Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 10, 1878, Page 11

"THE.CHICAGO ‘MARCH: 10, 1878—SIXTEEN: PAGES. ANMUSEMENTS, gnother Glance at Bartley Campbell's New Play, Fanny Davenport and Daly's Com- pany at Hooley’s This. Week. Rccunstrncted “Uncle Tom’s Cabin? at Haverly’s, A Week of Minstrelsy at the New Chicago Thea- tre. The Hershey Popular Con- cert and Mr. Lieb- ing. concerts by the Musical College and Choral Union. TIHE DRAMA. CHICAGO. “cL10.” 1f Mr. Bartlcy Campbell had any clearlv de- fined purpose in view when he sat down to build bis pew drama, **Clio.” it was probably that of Iringing poetic languageinto practical use asan ¢levator of the modern soectacular drama. Be- jog an experienced and inteliigent playwright, 15 well s something of 2 poet, he saw with sor- ow that the tendency of the great imass of play-grocrs was in the direction of a foolish fond- pess for the cheap displays, produced by the senic artist, that are known as spectacular effects; for an exhibit of feminine tegs with the sid of calelum lights: for dancers for acrobats, and for pose plas- tiques. A laudable wish was crcated, gndoudbtedly. by the contemplation of these thines, 10 cvolve harmony out of the mass of spparently discordant clements—to_insinuate poetry nto it, just as well-disposed persons will shove a religious tract into your hand as you are you are going into a beer-hall. Mr. Campbell has manifested from bhis very first ventare as a writer of plays a strong disposi- tion to do this kind of thing. Itisa weakness of Lis to believe that people who 2o to the the- atre can be charmed with pretty sentiments, or sonorous lines, and even the restraiots imposed upon him by the society comedies which he hss written herctofore were insuffient barricades against this irresistible desire of his {opush forth into glittering sentimentalisms. In this, his Jatest drama, Mr. Campbell’s genius hasfound free vent, and it would not be sur- prising to find that he bases his hopes of success ontte felicity ot expression to be detected throughout the dialogue. 1f this be so, he may in the long run discover tbat he las made.a mistske. Mr. Alfred Tenoyson has written dramas, and so has Mr. Martin Faraubar Tup- per, and it would not be too much to say that a0y practical theatrical manager would at once reject them® 3s - possessing no commercial value—to him. The litera;y excellence of the production hardly plays a fizure in suchacase. Mr. Campbell bas made an honest endeavor to combine sensational effects with a kind of highflown dislogue, the aim being, ap- parently, 6o appease the vulgar appetite for mere'show gnd noise, and at the same time to tickle the palates of those who have a relish for poetrs. The efort, as we say, was an honest one, but we think the author has not suceeeded in accomplishing his purpose. Should the play prove a populer guccess, as it is to be hoped it il it will be owing, after all, to the oppor- unities oflered for ' just such theatrical effects as might be given in a_*Trip Around the World,” and mot to the literary merit of the work. This would be necessarily 2 disappointment to an author who is ambitious of aitaming something Ligher than can be psined by the aid of the carpenter and the scenc-painter alone. An opinion was cxpressed in this column Jast Tuesday that Mr. Campbell bad suffercd himself to injure the prodable soceess of bis play by rusbing iv upon the slage without suflicient preparation. The jus- tice of the remark has been amply demonstrat- . The piece has been altered in several im- portant particulars from day to day during the week, and before its presentation in New York one would not be surprised to_see it undergo a complete transformation. Here it has.merely amounted to a week's publie rebearsals, and the Dbest that can be said of them is, that tuey have been going on more and more smoothly 1S the week cawme to a close, giving the piece ao ap- pearance of consistency, which it certainly did ot present at the beginning of tne week. Even 2t ita best, however, it hangs somewhat pateby and scrappy,” aud presents a curious conglom- eration of fautestic imaginings, such as one might encounter in a nizhtmare-dream, and nowhere clse. Our deliberate judegment is that Afr. Campbell mizht, by dint of steady applica- tion, and with the aid of some less enthusiastic individuat than himself, whose duty it should be to examine the work from the right side of the footlights, mold out of this quarry a play which might become, not only commercially successful, but a creditably artistic piece of ‘work. LOCAL THEATRICAL NOTES. Sothern follows Fauny Davenport at Tlooley’s Theatre. He will appear in **The Crushed Trazedian * on March 18. Mr. McVicker has offered to give tne Chicago Letter-Carriers’ Relief Association a benefit- weck at his theatre, to commence on the 11th. =Miss Lydia” Denier, 3 daughter of Mr. Tony Denicr, i leading Jady of thie * Buffalo Bill party, and is playing Way Cody with much ac- ceptance. She is hizhly praised for her in- domitable nerve while acting as a substitute for the man set up as a mark for Bill. The “Two Orpbans” will enter upon the fourth week at McVicker’s to-morrow cvenine. The play has had a remarkably suceesstul run 50 far. On the following Monday ** A Cele- brated Case ” will be produced by the Union Square Company, including in the cast Charles R Thorne, Frauk Rochig, J. W. Jennings, J. B. Polk, Fanny Morant, Mand Harrison, 1da Ver- ‘non, and Marie Wilkins. Miss Fanny Davenport begins an engagement of onc week at Hooley’s Theatre to-morrow crening, supported by Augustin Daly’s com- any. The repertoire for the week is as follows: Monday aud Tuesav, Pique; Wednesday matince, * Divorce”; Wednesday _evening, # London Assurance ”; Thursday, ** Divoree 3 _Fndn_r,‘ ;lScho’?l sIor Scandal ”g;nturd:sy l{:\fi- inec, " Pique™; Saturaay evening, **As You Tiean 000 v The revival of * Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” which has met with eminent success at various thestres in the country, will be the feature of this week at Haverly’s Theatre. It is to be ren- dered by Gotthold’s Pittsburg Opcra-Houee Company, aided by the Jubilee Singers, the Louisiana Serennders, and 100 liberated slaves and freedmen, who will render the plantation scenes and camp-meeting bynins. The priveipal parts will be sustaived by two well-known Cli- @ro actors, Fred Bock as_Lagrec and Milton inford as Uncle Tom. Mr. Gotthold takes the part of George Harris. The New Chicago Theatre will be occupied thls week with Haverly’s newly orcanized minstrel troupe, which Mr. Fitzsimmons, the bill-wniter of the Northwest, assures the public 15 *the star troupe of the world.” Fitzsimmons says, in a burst of confidence and in red letters, that’ Mr, Haverly *has climinated trom his Toster of stars Ethiopian adl the old and well- worn members,” and *‘has congregated to- £ether 2 massive and costly COm}?:ny," jnclud- ing Athopton, Rice, Kemble, Ernest_Linden, rier, Cushmau, Welch, Johnoy Rice, and er celebrated corkomans. LECTURES, READINGS, ETC. The Lakeside Club wiil eive their first enter- talnment, ag Lakeside Hall, corper of Indiana avesue and Thirty-firsc street, on Thursday *vening next. i drmatic entertainment, will bg given ab fillotson Hall, Engiewood, Friday, March 29, nm“le benefit, of the Library Association of ‘mnhu-_ Englewood has considerable ama- talent, which will be brought out on-this Tiglon, and the stage facilities. which Lare ? Iy been added to Tillotson’s Hall, in the shape of scenery and a drop curtain, will con- tribute to the success of th‘:z performance. A literary entertainment will be given on the }ch inst. at Union Park Congregational Church or the benefit of the Society. - It will- consist o,l readings and music. The principal attrac- tion will be Miss H. E. Haskins, of Boston, whose readings. have been the theme of gen- gzaloadmhaflon since her receut aavent in Chi- ‘The Rev. Robert Collyer will deliver a lecture at Hershey