from an explosion Of the gas
oline buggy" Before he gets the road
side dust out of his mouth, his royal
master let's him know In an easy, off,
hand way that he is to act as king
for an indefinite period. Then his
troubles do begin in real earnest He
is beset by a conspiring band of min
listers who hunger for his life and who
try to plunge him into war and at the
same time he is kept in an ecstacy
OF unease by his efforts to keep on the
right side of his real sweetheart and
meantime maintain the intrigues and
amours that are supposed to make up