Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 31, 1874, Page 7

! H i THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SUNDAY. MAY 31, 1874 7 METROPOLITAN MGDES. pretty Drones, and Their Hanoer of At- tire—Women Whose World Is Bounded by Their Clothes. Walking-SKirts, and Their Stylo of © Trimming---Dresses for lome-Wear. steel-Bead Embroideries--Dluslin Scarfs as Mantles. From Our Own Correspondent. NEW Yomx, Mey 27, 1874, Did wo daro complain of the westher last powia? Did we cull 2t cold, and stormy, aud B cnale? Perhups we did, but wo know et whet was before us. Xay bas been lovels. ie very first doy she emiled brightly and warmly; aad, ever since, she has dons her repu- o full justice. Alittlo Aprilish, and ca- prcious, perchauco, eio baa had tearful mood o aud again; but ehie bas scorned to storm or scurch, 8a she sometimes does. oo the bright weabier renders Broadway and {he svenuas £0 gaY sod attractive by reason of 1oe pocple who Bave notbing to do but to mako (pemselses o pretty sight for tho peoplo who pave evervtung to do but make themselves a pretéy sight for anybody. The population of Gotham seems more evenly divided botween vorkers and drones (I do mot use the term of- fepsively) than any community I Lave aver been in. Tho workers do more, and the drones less, than anywhore elsc. A PRETTY DRONE alked down the aveaue, the other day, in front ofme. She was young, and fresh, and sweet Lo Jook upon, and felt such evidently genuine sat- jsfaction in er dsinty Dew costume—you wud feo it was Dew with balf sn ese—thst your eympathy went out s ber, in epite of your strong and involuntary conviction that the measure of her world was {he circumference of bLer latest gown. Her orld, that day, was & gray and violet calling sait, which seemed to Larmonize perfectly with {he weather as well as berself. The short, round of the gray silk, was made after this man- Around the bottem wee a deep flounce of per: tlo gray ilk, edged with & knife-plaitiog of the Siclet, 0 inch and & balf wide. Above the hem of the floance were three narrow mlliner's folds of grav, with an inoer fold of violet. T'he flounce w25 sbifzed the width of a finger ; and the rufiie st the top, formed by, the shirTing, was lined ¥ih the violet, which elowed above the edge like & fne cord. There were fxo wumower flounces, one a third wd the other half the depth of the first, eimilarly finished with violet, except that the second flounce bad two folds, and the third ope fold, above the hem. The overskirt was long and lovped Ligh ou the right &ido only, rhiore the looping waa supposed to be sustained by a pretty aumoniere of tho two colors. The finish of the overskirt was simply a fiuger-wide fringe, of the two tiuts, knotted into the hem, E;a Uszquo Lid. £vo long, square coat-tails Le- ind, with violet lapels set into the side seame, fasicued down, by bandsome, smoked-pear] but- tons. 1In front, the basque was scarcely a finger wide below the belt, which wes of folds of gray gilk set into the under-arm seams, and fasten- Ing with a emoked-pearl buckle in frout. The front of the waist bad & plastron, cuirass, breast-plate, or whatever you chooso tocall it, of violet silk, buttoned on each side, from the throat to the edge of the basque, with buttons like those on the lapels behind. The cost-tails were finlshed by s singlo large, soft Zord of violet silk; but the basque in front had 3 bandsome fringe, like that on the overskirt. The sleoves were of viclet sill—coat-shapo, of conrse; and a wide bias band of gray, lined with Siolet silk,—the lining_showing on each edge,— g.nmd round the wrist, fastening with threo ttons on tho top of the sleeve; the flying end being tnmmed with fringe. Tnstesd of the now- conventions] fraise, tho neck was finished by & Baring collar of gray, Lined with violet. - Why did I observe the costume so closely ? Becauie it was pretty, in the firat place; and, eecondly, becauno it was as plainly on exhibition as though 1t hsd been Inbeled in & Broadway window. WALKING-SKIETS, now, are invariably trimmed straight round the ‘bottom ; the ugly fashion of several kinda of gamiture on & skirt not three and a bLalf yards Wads belng-entirely dona away with. ~Naturally, such an opportunity to use materials, and add sxpense, a8 the oddiy-ornamented tabliers and Gifferentiy-arrangod back breadths have given to the most extravagant modistes, is not to be sud- denly abandonea ; and, inssmuch sa they bavo yielded in the matter of street-suits, they cling the more closely to the design in house-dresses. They (the tabliers, I mean, not the modistes) are mich less objéctionable here, and are often quite appropriate. Ihave a drees of this sort in my mind now. Lt 18 2 light summer silk, intend- ed for & k HOME-WEAR in the midsummer afternoous and eveninga. The skirt rests on the gronud two or three inches behind, and is the ususl walking-dress width. Around the bottom, terminating at the seams of the front breadch, is a_deep, bias floance of eilk like the dress—bair stripes of gny and white, A knife-blade plaiting of plain 5, an inch and & half wide, borders tho Eace, a0 is act in Lotween the odge of the fimace snd a two-inch facing of plain grsy, on _ ibe under side of the flounce. The facing is wred on to tho flounce by seve roms_of machine-etitching, a quarter of m foch; epart ; the chain-stitch show- ing on the ontside. The top of the flounce is fiwed inside to the depth of three inches; aud thout two inches from the top begins & fBoger-wide shirring. The tablier is covered searly o the top with what might be called shinred bonds. They are made in this way. The trips ‘aro biss, and gradustiog in width from ke Jowest oue, which 18 a quarter of & yard, to the heading pand, which is four inches, They Are gathered,—the soace betwoen the rows is an inch—the lower space being lined with plain _BYeilk, and silowed to lap over the band be- , like a ruffle. The heading Las but three ..Towsof shirring, and has both edges lined with plto el whick makos 8 rufle turn citbier way. o baads extend to within twelve inches of the belt, vhen the top of the bresdth is covered &‘"nly'n.h silk; this being more becoming to o figure-than if the frilied bands reached the waist. This mode of making = tablieris a and economical way of renovating an old The shirred bands,!if of black silk, which sbeorbs the light, or of striped silk, can be Piercod to an almost ualimited extent; the full enng ccnoemng the seame. I haveseens Lreadth of this sort which had sixty-five bitsof sriped eilk in it, beside the plain-colored ficnge. Bome o the scraps were less than to 68 square, and of all shapes; but they were adetectivle; and the lady who had thue, a5 the claimed, etylishly clothed herself in rags, re- guded the performance as & perfect triumph of ind over matter. THE OVERSKIRT. oy long, apen overslart would be protty with is ekirt ;* but the one it has is made ostensibly ¥ith thres strmight bresdths, a yard and s half 1., (Of narrow silk, this is hardly fall enongl, dit1s best to piece on a etrip under, and the idth of, the revers.) The front of the over- i bas straight revers from top to bottom, 8 finger to & finger and & half wide ; made fither of the striped silk, with buttons, and sim- I ted buiton.holes of plain silk (as in this cate), 8rof plain silk, the button and button-boles bo- gi of striped silk. To make the draping grace- e the middle of the back breadth is cut open ViL-vay up, and the bottom of th skirt and this hiog are finished by s large, soft cord of Painsilk, and s finger-wide facing sewed on by Duchive, like the bottom of the fiounce. Two Lopingy' in_the middle of the back are suf- feient to make the overskirt hang well,—drawing &y from the front as much as deairable, 20d£0 av0id any necessity