Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 20, 1878, Page 12

~ \'The Ir” A . Why the Von Stamwitz ” . gagement Was» =" Failure. - The Big Four a*’ and the @& ¢ McVieker’s, ers ° lue Broth- ,* . .6 Hooley’s. o aperial Modjeska Car- ries New York by Storm. Ffi_ A Singular Artistic Defect Dis- covered by Ounr Corre- spondent. . She Is Naturally Too Good to Make a Strictly Life- like “ Camille.” The “Exilés” at the Boston Theatre~ The Costliest Play Ever Brought to the Hub. Gilmpre's Band at the Tabernacle .==Kellogg and Cary on the Way to Chicago. * Annual Concert of the DMusical . College-—The Foundlings® Home Concerts. THE DRAMA. RETROSPECTIVE. THE ENGAGEMENT OF MME. VON STAMWITZ at Hooley’s Theatre would have turned out to be more creditable to hersclf and more gratify- ing to her friends, had she seleeted * Messa- Ziua ” as her opening piece, and played nothing else atl the weck. The unhistorical drama of @Lady Jane Grey” is so unspeakably stupid as a literary performance that even the genius of a Jangtschek would have been choked and stified in the ruobish, and it was therefore not surprisag that Von Stamwitz should have lsbored in vain. In “Dcborah® she had to contend with two serlous disadvantages. First, she is incapable of interpreting a character jn which the predominant elements are passionate love, tenderness, and the despair that comes of unrcturned affection; and, ondly, she was surrounded by a company which, - =s a whole, was still morc incompetent than herself. Her ponderous style of acting is conspicuously unsult- od to cxpress what is culled in theatrical langusge the “emotional” phases of human life, and a Dcborah who cannot call forth a single throb of sympathy, a single tear of pity, must be set down as a faflure. Mme. Von Stamwitz's method is scen to advantare in the depiction of another kind of emotion, such as & Afessaling can awaken, and here she is com- paratively at home,—that is, in character which demands heroic treatment. Her delineation of the Justful Empress was fuli of tragic force and impressiveness—strone with the strength «of physicu) robustness, powerful with the power of lungs. The character is an unlovely oue. Her love is of the kind that ““in a wink turns to hate™; it absorbs her whole being ihile it lasts, and borders closely on the mere madness of lust. She is enveloped 1 a whirlwind of blind passion which eventually acvours ber and produces insanity. Sheisa Cleopatra withont The complexity of character, the waywardness, the capriziousuess, the * infinite varivty ”* which captivates the_imagination in the_royal Egyp- tfau. Sheis simply a woman of insatiable ap- petites, and with the powerfo gratify them. And thie story told in this old German drama, which, by thé way, has been poorly rendered in- to Engiish, is the dramatic relation of aun el sode which was one of a many such, if histo: tells us true, in the carecr of this rampageous heroine. THE MAIN DRAWBACK to the performance of Mme. Von Stanwitzisa distressing ungainliness of movement. She has not acquired the art of walking on the stawe. Her declamation is good, ber gestures appro- ‘priate, and heraceentuation extremely creditable, considering the short time she has devoted to the studv of English. As soon as she moves, however, the good impression she creates is completely destroyed. This was no less a conspicuous part of her acting in Aessaling than in Deborah, and it constitutes a serious blemish upon her otherwise creditable e "As 1o the support, with the exception of Miss Marian P. Clifton, who acted Airia with much Qignity and power, it- was deplorably bad, aund turped the drama at times into a merc burlesque. If this is 8 fair specimen of the kind of dramatic companies that pass current in St. Louis, we cannot congratulate the playgoers of that dity on their taste. “THE UNENOWN." 'Among the notable festures of the past week wehave to record a decided success achieved by Mr. John A. Stevens at the Adelphi in his new play, “Unknown,” which, with considerable pruning, is 8 very creditable performance of its kind. It pelongs to aclass of dramz that used to be known in London as the * Trauspon- tine,” 50 called because they were produced in the Surrey and the Victoria, over the river. Douglas Jerrold's carlicst were produced there, and were mostly- of this order. varying sceucs of low comedy and intense pathos, calculated to plesse the taste of the chronic theatre-oers of that quarter of the metropolis. Mysterious titles, each an enigma, are the inducements to attend. Sudden surpriscs, and rapidity of action in conumection with plots made up of crime, cruclty, love, and the ultimate triumph of virtue over vice, arc the leading character- istics ot the kind of play. * Un- Enown?” is decidedly of tnis type. Well written, with a2 plot _sufficicntly intricate to be interesting, yet simple enough to be easily followed, It keeps the audiecce in a pleasing susperse till the fall of the curtain. . Mr. Stevens is a young wman of finc stage nee, and of unusual _ability, and his im- ‘versonation of the leading part is full of vigor and freshoess. The company contuins several actors of superior merit, who accord an excel- lent support. . N'VICKER'S COMPANY were engaged during the week fn presenting *Lost in London,” one of Watts Phillips’ dramas, which has long been a favorite. The . representation at McVicker’s was mnot devoid of merit, particularly in the comic portidns of it, but ‘the cast 'was in several respects injudiciously distributed. Mr. John Dillon has, as was to bc’ anticipated, proved a valuable acguisition to the company, nud the large increase in the attendance sinee Monday shows that his popularity in Chicago hiss not waned any more than his command over 1he risibilities of his audience. PROSPECTIVE. ““ALL THE RAGE.” A new comedy, which has been in rehearsal for some time, cutitled ““All the Rage,” will be produced to-morrow cvening at McVicker’s, with the fall compzoy. The cast is appended: Dr. Arthur Atwood. Dr. James Gaiton.. Georze Galton Horztio Braney. Sicctopotitan T et n Hliza Galton. Julia, her co Mrs, Atwood. Annic_Atwood.. OGR HACITELOZ;S‘ Those popular comedians, Robson and Crane, en to-morrow evening at Hooley's with their o AMUSENENTS, J* THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY. ANUARY 90, i876~SIXTREN- PAGES.: «Qnr Bachelors,” written by Alr. Joseph Bradford, of Boston. It is in four acts, and, judging from the success that bas nt‘tended its production, it ought to_prove an enjoyable treat. It will be cast as follows: -w comedy, “Mr. Stuart Robson g:«‘igc%m%:!m\'lzr ¥, Wiliam II. Crane Fiard Waring, lis nepew. ..Mr. R. B. Gruhame Dr. Bruce. ltfli-!‘bo“_c“ e . ik Dunlar 2rs. Eve Clinton.a young Letiie Allen e, Howard Rogers 3115![?}]2!:\5{’.0!:503 Aties Helen Standisl s A ssometd. Aies Kate Tucker SIX COMEDIANS. Robson and Crane being regarded as ¢ strong cards ™ in Chicazo, or, to borrow amother sporting phrase, ‘‘heavy welghts,” Mr. Me- Vicker has come to the front with the formid- able announcement that he will nl:lt four big comedians on the stage, all in one picce. ‘This 1ooks like fight. Hemeans to overshelm the s grjue brothers,” as they have been called, and make them Ikick the beam. The four solid comedians are John Dillan, Roland Reed, Harry Pearson, and J. H. McVicker. A personai io- vestigation made yesterday for the benefit of those who are willing to bet on the results, brought the subjoined statistics: Pearson weigh: TohmDillon, weighs. Roland Reed weighs J. 1L McVicker weighs. rs. Mouser. a landlady.. Clara Couriney - . Total ..o Robson . Crane. Total......