Hall Friday cvening, Maren 15, for the benefit of the Firsy Regiment. In addition to the lacture, the laughable operetta * Penel- ope ” will be enacted, with the following per- sons in the caste; Mrs. E. A. Jewett, Miss Lot- tic C{ul}cfihnnk. Mr. Charles A. Kuorr, MMr. Frank K. Root, and Mr. Frank C. Walker. The sale of tickets for the novel literary en- l‘crumm_cnc to be riven next Tuesday night in McCormick Hall proves the public interest felt inthe tilt of the clocutionists,—nearly 1500 tickets having been taken during the first day’s sale. The selections to be given are calenlatea to Ahm\" the several artists at their best,—Miss Dainty’s numbers being Holmes® * How the Uld Horse Won the Bet”; *Brudder Anderson?s Mrs. Felt riving the interview between Kosalind ana Orlando, and the trial Sceue from * King Henry VIIL™; Miss Siayton ** Charley Machree™ andthe * Creeds of the Bells 73 Jessie Couthoul, ** Good Night, Papa,” * The Centennial Boy,” and Browning’s ** Mother and Poct 7’; Vande: h‘olt.', * The Spanish Duel,” * Lochinvar,” and ** Nocturnal Sketeh 75 while the veteran Mur- doch, besides u new number recently. translated for him from the German of Schiller, will, by request of some of his admirers, recite * The Bridge of Sigbs ™ aud * tne lord’s Prayer,” with which the reading will close. The music }l be provided by two young debutantes, the Mlsses Danziger, piuniste, and Klelnolen, so- prano. SAN FRANCISCO. JAMES O'NEILL. Special Correspondence of The Tribune. Sax Fraxcisco, Cal.,. March 2.—The Union Square Compuny, having builded itself up a name, is trading upon its prstize. A new de- tachment as come out under the old nawe, of which James O'Neill is the only member really identified with the Union Square Theatre. Jimmy ias here onee before playing second to thie great Barry Sullivan, and lesding man in the Hooley Comedy Company. As a comedian he was not mirth-inspiring. 1t was generally understood that the shadow of the great Barry’s frown fell very far, and that James O'Neill’s best ideas wero nipped in the bud by the exactions of the star. He became o favorite rather upon the score of what he could have done, than of what he did, and his careerin New York was watched with a considerable degree of interest. How much that interest was augmented when he appeared in the new ROLE OF LOTHARIO, can easily be imagined when consulting the cir- culation-iist of a sensational paper. Tis record in San Francisco was looked up, and it was found tbat & flavor ot romance per- vaded even that little episode. More than one young lady who listened to the “ houcy music of his vows? wore the willow when the bird Lad flown. One in particular, took to her bed and pursed ber wounded beart—ull it was caught in the rebound. But he carefully abstained from marryine, and the damaze doné was nothing more than -a hauuting memory of “those black ecyes and tnat mustache,” as a local critic feelingly puts it. He comes now surrounded with the imprezna- ble respectubility which attaches itself to a thoroughiy married man. That meaning line on the hotel register—James O'Neill and \ife "—will go fur to prevent any more broken hearts this season. O’ Neill is ¢ morc under engagement to Tom Masuire, but the result of his Monday moruin visit to the box-office will not be so probiematical as it used to be. The doors of TUE BALDWIN TIUEATRE are to be kept onen whether the attraction pay oruvo. Upon the principle that all things come o him who waits, Baldwin is contented to see ‘his big returns in the far future. He intends, by the production of the newest plays in the best style, to build up for the house such a reputation s once appertained to Wal- lack’s in New York. When the bueiness of his neighbors s crumbling in ruins, as it must some day or other, for they cannot all stand the pres- sure, he expects the reward for his patience and enterprise. “Une Cause Celebre” isto be the opening attraction with the new company. Rose Wood, who was well liked at Wallack’s aseason or two awo, but who drifted into provincial starring, is the leading lady. We had expected Ada Dyas or Jeffrvs-Lewis, but we bave had the pretty, artificial Jeffrys several times already, an want ber no more at present. ‘There was never & better opportunity for a Jeadine lady in California than just now. Since 3135 BELLA PATEMAN went back to the roast beef of old England, no one has exactly filied the vacant niche in public faney. Tuey have no leading lady at the Grand Opera- House, and have not bad since Kennedy as- sumed the reins of mapazement. Just nmow a revival of *Uncle Tom’s Cabin” is goinm on_ with an assortment of simon-pure darkics in the plantation scene. The company has been broken up, and ouly its more useful members retained, so that the Jeadingz lady during the present. scason is really Zoe Tuttle, a_youugster of 8or 9 vears, who plays Eea with” an_amount e. @rtificial pathos marvelous iu one of her age. A young leading lady is a cousideration, but Zoe is a shade too youns- At the Baldwiu they arc playing combinations only, €0 that the leading ladies chunge; like the roses, with the season. At the “California ** they have had ANSS ELLIE WILTON for a couple of years, and in a month or two she is going to Europe, unlike Mary Anderson, to study. Miss Wilton has been 3 member of the company. for some vears, and hav- ing passed through - all ‘the grades of promotion perhaps, tulfills the saying, “A prophet is not without houor save in his own country.” The announcement of her intention tg study is received with some dubious ques- tioning., Miss Wiltonis one of those actresses who, having attained the position of leading lady in 2 first-class toeatre, has reached —the utmost height which she is capable of scaling. While she frequently pleases, she has neither the genius to inspire, nor the talent which may ve a vraisemblance to genfus. ‘But she is possessed of a certain adaptability, and looks well in the gaslight amonz staze ac- cessorics. She_ has a down-dropping 1id, a gen- tle voice, 2 modest, womanly mauner, and—a wardrobe. All of this the French masters are to transmute into a star of the first brilliancs. Miss Wilton has had asingularly cqceessful carcer in . California, —and, if her lucky star follow her to France, the French masters may not do so badly. They have start- i before now upon less material than a pleas- nt presence, a -ten-thousand-dollar wardrobe, and diamonds to match. She Jeaves vacant a pleasant niche for some goud actress to fill. JASSARTIL. 2 NEW. YORK. * THE DANITES."” Mr. W. N. Fitzgerald, of New York, sticks to his statement that Joaquin Miller has no title to {he authorship of * The Danites,” which, he avers, was written by Lis brother, P. A. Fitz- gerald, based upon incidents found in “ First Familics of the Sierras.” He produces a letter from his brother’s widow, who says that all that Mr. Milier had to do with it was to re- ceive $200 for the use of bis name. Mr. Fitz- gerald, in 3 communication addressed to the New York Sun, says: The statement that Mr. Miller was pald §5,200 for writing the play is correct i part, but there is trfling error in the awount, which should be 3700. So elight an inaccuracy 83 B9, 000, I feel MrRanl with his high uoulon of honor, will hardly allow to zo uncontradicted. Bat, 23 T was Sisurad by my brother, the $300 was not paid to Mr. Miller as comperi#ation for writing the play, but was the amount Mr. Miller was willing to ac- Sept 55 an cquiralent for the use of bis name as the e ¢ of another man's works. Every word and Tine of the man cssion is in my fiondwriting. 