of tying back. The a‘mnnm‘vefl plainly to the belt roucd to bips, while all the rest of the fullness is slosely gathered in the back. THE WAIST £, 0bls dress ia a belted blonse, {he elx-inch Y below tho belt forming s basque. The st i trimmed with marrow bisg bands of the iped sill corded with plain. The neck is %penia o deep V, and bas a shirred fraise of the Ripe lined with plain. The coat-slecves have tired bands Jike tho tablier.. plaprseing, let me say that plaited and gathered bleutes ace becoming more and more populsr ot summer dressas, Summer-silks aze especislly E:f”" thia way ; for they are generally 80 thin e when they are Iaid smoothiy on & lining, y show all the angularitios fhat the figure Pousces. Gronadine snd barece blobes. madse on tight =ilk linioga, are very pro‘ty. an Wear btter than plaia waists of the samg e teriala. : ODDS AXD ENDS. All bias ruffles aud flounces nro shirred st the top _from one to four inches decp. Among straight trimmings, the knife-blade plsited flounces ave the favorit, These plaitings are very extravagaut, Lowever ; oflen using fifteon or tweuty yards of silkin an eppareutly plain garniture. Tmbroideries, on sili and laca, of blue stecl beads, aro repidls cuperecding jet, and Luve cven & more fautastic and bizarre nppearance. The fact that thoy Are very exveusivo will pre- vent their beibg & common offense to & tasteful eyo. Deop maroon will replace, for tho summer., the favorite bisck silk skirt, which is worn with any and every kind of upper-dress in winter. It has been discovered—or it is belived to have been discovered—that the coru tints that are among tho “ must haves” of warm-weather colorings, harmonize even etter with doop-red ebadings than with black. Houce the change. Little sashes of matching crepe, or silk tied round the arm anywhere from wnst to shoulder, and the ends left Langing, frequently form all the trimming of a eleeve. Tong scarfs of muslin will bo much worn 28 mantles during the hottest months, and it 15 con- fidently expected tho people with grandmothers will bring out many of these ‘garmonts wronght with wonderful Indis embroidery. Those who bave never bad a grandmother will bo compelled to content themseives with modern French work. Paris declares that no lady can appear in the street in a close-fitting polonaise without & wrap of some eort to rhade the firure. Dolmans, mantles, broad scarfs, even sacques, are there- fore in demand. ) *‘They say ” that puffe are absolutely out of fashion: yet the majority of gowns of all eorts wre made with them, and vers many imported dresses have them, thongh theycome etraight from the place where, ** thoy 8ay," the puif is out of date. Muslin and lawn garden-hats are likely tobe worn in moming-waiks this sesson, as they so admirably match morning-suits. Pale pink, pale blue, pale lavender, aud pale buff, as well as white, ave being made up. FUBBELOW. A PORTRAIT OF “LA BELLE JENNINGS.” Comsryo, In., May 20, 1674, Tothe Editor of the Chicago Tribune : Sim: Rarely does the tourist find, in traveling in the West, goms of Art worthy of special no- tico. Thongh I have, for tho lest four years, traveled very exteusively in this country, yet I bave found not overa half-dozen gems of Art painted during tho soventeenth century. You may judge Of my surpriso, them, when ghown to the paror of the Sherman House, Corning, I, on seelng = large portrait—lifo-size—which every ouswould know at s glance was the work of a master. This painting, now before me, was done for the first Duchess of York by Sir Peter Lely. The face is peculiarly beautiful, but the eyes are almost be- yond description. The bust is shown to great perfection ; whilo the rich folds of the amber- Batin dress aund blue scarf are most perfoctly de- lineated. Permit me to quote from s work very rare In this ‘country,—Ars. Jameson's **Memioirs of the Besuties of the Court of King Charles IT. of England,” with portraits, after the painting by Sir Deter Lely and Sir Godfrey Kuellor : **The first Duchess of York, Ann Hyde, though s fine lady, was not haundsome. Sbe, to gratify the tastes of Charles II. and ber husband (after tho opon_acknosledgment of ber marriage), took especisl pnins to surround herself with il thet was most brillisnt, and fasci- pating in youth snd beauty. Miss Jeunings, Miss Temple, and Miss Hamilton were the most conspicuous ornaments of her Court. Sho com- manded Bir Peter Lely to paint for her the handsomest women of the time, commencing with her own lovely Maids of Honor. Frances Jennings (** La Belle Jeuniogs”), the subject of the beautiful portrait now before mo,—xsys Mrs. Jameson,—was the eldest of three daughters, co-heirs of Richard Jennings, Esa, of Sunbridge, St. Albans, Hertford- ubire, She was fair, elegant, aud fas- cinsting. Her mother was Francea Thoruhurst, daughter of Sir Gifford Thornhurst, a Kentish Boronet. Saral, her youngost sister, became iho famous Duchess of Marlborough, being fwelve yours younger than Frances. The sab- Joct of the portrait was oniy 16 years of sge Wlhen sppointed Maid of Honor to the Duchess of York, Whea sbe msde her appearance st the Court, she was at once proclaimed * the fair- st of the fair.” ‘Her form waa that of & Young .Anrora " (well delineated by the artist, #uroly), and sho never moved without discover- ing some new charm, Her eyes and hair wero Ught, and her comploxion transcondendly fair. Tho rich profasion of her long faxen trasses, tho auimated bloom upon her cheek,nd the Sarying expression upon ber countenance and smiles, loft her nothing of that fadeur which often accompanies exceeding fairneas of com- Plosion. Hamilton says ber mouth was not the Fmalleat, but most certainly the loveliost, mouth 'in the world; aod, if wWe may judge by _ber portrait, - this is. mo fanor sketch, buu true to lifo. ' She married, in 1668, George Hamilton (see ** Burke's Pecrage List'). Ho was Kitlod in Flandors, but bad pro- Tiously been crosted Count by Louis XIV. of France. Ghe was left with three infant dangh- tors. Bhe married in 1979 a former suitor, Richard Talbot ; and in 1685, when tho Duke of York became James II., Talbot was made Earl of Tyrconnel, and was sent by James to Ireland, to _commnnd his _forcos there. During _ their stay in Ireland, her daughters by Hamilton were married to thres of the most powerfal of tho Irish nobility. Eliz- abetls, the eldest, married Viscount Roseo: Frances, tho second and most besutifal of the throo —resembling her mother,—married Heury, eighth Viscount Dillon; and Mary, the youngest o ried Viscomnt Kingsland. Lady Tyrconnol Hled on tho 29th of February, 1780, in her 824 ear. ‘I'here are two other portraits of this most Jovely womsn. One msy be seen hanging in Malalide Castlo, County Dublin, pamnted abont the time of bor marriage with Tyxconnel, Ao in possession of Uaron Talbot de Mala- Dido, ' Uneal descondsnt of Lu Belle Jennings (sce Burke's Peorage, 1866). Tho second is to fecesen i the famons Windsor Gallerios. Tho thisd—_the one now before me—was obtained, before the yoar 1800, from a lincal descendant of Faances, Viscountess Dillon. This descend- snt, Luke Dillon, Esq., was & spendthrift, pating with family jewels and paintings for Foney to cancel his debts of honor. This paintiog was restored and cicansed by the Court restoring artist, in Chittenbam, England, in 1868. 