-. This seems like taking an unfair advantage of an opponent,—pitting 697 pounds weight of comedy azainst_300,—but both Crane and Rob- son are wiry, plucky little fellows, and their friends will probably sce that they get fair play. NOTES. Mr. Will Vreeland, a well-known -Chleazo amatenr, and connected with the **Just For Fun™ and “Iry” Clubs at one time, {8 now in Silver Lake, Kan. Mr. Vrecland is within six miles of an Indian reservation, and may be pre- pariug a Border romsuce. At the Adelphi Mr. F. 8. Chanfrau, the pop- ular and versatile comedian and character actor, begins an engagement to-morrow evening in his celebrated play of “ Kit, the Arkansas Trav- eler,” which will be_produced with new scenery and mechanical effects, aud with a sclected company. Mr. Chanfrau's engagzement is only for vne week. At the New Chicago Theatre this cvening Alexauder Wurster will bring out, after weeks of preparation, a new local burlesque opers, especially adapted to the capabilities of his present company, entitled A Trip Through Chicago in Eighty Hours.” The burlesque is fonnaed on D'Ennery’s celebrated play, ** A Trip Around the World in Eighty Days.” There will be at Standard Hall next Thursday an entertainment for the benefit of the Woman’s Refuge,—a worthy charity that has never before made an appeal to the public in this manver. The Board of Managers is composed of ladics from cach of the Chicugo churches. In the last thirteen vears over 800 women have been pro- vided with 3 home, and at tius time there are forty-three inmates. The institution is very much in want of money to_carry on the good work. The play of Dora " has been selected, swith Misses Robertson and Harmon, and Messrs. Powers, Olcott, Walker, and Reeve in the cast. Vocal and instrumental music by Miss Emma AL Shaw and Mr. Roney. Tickcts can be had at the principal book, jewelry, and otber stores, and also of _ the lady managers.or at the door ‘Thursday cvening. MODJESKA. HER WONDERFUL ACTING IN *‘CAMILLE" . From'Qur.Oun Correspondent. Npw Yous, Jan. 17.—Modjeska duily grew in favor as Adrienne, 3 role that permitted only the promise of her powers to uppear. As Camille she has at a single strolie taken the me- tropolis by storni. - The enthusiyst js genuine and significant. Tae Pifth Av reatre has but one trouble now,—it is not large enough for its “star.” No wonder the San Francisco audienees were beside themselves. The' stories from the Pacific Coast which were laughed at incredulously not lonz azo, are accepted picas- urably to-day. Modjeska brourht the trath of the matter with her. She revealed fv Monday night fully cuough to stop cayil. I have seen e York audiences, inchyding shose pre- many sumably critical of e critical, Bos! but this onc put them at s discount. I pever saw onc in a theatre show so inuch life in the way of deep demonstrations of delight and approval as did that in those Fifth Avenuc Monday evening. And the same mani- festations, increased if anything, are reported from every succceding - verformance. This s, happily, not a popular furore. it isthe descrved recornition of merit of genius. The Camilie of Mme. Modjeska 13 wholly herown. The statement that she studied ana perfected the part without a model is interest- ing, but scarcely necessary. This Camille is un- like any other,—it is incomparably superior to any other that has been scen on the American stage. There is none even to compare with it. It is as much a new revelation of the character as of the mifted artist who has created its changed features: it is a prooi that what is not in itsel fine anay be made fine in fine hands, The Camille of Matilda leron was PAMOUS IN ITS DAY,— a striking performanee; it was no more like this of the Countess Bozenta than the common red or scarlet camellia of the Chinese shrub is Jike the pure white fiower of the florist’s nurs- ing. The last scene, in the present rendering of it, is radically changed, and as radically improved. TIn this, the death scenc, it was that Heron was regarded most cffective, by many most terrible. Yo this, also, Clara Morris sought success by a vivid portrayal of dread discase and awful death, to say nothinz of the violent spasms of couzhine affected throughout the picee. Mme. AMoadjeska has no necd to violate art for the sake of cffect. ‘Therc is no startling episode, no violence of effort, no pereeptible striving to impress. Her art is the most perfect,—per- fectly concealed, but with no point neglected or slurred. - Hence it was natural that she should supgest a revision of the last gct. Now it is simple as judicious cutting could malke it. Bustling Mme. Prudence, forever hungry, makes no appearance. . Thereis no pitiful hectoring and robbiag of a dving mistress, no agonizing coughing. In place of these there is fnfinite re- Hef at their ubseuce. Nothing distracts the at- tention from the pale, faltering womun, who is more beautiful than ever in ber white robes. The winning Nanixe is always within call; the generous Gaston displays his moodness of heart; and, andat the tearful close,when Camille sces the ‘heavenly beauty and sinks back lifeless from the arms of the faithful Armand, the wroup around her is completed by Nichette, the bride, and Gustave, the husband of an hour. The truc art- 1st did not aim to produce a striklag picturc of physical saifering. The sufering of this Camille, from the first_scen of her to the e¢nd, is of the soul, not of the body. There is one regard in which Mme. Mod- jeska caunot. thorouzbly identify liersclf with such a character as this. The PURITY OF HER PRESENCE renders impossible the impersonation of Dumas’ courtesan: You cannot believe this Camille to be, or to have been, what the words and sur- roundings paint her. This sou!l could never be held in such bondage of sin and shame. The confessions of remorse which fall from these Jips seem to belic themsclves, for they have 10 pfm there. The moral injury, spoken of by some critics, of makivg vice so fine by sucha portrayal of the highest nature in the lowest creature, is not apparent in this representation. “The impression of Camille is nowberc made as that of a fallen beauty. Mme. Modjeska frown her very naturc raises the part above its own lesel, and you remember only the woman whose hicart lones for Jove sud sympathy; who is capable of a heroie sacrific forth from the furnace purified, as the worthicst must be, by suffering. This woman was mever ~bad at beart. As a sustained cffort, this characterization has not Leen suapassed on the metropolitan stage. 1t is almost painful in the intensity of emotion, and the continued strain upon the nervous powers. The slight aud delicate figare of the actress does not seem to warrant such calls upon ecndurance, and it is no wonder that Alme. Modjeska 105‘1"“:" ll:’c:.