Nesbitt Memorial Library Journal, Volume 1, Number 4, March 1990 Page: 114
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presented William Schwenk Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan's
The Mikado, a delightful operetta concerning an administra-
tive official in Japan who is called upon to execute someone
before the month is out or lose his exalted position. The
Mikado was newer even than La Mascotte, having premiered
March 14, 1885. The tremendous popularity of Gilbert and
Sullivan led many companies to present pirated versions of
their works. It is possible, one might even say likely, that the
MacCollin Opera Company's production fit into that cate-
gory.
Because the issues of the Colorado Citizen from
March 1889 to February 1890 are lost, less is known of the
1889- 1890 season than of any other of the Stafford Opera
House's glory years. Still, the six known performances
contain at least one genuine major theatrical event, that
being the performance on March 4, 1 890 of Lewis Morrison
in Faust. The play was not a translation of Johann Wolfgang
von Goethe's drama, but an adaptation. Morrison made the
role of Mephistopheles his own, playing it thousands of
times to great acclaim across the country.
Lillian Lewis made a return to Columbus on
October 28, 1889, presenting the play As In A Looking
Glass. The same play had served as a vehicle for the famous
English performer, Lillie Langtry, on her tour of Texas the
year before. Another highlight was a production of Brutus,
or the Fall of Tarquin, featuring R. D. MacLean and Marie
Prescott.
James H. Wallick opened the 1890-1891 sea-
son with his historical drama, Sam Houston. Wallick had had
a major success with his play The Bandit King, a forerunner
of the modern western. The actor had used trained horses
in presenting the drama, which featured plenty of blood and
gun fire. But, despite the presence of the now famous
horses, Sam Houston was not as successful. The critics
especially disliked it for its historical inaccuracies. The play
put Houston in command of the forces at the Alamo and
allowed him to utter the already famous vow of William
Barrett Travis, "I shall never surrender or retreat." This line114
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