The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-02-25
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 The press and public have most en- thusiastically stamped with their ap- proval The Mayor of Tokio," Richard Carle's farcical opera, which will be seen at the Montgomery Theatre Thurs day night.
 The piece has made an instant hit everywhere 1t has appeared. It's pre- mfer presentation was in Chicago where it was seen for fe2 consecutive per- formances and was there considered the most emphatic artistic and financial success of the Western season. It was later presented in Philadelphia for three weeks and later booked for re- turn of four weeks where it broke all previous records for musical comedy. Its Philadelphia record was repeated in Boston for four weeks, and as consequence is booked for an all sim- mer run there, and lastly at the New York Theatre, the largest amusement edif7ce in the metropolis, 1t was con-. sidered a veritable rage,
 In The Mayor of Toyko' Mir. Carle has gotten together an exceptional com- pany of talented people; in fact the player -playwrights present support displays the most evenly balanced cast that theatre patrons have had the good fortune to see in long while
 In this piece Mir. Carle has made a decided advancement as librettist. Its lines are said to be brilliant, and it's humor clean and quaintly original. The plot is more coherent than the usual musical story and the lyrics display a rare facility at odd rhyming and att tain a standard far above the verses we are acustomed to hear in present day musical productions.
 MT. Carle has the most fascinating chorus seer for years. They are knowrsI as the Blue Ribbon Chorus of Amer ica.' The girls are not only charm- ingly, pretty, but they can sing and dance as well. Particularly notewor- thy Is the work of the eight nimbIe- footed little dancers who are styled by MT. Carle The Peanut Ballett !" The girls composing this little terpsichore- an corps are dainty, pretty, young and dance with extreme grace and agility The bewitching 'Geisha Girls" are an other choral novelty of rare signifi- canoe.
 One of the dlstinguishing features of the new Carle opera is its decided class, The Mayor of Tokior is compromise between musical comedy and light opera; it borders on the lat ter by reason of it's clever lyrics and excellent music. It partakes of the na- ture of the former but happily escapes the meaninglessness of this form of music.
 Cnlike most musical pieces the score of The Mayor of Tokio. is composed entirely of hits" which have been made possible by MT. CarIe's wonderful ability as writer and composer. Since the first performance of the piece. Mr. Carle has composed and tried thirty seven new numbers in the piece, of which eleven have been retained and in addition to the original numbers re- tained the score as presented today represents twenty-one musical hits" Mir .Carle does not believe in flair suc- cess" and strove for the best or what the public wanted, and ss consequence each and every musical number in The Mayor of Tokio' received from three to eight encores at every performance
 The production is unquestionably one of the most elaborate and beautiful en tour, and as Mir. Carle expresses 1t, from a standpoint of color and splen- dor, this Is the first and only adeduate production ever given one of my pieces, and my most cherished dream is real ized-I am satisfied, and so is the pub lie The celebrated poster artist Archie Gum, designed the costume plates and with MT. Carle devised the seccnd act A. Frank Dodge, the dis tinguished Japanese landscape artist painted the scenery, which requires six ty-five. foot baggage cars for transpor- tation.
 This &is the "only" piece that Mr. Carle appears in and is controlled by the Richard Carle Amusement Compa- ny, and as a consequence Mir CarIe's company of people are of exceptional prominence, foremost of which are Emma Janvier, Miss Janvier as Mad anne Stitch, the wardrobe mistress of Kidder's stranded troupe, achieves a character portrayal that reminds one of Mrs. Annie Yeaman's work in her halcyon days; Ada Mitchell, who signs the prima donna role, possesses a voice which, in quality and volume, is un- equalled on the light musical stage Her vocal organ Is exceptional inas- much as 1t is a mezzo-contralto. When her contract with Mir. Carle expires three years hence, Miss Ada Mitchell expects to temporarily leave the stage and study for grand opera; Adele Row. land, one of the most popular beauties of the operatic stage; also Minerva Courtney and Madge Vincent, two dainty soubrettes. who won fame and favor with their clever dancing and singing in almost every important city of the old and new world; also Ethel Lloyd. Florence Willards, Miss Mitch ell, and Constance Eastman, a quar- tette, are the most widely featured people of late press articles on the American stage.
 The male contingent comprises Fred Treat, J. A. Wallerstedt, Sylvain Lang lois William Rock, Jo Smith Marba, Edwin Baker, Jess Caine, William H.