\l th, :mél I(l)\xulli:\ !l‘:a- voyage necessary. et she cannot play less in- wfivsel .. If she'takes the part 5hc¥nn’;z be it, not p{ay at it. When she was Adrienne, the spectator did not think of the actress Modjeska, who had presented hersetf for his favor, bat of the actress .ddrieane, whose first appearance was IN THE GREEN-ROOAL practicing to go before au unseen audicnce. Her Camulleis not less an entirc identification, except in the one particular I kave mentioned. ¢ She is exquisite fo her bantering with DeVarziile. She plays in the most unaffected manner & charming plano passage, as 2 means ' to escape the wearisome Count. She passes from galety to sadness in a flash. Her scenes with Armand are wonderfuliy touching. Belonging to the French school, she is o master of that school in nicety and finish of detail. Inherlighter moods, morcover, she_is thoroughly French in manner. But with these moodsthe likenessof her Camule to French models ceases. In all that is deep, aud true, and womanly; {n the sweetness of her expression, the grace of movement, the peculiar fineness, sheis herself; and this is true in what- ever role she may be seen. There is more than ART IN HER LOVE-MAKING, A gentleman said to me chtmhy: ¢ There is some excuse for the clder Duval's being wou over by such a woman; and as for Armand, he would be a blockhead if be didn’t fall in love with her. I can understand,” he added signifi- cantly, ** how a man conld love such a woman unchitngeably and forever, in any circumstancess and that is something I never saw ina Camitle before.” 1t was during the szene with Armand’s father, and alter her farcwell to Armand, that the artist received such applause as is rarely witnessed in this city. On three times appearing in acknowl- edgment, the lady was greeted WITIL A ROUND SHOUT, which but irereased as she clasped her hands and raised them jn a simple munuer most ex- pressive of her delizht and appreciation. It she S the tearful eyes bofore her,. no doubt sti¢ read in them a deeper praise than noise could possibly convey. It was ber hour of triumph, and the expericneed actress secmed like a child in her enjoyment of it, rather than as the ad- ircd heroine. A shower of hats from the boys in the zallery; men and women standing on their chairs #s if to heighten their acduims: a wild confusion of enthusiasm,—these were the manifestations inySan Francisco, as told me by a friend who shared in the discovery of a bright “ star »? on the Pacific Coast; but not more full of appreciation or meaning were they than the meed of more quiet praise herc -bestowed. I cannot find anybody who has seen her that will deny the advent of a great artist, a wonmn of surpassing cmotional powers and hizh mind and soul, in the debut of Mme, Modjeska. A critic’s senteuce, * Tie greatest artist since Rachel,” nas passed into a popular sayingamong theatre- ocrs, and noue thiuk less, while some thiuk more. A LADY'S OPINION. As showing how the representation impressed another spectator, I am permitted to quote the following, found in the letter of alady to a friend in the country, and not at all intended for wider publicity. It wus unquestionably written du coeur: “Last evening we heard Modieslka in Camille. I wish you mizht hear her. She is complete in all the graces and charms of the ideal actress. She’is very haundsome, with a wonderful maus- netism. Last mght the sudience screamed with delight, aud after one seene she had to appear before the curtgin three times. She holds your attention from ' first_to last, and you feel that ther fricndship would be’ a continual delight. She is so simple in manner, yet finished su ex- quisitely in all her movements, that you canuot help almost loving her. I enjoy hearing so much talent; still, to hear Modjeska seems to end the theatre where she is not. Iseldom Tave, but 1 am traly carried away by her art and womauliness, the Iatter so rarc on or off the staze.” - The disposition to rave has been shared in by hundreds of people of whom not all were feni- nipe by uny means. But if women praise a woman, there is something in it. ; WIIO WROTE **LONDON ASSURANCE.” AsJolin Brougham’s benefit was approach- ingz, certaln’ persons be: to agitate the old uestion as £0 who wrote ** Londou Assurance.” %nc paper went 80 far as to give the benelit of the doubt, though there should have been no doubt, to the tenial and popular John, who is wrestling as well as he can with that pain-io- flicting persceutor, rheumatism, A reporter was, In_consequence of this statoment, sent to visit the_actor, and found him us socianle as ever, while as comfortable as care and attention could render him. He disposed of the story about the popular play very quickly, saying that Mr. Boucicault's claim to every bit of its authorshin was perfectly just. Ile bad been closely connucted with Mr. Boucicault at the time it was writeen, and in that wa < other unaccountuble to him, cer friends plece u had to him. as the veteran od down und persisted in _aseribing the Thus for the thousandth remarked, he had stamped upon the repart, which Lappily had never affucted his kingly relgtions with Boucicault. So every- body had petter gloy that Mr. Brougham, us the most interestéd Barts, ‘fi Tight, and knows beyond question, an_mmenso sl what he is talzing about, body will begrudize hicy a cent of the thi he is buoked to receive. Thcre ure propositions to_have Fechter play Armand once, at least, to Modjeska's Canmille, before her enzazement terminates. Fechter whs the oriwival Armand. 1t haraly seems pos- sible that the now famous Sothern played the Tole with indifferent suceess in support of Ma- tilda Heron, but sych was the fact, The drmand of Mr. Burrou: begter than his Mqurice de Saze, but ot thoroughly worthy of the i?“(, “THE EXILES.” 1 GREAT PLAY AT THE BOSTON THEATRE- From Our Own Correspondent. BosTox, Jan. 17.—The zreat popular play of «The Eyiles,” of which I made mention in my last Jetter, hae g better and a deeper plot than 1 had been led to expect by the criticisms Ihad scen upon it. I French hands, upon the French stage, fresh es it came {rom the pen of Sardou,—for the play s really mostly the work of this distinguished dramatist,—it has very little of Eugene Nus or Prince Lubornirsl init. The latter, indeed, merely gave the suz- sxestion of the plot. And this, worked over by the inimitsble gkill of Sardou, gives us the dra- matic story, which I will indicate. It is a drama, in five acts and ning tableaux. The ac- tion is in Russia and Siberla, in the ycar 185 It will be perceived at once by this locgle what the scenery must be if fully carrled outina realistic manner. prictors of the Boston Theatre have certainly spared no expense in this matter: ang, if we may believe travelers’ descriptions ana the ver- dict of the initiated, we must be satistied that WE HAVE GOT THE TIHING WE BARGAINED FOR at last,—~a picce of perfeetion in the way of real- istic representation, They haye paid $10,000 for the sole American right to the play to begin with. Then, nearly 330,000 more bas been es- pended for new scencry, furniture, properties, ete. And, to tho novice’s eye even, the results are magically real. In the opening scene, in the officcof Schelm, the principal character, who Js Chief of the Fifth Bureau of Imperial Police of St. Petersburg, there is nothing specially dis- tinetive of any diferent life from our own, as in this day in all civilized countries the interiors are not unlike each other. But, when the cur- tain rolls up in the sgeond scene AND DISCLOSES TUE $QUARB OF TUE “SHER- DBAROYF,” in = lonely and dreary part of the Imperjal City, any one who has carried in his brain a pieture of Russian sccuery must at once realize that this is the land of the Czars. The next scene, which opens on the interior of the palace of the Grand Duke, where the stage is set as 2 superb drawing-room, is again one of those in- teriors which might easily be of French, or English, or American locale. The farniture, by the way, of this drawiug-room, which is of yellow brocaded satin, was imported at a cost of over $2,000. It is a very imposing scene. The stage of of the * Boston ™ is so large that the effects of