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Show THE CARELESS OPERA COMPANY. Favorable Presentation of the "Pirates "Pi-rates of Penzance" Last Night. The "Pirates of Penzance, rendered by the Careless Opera Company yesterday yester-day afternoon and.evening, was in all respects re-spects the greatest success yet achieved in local opera here. The attendance was extraordinary, at both performances, nearly every seat within the parquette and first circle being filled, and also the cnoice seats in the upper galleries. The I total receipts must' have approached $1,100, making due allowance for all the compliinentaries to friends of the chorus. The opera itself is by no means worthy to be classed alongside of either tlTt-l- 11 1IT .. jrauence," "loiantne," or "The Mikado," Mika-do," in respect to plot or music, and by a less able company the piece would have failed to interest the audience. But all that there is defective in the opera was more than made up in the manner in which it was put on the boards. The cast throughout is the most evenly balanced bal-anced that has yet appeared in any of the local productions, its principal weakness weak-ness being manifest in the actin" of Mr Gorlinski and Miss Wells and the absence of Mr. Spencer's indispensable actin throughout the piece, he having only a short seen nr fwn J , What insured a brilliant success for the performance from the start was the admirable admir-able acting and singing of Miss Edith Clawson, who in her first solo and throughout the entire performance perfectly per-fectly captivated the audience. The ladv had made a favorable impresiion oil the Salt Lake public as a. concert singer, but her beautiful notes in the high soprano part of the Major-General's Major-General's daughter last evening was a source of astonishment as well as delight to every one present. This, added to her splendid acting, made the character sufficient suf-ficient attraction in itself to carry the opera iT.rou& ,aPPreciatively to the audience. Miss Wells was too charming in her make-up, and altogether too amiable in her acting, for what the author intended m Ruth, but her sweet contralto voice while it was scarcely as powerful as is' desirable for the part, did excellent work, and was thoroughly enjoyed. ' M88 Whitney and Miss Allen, who made their first appearance, sang their parts very nicely, especially Miss Whitney. . We had no desire to speak disparagingly disparag-ingly in our former reference to Mr. Gor-hnski's Gor-hnski's acting; we only intended to say that, through , his failing to introduce sufficient fierceness and pomposity into the Pirate King, it tended, in connection con-nection with , Miss Wells', misconception ot her part, to partially destroy the character char-acter of the plot. His singing' was excellent excel-lent throughout, and when the fact is taken into consideration that this was his first appearance in opera, his acting must be taken, as it evidently was by the audience, as remarkably good. With a ; cange in his make-up and acting conformable con-formable to the suggestion given above, this part will be received with even more enthusiasm than greeted his efforts last night. Mr. Pyper, as Frederick, acquitted ac-quitted himself in his usual careful and painstaking manner, and sang his part particularly m tlie lower notes, with much sweetness, in the amusing policeman's drill, Mr Spencer created any amount of lun, and introduced a number of good local hits, which were received re-ceived with applause. Mrt Meakin surprised his friends, particularly in his duet with the Pirate King, which was sung with excellent clearness and sweetness. The chorus was the best drilled of the several we have seen here, and the stage business was admirable throughout Mr. Careless did much better in the or-I or-I castration than was expected, although rof 18 roora fr improvement. The opera was immensely enjoyed, and will be repeated to-morrow night, when there will doubtless be another large audience to greet this most excellent of tne home company's efforts. |