1 havo endeavored to persuade the present ownot to have it removed to some Eastorn gal- *here lovors of gems csn view it. He will 1 ] FRre) b probably have it on exhibition this fall at Chi- Fago: he will if th efforts of your correspond- ToURIST. ent are worth anything. —_———————— THE SOUL OF THE SILENCE. There ia sadness encugh, and over, Despalr, and 5 yeArning 1n vain: For the Sun msy shine, and sot cover ‘A wealth and a burden of ¢, who shall crice sy b has known it} X o shiall give hecd nd ropine? Ay, who sball dare say ot own it, 7nd boldly declars, Xt is mine "7 Now the white-breasted waves may SUrge ever, td remorse may come in on the tido: But tho Soul of the Silenco ehall never ‘Break faith in its infinite pride. Nay ; the morn and the night ehall not feil us, “And ife will speed on to its sjaz, Thotgh none may regret or bewail us, "And ran bo forgotien by men. Presont s ono, and one only.— Fo e e ehall raise band in reproof 2 O 1 the Soul of the Silcnce is lonely, “And sigheth apart and aloof. The children of Thought have grown wesry Of Lreasting the ‘billows of etorms; And they yearn for theland where the dreary 18 lost inid the grace of reforme. 11 aweet is the breath of the clover, B fair in tho hum of tho bees; And glad ia the cry of the plover, "\ soft 18 the crooa of the Lreeze. winsome and blithe are the volces, A T ihesr ia the hope that they bring? But the desrest of all dear cboicet 'Is the song that wo never may SIng. Ko the white-hreasted wavos may £urge Ter, Ahd Remorss may come in on the tide: But the Soul of the Silenc aball never to pride. Broak faith in its infinito Pride o pyrarn, PR EMistorical Pictures. Eward Shippen has prosented o the National Museum at Philadelphis two ‘;:moua'likgneaseu, t Gen. Washington and one o e O eoe taken from (ho notual ehudows cast Dby % !nfies of thlg t;n, when living, upon the 11, eal arke 2 B iren as the httlo girl in the well-Foowa pictere of ‘thoe Washington family. Thoy wers by her presented to the late Ara. Gibson, and photo- graobs have been taken from them. his wife. | Custis, the person who. REYIEW OF AMUSEMENTS. BENEFITS. ‘The Church haa ons thing in common with the stago, if no other, namely, the longevity of its tradiions. But a few years ago the Jewish Church discarded the {ime-honored prayer for the Hobrew University in Babylon. Thanks aro n.hll given in the Epglith Churcl for the safe do- liverancs of Lis most Catbholiec Majesty King James I. of England, from the Gunpowder I'lot of Guy Fawkes.” Tho Pharisoes contivued to lnu@l for doctrine the commandments of men, making the Word of God of no effect through their traditions, The traditional Shylock wenrs the s2me groy beard and crouching form to-day that he originally wore. The music of * Mac- beth” and * Hamlet” isto be found, wo be-" lieve, m only one volume, Chappol's “Ilusio of the Olden Time,” and s banded down by ear from generation to genera- tion. The reading aud dressing of even minor parts are regulated mainly by precodent, nod woe betide the sacrilegious playor who dares to depart from tradition. Afoses, in “The School for Scandsl,” is spun by his neck-cloth from the stage in conformity with tho stage directions of a century, senseless and silly as it may uppear to us in this realistic age. All these things remain os they were. Somo of the traditions of tho stage aro doubtless use- ful, aud mavy of the methods of tho weven- teenth century cannot be improved upon. Zut stage tradition is responsble, i a measure, for dwarfiog individual judgment and circumscrib~ ing the arens of intelligent enterprise. Haziitt says of the stage: * It is too often flled with traditional common-place conceptions of the past, banded down from sire to sou, aad suited 10 tho taste of the grest vulgar aud the small “'Tia an unweeded gurden ; thiugs rank and gross do merely gender in it If a man of genus comes once it au ago Lo cloar away the rubbish, to muke it fruitful aud wholesomie, thoy cry : ¢ "Tig & bad scLool ; it muy bo like vature, it may be like Shekspeare, but it is not like us,’” Ed- mund Kean astonished not only Londoa but the rost of the company at Drary Lane by discurd- mE Shyloci:'s traditional beard aud substituting a black one. A RELIO OF BARDARISA. Among the relics of barbarism, as r. Me- Vicker calls it, is the still existing practice of giving benofits to players. Webster derines u Dbenelit in this sense, as ‘& performance given at atheatre or eluewhere, the proceeds of whick are given to one of tha sctors, or to some in- digent deserving person, or to some public mnsti- tution or charity.”” The definition is & correct one to-day. 178 oRIOIN. The practice of giving benefits is undoubtedly of aucient origin, alihotgh neither Shukepoaro nor his contemporaries have avy Teference to it in their wiitings, How it originated cannot be exactly, ascertaived. It is poseiblo, how- evor, that' the patronage of rogalty or pobility was responsible for it. Actors bhave enjoyed & very fuctnatmg social ‘position. " At one time thoy were the friends avd idols of society, at another the pariahs, as the pre- dominating sentiment of the times was esthetic or fanatical. The present time gives actors s fair avernge standing. It is fairly supposable that the royal or noble patron of & theatre would allow the use of his name, to be appended toa complimentary benefit,either to some noted actor, or tho manager of the house. We may even imagine the Earl of Pembroke offering to Wil- liam Bhakspeare a complimentary bouefit at bis Globo Theatre, at which her Most Gracious Ma- jesty Queen Elizabeth occupied the royal box, snd cast sheop's-eyes at the great actor, in his fine impersonation of Henry the Fifth. Or, benefits may have started in another tashion: In other, but uot véry remote/dnys in En- gland the dramatic companios which Lraveled or strolled_through the provinces were suover troubled with prosperity. They slept in barns oftener than in inns, and ate black bread oftener than they did white, The manager, where there was one, did not always recognizo the sanctity of pay-dsy, for he had uo moncy to pay with. In many sections the middle clags, the shop-keep- ors, eto., being Dissouters, would not attend theatrical perfoimances. Tho strollors Liad then to fall back on tho patronage of the gentry, and to eolicit them to purchase seats oven though they might not occupy them, aud thus give their gracions approval to the porformance. Since the manager did not pay in cash,. he often paid in benefits, 8ud " then tha aster apacially. concerned, took a profound interest in solicit- ing. He boggea from door to door far more per- wistently than ho would have dono for an em- g’;’m He begged for himsclf and bis chil- n. Then, the bencfit too' the place of eal- ary ; now, it is an addition to it. BENEFITS TO-DAY are, in & moasure, what they were then. Oc- casionally, as was the_case with Mr. John Me- Cullough, his many admirers choose thia means of toutifying their appreciation of bLis sbility, and, in such oase, thelr names amount only io an expression of admiration ond esteem. This is the old system in its punty, and is perfectly Jegitimate, The disadvautago of it is, thut it 18 apt to be mbused. All actors think themselves the greatest on the stage. That they are not so acknowledged is due, not to thomselves, but to others. Lither the public 1s 0 unappreciative as cruelly to laugh at their sublimest conceptions, or the viclous and sourrilons critics announce with an utter disre- ard for everything but personal. malice, shat hey are not cut out by nature for Lieroic parts, poBisoss no gifts of person or munner for otlier Darts, aud have evidontly boen at tho paius not to study at all. But, for all this, they think, the genius 1 there, seoking only a chanuel to emergo from the Iatent to the apparent, and the stupid- ity of the stage-manager, who will persist in casting them for parts upfited to them, - is_ responsible for their _ob- scurify. Consequentl, if one John McCullough has a benefit from an enger throug of impatient lovers of tho drama, every otler John in the business must obtain thie same pub- lic recognition, of which mors auon. DENEFITS CONTBACIED FOR. Btars, indeed, demand benefits