Life — March 3, 1904 — page 21: what you’re looking at

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ics should have inspired less com- monplace music than Mr. Rolt supplies The cast and mounting are pretty bad Mr. Gottschalk’s country lawyer, mixed up gay intrigues in London, is the only cha acter which stands out against the back- ground of general mediocrity. In its entirety ittering Gloria” goes to confirm the statement that “all Ghat glitters is not gold"; at least not eighteen-carat ‘ ; STPHE YANKEE CoN. SUL” pretty near being comic opera. Its plot is not of vast im portance but its music is relevant and in good pro- portion tothetext. It is dificult to musical pice time, ssify the es of our «especially so 9) to draw any hard and SEE fast line between musical comedy and cap bat the latter deti- ion seems to fit * The Consul” 1 e PLORA ZABELLE IN OTHE YANKEE CONSUL Ya y other. The musi {strikingly original, but it is tuneful and bright and written for the most. part on ist ml, although conventional, models Some of the airs are bound to become popu lar and they fit their words with unusual closeness, expecially the trie fort tn the first Mr. Blos- contains some of the ele wor voices ines heard in this kind of piece for a long ti Ir, som full credit forthem, because he in Hut it seems risky to give Tides so many Venerable chestnuts that one is afraid to trust one's omniscie neering the speeches which seem undenia al, we meet an old friend of our cireus-clown days like new and strictly orig fr instance, when Its nice to love, But oh, how bitter, To love a girl And then not git her, pat under the name of an author on a pro- ined to donbt the Ariel * and gramme, we are hes like lity of © an never amakes a poor wi “Vim so poor Mn learning to bark to save ‘although we r them the expense of keeping a dd ever have happened to he: Ye Americans, through the increasing number of our foreign entangle ts, aire x new fields for our comic-opera writers. Mr. Blossom has opportunely chosen San Domingo for the scene of his Yankee consul’s operations, Writing of *LIPE: this sort naturally allows of considerable broadening, but if the natives of San Do- mingo were half as pretty and shapely as the young women who seem to be in the po be no doubt that a t of Pr evelt would be warmly supported majority, there ©: policy of annexation on the pa dent Ro hy all the male the ovrs who see this opera. In the present instance ¢ lo- matic representative of the American gov- lual acco wd her fortuy ‘The incidental complications of getting yent starts inon his indiv nt away with such a desirable piece of loot is the basis of the not over-se Mr avage bas not placed a great amount on gorgeous scenery, for which moderat rd eves are grateful. He bas, however tst and he ve ring. es re better thin usual and the prineipals are y with some regard for what they have to do. The girls are undeniably pretty, expecially Flora Zabelle, the leading young do Eva Davenport is that un ure, a female comedian. Mr. Raymond Hiteheock, starred as Abijak Booze, the title part, remark: ably funn: indies then che woman, 3 usual © eflectivel L thoroughly The minor parts with a dry humor, irresistible a nits: quality nd has gathered a chorus of young done, pnpetent Mr, Savag women who are simultaneously comely, gre ad tuneful. “The Yankee Consul may not cast much glory on America’s representatives ate laughter abroad, but it is bound to time to com ST takes Lire to task for devoting so much space to trying to secure pro A tection for the public against ss tres whieh ob- Sy sly fire-traps. He “~ ys that if the public hasn't sense ugh to stay away from such places it ought to take the consequences of its own stupidity. Onr_ correspondent’s view may be the correct one, but it wouldn't be a popular one the day after one of these places—the Savoy, the Maniattan or the Bijou, for instance—had been the scene of a fire or panic, with the customary list of burned, crushed smothered hun beings. If at that t id, ** Ltold you se ne our correspondei t . “Tt was their own fault,” we fear th tiv de f the surviving rel of the dead heard him, he might rate a near-by lamp-post ewise, ir city authorities, who in the recent k ping of public attention have we much to improve the cond fairs in the theatres, but who have been blocked by every influence th wld bring to bear, will not find, disaster, that the publi where it should not much i pi managerial “pull,” which is so potent to- no managers « ase of 's stupidity in going will avail the yg responsibility. ‘The av day, will not be a very str ce for oflicials who have permitted it to swerve them from their duty to the public, stupid as that public may be. disaster the public is some one In face of a gr more likely to look fe than to blame itself f punish s own stup Meteu ity, tke men as the as they may be. are, Women. 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