The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1906-05-15
THE ISLE OF SPICE"
Description Of Coming Play at Barre
Opera House.


Tie Isle OF Spice musical comedy
of more than the average merit, opened
Ia weeks engagement al Ford's Opera
fact thai very large class Of theatre
goers eseaew tae pleasures of the play
during the week preceding Easter the
audience last night was large one.
The production was presented in Balti-
more previously, and, therefore, it did
mot come as an entire novelty, but as
! an attraction whose merit has been
tested
| The Isle Of Spice has plenty Of
INERT, both ii its book and III its must
zeal numbers II is doubtful if there are
many musical productions that can
boast 81 80 many catchy airs. and af-
tier all is said and done, d musical com
ledv depends for its success upon the
scatchineas' of its music. Bad music in
one of these productions IL quite enough
ITO kill II. Then, the book has quite d
good amount OF clever comedy, every bit
of 1t clean and wholesome, and the com
pany which served this comedy TO tho
audience last evening is a rather pretty
good one.
/ The idea 1T does not reach the pro-
1 portions OF plot around which the in
Eterest runs is the supposed and proposed
incarceration in the tomb OF silence, sit
uated upon the Isle Of Spice Of two lie.
serters from the United States steam.
ship Roosevelt These two gentlemen,
who have made their escape from their
ship in 4 balloon drop upon the island
At the time when the king is looking
for some substitutes to take the place
Iof his intended wife in this tomb, and
\ their arrival seems quite opportune to
His majesty. The two deserters man
/ age, sometimes through the connivsnce
@of members Of the court. sometimes
Through their own ingenuity, to make
their escape.
| Several times they put on DISCUSSES
and do other things equally grotesque
and funny. The intended wife. who is
also the Kings ward, complexities mat
/ ters BY falling in love with young
lieutenant III tie United States Navy.
But. III course, everything comes ont all
right and All live very happy ever after.
/ There are d number Of clever scenes
| introduced. Whenever Micly 0'Grady
and Slubsv Mackinaw make their ap-
pearance it il the time TO laugh When
forced to make good their deception that
they are astrologer and fortune teller
lby performing tricks and telling for
tunes, their stunts are very funny. and
the card game into which they inveigle
1 the trusting king was another portion
of the performance that made hit.
/ The roles were played by Herbert Cav
tborne and Harry Watson two come
dams Whose work is such as to render
them deserving OF the name.
| Their gfotesqie nakeups. their alb
sured nannsrsms, their songs and their
dances al contributed TOT the general
lsugh reproducing result
Sam Myie a. Bsmbopka. the seventh
1 king OF Nicobsr, was another actor
whose comedy work wns applauded, and
Harry Griffin and Robert Kane. a. two
court attaches, played their parts ac.
ceptably Charles Purssli, as the young
American lieutenant, acted and sang
fsiriv we'll
Miss Leslie Leigh. az Teresa, the
kings ward, look extremely pretty, art
ed With animation and displayed rath-
er good voice in the vocal numbers that
| fell To her lot; and Misses Susie For
roster and Frances Savage flled the re.
aurements Of the roles Of the two
queens. An actress WIN was very pref
Ity and charming was Lillian German,
who played Mother Witch. The produc-
iton was artistically staged, the cos.
tunes pretty and the choruses good. -
Baltimore American.