The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-10-11
DELIGHTFUL MUSICAL FARCE
"uIDtuE TROI % tDspt a. ~
EILL az W IRkLING SONG.
Ns~ writer % the NIean~s~ S-h"al D's
Pla,s an E.NhIlaraIInE quality IN his
Ntstr That ssisialBs the HiEh stand
ard 81 Hh NAhy Predecessors.


NIadame TrnuhaIpur' WHICH WAS
rev at the Lyric Theatr" last night
rrnvrd 20 10 q genuine specimen of whai
trsr- has lreen an -fort - find m various
rr.portaiion- which hAy" com. 30 New
VOWS Wuh the record 10 success m various
ru-ov-an capitals u - French vaude
'- which cnnsisis ni farce accompanied
music The farce " not too brad nor
.. any II the music supplied hv the chorus
~ m" kind that lowers ~ musical farce
.rpW So we'll Thus the music - suppose a
.. Dol. an integral part oI the aCti and -
poo method ~ expression into which the
,,r,rt-r fail naturally when thei :
err.r ms arr too strong for utt-rancr in
a., u'h-r Wav FrhN Alhini supplied the
.... Wbilc that trristy Jokssmith Joseph
H-....rt - accused hy the programme 81
,-st.ousrhlity for th. Eng llsh Verslon 81
f." clay
On" heroine 1t Madame TrOuhaduur- -
''. Vlfe 10 a scholar who devote@ his time
O.. -tIdy,ng the achievements ~ an an
cent ric. IL sInger> 20 the exclusion ~
rn. attention that his young wife con-
-i-r, her due She has not bsrn com
fnrtie-~. a. a certain viScomte has been
arnStug after her social needs To "A greater
ur Ir~- extent. hut she Is happy when
her husband consents To an arrangement
90 WhCh they may both he freed from
'r"1 ties IL happens. however. that
rn. youthful viscomte. like other young
men with an interest ia the Affairs NJ
''-r triend- Goods when he finds the
la-rinr " Madame Troubadpur- just
- accessible now a. any other young
UuT an without a husband He finds
maud servants just as sntert aiming After
tr- diScoura cement and the knowledge
mat her -tudlOus husha nd after all can
So he divorce which was To bring them
usppIn~~- the heroine ~ Madame Trou-
HadNur- quite willingly goes hack To- her
n ,-pand and expects Co be happy
Grace la Rue Georgia Caine Van
k-nsselear Wheeler p Atchison Elv
ttEAr Norton. Doris Goodwin and Anna
Nneaton were tho-a engaged in the
exposition ~ this lively intrigue n
rather hackneyed which u takes three
acts to complete.
Yet u Was not the actors and certainly
no' The urinspirrd dialogue ~ Madam"
T-olhadour- ths' delighted the audience
that heard its first performance IN New
York. The exquisite score from the
hitherto unknown Maestro AlbIpi made
'he evening one 81 un1llayed pleasure
Ohen his musical numbers came 10 a
hearing. Whatever his nationality NAV he
No compo@es In the best Niennase Idiom
and his melodies have all the sparkle ~
champagne and some of it, intoxicating
harm
They hold their hearers IN eVhilaratlug
fzscinai ion 20 \ degree that few " the
contsmToraneols operet'a CompDsar-
even in hes DAYS of abundant inHpira-
ion from the Aust Ran capital ere able
. attain VI Alhini has taken th. ~ -
models and especially IN IN" first act he
nAs borrowed a trace ~ hts ip-pIra' ton
from the composer Of die Fleder,naus
he could not have gone higher M ~"
search for a model
La IN . d Vaa -
his music that suggested the original
10 quite sufficisnt excuse for the occasional
remembrance that his score bore 10 the
foremost master IN the par iculAr Held
'hAi he he's selected He shakes dEnCe
fnythms ~ beauty out II his sleeve az
after the other. with a fertility thai sug
gsstE the addition ~ another name o. 4
the hAllowed list thai gave IN" Ven
ne-e school its glory Their S""ms II"
likelihood that it, supremacy Will ever
he lost long a. unknown composers
like Felix Albino Arisa - CArry IN -
beet tradition
Grace Ia Rue who has been Struggling
for preeminenre IN her field Wa much
hotter equipped voCally than any ~ he
associates last night 10 do justice 10 he
share Of the score Then she acts WITT
Intelligence and there are moments. oIlv
moments and here and there m which she
-most works like Kitty Gordon NIennese
music 10 eHiEeant and probahaiy Georgia
name has not sung as much m the mast
'Wo ears OF her career AZ she was called
gf"n 20 do last night 80 u was deli ght-
T.. 20 observe the determination with
vr.ch she abandoned herself 10 the task
- dong az much singing a. she pnS-lhlv
'ol't whatever the consequences might
-
she came through rho ordeal wail and |
ih"r" was her compelling T'ersonil charm /
20 -alp her 10 success
Anna Wheaton and DOri. Goodwin |
- N" two maid servants, in whom the
rompte found such = field for o. !
1.Aiory diversion AZ the beginning ~ N" y
-"cnnf act made wholly insNc,Isshle .
'.l''ar There - only one ~ two courses .
'N- no stage manager - tax" with them !
10" nus' ~ suhdliIad and mad" 80 act ]
'Ns'T pretty little scene IN m" way II /
-roI.i 30 or they must 80 ruthles-lv sup /
Pressed Hearing them last night one /
va~ Ahl~ 70 realize what might make /
moro n"isa than one pig under gate .
VIZ Wheeler sang not wisely nor veil /
- acted with some polish and danced I
.-o .na'Ically But after all y - pnly ;
I'm" uubblinR beauty % the music that !
r"'Iv counts IN Madame Trouhadpur.-- .