Word: lanes
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...this country and marked the beginning of those extraordinary successes that all remember. The cast will include Mr. Wooley as Sir Joseph Porter, Mr. Murray as Capt. Corcoran, Mr. Wolff as Dick Deadeye, while Messrs. Read and Jones will be the two sailors, Bob Becket and Bill Bobstay. Miss Lane should make a charming Josephine; there being a double bill Miss Mason will alternate with her in this role. Miss Ladd is to be the Hebe, while the blithsome Buttercup will have a worthy exponent in Miss Leighton...
...same evening Mascagni's Grand Opera "Cavalleria Rusticana" will be given with a distribution of characters as follows: Santuzza, Miss Lane and Miss Mason; Lola, Miss Ladd, Lucia, Miss Leighton. Tiridu, Mr. Persse and Mr. Bassett, the latter a new comer; Alfio, Mr. Wolff and Mr. Murray. A bill of this kind was never before given and it is an undertaking which no opera company has ever dared attempt but the Castle Square Opera Company has established a reputation for audacity and may be relied upon to successfully keep the promise made for Monday, Feb. 17, as they have redeemed...
...individual members of the company seeming to be especially fitted for their respective parts. Mr. Wolff as the Lord Chancellor was thoroughly at home. Mr. Murray as Strephon, Mr. Persse as Mt. Ararat, and Mr. Wooley as Tolloller rendered the familiar airs with charming effect, while Miss Lane as Phyllus was even more dainty and bewitching than ever. Miss Mason sang Iolanthe with great clearness, Miss Leighton was sufficietly impressive as the Fairy Queen, ably seconded by her fairy lieutenants, Miss Ladd and Miss Quinlan...
...occasion to be proud of. Not only was the opera given in a thoroughly artistic manner, with new scenery, fresh costumes, andc., but there was a hearty spirit of earnestness that pervaded every member of the company-and that is much in these times. Miss Clara Lane never appeared to better advantage. The music is the most difficult she has yet been called upon to sing, filled as it is with top notes and sustained passages that task the vocal ability of any artist. To say that Miss Lane filled the demands of the character is but giving...
...Miss Lane was a charming Marguerite. From her first entrance to her lonely prison cell, where her life goes out, she realized fully the sweetness and dramatic strength of the role. No one will soon forget the picture she made at the close of the opera, when the bare prison walls opened and Marguerite is seen amid the clouds, her face picturing the rapture she has lost on earth...