all this magnificence,—the shining satin, the great malachite vases, filled with flowers, the raised conzervatory beyond, where a fountain falls, and gaylv-dressed peasants are dancing the national dance for_the pleasure of the guests,—all this is very splendid. But the scene that shows the cabin of the exiles in Siberin, with a view of the fitter Isndgeape from the windows, and *‘the cross-roads of the stone pillar,—an opening in a pine forest in Siberia, where cross-roads mect,—these are tableaux which make the spectacular triumph complete. In the latter of these tableaux ap- Fcnr the four reindecr harnessed to a sledge,— n reality a sleigh,— AND THE TEAM OF RUSSIAN DOGS, The wonderfal reality of all this is apparent when anold theatre-goer remarks, s 1 overheard one remark as the glacial forest is displayed, with all its bleak landscape: *‘It makes me cold to look at it.” Mr. Shewell, the manager of the “Boston,” who takes the part of Schelm, the Chief of the Fifth Bureau of Imperial Po- lice, has adapted the play withas few altera- tions from Sardou as possible. The character of the Infamous Schelm is portrayed by Mr. She- well with such close fidelity to the origjnal that one finds it impossible to separate the identity, and there ariscs in the mind one of those im- pulses of detestation for the man, by whatever name we may call him—Shewell or Schefm—that we hate hid, for there seems to be no acting in the matter, 50 close and perfect is the repre- semation. The only other notable acting in the play that of Louls James. who takes the art of Maz _ Lussieres, the young enchman, and Dan Ma- guinness, Who represcnts Lussierss’ faithful Tie managers and the pro- | servant, Carcassin, ouce s soldier in the Cri- mean war. _The difference from the French play upon French boards must be marked here, for no Frenchman could ever conceive such a char- acter asthe Carcassin of the * Boston,”"—Dan Maguinness, a veritable frishman in appeur- auce and reality. In cach of these parts therels a certain simplicity of outline, a presentation of real human life, Which is jincomparable, because neither admits of the slightest exaggeration, as the character of Schelws docs. In Schelm tae mixed force of original low birth and present high official position creates a_combination of clements, the result of whichis scen in sharp contrasts of brutality and cunning. Scarcely any amount of violent contrast, then, is out of fuct and place; consequently, an actor busa margin which it would not be diflicult to over- step in the character of Lussieres, A YOUNG AND GALLANT FRENCIMAN of modern times; and his Irish servant, how- ever Sardou conceived the character, to what- ever nationality he assirned it, in the American adaptation, on the stase of the * Boston,” it is one of the best specimens of toe Irish individu- ality we have had for a long timne,—nui the coarse and_ vulzarized €elt, who Ssavs ‘‘Be- gorra™ and “ By tne howly virgin,” but the sly, quaint, humorous fellow, who sees the situation at every point, and, with native reaainess, takes advantage of ft. Max Lussieres, the French- man, is both the ideal and the real Frenchman of to-day, not the vile product of absinthe- stimulated brains; not the reproduction of a certainiclass of whom Octave Feuillet says: “ We have nowadays in Frauce our Young America which is not hapoy if:it does not blaspheme a little after drinking; we have some agrecable little raflians, the nope of tie future, who have ueither father nor mother, who have no country and no God, but scem to be the brute produc- tion of some heartless, soulless rachine which has dropped them by chanee upon this elobe, to become its very indifs ferent ornument.” No, this creation of Sardow’s is the gay and gallant rep- resentative of the old nobility of the Faubouve St. Germaine. It is the direct descendant of those brave and illustrious zentlemen of the French army who made such a delightful im- pression upon all Americans during the War of the Revotution. Aud it is TIUE MIGHEST PRAISE TUAT CAN BE GIVEN TO MR- LOUIS JAMES to say that he interprets for us, that he brings before us, this charming character without shade ot exaggeration, without a modicym of self-consciousness, ‘There isno posturing, thera is no making up, there are no “hits” of malo- drama. From beginniug to end wg seo a simple, brave, manly gentleman, full of vivacity sud sparkle, but not of volatility. The usual inter- pretation of the French character does not make this nice distinction. 1t siows what a consum- mate artist Mr. James i3, and the genius of which he is possessed, that he is able to place before us such 4 masterpicce. 1t will be remem- pered that be is the actor who, in’ “The Danichefls,” made so fine an interpretation of Ussip. But the character of .laz Lussierss is a more diflicult onc to portray, for the reason that it is less accencuated by the autl The part of Ossip, though it needs an artistic ren- dering as emphatieally as that of Lessieres, is more clearly within certain bounds, from which it would be more difticalt to wander. It is not the chiaracter of a_man of the world, and that world ¢entered in France,—a eharaeter of whielt there might” be endless’ interpretations, each one more or less satisfactors, but- out of whicix it is oue of the most diflicult things in art to delineate a siwple and watural " gentleman, well bred and_fine tempered.. This Mr. Janes has done’ as effectually” as Jefferson delineates the happy, delightful Duteh vairibond, Lis Van Winkte. MISS MARIE WAINRIGHT, who is, according to rumor, the daughter o nicee of Cuminodore Wainright, and who is now advertised on the bills s specially cugaged far the part of the heroine of the picce, tle, Nu- deye,—is u very amateurigh young actress wha has neither voice nor geyius for the part, What lier engarement mesns by sa clever a manazer as Mr, Shewell is one of the conundrums which Dundreary would say, * No fellow can find out.”? 1 hiave heard from no one but this verdict, and the wondering question of whys and where- fores, Ju may bc that Manager Shewell found that ho must draw a lino somewhere in the cxpenses of this costly undertaking, and that he drew it ‘nere, for 1t is scarcely probaole that Miss Watnrizht, novice and almost deburaute as she evidentlv is, can count in price beside the uccepted lights even of the losser magnitude. But one cau’t but regret that the part was not filled 2s it should be, and the regret with some amounts to indignation; for why Miss Marie Wainright should be intro- duced to the public in a prominent character, in a play which, from its eclat of heralding, ete. and its fine presentation, has acquired a certain prestige, which the public have a right to de- mand shall be adequuteiy carried out, is, as T ¥, G of the unsoivable conundrun 'The plot of the piay is partially yi by the title itsclf, “ The Exiles,”” which with the locate of St. Petersbusg and Siberia, at once suggests the story of POLITICAL AND SOCIAL INTRIGU B, consequent banistnent, and final restoration. With an actress like Mary Anderson to 1ill the Vadeye, the’ play as presented on ze would be worthy its French . As it stands now it is very splendid as a piece of geenie display, but it does not repre- seut as it should in every part the wenius of Surdou, The proof of what L suy is in the fact that the pioee i3 generally spoken of as u sensa- tional play, the strongz” pojuts of which ure equally sbhared. if not overpowered by the grand spectacular etlect. en u fine interpretation of .zkie. Nadege by an actress of gemus, aud the play would at onee be lifted into the highest regrions of art, by its harmonies of dramatic a: tion aud presentation. N.P. PHILADELPIIA. THE DAVENPORT FAMILY. Speciar Correspondence of The Tridune. PoiLADELPIIA. Jun, iS.