Show From Lucrezia to the Mikado was a mighty step but the company in the evening undertook it with earnestness and rattled off Sullivans music in the same true spirit that they had interpreted inter-preted the loftier themes of Donizetti The audience was a heavy one about 900 comprising the receipts and was composed of the fashion of the city the element which has seen the Mikado fifteen times before and knows every atom of business and I every line of music from If you want to know who we are to A is happy B is not It was no light venture to undertake un-dertake the presentation ot the Mikado before an audience which had imbibed all the traditions from Carleton and i Duffto say noMiirtg the undoubted chestnutty flavor the Japanese work is beginning to emit It is no light com plimentthereforeto say that the Abbott people gave a highly interesting and vastly appreciated rendition and that the familiar numbers The flowers that Bloom Tit WilowThe Madrigal etc gained encor as vociferous and as numerous as ever before As a whole perhaps the rendition was not up to Bulls and Carletcns but inparts it must be said it transcended either There was no such scenery as we have had in the operano new scenery at all and no chance between the acts though the fan screens lanterns and parasols spt off the stage very handsomely But Miss Annanduleis the best Katisha we have had in both singing and acting not even excepting Seguin and Allens Ko Ko though thnyichont it wa1 noUo I buiLorcus as Ryle > was so chock lull I of fu ny and original business and gags und caught on with the ho ise si thoroughly thor-oughly in the last act especially tLat the comparison ought hardly to be made his tumbling jumping in the Air I and general acrobatic hats were iin rmn = e and secured him so many recalls re-calls as to quite exhaust him Mont grub the tenor acted Nanki fairly hut thoroughly rose to the occasion when he had a high note toutter his I A is superb Pruette was the most i humorous and unctious Mikado we I have ever had his dress was elegant in j the extreme and his style and make up were such that one could hardly be hevghe Xas f fie satani9 duke oftliej afternoon MrJ3rpdejiek gavela tTiofouphly good delineation of Pooh Bab his fine voice again tellinptoex cellent advanfdge Bertiniand Mortimer Morti-mer were very sweet attendant maids though the liberties UlO former young lady takes with Pitti Sin d music Should be curtailed by the director Mr Delano was a satisfactory Pish Tush Abnott roused the grc a furore of the night bv interpolating a gem from the Pearl of Brazil with Bute t onlfgatiK wuith was done as well as Di Murskauyerdid the sdmeiwhat similar scene in Lucia the i voiqe echoing the flute and companying in all its flights shakes and trills gave full evidence evi-dence of the cultivation her organ has undergone It was redemanded and pp auded to the echo The fact that the beSt pare of Abbotts YumYum was the part introduced indicatfs that she i3 not at her bestin that character Nor ii she be could npt do anything of course badly hutafter Lucrezia and just befljI Lebnqra it is impossibletq accept her as YUmYum and su taint tain-t idea we have iqrmedof her II though she do the Japanese maiden never so well Thejcjjorus wasagain excellent the ato pqrtion of t ia particular The orchestra was competent though occasionally occa-sionally too he vy forthe lighter voices Unless we t r ally mistake tbe eYeni of the eugaaemenj will be in the rendition rendi-tion Trovatofe this eyemng Follow itig is the distributionof thn principals Leonora v Abbot Azuceua > Annhndale Manrico i Moiitegcifro Count Di Luna Pruette I t I A GHAT WITH THE SINGEKi d J Her Disappointment tb1d Sanies and Faces Her Comnipu l 5 Study 4 i i i HonestLittle Emma not so Iittef l however as her name might implywas lohncJ by a reporter after shohad fallen dead 01 the prostrate bOdy of her son in Lucrezia just rising from her posture and gathering uptlher velvetssirta preparatory pre-paratory to resigning herself to the hands of her French maid Emma has a remarkable memory for pie faces of the press people and the reporter Vas at once warmly recognized and sLAvn Ito I-to her room Did you ever know anything so ek asperating as that railroad accident she said with all herald time voluble dash Ive done nothing but cry all night over the disappoin ment What sort of a railroad must it be where they try five engines before they can get one to pull 11 train Yes five The first one we had there was something the matter of the piston rod then we went on with another and something else broke tl1El1 we got a third and the valve or throttle or sorne ttomg got out of order a fourth was found tObe licketty and not until a fifth engine had got to us could we make the trip When the conductor told nid the smash had come just said Oh Salt Lake and sat down and had a good cry After so many acccidents as we had Ifully made up my mind that we would run off the track and roll down a hill so I set to work to tie all my valuables about me took the measure of the car window ascertained that my hips and shoulders should-ers would go through on a piacli and sat down and waited for it I didnt wunc any holocaust in mine Cremation Crema-tion I believe in I intend to be cremated cre-mated but ntt till Im Thoroughly dead 1 Wehave had oh euch a lonely time I up in the new country Portland i Butte etc We played two weeks in Portland and such a muiicloving I community you never saw We gave seven performances in Butte to beautiful beauti-ful business My old people Well Mr Castle is no longer young you know I und > he has settled down in New York speculating in stocks Fabrini with Carl Rosa in London and is making mak-ing lots oi money Tagliapietra dear old Tag what a magnetic worker he was on the stage but what a lot of lazybones lazy-bones he was ufIis in South America I managing his wife Carreno the famous pianist Cauipobello has been with Duff but is now back in San Francisco again teaching JBoth Oampo and Tag want to come back to me perhaps I shall have them next seaSon Yes this is the first season of my Lucrezia and the Carnival I spent last summer in Paris and London studying up all the old traditions and histories of Lucrezia and my ideas as well as my dresses I got of the best masters Marchisi tells me my voice was never better and I myself think it was nerer stronger It ascends all the time strange to say 1 can touch notes now that fivo years ago I couldn dream of With Patti it is the opposite her voice is going down the great duo in Traviati she now has transposed a whole tone and some other of her high music the same way The entrance of a Chinaman for orders about laundry of an attendant to inquire what time she would have supperfor she remains in her dressing room resting in a big armchair arm-chair between matinee and night performances per-formances and sundry signs that her French miii I was about to begin operations opera-tions at ngth terminated the chatty audience and drove the reporter from the scene I J |