Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1909-01-20
REFERENCE TO FEDERAL
COURTS STIRS COMMENT
REHEARSAL TONIGHT.
STORY OF THE PLAY

The first big stage rehearsal of
Pinafore will be gone through tonight
and it is urgent that everyone TAX
ing part in the play should be there.
The full score will be gone through
and the dramatic action will be thor
oughly worked up.
The scenery and costumes are eX-
pected by tonight's express and will
be put in place as soon as they ar
rive.
Tor the information of those who
may not be familiar with the comic
0pcra II NJ. S. Pinatore, to be given
its first Lc:formance Monday night
IL the opera house, with local talent,
the following historical facts and de-
scrlption has been compiled by The
Appeal:
H. NJ. S. Pinafore; or, The Lass
that Loved a Sailor" comic opera in
two acts, text by Gilbert, was first
produced at the Opera COmique, Lon
dor, May rs, 1878, and in New York,
January 10, 1879, with the following
cast:
Capt. Corocan. .Ruthland harrington
Josephine ......... Miss f. Howson
Ralph Rackstraw .... Mr.. Power
RI Hon. Sir Joseph Porter
............Geo. Grossmith, Jr.
Little Buttercup ...... Miss Everard
Dick Deadeye ...... Mr.. K. Temple
Hebe .................. Miss }. Bond
BI!. Bobstay. y.............Mr Mr.. Clifford
Although "Pinafore", when it was
first produced in London, was re-
TO take it off the boards. yet eventual
| ly. with the exception of The Beg
gar's Opera" it proved to be the most
popular opera ever produced in Eng
| land; while in the United States it
was for years the rage, and is still
a great favorite. The first scene in
troduces the leading characters on
| the deck of III. NJ. S. Pinafore' in
the harbor of Portsmouth. Little
| l$l,ttercup, a bumboat woman, the
| rosiest, the roundest. and the reddest
beauty in all Spithead," comes on
board and has an interview with Dick
Deadeye, the william of the story, and
in all the fleet" who is in love with
Josephine, Captain Corcoran's daught-
er. The Captain appears on deck in
a melancholy mood because Josephine
has shown herself Indifferent to Sil
Joseph Porter, X. c. b., who is to ash
for her hand that afternoon. Sh,
confcsscs to her father that she loves
a common sailor, but will carry he,
love TO the grave without letting hin
know it. Sir Joseph comes on boar(
with a long retinue of sisters, cousins
and aunts, who chant his praises
After attending to some minor details
he has a frutless interview with the
Captain and Josephine. She protests
she cannot love him. Shortly after
wards she meets Ralph, who declare
his love for her, but she haughtil.
! rejects him. When he draws hi
pistol and declares he will shoot him
self, she acknowledges her love, an,
they plan to steal ashore at nigh
and be married Dick Deadeye over
hears the plot and threatens to thwar
it.
The second act opens at night
Captain COrcOran is discovered sadl
complaining to the moon. and wOnde
ing why everything is at "sixes an
lsevens.' Little Battercup sympathi.
es with him, and is about to becom
affectionate, when he informs her h
can only be her friend. She grow
enraged, and warns him there is
change in store for him. Sir Josep
enters, and informs the Captain /
g is much disappointed at the way Jos
phine has acted. The Captain replie
that she is probably dazzled by h
j rank, and that if he will reason wit
E her and convince her that love leve
all ranks" everything will be righ
I She tells him she has hesitated, b,
, now she hesitates no longer. S
Joseph and the Captain are rejoicin
/ lover her apparent change of hear
when Dick Deadeye reveals the pie