Judge — December 9, 1882 — page 12: what you’re looking at

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Winita flourish of trumpets, whose reverberations reached across the Atlantic from the Strand in Lon to Broadway in New York, Gilbert and Sulliv opera was produced last Saturday night in England and America simultaneously-—or as nearly simul ously as the time difference between the two ¢ N's new untries would permit. Tie Jepar, not being endowed with | the peculiarities of Sir Boyle Roach’s bird, which be in two places at onc with attending the production at tt ducing his views of the performance at th from the managerial cablegrams posted in the lobby of the former theater. * Jolanthe” is the name of the new opera—that is soon said, but would take more words to tell. There are fairies in it—like- wise mortals, if we may be suffered in all due rever- ence to call creatures 80 exalted as British peers and a British Lord Chancel! a name. The fairies appear in the rather substantial locality of Westminster, but that is dor of the peers; and what English fairy would decline to forsake for a while its traditional habitat to pleasure beings so exalted as peers? Miss Augusta Rodie— famell aa the Lady Jane of Patience—is the of the fairies, and her jal figure tends a droll humor to her lines wherein she speaks of cu up | within a buttercup (by the way, the buttercup appears | to be a favorite flower of Mr. Gilbert—vide Pinafore), nestling within a nutshell, swinging Mr. Ryley is the Lord Chancellor, and he has a part which suits him admirably, as he usually does in Mr. Gilbert's librettos, and he plays it with that thorough | appreciation of the latent humor of the satire which renders him such a brilliant interpreter of the Gilber- | tian wit, With Miss Rodie Mr. Ryley—who | fortunately have two of the important parts | to sustain, praise must cease. Carleton is St fa singular being, balf fairy and balf being human, and his body, from the waist up, bein; dowed with the peculiarities inherited from his fairy god. mother. One of the time-honored attributes of fairy- dom being the power of becoming invisitle at wil. the spectator is irresistibly impelled to regret that Mr. Carleton is not a veritable fairy from the soles of the feet up—he would do so mach better, If you could not see him. Tis voice Is well enough, and if he were only as a fairy should be, rox et practerea nihil, be might given very aatisfactory rendition of the part—but there, why waste time in speculating on what might have been, And, indeed, if Carleton were a veritable fairy, If, instead of being compounded of gas, 23 he ia, he were compounded of air, a8 a fairy shonld be, be would be the best fairy in the world to avail himself of his pow- er of becoming invisible. For Carlton, though as Stre- phon he ishalf fairy, is, ia propria persona, very mor- tal and it is one of the primal articles of his creed, that, were he withdrawn from the stage of the Standard, the whole prosperity and the very e: of that popu lar temple of the lyric muse would shrivel into nothing- neas in single night like Jonab’s gourd when worm smitten, Therefore Carleton is never invisible, and he is firmly convinced that at least the fairer section of his audiences are glad he is not. All this time Tux Jepe Standard ata or by 80 commonpla substa on a cobweb, ete. and most has not pronounced, bis ence of success or failure over the new opera, and, to tell the truth, he is not quite ready to, even yet. It | isa very difficult case, and he takes it under advis ment. The wit is bright, and the satire is keen; that is no more than saying that the libretto is Gilbert's The music is pleasing, occasionally catebing, always harmonious, and adapted to its subject. That is no | tanthe more than saying that Sallivan is the composer. Bat THE JUDGE. the Jepox failed to tind as much sparkle and ag usual inthe text, as much of that indefl- nable musical quality which forces a number on the Then again, the subject is even more distinctively English than any Gilbert has as yet handiel, All bis operas are born within the sound of Bow Bells, but * folantt anid exportation worse than her pred the distribution of the various roles— with th tion of those allotted to Rodie and Ryley found to militate against the enduring A it may be, very probably will be; but such a success as that famous trinity of Pinafore . “Pirates of zane,” never. | ear and stamps iton the memory sors. Again, excep will be success of the opera, success tien the And apropos of t consplenously less fortunat “P") will not th in signs and o th whom the theatrical departure from the initial +P," dissolubly linked with Gilbert a 1's suc plume with the soldier of > re it for the shortcoming. It is true that in thi “The Peer and the Peri,” the talis manic initial figures twice, but ** Tolanthe Why not * Pierol Tosum up then Tolanthe” the hitherto v career of Messrs Gilbert and Sullivan has received a check. Whether that check may amount to a reverse, one can yet prophesy ; but if impending defeat is final ly turned to success, authors, managers, and all con- cerned should unite in a vote of thanks to Miss Rodic can save the day. 0 and Hart led by the withdrawal of a m whose popularity has t recent growth. Poor Billy many friends can take what they may from the fact that hi able tribute from his bre large, to his talents should * Tolanthe than prove her predecessors (another superstitions, the believers ng, Mascotte-worshipers pounds which h find in the been as in as waa his whit son suff sub-title why « ally ehri has been sally pre mbver of the company tion al was a memor- ctors and the public at | cand hood | off it. Tne Jopor saw the casket that bolls all that is mortal of poor Billy Gray hid from sight, and he s it with{profound regret. On wo fellow, clever actor and honest’ man—and we have all too few of them—gone over tothe silent majority. fune more A new play, “Our English Friend,” was produce at Daly’s on Saturday last. It is an adaptation from the German, is stupid, stale and heavy. By the way, it is a poor commentary on the recognition accorded to our American authors when we find in three princi- pal theaters foreign plays. Daly's goes to the G for attractions, but then, what Mr. Daly doesn’t know about a play would fll a great big book; the Union ne3 to the French, and Wallack’s to the Ex Apropos, what we hear of the ** Queen's Shill- ing,” which ia to follow Langtry at Wallack’s, makes Tue Jvooe inclined to think that Mr. Wallack will sc be glad to follow the example of the Ma the best patronized house of the lot—and giv hearing to plays written In America for Americans by Americans. 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