Nesbitt Memorial Library Journal, Volume 1, Number 4, March 1990 Page: 113
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The Glory Days of the Stafford Opera House
Daly's adaptation of Adolphe Belot's melodrama, L'Article
47. Set in France, the play told the story of a woman, Cora,
who had been shot and so terribly disfigured by her lover that
she went mad. More than a decade before, the great actress
Clara Morris had played the role wearing a veil, which when
torn off by her former lover, revealed her scar and her
insanity in a dramatically intense manner. Morris was such
a triumph that Lewis certainly played the scene the same
way. In any case, she was a tremendous success in
Columbus and would make two more appearances in the
Stafford Opera House over the next few years.
Fanny Janauschek was nearly sixty when she
played Columbus that season and, needless to say, was a
well established star. In fact she had been a star in her native
Europe for twenty years before starting her American career
in 1870. In advance of her appearance, the Citizen called her
"the greatest star that has ever visited our city",1o but the
play did not live up to its billing.11
The appearance of Creston Clarke on January
16, 1889 was another eagerly anticipated event. Clarke was
the nephew of Edwin Booth and as such brought that
family's luster to Columbus. His choice of Hamlet as his
vehicle in a time when even big city audiences were less
interested in the great poetic dramas than in the newer
melodramas, reflects both his classicism and the drawing
power of the Booth name. The Citizen at least, was very
pleased with the performance, commenting "the drama was
exceedingly well presented, Mr. Creston Clarke ... fully sus-
taining his splendid reputation."
Toward the end of the season, the MacCollin
Opera Company presented the only genuine operas ever
heard in the Stafford Opera House. On March 8, 1889 the
company performed Edmond Audran's La Mascotte, a three
act opera first produced in 1881. The following day they
10 Colorado Citizen, January 3,1889
11 Janauschek's company contained a teenage actor named
Frederick Tyrone Power, better known now as the father of the famous film
star, Tyrone Power.
12 Colorado Citizen, January 17, 1889
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