as part of their terms with » manager. Thoir arrangements are ‘made to share after a certain amount of reccipts, and then one, £wo, or three benefits, upon which occasion they are to receive one-third or one- balf of the gross receipts. Bir. McVicker bas been combating tho benefit arrangements with stars for s long time. Very few stars can insist Tpon testing their popularity with bim. Itis Dot fair, ho argues, to & manager, for star to haves benefit. Itinjures busincss before and after the oocasion very materially, During the ast season but two stars have had bencfite, Miss ellson and Maggie Mitchell. Both these ladies ate popular actresses, the one possessad of rare besnty and genius, the other a pleasant Iady whose efforts are all in a popular line. Hence, they can rely upon the subport of the masses of theatre-goers. Some managers aro content to Tot stars have their benefits us a stage_tradition which should not be violsted, sud sccept the terms es s matter of course, bo Jos Murphy, thst Hlustrions expo- pent of buman passion in burnt cork and German-Irish dialect, has his benefit, and the greatest of living artistes, “‘Little Noll,” bas hers, and every admlror of Mr. Murphy and Little Nall hastens to express his high nggmb&- tionof both of them. The practiceof star benotits i dying out, bowever. THE 8TOCK-ACTOR'S BENEFIT. There is another class of benefits which shows no symptoms of decay juat now, and that is tho benefit of stock-actors. In making arrangements for engagements, tho lady or gentleman apply- ing demand so much galary snd & benefit. Mr. Hooley, the other day, received euch 3o application. Mr. , & once popular actor in Chicago, made his torms thus: 8— » week and threa benefits during the seasou, with tho understanding that the benefit should not be given during s week when auy others were given, and that it should not come in Lent. This shows how generally it is under- atood that an_actor should have his opoortunity to appesi to bis friends. Lest seagon, at Hooley's, there were ten or & dozen benefits,—the leading man, leadiog Iady, comedian, John Dillon, eec- ond comedian, soubrette, heavy man, Treasurer, head usher, and old man,—all had benefita. It Wras ** 80 named upon the bond.” AM'VICKER'8 REAEONING. fr. MoVicker makes no such arrangemente. No member of his company is entitled to a bene- fit. He agrees to pay bis actors a slary, and Tefuses them any extras of this kind. “It is,” pays be, **a relic of barbarism which should be- como obsolete as s00n as possile. What more Tight bas so actor to demand & share of the ro- ceipts than an editor to clamor for a division of ihe reccipts for Sunday advertising? Supposing {he editors and reporters of Tiz TRIBUXE were to arrange for their share of receipts two or fhirca times & year, what would be thought of them ? And yet the actors have no better claim, No sctor conributes more to tho popularity of & thesatre than an editorial writer does to the £uc- cess of a nenspaper.” His reasoning is eouad, and nobody will dispute it. THE SOLICITATIONS. The most offensive festurs of the benefit ys- tem, after all, is the method of obtaining patrod- age. It is repngnant o all delicacy of fecling, John Smith, the popular leading man, is to have » benefit. By reason of a good followship and general sociability, be has made many acqu aooes, all of whom think more of him cause he is an actor than they would otherwise. Ho isa good fellow, spends his money frecly, an and ought to be remombored. ector, he may not amount to more tuen' a euper. He may be a missrable player, This does not matter. He has a hundred friends who like to Lelp him out, sce thoir names in print, and urge his claims upon their acquaintances. They have a thonsand or mere tickets printed for bim, with which they acm themsolves, and woiry everybody they meet to purchase a ticket to Mr. Smith's benefit. DBy dint of much strength of argument that Mr. Smuth is a royal good follow, and hesnever made @ cent in the world (they do not say that it is owing to his own - ridicnlous improvidenco), thoy make out that he ought toLave a rous- mg benetit. They writo up a bogus cor- rospondence between themselves, the man- ager, aud the - beneficiary, and secure it insertion in » dails psper. Unlike a certain rigid Scotch Preabytoriav, they would rather seo their nomes in print thau anywhers else, and tho prospoct of 5o glorious & reward for thoir sutographs has no little potency in_ obtsining names to the petition. Mr. Smith has a fall house, expresses his hearty acknowlodgment of the honor thus conferred upon him, and feels deeply grateful that his modost efforts to pleuse and edify theatro-zoers and patrons of art in Chicago have not been altogatherunappreciatod. THE TRUTH. This is very shabby. It Is not true. MMr. Smith's efforts to please have not been consci- entious, by auy meaus. Mr. Smith became an actor just as Mr. Jones became a tinker, and his effort to please wero never as sincers or earnest a8 Mr. Jonew'. Why stould not the public get up a benafit for tho tinker, or the dustman, or the butcher, or the wrotch whotends Madison street bridgo 7 This peddling of tickets, this enforc- ing 6f an unworthy claim upon a credulous pub- lic, 18 disgusting from any etandpoint. If we are to have henofits, lot them be decently con- ducted, sud be given to persons whose profes- sioual fnerits liave won & higher popularity than per-room sociability. N And, lest this present articls should seem to bear invidiously upon an actor who is to have o benofic this wook, we feel called upou to rescue Lim from any such vulgar imputation. His popularity rests upon Ius dra- matic merits entirely apart from his social etand- ing, and we feol assured tbat in condewning the repnlsive practice uf ticket-poddling we shall Dot troud upon his corns, mor injura bis pros- pocts. He lins never yet been befora the public 24 a beneficiary, in his two-years' stay in Chicago. and there has been no low trickery attempted to secure bnm a good house. And as the benetit is tendered by his brothers and sisters of the pro- feation, without aid or suggestion from others, without voluminous correspondence of a purely wpoeryphel character, bis claims stand B than those of any artist that has been bofore the public this sesson. This we 2dd cordially and in parenthesis. CIARITY DEXERITS. With regard to benefits for indigont and de- serving porsons, snd charitable iustiwtions, there i8 a word to bo said on tho other side of the question. Tho actor s the medium of ex- torting reluctant contributious from people who would givo mothing without an equivalent. It soema to us themoro despicable phase of the beneft system than the othar. The person who gains the credit for charitable sentiments is the Zuan who proposes tho enofits; the people who contribute- to the berefit do o mainly to seo an munusually interesting performance. Tho whole thoory of charity bene- Hits is bosod upon the idea of giving the contributors the worth of their money in the lay. This is not charity; it is a bargain. total- {7 atside of charity. The charity must como in somewhere, aud the oniy persons who give anything are the sctors. Thoy give their time and their labor; they reccive no equivalent for it, and, beyoud 'm casual exprossion of thauks, wtpect nothing. Nowadays the p.blio has come to regard actors as tho ever-ready instruments for squeezing monoy from thosa who will not vield it without prossure. _Charlotte Cushman's ?altcr to tho dramatic eritic of the Washington Chronicle, in Toply to that gentleman's request t Lier to Fivo & benefit performance in the Cap- ital in aid of some charity, was copied iuto noarly every paper in the country 8a_expressing » foeling thas had long been outertuined by thioking porsons. It 18 