Music, Sunshine, and Pretty Girls at the Seattle Theater

Collier's pastoral opera, 'Dorothy,' was sung by the Carleton Opera Company at the Seattle theater last evening to a large and appreciative audience, and the beautiful, sunny music, suggestive throughout of fields, sunshine and pretty girls, was rendered in a manner to evoke the heartiest kind of applause throughout every one of its three bright and interesting acts. 'Dorothy' is an opera that grows on the hearer with every production, and the many lovers of music who heard it sung by the same company two weeks ago were present last evening and enjoyed with renewed pleasure the many beautiful arias, duos and quintettes. Miss Alice Vincent had the star part of the evening as Dorothy, and acquitted herself in a manner to secure for herself a number of well-merited encores. Miss Marie Hall as Lydia was charming in her solo in the second act, receiving a hearty encore. Mr. J. C. Taylor's clear tenor voice was heard to good advantage as Harry Sherwood. This gentleman's work is always so clear cut and earnest that he has made hundreds of friends among the music-loving people of Seattle. H. M. Lumsden gave a splendid representation of a hospitable old English gentleman, and his song in the second act was given with such good effect that he had to repeat it. Tom Ricketts is funny in everything he does, and his Lurcher kept the audience in good humor. Last but not least, Mr. William T. Carleton, the star of the company, gave the music of Wilder in his usual excellent style and made a favorable impression. The chorus was specially good last evening, and the opera as a whole went with a run that sent every lady home in a good humor and well satisfied with the company.