The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1904-05-27
LA MASCOTTE. =
Brilliant Audience Witnessed Splendid
Production at the Opera House
Last Night.
(From Fridays Daily.)

brilliant audience witnessed the
production of the comic opera. La
Mascotte, at the opera house last
| evening. and it is safe to say that a
more pleased and thoroughly delighted
audience has seldom gathered at the
local play house. From every stand
| Torrance was sparkling success
/ than 1.-THE Mascot. :" The lines are
| number of pretty songs. The opera
was evidently written in the days when
! puns were the ruling passion of stage
humOr, for the number running
through the piece are almost uncount-
able.
Too much praise cannot be given to
Mr.. F. NJ. Hutsell, who had the pro-
duction in charge, and who has labored
patiently and diligently to make the
production a credltabIe one. That his
efforts were appreciated was shown by
the enthusiastic applause which greeted
him when he made his first appear
ance last night, and later by the fiat
tering curtain call which burst out
spontaneously all over the house when
the curtain dropped at the conclusion
of the first act. The applause had a
double meaning; it was not only an
audience expressing its pleasure at
being SO delightfully."- entertained, but
it was a deserved compliment to one
who has done more for the advance
ment of Columbia unsteady than any
man who has every lived here. We
make no apology for this statement,
for of tbic ior on .,vtir In
it seems pertinent to say it. 1t is to
be regretted that one who has the
talent and the ability to do so much /
and has done so much for Columbia /
musically, who has cultivated and !,
elevated the musical taste of this CITY |
and afforded our people so much pleas I
ure by his public entertainments
bringing to us and helping to train and |
teach our young men and young ladies
in the musical art the best and most
accomplished singers in the South
must be forced to remove from us. 1t !
cation that 1t wants no music in the
public schools next year. The Board
thinks we can do without it, and /
guess we can. The world could prob
ably have done without poetry and
painting iICot ltS, tOO. OWtu
Meredith says civilized man can do
everything but cooks. even
anu books, but that man
mighty sorry, miserable creature, whose
very acquaintance would be poison.
The man Who hath not love of music in
MS soul is fit for treason, strategems and
,poils. Let no such man be trusted,
Shol+apan nd hmm, ha; |
Knew human nature so well-or at least
las told MS so much about it-as the .
,reat English bard. Therefore, while it ..
S a pity that Columbia must lose such
valuable man IN his sphere as Mr..
Iutsell. because it means an end to
UGH charming musical treats as was
light, lit is gratifying to his friends
est OF all, and the most successful. |;
or, everybody's word for 1t, LA
Iascotte' last night surpassed even
he delightful performance of Pima
ore, " and lowered over THE Chimes
t Normandy with double contrast.
II would be hard to say which out N
hone the other as the star of the even n
1g, Mr.. Jesse Gray, as "Lorenzo, > or h
Ir. Chas. Washburn, as Rocco. " +
he latter, in singing, was, of course,
eyond compare. 1t is doubtful if
has ever heard finer barri
me. Rich and full, exquisitely mod
lated and easily responsive to the
squirements OF the most delicate shad-
*. 1t is entirely possible not to lose
single word he sings, so admirable 1
his articulation. Besides his voice,
. is thorough comedian and an
rtist in everything he does. His
ork throughout was delightful and
le audience was simply carried away