o chesp, dotestable charity that insists upon & quid pro quo for ity contributions. The test of true charity would be to set the prica for admission to such a bene- fit] Ligh above tho ordinery rato, and pay the actors for their troublo. Ifthis is not done, tho publio fully deserves to bo bored and pestored to contribuloits dollar to any MWr:‘ benesit. If gy L A Me s D P Luntlcl! lot the uncharitable, or, if it prefers to o e0 called, the chbaritable, public support the actor in precisely the samo way. If onoclis a rolic of Larbarism, the other isn relic of that itotal depravity " about whick the Chicago Pres- bytery Liad so much to say of Iate. : e MUSIC. Tha Lucca sezson of operatic concerts com- mences ou Monday evening at Hooley's Theatre. Concerts will be given oo Monday and Tucsday evenings and on Saturdsy afterncon. The pro- gronrme for Mondsy ovening Wil be as fol- lows: Tho first and third acts of FAUST. Madsme Pauline Lucca liss Annie Louise Cary H 5 o, 8, 5 # Si Sigaor Del Puente ++0s Miss Cooney .Mr, Tom Karl ignor Del Puente 3 lignor By The duet sceno o HUGUENOTR, Valentine. adame Pauline Luoea Raoul.. Monsieur Victor Capoul On Tuesday ovening the programme will be as follows: The overtare and second act of Flotow's BARTEA, Mlle. Alice Maresi .Mad, Pauline Lucca ‘3iss Annie Loulse Cary ‘Mons. Victor Capoul ig. Beolars Mle. Alics Maresi Miss Cooney Victor Caponl Big. Del Pucnte tamfs. veesree.BIE, Beolara To conclude with the second tablean of the fifth act of LIAFRICAINE. Mad. Panline Luccs + THE APOLLO CLUB CONCERT. The Apollo Club will close its second season with a coucert at McCormick's Hall on Wedues- duy evening, June 3, upon which oocasion the Club will be assisted by Mr. 5. B. Mills, the em- inent pienist of New York, whoso reputation a8 a virtuoso on his instrument is 8o well known that we hardly need do more than to announce tan® mame. 3ir, Mills hus not boen here for tnany years, and will undoubtedly, therefore, ro- ceive a hearty welcome from the musical people ot Cliicago. Tho programme will bo aa follows: axz L 1. * The Hostess’ Daughter ... Apoilo Club. Schumann a. * Des Abends 3. { b, “Ende vow Lied” r. 5. B. Mills. 3, Varistioas for two planos.. r. S. 5. Mills and 3. PART IL 4, "EtIncarnatus Est”.... “Avoilo Club. 5. 4 Recollections of Home ™. .....cocereraeanans Aills (e 5, 0 Hi. o5 « fjdsummer Night's Lream . o1} i Jir, 8. D. My .Mendelssohn . 4 The Chiesrful Wanderer " e Upollo C1 This concert is in addition to theregular series of four, but 88 an acknowledgment of the oourtesies received at the hands of its sasociate members, the Club has suthorized the iseuing of extra tickets of admission which will be for- warded to those entitled to receive them by the Secretary. Next sesnon the Club will give its concerts in & smaller hall when the attendance rill be strictly confined to its own members, The social features of previous concerts will ba omit- ted on this occanion, The tenors have recently boen strengthened by the addition of two or three tolling voices, 50 that tho balance of parts is now admirable. Some of its bext singing may be expected on Wednesday. BACRED CONCERT. A sacred concert mll be given at the Third Unitarian Church this afiernoon, commencing at 4 o'clock. The programme will be as follows: 1. Evening Twilight—Four part son; Hatton Meesra, Smith, Howard, Clarke, d. 9, #Jehovah Guide Us,”—* Magic Flute,”....Morzart 1. 4. Double guartet from 6. ** Wanderer's Night Son; - Garden Quartet. 6. Quintetts from * Forty-second Pealsm," Mendelssohn dirs. oz ond Garden Ciy Quartet. a. promptu. .. Flagler 7. orgea {§; Marche from elasoba 8. “The Miller”.. eessosenea 3L H, Orom Quartzt. 9. “0ld Hundred "—in GOISOD...evverese CHURCH CONCERT. A concert will be given at the Plymouth Con- gregational Church, corner of Twenty-sixth street and Tndisna avenue, on Tuesday ovening, Juns 2, with the following programmo : PARTL Mr. I V. P % Gazden, City Quartet Clul 5 7. essra, Smith, Howard, Ilubbard, and Clarke. 3, Quartet—* ALcudlied™.......... Plymouth Church Chotr, 4. Bass 8010...uean. weevenese. Selected AMr. Frank Bowen. 5. Vichin sacd piano duet—Tannhauser mnr:h}' ‘Wagner gy 6. Sopranu solo. Selectad PART 11 i wnesreeses..Belocted lie R. Marshall, veee .. Meyerbeer ....Belectea . 0, Seymour. 4. Pisno duet.... ‘antasie Drillanto de Fra Diavolo Mies Irene ltussell and Hr. Flagler. 08 8, Trio—" Addio". . — Jake, and Mr, Smith. 1. Reading.... Aline 2, Organ—Fackeltanz”.... Ar. 1. V. Fiagler. 3. Bopramosolo...; ra, Seypnour, ire. Ll 6. Mals guartet—+ The Miller " Garden City Quartet Club, TURNER WALL. ‘The programme for the Turner Hall concert, this afternoon, will be as follows : ranT I 1. March—Potpourrd. .. 3, Ovexture to “ Laymond " 3. Fiugle of * Ernant”.... FAET 1. 4. Overture to the * Chass atter Fortuae”. 5. Theme and variations for clariuet.. W, Wemenbuci, 6, “Sweet Longlngs "—LFuntzsie for futo and 'cello. . dessrs, Holm ana Eicknena. 7. Musical Cusrivari—Grand potpoursd... PABT 1L 8. Variations ona German pational air. 9. Waltz—* On the Biue Dauubo 10 Ala Gour Quadrille, PERSONAL. Mr. Thomas C. Runey Lsé resignod his posi- tion as Organist of tho University-llaco Baptust Chwurch in favor of Miss Aliic M. Stone. .LUCCA'S DIVOUCE TEOUBLE. The exact status of tho well-known Luces divorce case is as_follows: Paulina Lucca, otberwise Pauline Mana Von Rhade, brought suit sgaint Ler bueband, a Germay, for a di- vorce,in New York State,and obtained it, After- ward her husband opeted this divorco 8o far s to wllow himto putioa defense, if Le could ; but this was coupled with leave to Madame Lucea 10 onlsrge her charges aguinst lum to a period subsequent to her original complaint. Bhe ac- cordingly submitted a new compluint, aund then moved on it to strike out the husbaud's answer. The main_ground of this motion was that the busband had procured s decres of divorce in ‘Austris on the ground of sbandonment, and that, theretore, Lis_prosent procecding was mers spito. Judgo Donobue dened tlas motion. NEXT SEASON'S OPERA. The following manifesto from the New York Herald shows that the Strakosoh Brothers aro already busy preparing for uext soason’s operatic campaign: Mlle, Hellbron is to be the prima donns, to replace isson. She comes frum the Iialian Opers at Yaris, where Abe Lias achieved very great success, as el as b the Royal ltalian Opers, CoventGarden, London, Mlle. Donadio hss slso been engsged. Three tenors, new to tlia country, are comig—3. Darilder and Signord Debassini and Bonfratelli—to- gether with Signor Tagliapletrs, the baritone, and Sig- Bor Floriui, basso. In addition s number of tho favar- ftes of lust season have been re-enguged for tho resson of 1474-5. The fimt on list in Miss Annfe L. who wss 80 eminently sticcessful last scason in four rolw—dsmneris in *Alda,” Ortrude iu * Lobeugrin,” Federico in * Mig- non,” aud Grbano ju *Les Huguenots™—none of Which she had ever sung betore, and two of which, ZAmneria and Ortrude,she may be szid to have created. As at present coustituted, the Strakosch compauy for tho next seasou ia s follow Mile. Heilbron, prims donna sasoluta, Mile, Donadio, prima dunna so0prauo. Ltins Cary, pritma donna contralto, 3. Daviliier, Biguor Debaseini, - primi tenori, Siguor Loutrateifl Signor Tagliapiet i gignor n‘efpnm:,"} primi baritoni. 