1 challenge Mr. Rankin, lier, orany fnend. or fnends of citlier to original covy of “*The Danites” in Sir. A ting which bears evidence of of ‘baving passed thronsh my brother'’s bands. - 1n answer to this, Mr. Rankin savs the whole thing 1 a tissue of misstatements: I employed P. A. Fitzgerald to aseist me o e the play of ‘*The Denites” 2 e for "which I vaid him S135, for the sLS s receipt in full for the 0w - bold and 7% the geptloman bad a copy of the play 3t lis aeath I am sorry to_hear it, for I bave al- Svays belicved him an’ bonoraole gentieman until his brother piaced him in the light of a play pirate. Had *¢The Damites” been a sailure we would Iver have heard from Mr. W. N. Fitzgerald. What is s aim? It Jooks like ‘biackmail. The Danites" is the sole property of my, wifeand self, and we will protect it to the letter of the law.: We are to pay Mr. Milier §5,200 for the play.. If necessary 1 shall be most happy to publish recelipts for the money already Dal > CLAXTON AND DORE. Miss Claxton (now- Mrs. C. A Stevenson) gives the following inside history of hor troubles, with her former busband, in an interview with' arcporter of the New York World: 5 “‘The reporis that have been published abont this bankroptcy sreapt to create_the most cruel and unjust suspicions about me. The stmple fact isthat’ during my life with Mr. Lyon it secmed Decessary to him and his business that some name other than_his own snould stand sponsor for his, ventures, I, witha woman's idea of businces and awife'siden of duty, signed as_many documents and pupers as he chose to_place before me, knuw-, ing absolutely nothing about his business more than that my signature scemed ncedful for his purposes. I knew that properly stood in my name solely because he told me so. I siened checks in blank for him to 61l up at his leisarc, and knew I bud & bank accountonly in that way. ‘“When you igned papers did you not know what they were for?" ** No, sir: the papers to which I attached my name at bis request were of all cunditions, forms, and sizes—written, printed, and in blank. The legal fmportance or value' of my acts 1 mever stopped 1o consider until I began 10 support mysclf and thereby to comprehend the significance of & signature, when' [ vauly begzed that the service should be performed by some one clsc.” “+ How jonz did you continue to sizn papers at Mr. Lyon's request, and without understanding thems” 3 *~Upto the time I beman my procecdings for divorce. ‘Then I met Mr. Lyon at the office of his attorney, Mr. John Fettrech, where we made a- transfer, and the sister of Mr. Lyon assumed my fanctions in his business affairs. 1 had hoped that that day would end my responsibility in his fnan- cial speculations, but on my recent return to New York I was served with papers representing a clim of nearly §11,000, bewg deflcits on mortaages which 1 had sunposed bad buen transferred to his stster, but which 1 learn he did notinclude in the transfer, becanse, as he said, they could not be collected, since he could prove he had been com- pelled to'pay illegal interest.” “¢Was it on account of that claim’that you went into bankrupte; B z **Well, 1 will explain. This claim, coming upon me when T whs totally unprepared to mect it.” and the more than_probability of otuers springing from the same fmprudent usc of my sigmatul decided me 19 take the advice which Mr. Lyon sug: sested to_my counsel, and rcek relfef in bank- ruptcy. This 1did the more especially because Mr. Lyon himself bad at the same time informed Tuy counsel taat he did not know and could not tell what claims might artse in future, and it is toavoid these unknown dungers to the welfare of my child and myself that (as Mr. Lyou says) 1 prefer the ~pudlicity* and *scandal of the present proceed- ings’ to the dismal, uncertain future which other- wise awaits me. ‘This is the plain truth, without reservation or other device by whicu factsand their consequences are avoided, una 1am ready to atlirn its truth by all the solemnities the Jaw requires.” GREEN-ROOMENS. The success of ** A Celebrated Case ™ hasheen such at the Union Square Theatre that all im- mudiate call for other plays has been dispensed with, Miss Maric E. Booth, a nicce of Edwin Booth and a granddaughiers of the first great actor of that name, made her first appearance on the New York stage, with JMr. J. 8. Clarke, in the. Fifth Avenue Theatre. The following fizures show the seating ca- pacity of the various New York theatres: Stadt Theatre. 483 Fifth Ay. Theatre.. 1,404 Academy of i 71:Union Sq. Theatre. 1, +10 Howery Theatre, 170, 0lympic Theatre. ..1,304 Steinway Hall. 08 Standard (late Eagle) Niblo's Garden....1,822 Theatre... Grand Opera-Houscl, 8 'llchlcktflnr Hall. 0 Boutlr's Theatre....1, 765! Brondway Theatre. 1,218 Wallack's ‘T'heatre. 1,610|National Theatre.. 1,083 Lyccum Theatre...1,576|Theatre Comique.. 95 Theodore Moss, Treastrer for the Committce having in charre the bencfit entertainments for- John Brouzham, has received from Col. Sinn, of the New Park Theatre, Brooklyn, an offer of an additional pertormance. The noney uow in Mr. Moss' hauds amounts to §9,300. It is expected that the Brooklyn project will make a total of 510,000, the sum desired by the Com- mittee. This is to be placed fu the bands ot , probably S. L. M. Barlow and Will- avers, to purchase for Mr. Brousnam a life annnity. A $10,000 annuity would insure an income for Mr.. Brouwham of "$1,500 a year. The proceeds at. the Academy of Musie were Jess than 510,000, after paying expenscs, and at Wall s ‘Theatre nearly $1,000. The Com- mittee in a recent meeting discussed the que tion of paving some of Mr. Brougnam's debts, and decided not to spend a cent in that diree- tion. A note of §57, however, which was a lien on the actor’s houschold property, was paid. GENERALLY. SMALL BEGINNINGS. A St. Louls paper gives some recollections of the origin of the celebratea players who bave risen. to eminence from humble. positions. A few of these are subjoined: Edwin Booth made his first. public appearance in Baitimore in a negro minstrel show, in conjnnction With Johm §. Ciarke.—Edmund Kein made his tirst Dow to the_public 1 8 pantomimist and dancer.— John McCullongn began life as a gas-fitter. Yames S, Alackett, the greatest Falstall, of a_dry govds ' store at Utica, in New York State, where he fafled 1n business W. E. Burton aud James Murdoch were both rinters.—Iilly Emerson's name is Redmond; he czmun life as a newsboy.—McKee Runkin was at on time a clerk in a dry_goods _store.—Tom . Mu- Zuire, the well-known California manager, was a fack-ariver.—Lotta, of Cnarlotte Crabiree, made ber first appearance before the public at a concert Sliow in a cellar. known as a dive, in San Francis- o Jobn Brourham was a drawing-master before e drew andiences a3 an actor.—John T. Ford, the anager, wus at one time a bill-poster negro minstrels.—Lawrence P. Bar- ‘then as Larzy Branniean, began life as at u hotel in Detroit.—Frank Mayo, is Maguire, was at €10 time a waiter in _a Testwrant at San Trancisco. —John Lester Wallack was au ofticer in the British army, although he was born in New York in 1818, dwin Forrest was once a leaper ana tumbler in a circus. When a youny man he started out with a dramatic compuny that broke up somewhere in the South, and he joined a circus to Zet through.—N. M. Ludlow, an actor and man- ager now S years of age. wis o dry_woods mer- chant. fle 18 now engaged in writing hs remi- Disccnses of the American stage.—Tyrone Power, The great English actor, was a ballad singer in the Fireéts before he went on the stage.—The Elder Matthews first appeared 1n pablic a8 a ktage coach- inan, 2nd stood with lis cab on the stand near old Drury, where he amused the boys with,his won- derful power of mimicry.