Word: coppaleen
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...voices and pantomime of the principals seem, beyond understanding, to improve under each week's new strain. Last night, for instance, Mr. Murray's singing and all his ordinarily difficult character portrayal were, or seemed to be, even better than Murray's. He was a capital Myles na Coppaleen, good-hearted and cheery and free of manner, and free of mannerisms. His make-up was distinctly better than that of any other player. Perhaps Mr. Wolff's look of the servile blackguard, Danny Mann, was almost as fit. His likeness to a cringing, cowardly villain was not all the effect...
...repertoire next week, Sir Julius Benedict's "The Lily of Killarney." This is a musical version of the drama, "The Colleen Bawn," whose thrilling story is adapted admirably to lyrical expression. The heiress, Ann Chute, has a rival in Eily O'Connor, the Colleen Bawn. Myles na Coppaleen, the peasant lover of Eily, is devoted to her although knowing her to be the wife of another, Hardress Cregan. The latter would desert her and wed Ann Chute in order to raise the mortgage on his estate. The only solution of his difficulty is to get the Colleen Bawn...
...cast follows: Eily O'Connor, the Colleen Bawn, Miss Clara Lane; Mrs. Cregan, Miss Kate Davis; Sheelah, Miss Cora Deane; Miss Ann Chute, the heiress, Miss Edith Mason; Hardress Cregan, Mr. Thomas H. Persse; Myles na Coppaleen, Mr. J. K. Murray; Mr. Corrigan, Mr. John Read; Father Tom, Mr. Arthur Wooley; Donny Mann, Mr. William Wolff...
...repertoire next week, Sir Julius Benedict's "The Lily of Killarney." This is a musical version of the drama, "The Colleen Bawn," whose thrilling story is adapted admirably to lyrical expression. The heiress, Ann Chute, has a rival in Eily O'Connor, the Colleen Bawn. Myles na Coppaleen, the peasant lover of Eily, is devoted to her although knowing her to be the wife of another, Hardress Cregan. The latter would desert her and wed Ann Chute in order to raise the mortgage on his estate. The only solution of his difficulty is to get the Colleen Bawn...
...cast follows: Eily O'Connor, the Colleen Bawn, Miss Clara Lane; Mrs. Cregan, Miss Kate Davis; Sheelah, Miss Cora Deane; Miss Ann Chute, the heiress, Miss Edith Mason; Hardress Cregan, Mr. Thomas H. Persse; Myles na Coppaleen, Mr. J. K. Murray; Mr. Corrigan, Mr. John Read; Father Tom, Mr. Arthur Wooley; Donny Mann, Mr. William Wolff...