1quor Florint, basso, and Signor Naunetti, baseo, Other nrtists are to be engoged a8 opportunity offers, and Eignor Murlo, who retains the musical diroction of the opera, is going to Europe to aesist in the seluc- tion of artatsand & new and efficiont chorus. The ehorus 46 to consist of 130 volces, and tho orchestra will compriso 100 instruments, Signor Muzfo will 1150 assst in making purchases of new music, scensry, veoA. Thonas Verdi <.Conradz i pecers e pFgdnticn- | dresacs, and crery(hiig peestaly- 185 HS R R S rict Barmony with the progress shown last seszon. The management intends, in addition to the favorite works brought out last scason, to produce * Fidelio,” by Beethoven; * Lo Prophete,” by Meyerbeor; Rienzi,” by Wegner'; * Romoo et Juliet,” by Gounod ; * Don Clrlos,” by Verdi 3 * Cosl fan Fito " and Lo Nozze di Figaro,” by Mozart, snd_* William Tell,” by Ros- sini. and Verdi's Bass, These are cortainly great profuises to be made at 80 carly & day, and, with the contemplated additions to the strength of the com- pany, the sexzon of 18745 will exceed in eclat the very succeasful one which has just closed. THE CINCINNATI FESTIVAL. The festival of the Harmome Society, under the sbie direction of r. Otto Singer, its loader, commenced at Cincinnati on Tuesday evening Inst, with the performanco of Handel's ** Deitin: en Te Deum,” and Rossiui’s ** Stabst Mater.” o Wednesday evening, the programme included Liszt's cantata of * Prometheus,” and a miscel- laneous programme. The scloists are Mrs. H. 1. Smith, rs, Flora Barry, and Messrs. M. D. Whitney and Varley. The Testival thus far has been 5 great success, as mught bave been ex- pected under the managemens of euch a compo- tont musician and skillfu! conductor &8s Jir. Siuger. MUSICAL XOTES. Alle. Torriani departed for Furops last weel. Miss Kelloggs has in contemplation the bring- ing out of Lalfe's opera, * The Talismou,” in tho fall. - Ferr Yoo Flotow has completed the cpera bo engaged to compose for the firm of Ricordi, of Milan, 1t is entiled “Lora.” Adelina Patti reappearcd at the Royal Italian Opers, Covent Garden, on the 12th ult. The piece was tho “Barbiere.” The pianist and composer, Fr. Gernsheim, has accepted the post of Capelimeister at Rot- ierdam, in the place of W. Bargiel, who goes to Berlin. « La Battaglia di Legnano,” one of Verdi's earlier'operas, and o work wholly auknown Lere, is to be revived at tho Politeana Theatre, Rume. The receipts of the Iast festival of the Boston Handel and Haydo Society did not meet the ex- ponses by $2,000. The guarantee fund, bow- ever, amounted to £30,000. Hans Richter, the conductor of the Hungarian National Theatre, bas been selected by Wagner to axaist in the pieparation of the Nieblungen performances at Bayreuth. Bir F. A. Gore Ousely, Bart., M. A., Professor of Musio in the University of Oxford, bas now in course of preparation at _the Oxford Univer- sity Press a * Treatise on Form in Music snd General Composition.” . The Redomlnce of Beethoven’s ** Ninth 8ym- hony | in the Crystal Palaco of London, recent- v, was distinguished by such soloists in the choral movement e ¥me. Lemmens-Sherrington, the American contralto, Antoinotte Bterling, Edward Lloyd, and Mr. Santley. Aesars. William Castle and 8. O. Campbell, formorly members of the Pareps-Eosa Opers Troupe, saited from En land last week, and are aily expected in New York. It is poseible that Carl Ross may visit America this summer. Herr Joachim bhas sent to the Committee for the erection of s monument to Bach at Eiscnach the sum of 3,000 thalers, as the procoeds of sov- ‘eral concerts given by him for that object. The composer of ‘ Faust"” has produced s cantats in two parts, for voice and grand orches- tra, in commemoration of the fate of tho great African explorar, the bringing buck of his re- mains to Engiand, and their interment in West- minster Abboy. 'The voice partia st to Lord Houghton's lines on Livingstone. Our musical resders will be pleased to hear that Mile, D1 Murska, who leaves this week on & summer visit to Europe, will return hither in the fall. She has been engaged for two years by Ar. Do Vivo to sing in concerts, opera and ora- torio in the United States, Canada, Cuba, Moxi- co, and Central and South'America, Sir Julius Benodict is to compose an_overturs and Gounod » cantata specially for the Liverpool fostival, which is to commence on Sept. 26, and to comprise two morning and thres evoning con- corts, a ball, and a grand military sod miscel- Janeous concert on the last day. Miss Antoinette Bterling has been einging for Queen Victoria at Osborne Houze, where & small party, iucluding Her Mafesty anda for members of the Court, sssembled tohearher. The Queen freated her with great consideration, and after sho had sung twice begged her to sing again. One of the best sutborities in London—Tranz Hueffer iv the Eraminer—says of MissSterling's intarpretation of some of Liszt's and Rubin- London_eingers Btein's ronga: ‘‘Amongst our 4 she is most, if not alone, capable of doing jus- fica to the depth of thought and feeling as rep- resonted by Germsn song.” 3 i o) 'memorialto the composer, M??&MM whose untimely death near Rio Jeneiro, in-1869, will be. well remem| Ya¥en the form of & marble bust, which has bean on exhibition in_tho library of the Academy of Desizn, in Now York, for soms time past. is from the studio of Jues Franceschi, of Paris, and is said to bs a very conscientions piece of work, the features being beautitully moddled, and the handsome, cisssically-formed bead finoly poised. For four or five days, says the Cleveland Plain- dealer, the press has been teeming with itcms in regard to Lucca einging at the approaching Swngerfest. The sitnafion is just this. Madamo Lucce is under contract to Strakosch to sing 8 certain number of nights in_opera or_concort, aud the contract is so worded that if 8trakosch ise0o minded ho may extend her engagement with him beyond tho time of the Sengerfest. If he does, she will not sing here ; otherwise she ‘will, the terms having been agreed upon and her songs evon having been roloctod for the thiee nighta she is expected to bo liere. 1mogene Orelli (Mrs. Imogene tirown, of New York, and recently of cm:-.ngo) appeared at Her Majesty's Opera, London, on the 5th of May. Tho Londoa Zimes, tho recognized anthority in such matters, saya of her: ‘“Bavond repeti- tions of * Fidelio, the * Huguenots,' and * Nor- ma,’ nothing demanding notice occurred last week, excopt a performanco of- the * Traviata,” with a new Viol!(a in the person of en Ameri- can lady, whoso professicual name is Tmogene Orelli. _ Allowing for nervousncss, which pre- vented her from exerting her full powers to ad- vantage, it must bo adwmitted that Mlle. Orelli hos made hersalf thoroughly weil acquainted with the part, sings the music correctly, ox- hibits much dramatic intelligence, and secma quite at easo on the stago. Verdi's requiem in memoryof Alessandro Man- zoniwas performed on the 22d inst., in the Cuurch of St. Marl, under the direction of tho compuser himself. The chorus numbered 120 members, and the orchestra 100. The solos were sung by Siguore 5tolz and_ Waldmanu, Sig- nori Camponi and Maini. Tho * Requiem” ooutains the following piccer : No.1“Roquiemand Kyrie:? soprano._coatwalto, tenor, bass, -and horus. Na. 9, **Dics Irw,” solos aud chorus, with the following verses: a. **Dies Trwo,” ch rus; b, Tuba “wirum,” chorus; c. * Mors stupobit,” bass tolo; o * Liber ecrip- " chorus and fugua;e. * Quid sum miser,” contralto, aud tenors f. *Tox tre- % quartet and chorus; . * Recordare,” soprano aud contralto;, A. **Iugemisco,” tenor solo; i. “Covfutatis,” baes olo; aod L *Lac- nmosa,” quariet and chorus; No. 8, * Daminia Jesu,” Offertorinm for coprano, contralto, tenor, and bass; No. 4, ““Sanctus,” fugue for double orus; No. 5, *'Agnus Dei,” goprano, contralto, 4nd chorus; No. 6, “Lux Eterna," coutralto, tenor, aud bsss; and No. 7, “Libera me,” soprano, solo, chorus, and fiual fuguo. il Yo THE DRAMA. Interest in the drama varies inversely with the thermomster. A swelteriug theatro is not voluntaxily sought for recreation. It necessi- tates an attraction of no mean order to compen- sate for & perspiration bath and the gasping for air