—The death of Lily Davenport Thorn has caused a rippic Of ex- citement, and has recalled the incidents of her marriage, the only oue in the Davenport fam- ily. Lily was the third daughter, and was vorp, as were also Fauny aud Blanche, in London during their father’s first visit to London to suppors Anna Cora Mowatt. [Her age hias never becp ziven, but she was probably about 30. She made ner first appcarguee on the stageat the Chestvut Strect Theatrs in this city under the management of Lier father. She was probably the prettiest of the five daughters, having the broad shoutders and large, well- rounded limbs of the family, with ereater per- sonal beauty than cither of the others. She had beenon the stage only n short time when she became acquainted with Mr. Frost Thorn, one of the jeunesse dore of the inetropolis, and her marriage with him was as much against her father's wishes-as it was repugnaut to the feel- mys of his family, 1le foraave ber, however, but they never did. They secured an ascend- ancy over him, and, altkoush he did not nezlect ber, he, mevertheless, kept on good terms with the family despite the fact that they immored his wife. Ilis father 1wade his money in pork-packing aud n Texas land s ations. His sister married Co dore W. V. Garner, and the circumstances their death need no reealling to mind. ') were drowned by the sudden capsizing of the yactit Mohawk, and Mr. Thorn 1ost in the Szme cawstrophe. Comunodore Garner left something like twenty miltioos. Sinee his death the family’s treatment of her has been shameful. Sheattended herhusband’s funeral in New Yori, but the relatives ignorei her presenee even over his dead body, and never lifted o finger to Telp her or the two brightchildrenthat were the result of their union. ~ While her father lived he supported ber, but at his death she felt com- pelled to return to the stage. She was offered several engagements, but sceepted one with John McCullough to ro to Baldwiw's, San Francisco. But consumption had claimed her, and, when the cancellation of Mr. McCul- lough’s compelled tie closing of his contracts, disease bad already made it impossible for her tohave filled it. She grew worse, but bezan to mend in the fail. Before_Christmas, howéver, she was_worse, and _on Wednesday' she, was buried. Fanny has helped the family nobly, and fortunately has been able to do s0, Iier season’s work bavidg netted her over $10,000. RS, EDWIN ADAMS. Mys, Fdwin Adams was in the city for a few days recently, but weot back to Long Branch to attend to her business. All the old creditors of Mr. Adams resizned their claims and sent -receipts in full,—one for §1,500, ana the total amounting: to over $3,000,—except the Jersey farmers. These wmen bad been paid band- somely year after year, and had found in poor Ned oue of their best customers, but they were the only persons tg invoke the aid of the law and try to get the amount of their claims, irrespective of the sacrifice if would cause. Mrs. Adams was compelied to make o deposit to enable her to get a couple of blankets and a chair that he wanted from home, but she never told him of it. He never knew that the house was in the hands of creditors. But Mrs. Adamns got her spunk up_and determined to fieht_them. Luckily they had made a mis- take and attached her house,—there are two, ond of them belonging to Mrs. Adams an deeded direct to her, while the other stood in Mr. Adams’ name. All the furoiture and household goods belonged to her and were in ler house, which was the one they accupied. 1t was a standing joke of Ned's, you don’t treat me well here I'll go down to my OWR house.” Mrs. Adams went down to Long Branch to attend to these suits just os soon as she had recovered from the effects of ler close confipement, and it had a - zood effect, for it changed the current of her thoughts, and had a good resuit in enablinz her to pick upin health and spirits. She spent & few weeks with Mr. and Mrs. Jefferson at Hoboken, and at Long Branch has been living with Mrs. James W. Wallnck. I do not think it has ever been mentioned that Ned left a will devising everything to his wife, appoiuting her sole cxecutor. The money raised by the benefits, about $15,000, has been invested, and a surplus_left enough to mect all the funeral charges, which were very heavy, as the medical attendence was all that he asked for, und there were many visits at £25 with consultations at $100, just because he wanted thern, although all hope was Xmst. Two large oil portraits of Mr. and Mrs. Adams are to be presented to the Actors’ Order of Fricnd- ship, and in the spring, when she has examined the things that areleft, she willtey and remember all his friends with some relic of the genial actor and jovial good fellow. The play of the ©lron Mask” with the mask was given him by Mrs. James W. Watlack, and Mrs, Adsms - returned them to Mrs. Wallack. Mr. Adams owned a number of manuscripts, among them * Enoch Arden,” the “Dead Heart,” ** Narcisse,” and several which are not so well known. Mrs. Adzms is in hopes that she will get through with tier business so as to go South with Mr. Jefferson inllg.hk;‘éprmg. ABROAD. GENERAL MENTION. “Mys Awful Dad” has been revived success- fully at Walleck’s. Marie Gordon (1frs. Col. Sellers) has been dangerously il at the Fiith Avenuve Hotel, New York. Kate Claxton gave each of her Baltimore Company a bag of bon-bons coutaining a $10 gold piece. The New York critfes attribute the suceess of “Risks ™ not to Bartley Campbell, but to Joha Raymond. Just so. Sam Piercy, a favorite Chicago actor, has made a hit as ffenri de Lagudere in the * Duke’s Motte,™ fu New York. Tho Academic Royale at Brussels has offered & prize of 800 rrancs for tue best critical study on Gretrig's life and works. Boucicault is sick of the managemens of the New York Grand Opera-Iouse, and will leave itat the end of his two weeks' cozagement. Colville’s Folly Tioupe is the appropriate name of a_new oraanization which contains the principal mumbersof thetlate Thompson troupe. Johu McCullough is in New York making arrangements for the procuction of The Ex- iles.”” The place is not yet named, butitis probable that Booth’s will be the selection. Alr, George Clarke hes returned from En- gland, und resumod his place i the Fifth Ave- nue compapy, Il willmake his first appear- ill;lcc on the 25th in a part especially written for e . “My Son,” n new domestic comedy-drama by Mr. Fred Williams ang, Dr. . A, Harris, has bee epted by Manager Fietd, and will sbort- 1y receive its first representation at the Bostun Muscum. The Saulsbury Troubadours have been dofng a fine business at Melbourne, where they open- el Chvistmas with a new paotomime. They witl not return to tais country befure mext fall, having struck a gold mine in the Colony which will occupy theiy attention till that time. They havo a soclety in Boston for the eleva- tion of the staze, and the Secretary, in a letter to the Globe, says he has not theslizhtest doubt that ** they onjoy the full sympathy of the Master.” As he writes Master with a big M, e ure ot bound to suppose that he alludes 10 Dion Boucicault. - Mr. Fechter's repeated fallures to lkeep his appointments with the publie bave led many to think that he s ina chronle state of jntoxi: cation. It is asserted, however, that Fechter is really ill, and that his recent fuilure at tbhe Broadway was caused by his bursting a blood- vessel in his stomach fu a fit of conghing. rusta Chambers, o charming young actress, who recently went out as leading-lady of Mr. Dauiels’ T re in Deuadwood (Black Hiils), has, in the time she has been there, a little over two months, received 216 offers of warriage. Inone day ehe received seventecn. Listening to them interferes with the time nee- essary to study Ler roles.