. Recollections of a player. MR. WILSON AS PETER GRIGGS,IN THE MR. WILSON AS TIRECHJPPE,IN HALF A KING. Recollections of a Player. 75 The season of 1896-97 was devoted to Halfa King, which began its existence, in English,at the Knickerbocker (late Abbeys) Theater, inNew York, where it played two months to anunusually large attendance. It is from the Frenchot Chivot and Duru, the music being newly com-posed by Ludwig Englander. Some anxiety wasfelt about it because of the departure made in theintroduction of a touch of homely pathos here andthere. But this was well received, and the
. Recollections of a player. MR. WILSON AS PETER GRIGGS,IN THE MR. WILSON AS TIRECHJPPE,IN HALF A KING. Recollections of a Player. 75 The season of 1896-97 was devoted to Halfa King, which began its existence, in English,at the Knickerbocker (late Abbeys) Theater, inNew York, where it played two months to anunusually large attendance. It is from the Frenchot Chivot and Duru, the music being newly com-posed by Ludwig Englander. Some anxiety wasfelt about it because of the departure made in theintroduction of a touch of homely pathos here andthere. But this was well received, and the funthought to be enhanced thereby. Few people seriously consider what the modernproduction of comic opera means — what care,what nerve-expending force, what labor, whatthought, experience, and expense, it involves ! Afriend whose books on art and travel are widelyread wrote recently upon the matter, and I can-not refrain from quoting: I am glad I have seen you three times in thisplay—Haifa King. I have seriously consideredit, and I believe I begin to appreciate wha
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