which make, our theatres unpopulsr when the ‘mercury marks 90 degroes in the shade. The popularity of the Vokos Family must be grest to £l the Academy every night, and Miss Mitchell's benefit Friday proved that she was not yet for- gotten. Dramatic matters have beca dull, how- ever, in spite of the Vokcs. The presont week promiscs o brighter outlook, and uext week wall ' be the most brilliant we have had in Chicsgo for a long time. A'VICRER'S THEATRE. Miss Mitebell's four weeks have been mod- erately remuncralive, business gaining in the third week to an unexpected degroe, and fallicg off agam last weok. Bhe ks played herspecial- ties in *Jaue Eyre,” * Fanchon,” * Little Darefoot,” aud * The Pearl of Bavoy,” to the complete eatisfaction of her old-time admirers. Now that summer has come, sho will retire to her lovely estate at Long Branch, and enjoy the fruits of the seacon in cool geclusion. Meanwhile, McVicker's Theatre will b crowd- od nightly for threo weeks to come, whether it storms or shines, is cool or warm, for Mr. Soth- ern is back in town, and will give s round of his wonderful charactors here. His stay is of three weeks' duration, aud is the last he will_make in this country provious to doparting for England. Ho will bo supported, as_before, by Mizs Minnie Walton, who was eo much admired st tho time of her former sypesrauce, and by Mr. Vinmng Bowers, as wellas Mr. McVicker's Company. As a matter of courze, the firat piecs played will % “ Our Amarionn Conein,! il Mr: DOTHN as vd Dundreary. THE ACADEMY OF AUSIC. The Vokes Fawily have done an unusually suc- cessful week's work at_the Academy, in * Belles of the Kitchen.” Tho programme will be changed this week, when tho laughable eketch, “The Wrong Men'in ihe Right Place,” will be played for the fivst timo in this city. This will be played for the first four performances of the week. Thursday their sparkling specialty, * Fun in & Fog” will be given. The Vokes' perform- ance will be precoded by a faxco in which the Academy compauy will appear. ; DALY'S GREAT COMPANY. Preparatious are making at Hooley’s Theatro to have the house in readiness for the great event of the season—the prodnction by the Fifth Ave- nue Company of their epecialties, in rapid enc- cession. This_combination is without doubt the best, not only in tie United States, but the best spesking the English Janguage. So that, in ad- dition to the lavishdressing and mounting which are aiways thought of 1n connection with the company, we aro to bave the most_symmetrical and polished performances the country has seon. The frequency of the cuauge of bill and the wide range of drams which will be explored, ne- cessitates an enormous company. Mr. Daly brings with him twenty-six_peoplo, properties, dresses, and accessorics. The first pieco played will be the Fifth avenus spacialty, ‘*Divorce,” played in s manner which will startle an sudi- onco unaccustomed ‘to the offesta af gorgoouH dressing combined with perfect acting. ‘thobox- oftice opens Wednesday for the sale of scats. AR. JAMES O'SEIL sovered his connection with McVicker's Theatre Iast night, bis vontract haviug expired, with those of the etirc company. He is not going to leave the city, however. ~ Mr. Hooley has long been desirons of obtaning a leading mau for his theatre, and bns now obtained the services of oue of the very best in the conntry. 1Ir. O'Nell, therefore, merely changes his baso. He bas been two sears in the city, and has dieplayed raro ability. During that time Lo has won tho good opinion of his fellow-professionals, who annonnce his name for the first Lerefit ho has had. Mr. O'Neil has had the good taste not to ublish correspondence and a liet of names foaded by all the influential men in the city. He will not allow tickets to be peddled in his nsme. He is willing to accept the beneflt from his professional and non-profeseional frionds in s logitimato way. A great comody bill is sn- nounced for Friday night, at Hoolo:'s Theatre, when Miss Katie Putnam, Mrs. Linden, leading Tadyof DeBar's St. Lobis Opera-House, and other friends, will play. THE ADELPHL The burlesque of * Bad Dickey " will be taken off, and a new scries of varioty attractions put on' to-morrow evening. The burlesque was the handsomest and moat oxpensive ever put on the stage in this city. The costuming and scenery alone were of the richest and most effective description, and tho musical features far above what the spectator desizes ordeserves. Tho buslesque iteelf is a good one, and it loat no(h‘ng in the emendations to Which it way subjected. Tta success for the first week sud darmog the 00l weather waa enormous, absolutely beyoud orodit. But with the first warm night it wilted, and, though tho houses were all bigger than thosa st othor thestres, they were light for the Adelphi, The spocisltics for the prosent week aro the celobrated trapezo performer Lolo, and a host of other stars. The programme will be the moat entertaining yet offered in this popular he . uA“:‘axtm matinee will be given at the Adelphi Friday afterncon, the proceeds of which are to be givon £o tho ‘burial-ground of Cosmopolitin Todge No. 6, K. of P. Mr. Grover bas volun- teered the house, and & host of professionals their services. 2 ** PARIS BY MOONLIGNT- The beautiful panorama_of -* Paris by 3foon- light " at the Expositioa Duilding continues to grow into public faver. The attendance in- creases daily in aize, TRy yeoglu _going three and four times to study out its details, It isas cool & resort as tho city affords. Mr. Mumford inteuds to »4d seversl new features to tho at- traction. There willbs, among other things, & omesade concert, and & floral dieplay, which Hill nake thie building cheerfal. The band will o led by Mr. henry 8. Page, the renowned cor- petsoloist. Altogether, with ita fountsins, and flowers, and flourishes of music, the Exposition Buililing will be & most sttractive plice this week. DRAMATIO KOTES. Tt in reported that }nte Field will enter the dramatic profession. It is rather late in the day. Barnum advertises bis traveling pageantas ‘s huge Lighway holidas-parade. displayg trans- porting lesgue of lustre. The theatrs, Richmond, Va., waa cloged s fow days ago. It was put up at suction on 3ay 11, ot oniy one hid of 830,000 beiog made, it was withdrawn. - Mr. Bartley Cazspbell is about to blossom nto metropolitan recoguition at Wallack's, where Miss LeClarc n " Lttt oo gt B Joo Jefferson is actin % 3 g & two-weeks’ engage- ment thmx:?h Now Jerscs. Ho will then betsia l:fi;:::‘ln “Rip" fromthe stage untll next In New York last week, Mrs. & and Grace Groonwood sebe o e, s enterfainmens in_costuime, coumsting of road- ingy in character with atagé effects. - Tho Theatro-Francais has _just rasedy in Gvo, seto, 1 gorse. by 3. Tooebied, 2 ;file:f“lfin d'_\fixu " The worit is bighly spol 3 6 zuthor, who is veb 22, i 1o Taw ot Tonlonsar’ T not¥8k 4%, 1 atuds The Mayor and Aldermon of Janesville, Wis. bave made an order that every show viiting ;1:2 torn slull pey 82 license for each nighta ance and tweuty-two tickets of adenis- Bioa to sash momber of ‘he Bowra O ¥ . A correapondent of the New York Post saya: T think that the modern fashion of introducing music when fho actora are talling is o very bag ono. When the actor opeas his mouth, lét ths musicians ¢ hold their peace.’" The New York Times lsments that none of the theatres of the metropolis during tho past dra- ‘matic scason brought out an original American drama. Donn Piatt wrote oao last winter, but tho Yo York mauagers proforred the Froach Mdlle. Millie-Christine, the **Two-Headed glglmnggda." Las had a narrow escape from eing burnt to death. She was performing ab A ciietiy of Tourk, France, when her drees canght ight. Fortunately one of tho company scized hold of