—David Garrick was in the liquor business. He “€old wines and liquors in London, but he was not 2 successful merchunt. PARAGRAPUS. A Washington paper says that Mrs. Henry Laurent has sought her husband’s forgiveness for having caused bimselr and Mrs, Oates eo much annoyance, aod intimates that a reconcili- ation followed. The litigation over “A Celcbrated Casc? has been disposed of by Judsge Giles, of Baltimore, who in reviewing tlie case of Shook & Palmer apainss Manager Gilmore, makes the injunetion against the latter peroetual. A movement has been started to erect a mon- ument to Charlotte Cushman over her grave in Mount Auburn, Mr. Johu T. Raymouna offering a subseription of §500 as a beginning, and there is 2ood reason to believe that hermany admirers, in-and out of the profession, will be glad to unite in so well-deserved a tribuce. b Mr. Joseph Jefferson is now on bis Louisiana plantation, fishing, shooting, and at times painting. When asked by a friend, a few days ago, why he went so far away to scek enjoy- ment, Mr. Jeflerson answered: **Fo get away from the managers, my good friend; mails wrerular, no telewraph, distance great, can bunt ducis quietly here witnout beieg hunted Dy the managers.” The Sunday before * The Exiles ™ was brought. out at the Boston Theatre, the Rev. E. E. Hale, in the course ol his service, prayed for **the ex- jles in our midst.” The next day Messrs. Tompkins & Hill, both of whom attend his chureh, wrote him, asking_*how many tickets he would take,” to whicli Mr. Hale reolied *he would take cight.”? They were immediately for- warded, and, it i3 needless to say, were fully ap- preciated.- Says the San Francisco Footlight: *The vro- fession should take measures toward beautify- ing the spot. where poor Harry Perry lics, at Lone Mountain. The tomb crected by his wife (Azngs Perry, now Mrs. J. B. Booth) is standing like a silent sentinel in the grim valley, but the inscription is bewg: gradually obscured by the ravages of time. The grave of Johnny Mack, the minstrel, looks fresh and green, and isstill kept in order by large-bearted Tony Pastor.” r Modjeska, according to a Bostonian, has a re- markable power of counveying her sentiments. In making an cxit the other evening, she fell on her face, tripped up by a badly arranged door-sill. The audicnce expressed its sympathy when she returoed, and, says the enthusiastic writer, “The swift little smile and motion in which she conveyed tothe relicved audience that she was not hurt, that she was herself to plame for not taking care.’ and that she was grateful for the sympathy expressed,—all this 1n one ook and one step,—were an inlmitable and indescribable exhibition of her art.” FOREIGNERS. BATEMAN AS & FATHER. Some amusing stories are told of the blind partiality of the father of Kate Bateman for his daughter. One of them was bis discomfiture of 2 rustic in Detroit. 1t seems that the doting parent was in the habit, doring ber engagement, of stationinz himself in the parquet, in order to wateh the effect of her acting upon the audi- ence. On a certain evening, sitting within a few feet of him, was a bucolic-lookinz man, who stared:stupidly at the staze, and at the principal actress, without betraying any signs of cmotion. Bateman scrutinized him—ihe play | was “Leah”—and glowered flercely as the drama went on, without ruffling the "uniformity of his dullness. ‘When it came to the scene of the Curse, the culmination of the performance, and the man still betrayed not a particle of scnsibility, the father, ever choleric and inca- pable of self-discipline, could no longer restrain himself. He pounced upon the rustle, seized him- by the collar, and shook him as a terrier would shake a rat, meanwhile screaming out with a multiplicity of onths: ‘“You blockhead, you dolt, you idiot! What do you mean by sit- ting like o praven image, never moving a mus- cle, while thic most wonderful acting the world has scen is going _on beiore your eyes?” The man, overwheimed with - ainazement, stared in turn at his assailant, and, when disengaged from his clutch, remarked that “the’ old chap must have the deliriim tremens,” and wondered where he got his whisky. On another occasion, the actress was going by steamer from th's city to . Philadeiphia, her fathér, as usual, nccompauying her. Some stigt accident to the vessel occurred, which caused alarm for 2 while.- Bateman raged, pac- ing up and down the deck, and gesticulating violently. A fellow-passenger, with a view to calm him, told him -that there was no danger; that be need not be afraid. **Afraid!” roared Bateman. _* Do you suppose that I fear for myself ¢ I don't care arush for mysclf. It is my gifted child 'm thinking of. It's the infer- nal villain, the Captain, Who has endangercd the lile of my godlike daugbter, that £m wad about. He’s worse than a pirate; he ought to be haneed this moment. One of the hairs of my divine Kate is worth more than the lives of every man, woman, and child on this crazy old tub.” O, my godlike daughter!” NOTES. Jarrett and Palimer propose to take Raymond in his plays and_** Uncle Tom” and negroes to Europe. John E. Oweps will also go to Loudon shortly. Mme. Cheechi-Bozzo, the lady who lately shared with Satvini the applause of the Parisians for her remarkable personation of Lesdemona aud Ophelia, is dead. Mr. Byrow's burlesque, “Little Doctor Faust,” las passed its one hundredth, and “Pmk Dominos™ has goue beyond its three hundredth performance in London. Florence writes to the Mercury that, having played the * Mighty Dollar » 1,100 times, and feeling very tired, he proposes to leave for Ems, Germiny, May 1, and will be accompanied by Mrs. Florence. At the Theatre Historique in Paris a new picee by M. Ferdinand Dugue is about to b produccd. It is catled “Lé Ballon XMorel,” and the activn passes in the centre of Africa, the great sensation scene taking place at the Cataract of Kerouma. Mr. W. 8. Gilvert, many of whose plays arc chariming poems, aspeared as 3 harlequin in a recent performance in London, the other actors beinz nearly all _titled pzople. 1t is described as an amusing vision—that of the staid man of letters flourishing bis lath, plunging throuzh the traps in - the staze, and taking *“headers through the trick doors. s The following speech from * Charles I.” is gaid to hit off exactly tue fashionable uctor’s, Irving's, way of writing: 1 knew a wumman once that kapt a sekkrit; One tauld it her about the faal of nun, And still she knpt it until snaper bell, And, wondrous wununan, Uil she went to bad JHer maesip was to come hot-pot I' the marn, 1 do not saa she wonld have tauld fv then— Poor sanl! she never tanld it; That neit she deid. Taris has lost one of her most celebrated act- ors,—Bressant. Paralysis bas entirely disabled him, and the Theatre Francais is going to givea grand gala performance for his beneiit. Bres saut was the llegitimate son ofia poor grl, and- began Iife as a printer’s devil. Ile used to carry proufs to George Sund, who took a fancy to the bright and pretty boy, and hed bim educated for the staze. His talent was soon remarked, and after a few years' practice in small theatres he obtained an eagagement at the Varieties, and subsequently at the Gymnase. He made a really great name for himself in Russia. It was on his return from that country that he wus re- ceived at the Theatre Francais, where he re- mained a shining lizht until the beinning of his illness, about a year aro. A daushter of bis is married to onc of thejl’rinces Kotshoubeys, in Russia. MUSICAL MATTERS. CHICAGO. THE NERSHEY POPULAR CONCERT on Friday cvening was well attended, and throughout the whole of the admirable pro- gramme was very enjovable. Mr. Eddy played the “Marche Celebre” from Lachiner’s First Suite; Mendelssobn’s ¢ Athalia March”; Volek- mar’s Adagio in' A*at: and the C sharp minor study of Chopin, set for orzan by flaupt. The latter is principally interesting in its difficulties and as a curiosity of transcription, but Mr. Ed- ay, by his wonderful mastery of its diflicul- ties, especially in the pedal work, made sucha success that he secured an encore. Mr. Liebling had five very attractive numbers,—Raff’s Giga con variazione, op.. 91, mever played bere before, and & very brilliant work; Henselt’s Etude, 0 2, No. 7, ana his Spring Song, op. 15; Sterndale Bennett’s “Rondo Piacevole”; and a “Valse de Con- cert 7 by himself, which he bas entitled “Caur Dame.” The waltz. we believe, is tne first picce of his own work Mr. Liebling has ever given us. Besides its clear, characteristic rhythm and the brilliancy of its setting, there