Goldsboro semi-weekly argus., 1909-10-27
THE MANHAT ANS
Catchy Operas and Pretty
Singers CsmiDg This
Week.
Rare Musical Feast AS Well AS
Graceful Spectacular in Store for
GOldsbOrO Theatre Patrons
This Week
This Week.

On Wednesday and Thursday nights
October 27 and %, the Manhattan OPP
era Company will appear at the Mes
senger Opera House. This engage
ment will prove to be the largest two
night stand ever in Goldsboro, and
with the calibre of the company thor
oughly known, capacity houses may
be looked for.
The Durham Herald had this to say
about the Manhattan on Tuesday
morning:
'eThe Manhattan Opera Company
gave much the best performance last
night at the Academy of Music that
has been here this season.
"And not in several seasons has
there been chorus of such voices
here. The two sopranos, Fra Diavo-
los baritone, the tenor, and in fact
the whole singing aggregation, dis
played exceptional ability and the
comedy was as pleasing bit of non
sense as an audience might expect
pretensions.
'The crowd wasn't great, but it was
appreciative, for among the audience
were the real music lovers of the city.
Those who don't feel exactly at home
in such a company enjoyed the comic
lines all the same and felt disappolnt-
ed that the people should not have
really understood what the company
is playing.
"In the company's repertoire there
is music of the grand opera. In one
of the closing situations of the sec
ond act the sextet from Lucia de
Lammermoor was sung in magnificent
style, the brilliant sopranos stretch
ing to those wonderfully high notes
and holding them, not in sudden
scream, but easily and musically.
There is bevy of very pretty girls
in the company and every one from
the least prominent chorus girl to
the prima donna, has voice worth
the hearing The city was perhaps
expecting cheap demonstration
when it read the dollar-down prices
at which the company is playing"
Miss Kittie Nice Perle, the charm
ing prima donna with the Manhattan
Opera Company, received a most flat
tering send-off at the closing of the
New England tour of the company q
fortnight ago. Said the Worcester
Mass, Post, editorially:
Farewell, Miss -Perle! May your
Southern trip be one long run of en-
cores and other things that will be {
reward for your excellent work"
Miss Perle's work is the subject fol
discussion among the opera manager:
of the country who have witnessed
the rise of this young lady into higl
musical circles. To say what is need
ed to express the frank confession O
the theatre-goer's both in the New
England states and also in the South
ern states, it is necessary to admi
that everywhere the patrons of th'
local theatres "fall in love- with Mis-
: Perle. There is a deliciousness abou
Miss Perle's work that gives he
abundant magnetic energy. Her enun
citation is clear and perfect, so tha
, every syllable is understood. Thi
: is an essential quality in the success
: of any operate star. Everybody i
sorry when Miss Perle does not an
swer all the encores that are givel
her. To answer them all, Miss PERL
would eventually become a broker
down operate singer, for no operati
voice could withstand the calls tha
Miss Perle receives Miss Perle is a
the head of company that is excel
lent and the local engagement, whicl
begins Wednesday is bound to win MI
Kane's songbirds as much favor a
have the engagements in the othe
: North Carolina cities.