her, throw her down, and put ont the flames beforo they had done ‘mach Tho ic:ur]:\;;{eonfi[hdy nhaunmoll:xon insisted on finish- g crformance, much it ins n“d&u“. to the admiration of A corrospondent writes: * Matilda Horon, when ackod somo questions by a lady o about tho obild's salary receutly, said that hu had keid to Bijou when tho hitls actreus had aarned-her first money : * Take that and buy yourself some clothes. Tahe it to the peapls down in Thurd avenue whero you get your din- ner, and let them select what is neccssary. And whon you earn any moro put it in tue bank, so that when you wmarry soms — villain he can't get it away from you!'" Alrs. ]}.lllgnhlm szy3 in the Bt. Louis Repub- hican: “Noman should undertake to build & play from the novels of Dickens. They do not drematize intelligibly. They present bits of churacter acting, butasa whole ate jerky aud lack coutiuuity.” The only exception £0 the mul- tituge of plays founded on Dickens oxists in Boucicault's version of the ‘Cricket on tho Hearth.” But Boucicault could dramatize the Bouk of Job' and make a gociety play of decp intorest out of it. There mudt be a dozen dramas fluating about from *Oliver Twist,’ and overy ona of 'em as detestable as the other.” The last Pall Mall Budget says: *‘The theat- rical novelties this week are few in number. At the Rovalty, 8 comedy in two acts, entitled ‘ The Little Treasure,’ adapted by the late Angustus Harris from the Fronch piova entitled ‘La Joio de Is Maison,” and_originally bronght out st the Haymarket in 1853, hos been produced. Miss Augusta Wilton plays the heroine. The St. Jamos’ Theatre was reoponed on Baturday Ly Mr. Francis Fairlio with the late T. W. Robert- son's comedy of * Progress,’ which had short run at the Globe abont five years ago, and Offen- bach's opera boufe of * Vort-Vert,’ the expanded form of an old Freuch vaudeville familiar in EInglivh 28 the *Pet of the Pelticoats.’ The performance was not received with much favor.” Alady writcs to the New York Herald pointing out another ** theatrical nuisance.” *‘Say a lady is scated near the contre aisle and overy gentle- ‘man in the row goos out at every fall of tho cur- tain. Bho bas to rise, pueh up her seat, acd ts crowded ugainst the baok of her chair (not meu- tioning tho dragging sud pulliog of her gar- ments) ten to & dozen times duriug the eveuning. Now, if gentlemen must ‘emile’ aud ‘emile’ again durmgan evening porformance, why not carry a pocket-flask 2nd indulge ic their geats? The eight could bardly be as disgusting as tho squoezing process, accompsnied, as it_moat al- sways is, by the fumes of liquor-laden breaths.” 1f managers refused to give checks, the thirat of an audience would abate. If ladies can sit through a performauce withoat going outto drink, certainly men can.” A Varis letter of May 9, says: “Attho Pans theatres gonorally there is dearth of novelties, the season being too far ad- —~wooed to justity the production of new works. Sardou is preseing forward the rehearsals of the “ Ganaches” at the Vaudeville, 60 that wemay Jook forward to ita speedy representation. Lia new cast will not equal that of 1862, but it exi- braces enflicicut tajent to secure a succeesful re- vival. The ides of giving & performance at the Gymnase to raise money, to placo a tomb over the romains of Desclce, has been abandoned, M.M. Aloxander Dumas, Meilhac, Halovy, an Montigny having uudertaken to provide tho funds necessary to erect a handsome monument to the memory of the lamented artist.” The Now York Times gives a brief_synopsis of what has been done st Dalys Fifth Avenuo Theatre since its opening iu September. 8o tar there have been altogetuer nineteen plays and 288 performancos. ** Monsicar Alphonse war played forty-ive times, * Charity” forty-two, Divarce” thirty-eight, * Folline” twenty-siz, “ Parricide ™ twenty, *Alixe " fourteen, “*Mac and Wife” twelve, * Madelein Morel” 'tv.elve, «Now Year's Eve” thirtcen, * Saratoga " cleyen, “TLove's Labor Lost" nine, ** My Uncle's Will* nlght, “Fernando " eight, **Frou-Frou” five, «tMarrled Lafe " five, ** London Assurance™ three, +Qld Heads and Young IHearts” three, and tha new dramatization of ** Oliver Tiist” is at pres- oot running. There are none of the adaptations of Mr. Dickens' famous novel moro. porfectly symmetrical and sstisfactory than that which Ar. Daly offers to the public. Manager A. M. Palmer announces that the cegular season of the Union Square Theatro wiil close on the 13th of June. * Camille” will La continued, with Miss Morris in_the loading role, uatil the end of the season. The houss will Le again oponed Aug. 3 with 5 new play, in which Mr, Btoddard will appear in tho leading part. Miss Charlotte Thompson will reappear Aug. 14 &t thia thentro in a revival of *Jane Eyre.” Bhe will be sapporiod by csst of extraordinary strength. ‘The fall and winter season will open Bopt. 14, when “The Sphinx,” a new play, will probably be brought out, with' Mies Clara Mor- Tie, Mr. Thorne, and Mr. Btuart Robson in the loading parts. Paris is occupled at this moment with the pro- ject of establisbing a ‘‘Moral Theatre,” whick mothers and daughters may attend withoul blushing. It is to be in the Faubourg Saint- Germaw. The organizers of the ides iuvited Paul Feval to lecture on the subject some little time ago, which ho did with hin usual easy elo- quence and his everplessing voice. His audieuca ¥as compored chiefly of Princesses and Duchess- es, with some of the oldest names of Frauco, and aristocratic hands loudly spplauded eve allosion to the immorality of the modern Frencl stage. According to Paul Feval, tho English Lord Chamber!sin is much to be lsuded for for- bidding many French works being given in Lon- don unleas the Puglish wish to see their staze become as vitiated as the French. Otuers again say that the immorality of the stage cousisce 1n the immorality of the public. The New York Tribune thus treata of Jobn McCullough's Damon : “That his powers a5 aa artist are of the finest order wa had seen in bis previous impersonations—the sigmficauce of which, s to this point, neitlior occasional errora of intnition nor occacional blemishes of over- emphasized mothod coatd obscure: and more them once we had folt that thse powers we:a snimated and illupnned by a spark of the divice fire. In the presence of his noble and beautiful embodimens_of Damon—which is as frcoasa driving cloud and as faultless as & leaf—we mus not Lesitats t> recognize him » great actor. T%6s than this would not be justice. His powers, indeed, scem not yet fully dsvoloped aud not yet entirely within his control, and his versatilityia checked by physical and spiritual limitatiors, tending to prescribe for bim & special pathway in dramatic art; but of the value of his lgowuu there caupot bo a shadow of dount. He hes worthily won his raok and bis Isurel, aud thero is & bright fature before him.” The New York Tribune restates tho plot of 4Camille ™ in the following picturesquo lan- gusge Camille was & French courtesan, eo- Bowed with great beauty and afficted with re- morse and pulmonary disease. Armand Dutal was & spoony young gentleman who {ell in love with Camille, and won aer affections. Ths twa Jotired to 3 submrban cottage, where for time they dlll:;i in" lhed bU?l‘:( bnc«l)jlaj emuu;:; By and by Armand's father, stolidly unappr Ciutive of Tove and tubsrcles, dropped in with the roquest that Camille would disppear, and in such & way as to alienste and disenchaat bis infatuated son. The unforfupste woman. clear 10 hor semwe of right, consented tothis and didit. Armand, however, w.‘u n::g to -b: mh é:rla;h‘x: s fell into » 00, o e el e then got well and wect in que=y guch caces. ‘dozie. When he found her his conduct :‘n:“v‘iol:nt. He called her 8 namber of al, and expised