are manifest a scholarly attainment and a pe- cultar wefinement that lead us to hope he will ne? =F5p with this concert waltz. His playing of all his sumbers was peculiarly elezant and finished. While so many poor piano-thumpers are traveling- the country, it is to be regretted that Mr. Licbling keeps himself so quiet. He has too fine a talent to be hid under a bushel. Miss Mina Rommelss and Mr.2Dexter, in solos and duets, filled out the vocal part of the pro- gramme very acceptably. THE LUMBARD CONCERT. Thero was a suzgestion of the zood old days in the concert that was given at Hershey Iall on Thursday evening as a testimonial to Jules G. Lumbard. There was essentially the same audience gathered there that used to go to con- certs when Mrs. Bostwick, Mrs. Mozart, Annic Main, Miss Green, Cassic Matteson, Miss Whit- lock, Mauss, Taunt, Tobey, Cherley Seaverus, De Passio, Harry Johnson, and J. Q. Thompson did our singing at Philbarmonie, Musical Union, Oratorio, Ahner and Unger concerts, only many of the heads bave grown whiter. Among all* the singers we bhave named mob one Was o greater fuvorite than Jules G. Lumbard, by reason of the depth, strength, resonance, and richuess of his voice.. It still retains most of its old qualitics, and it was good to hear him azain for the sake of the old associations and to know that his fine voice is not yet impaired. The concert would have been more agrecable had he had comnetent assistance, for, with the cxception of the Oriental Quartette, Which- did some excellent part-singing, Mr. Lewis, who is always welcome, and Miss Dinsmore, a little sopruno full of earnestness and spirif, and possessing._avoce of such excellent natural quality and rare flexibility as to deserve the best schooling, there was little ou the programme that was very agrecable. As the audience, however, came to hear Lumbard, little account was made of the otbers, and the enthusiasm that erected him_and the familiar old voice with whose tones time has deait kindly, and the familiar faces of the old days, though a trifle older, were pleasant reminders of thetime when, perhaps, we had better music than we bave now. TRHE OATES TROUFE. During the past week, the Oates troupe has brought out seven different works: “Girotle Girofla,” *La Fille de Madame _Angot,” “ln Grande Duchesse,” “Lus Jolie Par- fameuse,” “Barpe Bleue,” *La Peri- chole,” and “La Princesse. de Trebi- zonde.”” The only mnovelty presented was an English version of *La Peric! ole ™ (the re- vised version), with which the company are hardly competent to grapple. Mrs. Oates’ best parts are those in Whick rampant hilarity s the main charncteristic,—Boulotte and_Clairette, for- instance; and she should abstain from roles in which pathos is a leading requisite. The com- pany is mferior, a3 a whole, to any previons oue with which Mrs. Oates has been connected; and the weakuess is especially apparens among the male portion of the organization. Miss Delaro and Miss Winston are up to the average; and Mrs. Maeder, as our theatre-moers know, is an admirable *first old woman.! -Mr. Laurent was a very zood second tenor, but is Dot competent to il the position of . tirst tenor. Mr. Allen’s fun_is of such a forced ' nature as zencrally to fail in provoking the risibilities, of the audience, Mr. Hall is altogether too stiff and sombre for oocra-bouffe. Mr. Seymour (formerly of McVicker's) was good s Louchard and King Buleche; and_so Was A'Ir. Bell as Trenitz and the Od Prisoner- ‘Lhe cliorus, thoush several of its members acquitted them- sclves ereditably in_minor roles, lacks training 25 2 body, and, consequently, frequently failed to do justice to the cusembles. S 'The munagement of the troape has been de- +this week, fective. The programmes have never contained the announcement for the following day; extra songs that have been promised have not been given; and when, for no apparent, or at least no explained, reason, a change has been made in the piece advertised to be begiver, the posters at the door of the theatre have failed to record the fact. THE MUSICAL COLLEGE CONCERT. The pupils of the Chicago- Musical College gave a coucert at the First Mcthodist Church, last Monday evening, to a very larze audience. ‘The coucert was, as usual, under the able di- rection of Messrs. ¥lorence Ziezfeld and E. de Campi, and was noteworthy for several reasons. The programme itself was an improvement on former occasions, all but three of the numbers being entitled to the term classie. Beethoven “was represented by thrce numbers, and Rossini, Havdn, Mcyerbeer, and Weber by one each. Most of the pupils seemed to have learned the value of self-confidence, aud thus showed the results derived by pupils appearing in public at an carly age. Of the thirteen pupils Who ap- peared, six at least are sure of more than the ordinarv degree of suctess in the musical world, namely, the Misses Peake, Butler, Somers, Buel, Goodman, and Knott, 4 The Misses Rittic Richards and Jennie Malone opened the concert by a very brilliant and praise- worthy performance of ouc of Uottschali’s dashine concert waltzes, Miss Richards especially displaying a technique of more than average beauty. Mrs. N. G. Iglehart sang the ever- popular “L’Arditi Valse™ in very pleasing style, showing berself to be the possessor ot 3 sovrano_voice of a very sweet quality. Miss Awnes Knott satisied all hearers by a praise- worthy performance of the Becthoven sonata, op. 10, No.3. She pleased more by the thor- oughly musicianly manner in which she played it thai by the display of any astonishing exceu- tion. Miss Fannie Peake, a_new-comer here, and apparently oneof Mr. De Campt's most faithful pupils, sang the difficuls **Una Voce Poca Fa.' She has a soprano voice of good range and quality, quite powerful and flexible. She sang the aria in excellent style and was rewarded by a storm of apolause. Miss Claudie Buel is always a favorite at these concerts, having made wany friends by her fine playing. Her talents are of a superfor order, and, being studious and painstaking, she rarcly falls to win favor from even a critical audience. Her number was a very pretty Haydn sonata, to which she did full justice.” Miss Ettic Butler wafned an enthusiastic encore for her singing of the * Vago Suol,” trom the * Huguenots.” Iler volce s rich, clear, and pesctrating, of a good musical quality, and has been made useful by thorougih culivation. She uses it well, and sings with much expression and feeling. Her singing of the difficult cadenza was remirkably ne. Miss Hattie Gillett is another xooa pu- pil, Wwho distinguished herself by her admirable playing of the piano part of " the Beethoven trio, op. 1, No. 8. She played with 2 good ap- preciation’of the composer’s idea, and paid due regard to time and expression. Miss Ada Som- ers, & most promising youny voealist, has a pow- erful soprano voice, of considerable breadth and sympathetic quality. She sings with a great degree of dramatic fervor. and uses her voice to good advantage. Her singingof an aria from Pacini’s **Saffo ** was one of the features of the cvening. One of the most artistic peformances Quring the evenive was Miss Zula Goodman's laying of Weber's very difficult sonata, op. 24 t was an arduous task, but the young lady a2- quitted herself with great credit. Her exeeu- tion is excellent, and her playing cotbines good taste with many true musical qualities. The trio, *Well said, mv son,” from *Fidetio,” sung by the Misses Marston and-Peake, and Mr. Robert Marston, wasa fitting tinale to a most cnjoyable concert. CHORAL USION CONCERT. The West Side Choral Union, an _organization farorably known turouzh the musical cnter- tajuments already given, will ive another con- cert in the Union Park Congregational Church, nest Thursday evening, under the direction of Mr. O. Blackman. The soloists on this occasion will be the Misses Grace A. Hiltz, Mina and Pauline Rommeiss, Messrs. Wheeler and Me- Wade, and Mr. A. E. Buisscret, violinist. The prozramme, which is preseated below, will be found very interesting, containing as does several noveities, amone them an ancient four- part song by John Benet, ©Flow, O My Tears,” and a prayer of Franz Schubert, for chorus, quartette, and solos. The latter is one of Schu- bert’s more pretentious vocal works and will be of unusual mterest. The programme will be us follows: 5 PART 1. 