Show I 2 onn GOSSIP Or Of THE LONDON STAGE f j tho OI U Over b Hu HumorA 5 mor morA A Is 18 a In tn His Hie Ht Most Moet Fantastic g 5 t Vein j fU 1 t t U t Special May Mi 7 71 It IH ha Just JUMI nit as S we ve ex ax pfd pr tM l the idea of W V H 13 now 11 Pl A IH in no co eo droll so o 0 emInently In fact bitt It t IH Is no wonder the time hanker halkI Ing to work It up and nee eee It oot l over omit all al 11 Mr r resolutIons luton to t I trite tin IKI 10 mote more fur Cur the Iho stage And n let lot It Ue be I nt itt lt once butt no one lint hut thc tho author of Ot coil The he Dub Dab the two tio t 10 Gilbert Olbert Inventions Hint t the Iho new aIm Ik ick piny play moat mo l could have constructed an tin probably no on else olal could have conceived this thie piece of ot trifling I Its I t f r Rosebud the bit oud fairy airy who Iho bungles the tho romantic nho shu has Ims undertaken und ouch ull Al AI Alcohol cohol cobol the tho demon vho ho c traIt tradition ion tion required him to In lIt numbers he lie hAH hin no n knack knuck at verse voree has hns pro with wih n II rhyming dictionary ry 1 are Ir creatures like le the nine SiAn Icon haw not II Known InrI the tho of nt the Savoy llo And nd this tItle time lime the tho hii n himself IWO fled Il judicial mili military mi tary men fulsome le nl oh Wl have havo heel heen loen marks marke for tor Huberts wit hut hit Iler before bite hns h M he gone cono so ao 0 far til tta I to 10 picture a n learned and crusty judge transformed Into a I pantaloon a I In the Life Guards turned Into a I lInn dome olon or er a 1 vicar bewitched tl Into Inlo n a dancing In Iii the Ihl skinniest of ot tights To fa Ton Toa faR n R first night audience the thu satire I glee Klee but no the tho play piny will viii wi bo be n a I popular no HO ono one hll to 10 prophesy pr Thit lr thing Is In rt il 1 on tho the English pantomime When Mr Mu I Gilbert raleen bin hl curtain cullin we find lInci that lint Rosebud the good airy IB iii l In with tho thin tair queen Her IH mission In Is to help along la lagging love allaire Those Thole In tn the however have gone gono but Indifferently for or come com a anti and the lie queen quoon of thi fayn line him hUI decreed that Kosebud HOle hUll brings oft off a n coup of o some come Iome sort port she abe will willa 11 lio hI a thrust Into tutu tho ho back row rol Of ot th tM liC tOry 1111 ballot ballet along with wih tho ho flout ones oneR u UI us Mr puts put It I Anxious to tn avoid this los hoe hAM inn been lug Ing n II sort of ot love affair that thai hue has been going on In her vicinity tho the In the core care being lie I UK a ConiC ROI what timid country countr vicar and a it n baronet In tho tito Ufe lle The vicar Is lii In Inlove inlove love wIth wih H it 1 learned haunted daughter who for or courting purposes line hns tile IS h r olt as n a I hospital ho nurse hut 10 ebue notices hat tho Iho baronet barone also alo frequently offers to tills this lady Ind and the tho fairy believes beles that the tho military mans 1111 Intentions toward her are arc not nOI honorable lUre litre lere In Ic I an In opportunity to 10 Intervene She tha peeks ekl the of or the Demon Iemon Doron Alcohol nn an evil 01 spirit with however hower conscientious scrupled that handicap hint considerably antI and Ane utter cuter Collie somo mo trouble Induces him to carry cnn off or the he lady to tho the baronets flat fAt In Iii White huh hil court whence site she tho the good fairy will wl reecho her hor Just In II time nt re 0 I t n eM n r I 1 store liar hor to her lover hover but lut when the scone acetic changes os to the tho vicars shears we o 0 find an in unexpected of affairs It I MOll that tho the father I the th pompous Justice Wortle orte not nol approve te of oC tho the an RR a n suitor und and andIn In order to deceive him bun the tho reverend and auth tho ho baronet are lre In iii the habit In 11 public of ot devoting II to euch others other lady hotly it hovert So tio when through u It I bursts upon the tho vicar Icar anti and the baronets sweetheart nud assures them that t hit she sho wilt will w devoto herself to Il out their heir they In Into to torm arm her politely that her hr services ore Art not lot required she pcr e verOA veree unIt and loon sonn the lie I off the lie lady hotly lUll to tu a the tue T of or orthe the he bold bolli baronet ni ni 0 the thE fairy him hint No end ell of oC remote corl follow hut but ho tho discovers dl that lint she tte hUH bite mule mudo 1110 a toot tool of ot herself und and helped no one and thou then It Iff If im that out nf ot phi pique lie she nho ho transport the tha vicar the tho Judge the tho baronet his Indy lady love to The of ot and oM them bent Into the familiar panto pantomime mime figures of ot pantaloon columbine I harlequin and clown respectively In which guise gulie they the are aro obliged to perform In the lie public streets but finally are IfO cot aCt down doun In lii the he vicars to 10 hitch find n 1 criticism of oC their enforced his hie efforts In the he London Times tho the somewhat som whAt erudite stylo tle of ot whoso o orilo Title critic rilo Gilbert parodies amusingly All 1 mils Cilia with wih the ha right lovers lovera united I II ICI the tho fairy tAIr comforted for to her hor I disappointment by b tho he demons demon promise to his calling And marry murr her herAt herthe herAt At the tho end she eho Iho Is ha a calling caling a a him George tho the opening of the tho opera Oer Mouson In II London Loncon this thin week wan vaa not quite nil M ii brilliant its lS usual tho the kins and Inel queen being In Ireland nod And the tho display IA of ot dressmaking dia dla diamonds monds mone being fairly modest The Tho Cov Coy out Opera House Is In not so aO 10 spit spa SPI noun clous roU tind gorgeous gOI n a 1 place as an A tho the Met Metropolitan In NeV Nh w York ork and the tho fact tACt lint most moat of the singers come caine hither ill ii I after the tho rigors of DC tho the American senion cn on sometimes gives given nn on Impression flint thin whole holo affair Is III n a 1 trifle shop shopworn shopworn worn wor Shut Hut there thero wits was WI one feature of at the opening night this year In Covent OAr Gar Garden den dell that hut In tho the United States Staten had to do to without That feature ican WAi the he presence of oC Dr Hani Richter In the conductors conductor conductor chair chaira a fort fact which scorned to glorify tho the perform performance ance of Mozarta Don Giovanni The and company wore superbly drilled and It I seems to be tho the general opinion that bitt the tho opera has hRS not boon been BO so BOwell sowell well itch done don before for n a generation It itne WAi given practically complete the tho usual cuts cute having been restored and In Inconsequence consequence the performance began nt at lt j 30 Alice Nielsen n of at American com I opera fame nine who on 01 this thin occasion lon made her hor first Ippe appearance here In li opera won itoh 01 sincere ero praise Although ehe tile din disturbed the tho lh traditions of o sonic some of oC the critics by h making human and attractive CUItTI BROWN I J r I ruin A |