—Dramutic News. Apropos of Ienry Irving’s sncers aw the ;, a correspoundent writes Lo the Yorkshire +Seven years azo I saw Mr. Irving take the part of an old woman, with a ginghan um- vrella, in_a burlesque at the Prince of Wales' ‘Theatre, Liverpool. [have just secn his uc- beth, and_of the two performances I think be displayed more art in the old woman with the gingham umbrella, ‘The one-thousandth representation of * Colo- nel Sellers * fn New York was graced by the presence, in the lust act, of a jury composed of twelve prominent * society atizens.” At the end the jury brought iu a verdict of *guilty.”? The Colonel waved his hat fravtically, and the Cierk, evidently thinking that bis hearing had deceived him, asked aeain for o verdict. .1t was “npt guiley 7 that time, 1ar it was & versatile and lastieminded jury, The curtain came down amid a burst of applause aud laughter, while Seiters grabbed the foreman’s head, hold- inir tiat worthy person in chaacery, while his lews kicked frautically at the juror directly be- hind him. Mrs. Lillie A. Thorne died fn Philadelphia on the 14th. was oue of the four daughters of the late Mr. E. L. Davenport, the actor, aud the widow of Mr. Frost Thorn, who was drowned by the ¢ g of Commodore Garner’s yacht Mo- hawk in New York harbor. She was brouzht up to the st: and was a popular and beautiful actress: but on her marriaze she retired from ublicily, and lived with her husband in New ork and elseschere. Miss Fauny Davenport, the eldest of the family, has been seized with symptoms of the disease of which her father @ied. Sbewent to Philadelphia, ‘however, to \ttend her sister’s funcral, and her physicians say she will be able to play again in'a stort time. A correspondent of the Cincionatl Gazetfe gives the following it of gossip about Monta- fuc, the young and pretty man whom the girls adore: “Montag empire over tue younger und Iess sensible portion of the sex is unshakeu. Some years ago the udoration of him reached such a point that a Montague Club of young Tadies was fornied, for the cxpress purpose of worshiping him. He received flowers from some member of this absurd organization ut pretty nearly e performance,—they took turns in this celestial priveleze,—and Lam assured that it is u literal Tact that one member had a large photocraph of Montague crected in a sort of her room, betore which she kept can- dles burning night aud day?”? Anew play, thought to be written by Bouei- cault, bas unexpectedly been put in rehearsal at Wallack's Theatre, and the managers of the Union Square have received hints jthat it Is to e a version of the ** Celebrated Case,” which is announced for the 26th. From the faet that the name of the pie some suspect that Dion is at bis old tricks azain. "Tue Dramatic News questioned Mr. Palier on the subject. Ile says: **There are singular circumstances in this case that leave me in a ainful state of uncertainty. The fact that he s wetting a play ready so hurriedly, and pro- ductug it two nizhts before us; his evident un- willingnessto let e know whiat 1t is he isabout to do, and the fact that Mr. Boucicault is con- cerned in it, all tend to raisc a suspicion. Out- side of this T mixht mention thata person, for- merly connceted with this theatre, and who was discliarged for dishonesty, offered Mr. Cazauran $200 for the privilege of having a copy of the play from 12 one night until 7 in_the morning. 1 do nov pretend to idetnifly Mr. Wallack oreven Mr. Boucicault with this, but the fact is siznifi- cant as showing an intense desire somewhere to beeome possessed of this play.” HUSIC. AT HOME. THE MUSICAL ATTRACTIONS of the past week have been few and far between, and our record to-day therefore is muainly con- fined to nnnouncemn‘nls, the most prominent of which is the se2ason by Gilmore’s Band, which has become as_ familiar as a household word in Chicago, announced for threc councerts at the Tabernacle, next Friday evenini: ana Saturday afternoon and evening. Who Mr. Gilmore iz, or what Mr. Gilmore's Band is, we certainiy need not stop to tell. It is only of interest to the public to know that these are fareweli con- certs previous to the departure of the Band to participate in the Paris Exposition, and that the prices of admission have been fixed at 25 and 50 cents, which will enable every one to go. The vacalists will be Miss Juliet Fenderson, a new comer, and Mme. Maric Salvotti, who has al- ready sung here. The following is the opening. gmgmmme, which is sabstantially one that will e pluypd in Paris* - 2 PARTI. 1. Overture, **Der Freischatz™ .. Weber Gilmore's Bend. 2. Sexophone golo, grand -fantasie on alrs from *¢ Norma ellini Ar, & wom cturne religios Monastery Bella”..Wely i3 Gilr Ban: 4. Grand scene ed arig, ‘*1l Travlata™......Verdi Miss Jullet Fenderson. 5. Rhapsodie Hongroise, No. 2. ..Liszt Gilmore's Ban 5 6. Cornet solo, **Leviathan Polka osee Lovy Ar. B. C. Bent. TART 1. ++Oberon . .. Weber Glimore's Band, Grand arla. from **Nabucco Vet “Aime. Marle Satvofti. 9. Grand international quadrille, introducing the murs of all natlons, with varitions for the princinal instrumenty, us follows: . Introduction und Russiau Hymu. . March, battle scene. and Marseliaise Hyma. . Themn, introducing variations for clarinets, iccolos, oboes, and other instruments. 4. *+Partan: Ponr Ia Syrie, " with solos for eupho- niom and corzet. B . Overtare, ) 5. Screnade and tarantelle. 6. Grand finale, introducing varions national snd popular airs, includinz **The barp that once through Tara's Halls,” = **Watch on the Lthine,” and & great variety of interesting melodics, closing with ** America.™ Gilmore's Band. TRE FOUNDLINGS' HOME CONCERT. The last of the scrios of concerts in aid of the Foundlings’ Bome will be given to-morrow evening at Hershey Hall. There is an opoor- tunity on this occasion for those who have been unmindful of the claim of this deserving chari- ty to make reparation. The Foundlings ought to have a crowded house. The programme will be as follows: 1. Grand prelude and fuzme in A minor. ....Bach 2. Clarence Eddy. 2. ‘‘Angels Ever Bright and Fair " Mias Abbie Wiinner) **Oh! Pity, Savior.... . W P yrreil. 4. Sonatia pathetique, op, 13 P Mme. Juliu Rive-Kind. 5. Recitative and sria, ** Dove Sonu".‘..ll&nrt Jrs. Clare D. Stacy. Im!)mmpm C sharp minor, op. 66. 6. 4 Val se D flat, op. 6%, No. 1. r.Chobin B flac minor, op, 1. Mme. Julla Rive-King. 7. “*The Wande: ++...Schubert ... Eckert E Tyrrei! 44 Swiss Song . Muigs Abbie Whinnery. 9. Theme and variations in A flat. ++....Thicle 2i. Clerence Eddy. 10. *‘Bride Bells™.... . Roeckel Atrs. Clara D. Stacy. S 11. Nocturne 1n 4, No. 4 eeseeseoa Fleld Mme. Jutia Live- King. 12. Grand March from Tannhauser.. Wagner-Liszt Mime. Julia Bive-King. THE MUSICAL COLLEGE CONCERT. The regular annual coucert by the pupils of the Chicaro Musical College, assisted by full orchestra, will take place at McCormick’s Hall to-morrow evening, whea the following pro- gramme will be presente 1. Quintetio.... ... ...Schotte sy Ida Rosing, Mesers. Fosenbecker. Kurth, T el und Fichheim. 