1. *‘See, the Conguering Hero Comes."...Handel 2. +*Woodbird .. R LAt 3. **Stars of the S Smart +. Violin solo .. -Clapisson ai G. **The Mountaincer™ L. Marshall Mr. Edwa exter. 7. *~Gebet” (hymn forgolosand chorus). Schubert Solos, Misses Hillz and Rommeiss, and Alessrs. Wheeler and McWude. PART 1. 1. ;‘ Deal Gently" (seven-part chorus)..T.Gaugler 2, Song. ¢+Speed Thee, s I 5. “‘Flow, O My Tears”.. 8. **Wandering Minstrels ™ ‘[he sale of tickets will begin at Root & Sous’, 156" State street, on Tuesday morningz. Ex chanie tickets may be obtained of mewmbers of the chorus. THE THURSBY CONCERTS. The first -concert in Which Miss ‘Thursby will appear will take place at McCormick’s Haull on 'l’:xnsfl:v evening, tne ‘19th inst. The occasion will be an unusnally interesting one, as her owa troupe will take part fu the programmie without any outsidt tance. The troop comprises Mr. W, T. Carleton, baritone, who was so loug identified” with the Rosaand Kelloge Enslis ‘opera troupes; Mr. A. Il Pease, the piani who s too well known bare to zeed any special introduction; Mr. Colby, one of the best accow- anists in the couutry: aud Master Leopold ichtenbers, the boy violin virtuoso. As the latter hos made 3 fecat success at the East, under no less a conductor than Theo- dore Thomas, who never tolerates medi- ocrities, a_bricf sketch ol him will be of interest. He was born in California in 1861, and, at an early age, ¢vinced o strong _incliua- tion towards musi The inclination was fos- tered, and instruction on the violin_was given Dim with gootyresults. In 1874 M. Wieniuwski visited San Francisco. The boy was presented to him, and tke genial virtuoso promptly de- tected his real aotitude for the study ot the Violin. After giving him a few lessous he pro- d that the promising child should come to New York and thence accompuny him to Brusscls, there to complete his education. Some months afterward Master Lichtenbers waited upon M. Wienjawski and reminded him of his proposal. In tne interim, the violinist had been appointed to succeed M. Vieux- temps at the Brussels Couservatory. But behad met swith reverses, and was quite unable to de- fray the cxpenses of his protcze’s trip. He left for Europe_in July, and Master Liuhtcnbcrfi was compelled to postpone_his departure until more favored by fortune. Evidence was once again afforded that thelad iwas born under a Iucky star, for o weathy banker eenerously offered to supply him _with suflicient funds to enable_him to pursuc his studies abroad. Mas- ter Lichtenberg started without aclay, and in July, 1876, carried off with great celat the first prize for violin-playing at the Brusscls Conserv- atory. In Belelum, and during his sojourn in other parts of the Old World, the youtliful per- former has had the rare advantage of M. Wien- jawski’s tuition and fricudship. We shall speak hercafter of the details of the programme of this concert, mercly premising that Miss Thursby will singan aria from Her- 0ld’s ** Le Pre aux Clercs,” Pease’s ** Luliaby,” and in o duct from *I Masnadieri” with Carle- ton. A CARD FROM MME. SALVOTTL To the Editor of The Tridbune. Cm1caGo, March 9.—With reference to my failure to appear in the second performance of “Queen Esther,” I desire to cxplain to my friends and the public—first, that1 was deceived both as respeets the manazer and the character of the entertainment, the first havine shown his faflure to fulfill his contract and refusing to pay me as stipulated in the same, and the second, in that it was o burlesque of the cantata, un- worthy the place iu which it was given; and, second, as_soon as I became aware of thesc facts I had noother course left open but to withdraw my name from any association with the caterprise. MARIE SALVOTTL LOOAL MISCELLANY. H. &. Perkins, of this clhrv, conducts a Musical Convention at Wenona, Lil., this weck. Mme. Rive-King, assisted by Miss_ Abbie Whinnery, will give a concert in Detroit, April 22 5 The public rehearsal of Miss and Mr. Root’s pupils will be held in the Apollo Club rooms instead of at Miss Root’s room. Thoe borformance s at 3 o'clock Wednesday after- noon as usual. * The Mendelesshon Club of Hyde Park gave one of their reunions at Flood's Hall on Mon- * day evenine to an sudience of 400 persons. Tne music was perbaps the most popular yet given in any of their pleasant entertainments. Mr. Lyon, of Lyon & Healy, has invented o A vemens called the ©Patent Reso- pator,” for thewound strings on Upright pianos. Cnis appliance takes awav the brassy and metal- lic tone and gives an cven scale throughout the instrument. ! The cantata of * Daniel,” so sgecojs(nlly performed last winter by a chorus of fitty voices, wiil, by request, be repeated in Western, Ave- nue Baptiat Church, on Tuesday eveniug, 12, ‘ne solo parts will - be- taken as follows: Que Miss Jessic Hardy; Sister of Azariah, Ars. E. Hall; Azariah, Mr. E. Dexter; Danicl, 3Ir. J. E. MelVade: King, Mr. C. II. Greenleal; Herald, mr: E. J. Wilson. * The first_concert of- the new series by the Lieseang String Quartette will be given at Brand’s Hall, on the 224 iust. The programme will include a quartet by Mendelssohn; a trio by Rafl; aquartette by Hayan; aud a quintet by Schumann. The benett tendered to Mr. Loesch, the Teader of the Tarner Hall -orchestra, will take place March 24, upon which occasion the orches- tra will be enlarged to sixty pieces and Messrs. Rosenbecker, Fehl, and Lewis will play a con- certo for three violius. R Mrs. Bugenie de Roode Rice will give her first reception of this vear next Wednesday evening at her residence, No. 9 North Throop street, and wilt nla{‘ the “ Don Giovanni fantasie” by Thalbere; the G minor Ballade of Chopin, and Schumann’s Novelette fn F. Miss Maud M. Ruce will play the Sonata Pathetique of Bee- thoven, The attendance on Wednesday evening last at the first rebearsal of the * Festival Chorus™ at Trinity Episcopal Church was very fattering. As the music underlined for the Enster festival isquite diflicult and will require united study, 1o new members will be admitted to the chorus after the 20th _inst. Rehearsals will be held every Wednesday evening at the chapel, corner ’?ta'gwcnty-ssxtn street and Michigan avenue, at _The Thursby farewell concert on Monday, the 25th fost., will be o brilliant climax to the brief Serics of concerts in which_this_accomplished singer will apoear here. With Miss Thursby, Mrs. Ames-Billings, Mrs. Humphrey-Allen, Jiiss Clark, Fessenden, Carleton, Whitney, the Swedish Ladics’ Quartette, young Lichtenbers, Allen Pease, and Colby, concert-goers ouzht to be content. - It is an en semble not often seen on the stage. The programme for the Turner Hall concert this afternoon includes Schliefarth’s *¢ Schuetz- en March *'; overture to Auber’s * La Sirene”; Brahms’ Hungarian Dances; overture to Men- delssolin’s * Fingal’s Cave™; the andante from Mozart’s Quintct op. 1037 Gounod’s ¢ Funcral March of a Marionette; Liszt’s Third Rbai 3 sclections from *11 Trovatore s Stranss & Carnival Pictures Waltz”; and Scueuer’s “ Souvenir d’Alsace wattz.” M;ss. William L. Brainard, of Rome, N.Y.,is tomake her future home in Chicago, and is at present stopping with her cousin, Mrs. Lydia Cudwell, at No. 311 Michizan avenue. M Brainard is the young lady who sang so aced ably at the Chicago Medical College exercises in Plymouth Church Tuesday last. Combinfog as shie does pure and - sympathetic quality of tone, with considerable power aud dramatic ability, and the determination to pursue a systematic course of voice culture with our best instruct orz, we bespeak for her a pleasant recognition among the musical people of Chicago. Miss Annie Louise Cary has beeu engared for a grand concert at the Centenary M. E. Church, and will be assisted by the following talent ot our own city: Mrs. J. A. Farweil, Mrs. J. Balfour, Mr. H. L. Sloau, and Mr. Robert T. Howard. ‘This coucert will form one of i course of four eutertaiuments wiven by this chureh, the otbers being by Miss Georze E. Cayvan, a Boston clocutionist, the Rev. Robert Collyer, and Prof. David Swing.