Show TARARA TA RA RA BOOM BOOM DE AY A miss lottie collins falls below expectations PAULINE HALLS NEW OPERA kaa a dright libretto and catchy catch attractive music musio john drewa first important venture since ue left augustin dalys company ROM the su sublime balme bilme to the ridiculous n from lottie collins to tho the ardi nary tarara ta ra ra boom de aall ay dan ajsa cers who are fea tures ot of almost ir 01 every well regulated variety show I 1 tg is but a it step I 1 11 V and yet this in much advertised young english woman is said to receive a salary of tsoo a week from mr charles Fr frohman while the common herd who do tho the same act very nearly as well consider them sh es in luck when they can count on receiving a hebdomadal stipend of forty or efty fifty dollars lam iam not like tho juror who called his big eleven companions tools fools because they failed ta to agree with him and although I 1 am free lo 10 confess that lottie lottle collins was a distinct disappointment to jewhen me when I 1 saw her at the standard theater new york a few nights since I 1 realized that there must have been something more than the commonplace about her dance daric or it would neer never have creat created etl such 11 a furore in in london I 1 watched closely for an explanation of the extraordinary popularity of this extraordinary artists extraordinary dance dace I 1 and I 1 have bare discovered it misa miss collins has made a bit for no other reason than that she strives by eon contrast and by every other means possible to cro cre ate to the impre impression sidon that she is to simply b bubbling ab over with animal spirits she awag gers she Nv wriggles Aggles she anayis back ant and forth she shrugs her shoulders she whips her hair on the floor she whoops she shakes her head bead her shoulders lier ter arms her hands her body and her feet while she sings the chorus she is the tion of resistless motion a creature NY who to Is unable to longer control the an final spirits which she site has contrived to keep in check while she spoke the sense less words of the various stanzas were miss collins tamra tara ta ra m ra boom doom deay introduced into a play playas ns the doings of a young woman who had just returned from a late dinner where she had imbibed too freely of champagne I 1 should ta tingly pronounce it an artl artistic atle piece of acting but as for singing or dancing or even kicking miss collins act Is be neath criticism it if anyone any one takes pleasure in seeing the antics of ii it harebrained schoolgirl two thirds intoxicated depicted on the s stage tag he lie will enjo enjoy miss collins attempt atteln pt to do delineate such a 0 character for she does it to the life that is all she does and the comments of the new york papers on her work ar are e therefore absolutely incomprehensible hen sible to me Pa pauline tiline hall and her opera company opened at the fifth aven eater recent ly lying in a new comic opera Pun tania 11 the libretto was written by C M X S malel lan ian a bright newspaper man and the music was composed by edgar stillman kelley both these gentleman have done well in Purl Pur tania itania 11 it seems nowadays now to bo be the fad among tho the critics to say of a libretto it if ft it be bright and sparkling that it attempts to bo it if the tile score includes some swinging numbers which give promise of general popularity tho the music is declared ed to be reminiscent if it the two words reminiscent and 11 were verti to from the the vocabulary of the tile average newspaper critic of modem modern comic opera the notices of new productions in that line would occupy very much less space than at present mr mclellan has made salem witchcraft the moving theme of ilia ills book this would not ordinarily bo be considered a particularly ticul arly promising subject for a fin un d dc e comic opera and I 1 was genuinely surprised to find that Purita Pun tania niall contains as many queer conceits and bright original aa as any zany opera that gilbert ever wrote another point in puri miss LOTTIE COLLINS danias ta nias als favor in or is that it contains a well vell defined and easily traceable plot in that respect it Is something of an innovation iho the mounting of Purita illa la la is really mcall superb and pauline hall appears to bottei advantage than she ever did in her most palmy Er days flays at the casino mr helleis Hel leys music is not brilliant nor should it bo be in an opera of this grade but it Is pretty alv swingy Ingy catchy and no moro more reminiscent than mr do kovens or mr sullivans several numbers number possess those elements of popularity which will cause them to bo be whistled on the streets two choruses arc are particularly beautiful and are perhaps the most ambitious efforts of the opera besides being a fine actor himself john drew cornea comes of a family which stands preeminent in fit the modern annals of the american stage ilia recent debut in milwaukee lu in clado pitcha adaptation of alexander bissoni Bis sous sons comedy the masked ball 11 in which mr drew was featured which is the next thing to being starred tarred fc was watched with great interest tho those who feared that mr drew although fully up to the requirements of a leading man in lit even so strong an organization as dalya dalys stock company was scarcely of stellar caliber may rest easy on that score for the newspapers with scarcely an exception have pronounced his debut under tinder charles Froh Fro limans maua rhana management gement an unequivocal tuc ces |