2. Robert! tof qa ' j'aime ..Meyerbeer My rah Mcilalon. 3. Concerto op. First movement, with orchestral accompaniment. ... Hummel Jire. Lelioy Grant. Duet, **Ida. oh Clel” from **La Prigione di’ Edimburgo™....... -Ric izses Ada Somers and Alice Lansden. 5. Concertoop. £1, first movement, with orehestral_accompaniment. .Chopin s Mury Wishard. 6. Carnival di Venczul and Variations.... Benedict ies Ettie Butler Concerto op. 01, first movement, with orchestral accompaniment. . .Beethoven Mr. Adolph Rosenbecker. . Coro *-Giovin lielta ™, (Hug'ots) .4 b. Cuvatina et Coro, **No, 1o, caso ezual ™ ... Meyerbeer AMiss Alice Lunsden and Chorus. CONSERVATORY CONCERT. The Chicago Conservatory of Music gave its regular monthly soirce last Tuesday eveningat the Southern Division, corner of South Parkave- nue and Thirty-first street. - The spaclous hall was crowded to its utmost. The Schubert Club, uuder the baton of Mr. C. A. Havens, sang sev- cral numbers, and the hearty reception given them is proof of their increasing popularity. Miss Ageie Ferguson developed a high soprano voice of unusual purity and freshuess. The uartette, ‘‘Reguited Love,” given by Mrs. Liavens, ss Ring, Messrs. Cleveland and Evarts, reccived a well-deserved encore. Among the instrumental numbers, the * Serenade,” by Hummel, was played in 2 very pure and refined style by the Misses L. Groen and D. Atwood. N Atwood played the “ Soirce de Vienne,” b - with a_precision and clearness. of Canich, wwhicti gives fair promise for the future of that youny lady, just in her ¢ teens.” The remain- ing numbers were the familiar *Silver Spring,” by Willinm Mason, played by iss L. Lameon in excellent style, and a composition of Heinrich Hofiman for_iour hands, given by the Misses Munch and Miller with remarkable spirit. The lzst piece o the programume was the £ flat polo- naise of Chopin, played by Mr. Ledochowski in his usual retined manner. ‘The next entertain- ment will be upon the oceasion of the inaugu- retion of the new concert organ built for the Conservatory. TIE GERMANIA MANNERCHOR. The Germania Manuerchor will give its month- 1y concert and e¥ening ontertainment next Sat- urday eveping, the 26th, at Brand’s Hall, corner of North Clark and Erie streets. The pro- gramme will consist of a piano solo, by U. Schmall; a quartette, by members of the So- ciety; two soprano solos, by Miss Kleinofen, Iate- Iy returned from her studics at Germauy; aad a violin solo by Mr. Friese. The whole will con- clude with thegreat composition by W. Tschirch, entitled the *‘Rheinfabrt? (** A Pleasure ‘[rip on the Khine™), consisting of twelve descriptive male choruses, viz: 1. **Sunrisc on the Rhine 5 2. “On the Beauriful Blue River”’; 3. **Cottage on the Shore”; 4. “Toust to the Wine of Rue- desheim?; 5. Polka, * Rheinlaender”; 6. * Song of the tsmen”: 7. “The Lezend of the Lorelci”; 8. “At the Katserstuhl”; 9. “The Legend of the Dragoon; 10, “To the Names of Becthoven and Arudt’; 1L “The Maids of Cologue”; 12, “At the Cathedral ot Co- 1> This composition received, last_year, it prize at the Dusseldorf Sacoger Testi- val, and is considered by conuoisseurs on¢ of the best productions for Manuerchors. A limit- ed number of tickets can be procured at the music storc of Jobn Molter, No. 100 Madison street. THE LIESEGANG CONCERTS. The Liesegang Quartette gave the first of its series of chamber concerts last Tuesday even- ing at Brand’s Hall. The cosy little hall was completely filled with an audience of musicians and counoisseurs, and the performance was in. everyrespect enjoyabie. The quartette, induding Mr. Rosenbecker, first; Mr. Clauder, second; Mr. Allen, violin; and Mr. Liesegang, celloy assisted by Mr. Kloss o the piano parts, played a ayden quartetts, 3 Rail trio, aud Schubert’s Forella Quintette it o manner that showed not ouly eareful study, but very conscientious work. With the excepticn of a somewhat scrapy effect and some thinness of tone in tne middle instru- ments, the numbers were given in a very mu- sicianly way, and they were received with great enthusiasu by an audience which was very crit- fcal. At the next concert, which takes place on the 20th inst., Beethoven's quartette, op. 18, No. +4; Rubinstein’s Sonate, op. 13, for 'glhmo and vio- lin; Schumann’s ¢ Schlummerlied” and Reber’s -+ Berceuse ' for ceflo; and Rheinberger’s quar- tette, op. 33, will be given. The North-Siders may well congratulate themselves on these pleasaut concerts. g LOCAL MISCELLANT, The Chicago Concert Pnrty gave a very suc- cessful concert at Peru, Ind., Jast Tuesday. The Haydn Orchestra will give its second con-~ cert of this season ou Thursday evening, Jan. 31, at McCormick’s Hall. The Strakosch troupe, with Kellog, Cary, and Marie Roze at its bead, will give a two-weeks’ senson of opera in this city ot Hooley’s ‘Iteatre, commeucing Feb. 9. Tne details of the scason will be given hereafter. The Plymouth Congrezational Charch So- ciety have abandoned tieir chorus choir, and once more resumed their quartette. The new choir, which includes Miss Ettie Butler, so- Emm' Miss Lizzie Foresman, alto: Jr, “harfes Smith, ténor; and Mr. Frank A, Bowen, basso, will commence its duties to-day. Mr. TFlagler will retain his posttion as organist. The Turner Hall programme this alternoon will include the following pumbers: ** King John March,” Hauschild; overture to *“ Mar- tha '3 cornet-solo by Schubert, performed by Mr. A, Jahn; overture \to “Fidetio”; Haydn’ zerenade tor strings; Shint-Saens’ “Dansc Ma- cabre’; Meyerbeer’s “ Inaugural March,” compoaeda for William I. of Prussia; Conradi’s “Vox Populi” potvpourri®; Streuss’ concert waltz, “Morgenblatter”; and a quadrille by Lumbye. A series of four concerts is to be given in the Third Presbyterian Church for the benefit of the organ fund. The following, well-known singers will take part: Mrs. Georire B. Carpen- ter, Mrs. J. A. Farwell, Mrs. J. A, Balfour, Dr. Charles T. Barnes, Mr. Charles A. Kunorr, Mr, A. L. Goldsmith, Mrs. O. L. Fox, Ars. Jennie Kempton, Mrs. Robert Anderson, Mr. Robert T. Howard, Mr. H. L. Sloan, and Mr. -O. F. Dodge. The first concert will take place next Thursday evening, the remaining three during February and March ‘The time for the first production of Efch- berg’s comic opera, * The Doctor of Alcantara,” at the West End Opera- lonse, has * for Bacsiay, the. Zor, ustead of the Joarsd heretoforc aumounced in these colu; Doctor, Mr. Frank T. Buird, flfiemlnzma’::!’:lg, week neces: o ing it to that stat Tection whieh Lo desires before. prosemcior the public. With the well-known solos selett chorus, and new scenery and stame pointments, the opera canuot fail to pleass fpy music-lovini peorle of the West Side. The fourth reunion of the Beethore will take place at Hershey Hall nne'nSust 54 evening, the 26th. The prozramme will incy for instrumental numbers the Weri soil quartette o £ minor; Schumaniys Toseass U3 %, by Mr. Liebling; the Boccherioi minger o stribgs; and Saint-Saens' quintette for ok and striogs. Mrs. F. Hall will sing the g Salutaris,” from Rossini’s “ Messe Solenelle o Mr. Dexter thearia “If withall your hey 1 from “Elijah”; and Mrs. Jewett Schumany, & Nussbaum " and an Arditi romance, 4 ABROAD. A GREAT VIOLONCELLO. The New York Tribune of Wednesday lag BUYyS: 1t can rarely be the 200d fortune of an aidionce to Rear 50Ch 8 suPEr Vislonmiiroic on which Mr. Frederick Bermuer played o bt Philbarmonic concert last Saturday. It is y gt irine Cremons, & masterpiece of Antonio Staa. varl, finished witn all that exquisite perfectimny outline, harmony of proortions, and etegancy o external aspect which distioguish the best perpy of this inimitable maker, A8 there i3 3 certaty of nobility in the face of 2 thoroughbred genis. 