—a course that allowill admit is worthy of their cucouragement. We are 1wformed: that they will be at popular prices, which, with the excellent programine presented, will attract the people. Mr. 8. G. Pratt, the well-known pianist, is contemplating u concert toward the close of Leot, for the production espevially of two of his own works, * The Prodigal Son™ (s phoniv), sud his Awpniversary overture, whic! have hitherto been heardonly in Europe. this connection, a letter before us from Asg: Hamerick, of the Peabody Institute Con- servatory of Music at Baltimore, one of the most competent of critics, speaks in hizh praisc of these works, end indicates that sume of Mr. . Pratt’s works will be placed in the Peabudy concert programmes next season. Should Mr. Pratt decide to give his “concert, it will undoubiedly prove a vers interesting oc- casion. A concert was given on Friday evening in St. John’s Reformed Episcopal Churci oo Ellis avenue. The sudicnce was oue of the happy kind, and testified to the harmony of the per- formers by liberal encores. The cnorus, a select numberof gentlemen, rendered ** Belcaruered, by Sullivan; * A Calm Sea,” by Rubinstein; “Swedish Song™; ¢ Miller's Soug”; and “ Order of Toasts.” Mrs. Jewet, and Mrs. Hall sang as duets, “Fly Away Birdiing” and “Sweet and Low,” and separately, ** My love has gone a sailing” and ** The Lost Chord,” by Mrs. Hall, and ¢ Heaven hath shed a tear ™ and *Iam waiting,” by Mrs. Jewett. Mr. William Lewis, the violinist, played the selec- tions: * Cavatina,” by Raff; Fivale from * Don Juan,” by Vieustemps; and * Komance aud Roudo,” by Wicniow and for the encores, “Sounds from Home ™ amd ** Howme, Sweet Home.” Altogether, it was one of the best concerts given in the southern section of the city for some time. One of the most delightful entertainments of the scason was & complimentary testimonial to Mre. Enoch Roof at the Palmer House Club Rooms, last Monday evening. The occasion wwas social, musical, and artistic in its featurcs, and the programme, which was peculiarly clegant, called out some of the best talent in the city. Mrs. Oliver Johnson sanz two of Rubinstein’s songs, *‘Es. Glinkt der Thau and *Du bist wit cine Blume,” and Gounod’s pretty ballad, **Oh! that we twowere Mayine,” and Miss Ella White, a popular Spanish melody and Molloy's descriptive song, *The Clang 6’ the Wooden Stoon.” The justrumental uuin- ber of the programme was Goitschalk’s set- ting of the ** William Tell” overture for four havds. by Mrs. B. F. Hadduck aud Miss Nina Warren. To complete toe programme, Mrs. Laura E. Dainty and Mrs. Koot, herself an accomplished artist and reader, recited several attractive selections. The club roows were iriven gratuitously by Mr. Palmer, the printing by Mrs. E. L. Jansen, the piano by Lycn & Healy, and the flowers by Allen, Reisig, and Haskins. The entire entertainment was mark- od by eclegance and refiucment in ail its sur- roundings, and was a tribute well deserved b the accomplished lady to whom it was zcndurmf; and in every way creditable to those who con- ceived and carried it out. ABROAD. SOME HARD MUSICAL FACTS. Jerome Hopkins, of New York, is sometimes called a musical madman, but there is a method in his madness, when he undertakes character- ization, as the following extracts from the last number of his paper show. He classes singers as follows: Dressy singers; undressy singers; slonchy sing- ers; brazen-Taced singers; timid singers; screechy singera; bellowing sinzers; sharpaingers: flatsing- ers? school-girlisli singers, who never sing with- out their sheet-masic; confident singers who never hold the notcs before them: mincing singersy touchy singers; -‘‘don't-care-a-damn” singers. Then we have encore singers who are so_crazy for a recall, that it is dnmi':mns for one of the audi- cnce so'much 88 blow hisnose juatafter a_song. 1est the fair warbler mistake it Tor the thunder of upplause. He hits some organists as follows: They don’t know how long or how short an inter- Jude should be, nur does one in 2 hundred kuow how to invent an interlude in keeping with the sentiment of the words, the character of the tune, oraivided into measures, ~ They usuzlly ramole Over & quantity of harmones without head, tail, or izzard: a toot here on the flute stop, and a whistie There on the fifteenth. Yet our ambitious choir- loft idiots supply a vast amoant of this bogus musical hash, and it is swallowed without gagzing Dy the still more idiotlcconsregations who pay Det- Montco prices for it, and smack their lips over it afterwards, as if it were pottéd terrapin, and not fhe ecraptngs of beer-garden and iminstrel-hall trenchers, not even so much as warmed over, “This of choir boys: . To select, train, teach, kick. cuff, pinch, knock, allure, reward, frighten, hit, slap, tip, hair-pail, smack, spank, refgin, and enamorichoir-boye with their art, is one of the most difficult of all tasks, and that s the reason there arc 80 few boy-choirs fit to be heara ontside of Bedlam. And this of quartctte cholrs: 1f the individual voices are ¢ood, the ensemble is asually bad, If the ensemble 18 good, there is usually bat one good solo voice in the lot, and of it, the other thrce are perpetually jealous. If the guartet fs really good, the organiat generally spoils everything by his stupid playinz. OPERATIC NOTES. The Cincionati Zimes Is sad because Strakosch substituted * Mignon ' for * Don Giovanni®’ the other day and abuses him. ICit had only Jnown how abominably the troupe does * Don Giovonui ” it would have thankced him. The Cincinnati Enquirer, apropos of ¢ 3Mig- non,” says: Physically; Mlle. Roze is not ethereal. Last evening Tom Karl rashed into the barning build- ine to rescue her and failed to appear. In tryinz to bring oat Mile. Roze, it was evident that he had bitten off more than he could chew, as they say down in Indiana. At last Gottschalk, who seems 10 be sumewhat on_his_muscle. rushed in to help Karl, and the audience was greatly amused 1o see the former come etagzering in from a wing (the door of the castle was narrow) bearing his burden’ of loveliness, and the disconraged Karl trotting behind. 'The tenor should be a_mighty hero, and not leave tne baritone to rescoe the heroine, ~That js bad on the untties. Karl should eat roast beef. I and take a courve of dumb-bell and Indian-club practice. B The New York corréspondent of the Boston Herald tells the following story of the difficul- tiesattending therccent production of *Rienzi by the Adams-Pappenheim troupe of New Yorl The receipts were lirge fora fow nights, but, later, they fell ot badly. The salaries have been generally a week behindband in payment.. Thu expenses were $1,400 a night for the production of old operas; but it would cost 3,500 more to put & new onc on the stave. *Rienzi” was advestised for last Friday eveninz. The chorus and orchestra thonght they saw in the anxicty to produce that opera a chance to get their wages. They cemand- | ed payment. Mr. Rullman was asked-to loan $3,500 to mect this emergency. Llc sald thathe would lend the money, but not unless he was &e- cared against loss, and mone could be given him except a firet chance at receipts, e would not make such a_barmain arain, and the production of “‘Rienzi” was mnecessarily deferred. **Faust" was given instead. . **Rienzi® was again adver- tised for last evening. In the morning the cho- ruses decided 1ot to sing unless they were paid their overdae wa Mme. Pappenheim, ratber than close the season 8o abruptly, drew $3,500 