A GOOD STORY OF BARRY SULLIVAN.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 306, 17 April 1877, Page 4

A GOOD STORY OF BARRY SULLIVAN.

Years ago—-never mind how many, £ (>f I speak of the famous Miss Rcmior, anil of opera, and both women and music are undated ; years, ago, then (writes a correspondent of the lUuuttmttui Ih'itnmfiirJS'mni}, I wa» ft dweller in Cork, and the eifey was all excitement and delight wit!* the visit of an opera troupe for the charming Miss Bomer was the prima donna,, the renowned Englishman, Leftist, was the bass, and the equally renowned Scotchman, Wilson, was I the tenor. Several operas had keen given, | and then "Fra Duvvwlo" came on the I saanageriall twph. There were Zertina, I Chacomo,. Beppo* Lord and Lady Aiilcash, ' title dashing: fra himself, bat n<>- Lorenzo t I** No Lorenzo,." sighed Miss Bomer; *• 2£o> i Lorenzo—whew !"' whistled Wilson; ** Nt> ; Lorenzo!" an octave lower, diapasoned ! Letter. Trio : ** Opera can't be done 1"' ! •* Stoy*" cried the manager ;, " there's a Sung fellow engaged in the company wh<> • a pretty tenor voice, and who might fee able to struggle through it." Trio (desperate); *■ Can he act*" "IWt know. He hasn't had a chance yet. ' He** only twenty; been wita mo but three weeks,, and has not yst trod my boards, or any other.'" Tint* (w/^mtet*): **oh*t ah! just so r Thanks. Jtwpos•ible t" ** Let'* do- it without Lorenzo," ponderously suggested the bass. '" What f Cut out my lover—my gallant officer I Bfefer!" cried the prima donna.. "Suppose we hear this young man sing, WtU ! ■o%'" said she. " Do," stud the manager ; ** there are two things* in his favour. He , fat deuced good-looking, and he knows music." Trio* fawmnfo} : " Bravo-, bravo.' We'll hear Mm."" The '* young man" | was summoned, and Wilson asked him to* smg a song: for them. '* Chance is the rough stone which decision carves* into the image of a god,." says, a French philosopher. Our young man seized his chance, and sang with steady nerve and steady Voice the old ballad, " The Rose of Allanctotei." Trio- fan &pirito) : '* Good!' excellent 1'" and though the Impmmptie tenor did not exactly carve the Kose of Allan* date into- thm image of a goddess, he made enough of the " chance " to have the score of the opera immediately put into* his hands, and with Wilson at the piano*, he, Without a moments delay, commenced his study of Lorenzo—six lengths of dialogue, a song, and many page* of diftieuit concerted music; and four nights •iter the Corkoniana applauded a capital Lorenzo* Well, the " young fellow with [•eery pretty tenor voice" wh©> struggled | through Lorenzo-, was not destined for the h?rie stage after all. Inclinations stronger | toast chance wedded him to the tragic muse, play-going Britain assisting: at the | ceremony. The stripling lover has been changed into the peat tragedian, the j**psetty tenor'* mellowed into the "big manjy voice," and the " young fellow who never trod any boards " transformed into the hero of a thousand theatres—Barry