1man, 50 there may be xaid to be dignity and beansy in the countenance of an old Cremons. Thood strument which Mr. Bergner hnnnledwllnm':fi £kill and sympathy on Saturday 13 probably beyges prices If it were possible to = & market alg s & rarity which i3 never in the market, its valag oF suppose, woula be st somewdere, in the Sra sands. [ts pore, round, even, and luscions tgne wae distinguished above all the rest of the instre ‘ments in the orchestr, although It was not nadgly loud, and was certainly not forced in the playine There Were passuges in the Volkmann **Serepies where nine 'cellos were struck logether, aod yet this marvelous instrument, abeorbing the ofyer cight, was the only one heard. MUSICAL NOTES. ‘Ernst Perabo is going to Earope. Mlle. De Belocea has arrived at Madrid. 3me. Adeline Patti sang in Florence Dee. %, Since the fall of Plovna the Czar has permil. ted the Opera-House again to open its doors, Jime. Pappenheim will return to New Englang Feb. 4, and give 3 few concerts under the ayg. . plces of Roberts’ Music-Hall Agency. Mr. 8. S. Sanford, planist, is announced forg series of concerts with the Thomas Orches beginoning st New Haven on the 15th inst. Miss Lottie Sargent, of Boston, s able to siy cach of the four parts of a quartette with equal ease. Her voice hus been cultivated under the instruction of Boston’s best teachers, andis considered one of the most wonderful on record, \When she sings bass her. hearers fnd it ditfieylt to believe that it is not a mansinging. Her hizh notes are also strong, clear, und sweet. Han von Bulow ha3 written three clever sar- castic letters in the musical journal called Sig- nate fur die Musikatische IVelt, publishzd fn Leip. zig. He tells us of his late concerts in Eneland and Scotland, und does not spare the Musike- lische Welt of cither country. orchestra conductors he says: *“Like their amnlll':v;ls conductors, they are always behiud time! Mme. darie Roze, Mr. Max Strakosch’s new prima_donna, who made ber debut last wesk in Philadelohia, scems to have met withade- cided success. Her voice issaidto besome. thing between a soprano and mezzo-soprano, of a thoroughiy serviceable quality and well trained, and her acting is spoken of in terms of the warmest praise. **La Favorits” was chosen for her first appearance. . The Paris Revue et Gazette Musicale, of the 30th ult., states that the proposed Conservatorium at Bayreuth will not be opened yet. Herr Wag- ner hus announced that the musical school must ‘be postponed, owing to the hard times, and for the same reason the production of his new Bubnenweibfestspiel ** Parsifal”” cannot take place before 1880, at which period he hopes his musical school will supply the artists for the exccution of the new opera (the sequel of “Lohengrin ”) a8 well as of his other operatic scores. ‘The last number of the London® Athmaun saya: “The English adapatation of Otto Nico Iai's *Merry Wives of Windsor ’ (German libre% to by Dr. Mosenthal) has fared better inthe provinces than at the Royal italin Opera. Hen Carl Rosa is fumiliar with the German com- poser’s score, and Mr. Hersee, the adapter, adhered more closely than Moseuthal to speare’stext,restoring the parts of Pistoland Bar dolph, which, with Sir Hugh Evans, Justice Skt low, Nym, and Mrs. Quickly, were suppresiel in the German and Italian versions. The work has met with the greatest_ success at Edinburg, Glasgow, Aberdeen, and Leeds, and at Lirer pool on the 20th ule.” The same journal also says: Some of the names of the Forefgn Commisilon- ers for the musical section of the Paris Universit Exhibition of 1878 will certainly provoke a smils when the respective countries represented are con- sidered. Germany wil? send no Commissioner, and Russia has not yet named a representative. ' The list is a8 follows: *‘Great Dritain—r. Arther Sullivan, composer, and Director of the Sout Kensington National School of Music in London, Belgium, the Netherlands, Switzerlard, and Grand Duby of Luzemburz—)i. Joseph Dupont, com- poser. Director of the Popular Concerts of Bras. sels, Professor of the Royal Conservatorium of Belginm. Italy—Signor Sighicelli, viotinist sod professor, Spain, Portuga), and Greece—Signor Avelino Vaolenti, composer. Austria, Hungsty— Dr. Edward Hanslick, publicist (musical catic!), Councillor of the Government. Turkey, Egypt. Tunis, Morocco, Chinn, Sism, Cambodis, Japan—3l. Oacar de Tunis. ~Sweden and N . Ivar Hallstroem, composer. and Librarian of Stockbolm.™ Perhaps the best commentary on the above list is supplied by the Paris journal which supplements it by the annoancement that M. lonne, who will be the conductor of the Interna- tional concerts, will include in the programme Berlioz's **lass forthe Dead."” ————— A SCHOOL-HOUSE WANTED,” To the Editor of The Tribune. CHICAGO, Jan. 19.—We are sadly in want o school-house accommodations in tae Thirteenth Ward. We have two good Aldermen fo our ward,—Wheeler and Thompson,—but they sre ot blessed with many children, and do not feel the necessity that wedo for the want of seats for our children. Fully one-half of the young children in our ward are deprived of seats. We wang immediate relief. The School Commis- sioners should obtam a bullding or buildings forthwith. We cannot wait for appropriations. Our children are i the strect, aud we caanot keep thein housed up in our small bouses. - Will you assist us? Yours, JouN BURKE, and otners, —————— THE TRUE WOMAN, Her name shines not in bannered feld, Where Right and Wrong 8o boldly wary Nor rings her voice in any cause Which men and women battle for: Yet in her prescnce, softiy sweet, You lonz to kncel and kiss ber feet. No_wondrous romance wreathes her lifa: Nor hath she led o martyr train; Nor beautiful nor rich is she, " ‘But poor, and some would call her plais; Yet n hertwo dear eyes you sce A beauty shining constantly. No silken robe cofolas her forms 0 duinty leisare hath her hands; er jewelu are o simple ring; A ribbon binds her hands" smooth bands; Yet in her gurments' sinple erace Tler soul's regality you trace. No gift hath she to shake and thrill A thanklesa world with warbled songs; And art that wakes the fvory keys To other hands than her's belongas TYet, In her words of tender cheer, A richer music charms the ear. Ske walks in humble ways of 1ife "That lead ofttimes through eloom andshade; * And cares und crozses not a few ‘Are on her patient shoulders laid; Yet smiles, and drinks each bitter cup, And keeps her brave eyes lifted up. And homely ways she wreathes with grace, Harzn duty turns to lovingzest; And cheery hope and steadfast will Are at hér slde, in work and rest; Yot never dreams she you can 5py ‘The angel looking. Xxomnlfr eye. XA AXA BATCOELDES. Urica, Minn., Jan. 11, 1878, RETROSPECTION. Taitto-mght i the gefal igat Which the dylng embers throw, And fdly dream: azain I seem To live in the Long-Ago- The din of strife from the war of Life Rings falutly through the night; My puisea beat as I long for the heat ‘And clamor of tho fight. Through mist of tears, the vanishe In spectral dimpess rise; A'thrill of pain, like & weird, sad stralz, O'er my heart-etrings swecps, then dies 1 vainly pray for the coming day ’fl’lro e!xlomhelm’ Kll;icl:: urpeth night, ough morning’s light ust af It b!melh uo xel.lgt. G. B. Sraaevi presenting it 1y Of English hat b i 4