bank and so insared the production of **Rienz) She is almost certain. to lose thy money, which represents the savings from a great amount of hard work. She has this season, trav- ¢led 7,000 miles, and =ang on an average fonr times 3 ‘but will, doubtless, come out poarer than when she bezan; and the result is not owing to any lick of ability. or_popularity on_her. part. 3ir. Adams has no money invested in the eater- prie. Hle represents the money of his brother, & Bostonian, to whom creditors ac referred. MUSICAL NOTES. ¥ Mme. Madeline Schiller, the charming pianist. who has been very seriously ill In Boston lately, is in a fair way to recover, weare bappy to be able to say. Four hundred and twenty chotrs, in all 15,000 voices, from eizhty departments of France, have entered for competition for the great prize fir lcchornl singlng at the Paris Exhibition, July Mme. Christine Nilsson has left St. Peters- burg for Vienna. Ou her road thither she is to sing at concerts in different German towns. She was to appear on March 3 at the Imperial Opera- House, most. prub:mlf' as Muryuerite in *‘Faust,” witn Madame Trebelli as Siebef, Siaznor Massinl as Faust, and Herr Bebrens as JMephistophetes. Flotow appears to have brought a number of operas in his portiolio on his visit to Paris. M. Escadier some time since announced - that “Rosellana”” was the name of the distinguished composer’s last work, and that it would soon be produced at the ftaliens, but now he informs the public that another, called * The Encbaut- x;c;si.t"’ by the same author, will be substituted or it. % s A Moscow correspondent writes that Mme. Gerster-Gardinj, alter singingin the ** Sonnam- bula,” * Rigoletto,” aucin,” ** Puritaui,” # Hamlet,” and * Traviata,’” completed her en- gagement by appearing for her benefit as Zosina u It Barbicre,” and next day returned to St. Petersbury, where she cnacted Ophetia. When the Italian opera season is closed, at the begin- ning of this month, the Hunzariau prima dopna will zive a serics of representatious at the Tm- perial Opera-House m Berlin, The New York Tribune of the 4th lsays: “The ‘Siegiried Idsl' by Richard Waazner, which was played at Thomas’ rehearsal, yester- day, for the first time in America, and i to be given at the Symphony Conuert to-mortow Tight, has only an indirect and_Jdoudtfal refer- ence to the Siegfried of the Nibelunzen Trilo- #y, its hero being Master Siegfried Warner, the composer’s youusest child. It was written in 71, as a birthday surprise offering ' to Mme. - Cosima = Wagner, and it has ouly recently been withdrawn irom the privacy of the home circle and committed to the world in print. At the time of its concep- tion the Wagners were living on toe Lake of the Four Cantons, where from their iwy-covered vill, they looked across the emerald waters 1o picturesque Lucerne, and saw the majestic out- lives of the Rigi and Pilatus and Burgerstock throuzh the thick boughs of overbunging trees. It was here that ““Siexfried” and the G otterdsmmerung were finished, and here oceurred -the little domestic festival commem- orated by this piece of music. Wagner had en- wuged 2 small oreticstra trom Zurich to perform it, and Havs Richter (who conducted the Bay- reuth performances) held the baton. In the early morning the plasersranzed themselves on the steps of the villa aud rovs<d the household by these tender idyllic strains. The music is intended to be a_peom of childhood, bricht, joyous, and natural, aud admirers recognize in it, moreover, a picture of the pretty lake-side scene, with the waters dancing fn the sun and the branches casting their trembling shadows on. the grass.” ——————— T!E BIG BONANZA. Special Correspondence of The Tribune. SAx Fraxcisco, Cal.,, March 3.—The passaze of the Silver bill paturally meets with cordial approval in this home of the surplus metal, more especially as there is a’ prospect of nfe of it. They are puzzling just now to deciphara cun- ningly-worded telegram sent by Jim Fair, one of the Bonanza quartet. It reads: *The baby is bizger than its daddy.” Many conflicting so- lutions have been wiven. Some incline to the opinion that a new bonanza bas been discovered in the favored mines: others that it is something distinet and separate from cither, and bigger thau both. But the most reasonable theory advanced is that they have besun to prospectthe *tailings?” of the two biz mines, and that the amount of ore realized therefrom is passing great. This, however, will in no wise benetit the public. T him that hath shall be mven.” The mill- -ers are cutitled to the tailings; and the millers in this case are Flood and O'Brien. Mrs. Sandy Bowers, the sceress of the sage- brush hills, has foretold the discovery of & new lode. She announces that it pitehes*direetly intoagraveyard,—aniaconvenient circumstance, —but, 5s the ola lady frequently chances uoon truth in her propuecies, the bones of the deatl ‘Washoeites will probably be displaced. At all events, ither the **big baby,” or the probhecy bas given the market a stronz upward tendency, and, for the first time for manv dags, the brokers are jubilant. JASSARTH. e —— THE NAMELESS TOMB! [Prepared for the Emmet Centenary Celddru Irinh Literary Assctution, Caleago, Marck 4. One hundred years! and still no storied urn— No tablet graved with glowing words that burn— Memorics the name of him who dicd In the full bloom of youthful manhood's pride, For Ireland’s fove! And 8o it must be, till our native land ‘Amidst the nations takes ner rightful standl For He enjoined it, #tanding face to faco With the destroyers of his land and race, Beside his gravel Bat wherefore task the sculptor’s art? His monn- ment 1s wide and high as Heaven's broad firmament! 'Wherever human hearts 'gainst tyranny aro striving, L Wherever slaves their gyves are flercely riving, Tiis name Is named? Tiis name—or kindred names—from lip to Iip it passed; % Sach ‘memotics 1o aching hears are bravely clasped, inl. thtoush the magicof such hcro-darng, mey Whose trenchant zrasp relased, revive again To strive unew! . Tl saw his land degraded; Freedom dead 3¥ithin her bounds; Oppositlon’s grizzly head Glowering above her with nnpitying frown: fier heasthstones murder-stained; her peopld down In abject thralll And his prond son] revoited at the swronz fle eaw uround. Burning with purpose strong To purge his pative shore of forei:m yoke, He vowed to rest not till the last Jink broke, And burst forever! e eaw the hamlets blaze: he hieard the shricks Of midnight-horror where the assassin wreaks ilis vengeance in the sacred name of Laws And awore 'twere manlice the aword to draw, ‘And, ighting, diel E A chicftain's micn! a lover's, bero's heact, ‘A warrior's soul to darc a warrior's part. Were his. And all nis heart and soul he gave On one great cast, **for Freedom of a Grave— For Native Land!" They slaaghtered him!_They soucht to doom iis pame to infamy! Flung in a felon's tomb, The tyranta thonght—0 Dlind i—the heaped-tp, shame ‘Woald hide from human ken the sacred flame His being stirrea! Dut martyred sons of Freedom NzvEs di ‘We give their bodies to the grave—(hey Wita chill, pale Solitude; but ubroad # Sweep their white souls before the face of God, d preach His Woral - Then wonder not, from that anzraven stoze Tias runy, and ever rings, a clarion tone, That tirouyh the heart of Erin ever roils— More potent thas & thousand brazen scrolls To wase her sons! **No lgflnph be mine until my Conntey's free!™ e spake with calm, prophetic certinty That in God's chosen time, or oe it late or soon, 1n golden words in Ircland's golden noon "Should shine his namel 0 ye of little faith! who basely palter - With God's Trath, who meanly shun the altar Where badled Freedom's sacred fires still burn, “Remorseful of your crime, tepent, retura, cnew your vows! Hiave Fartirdike him who dared the tyrant's might; Have oz fike Freedom's rizht; i Have Lovr like AT ckon Motherland; Jave Conrage wnmpw Erasp the battle Y sg"win the Crowal J. A, Joxce,