Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 17, 1878, Page 10

. THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE SUNDAY. MARCH: 17. 1878~SIXTEEN | PAGES.! . ' AMUSEMENTS. Review of Last Week's Theatrical Events. Announcements of Approaching b Entertainments. Combination of Three Concert Troupes in One. The Thursby Concerts and the Wolfsohn Testimonial. Opera in New York City and Cheyenne. THE DRAMA. TIE PRODUCTION OF THE ** SCHOOL FOR SCAN- DAL AT HOOLEY’'S THEATRE " on Friday cvenlpg was the most ambitious effort of the Daly company, excepting the clos- ing performauce, *As You Like It,” which came too late fn the serics to afford an oppor- tunity for critical observation. The representa- tion of Sheridan’s great comedy Was a very ereditable effort for a traveling company, reach- ing occasionally to & polat of excellence but rarely witnessed of late ycars, as in the admira- ble interpretation of Sir Peer Ly Charles TFisher, who is the head and front of the troupe. Miss Davenport’s Lady Teazle exhibited notbing ‘more than the expected accomplishments of an attractive-looking woman who is thoroughly versed in the ‘“business®. of the stage. She adhered very wiscly to the tradi- tional picture of the character, without striviny after Origivality, aud succceded in making it simply pleasing, without evoking anything more than a kindly pat of approval, which she well deserved. The charm of the performance lay in the judicious disposal of the cast, which, although here and there deficient, was, on the whole, exccedinely well chosen. Mr. Fisher wes not called before the curtain, bot the audience appreciated the faet, all the £ame, that hewas the only artist in the company who could be entitled to the distinction of being a “star.” Mr. Barrymore plased Charles Surjace with unquestionuble intellizence, and won sey- eral hearty recognitions. This gentleman pos- scsses many admirable qualities, and some dangerous traits, whichk, if not guarded nmainst, muy develop into manserisms that may orove to be as odious as those of George Parks. Mr. Parksis the typical renteelly seductive youn 1 aentleman of the period. What seductive qualities be pos- sessess for women it is difficult to concelve, tookiug at the figure from the auditorium,. but hie appears to be sclected op all oceasions by the management to personate the irresistible swell, with faultless garments and monotonous voice, who causes silly maideos and wives to suck the honey of his music words. Strange that a man who is felt to be a zood deal of a bore tothe spectators should be chosen to personate a lady- Killer. The Daly engagement has been finun- clally a success, and it has been a pleasure to see once more on the Chicazo stage such ster- ing actors as Fisher and Davidge, and, an old favorite here, Owen Fawcett. who appears to be improving in many ways as time wears on. + UNCLE TOM'S CABIN,” which is not, strictly speaking, a new play,~it was sceu somewhere prior tothe great fire, —las filled Haverly’s Theatre every evening during the week. {ts preseot revival is the re- sult of a mauia for spectacular efects ruther thag a genuiue reawaxeniog of {nterest in the Incidents and characters, and according to the amount of care and expense bestowed upon the production wiil the public respond. Mr. Gott- hold, tne Pittsburz manager, has taken time by the forelock {n this case, jumping in ahcad of possible combinations In the East, which have been' threatening for some to over- sun the Western fields with this ancient but interesting piece. At the Adelphi the play has been very well done as to the reudering of Lhe old old stary, while the picrorial acown- paniments, the chorus, the crowds of cotored people, Lave been hiardly up to the expectations raised by the great bill-writer of the North- west. Some improvements wight be hinted— {for instance, in the dring scene of Fva, who is manifestly smothered to death by a crowd of negro women who are permitted in that Solemn ‘moment to infest her bedside. Ove would say it was no wonder the angels came to the rescue of the poor child,~it was their dauty to do it. Certain pretty and pathetic cffects ‘might have been evolved out of this scene, but thé opportunity Was mot taken zood sdvantage of, prodably on account of the fact that there Was only 2 weel’s run in prospect. It is probable that the same company will_rotarn bere after o while, 2and repeat * Uncle Tom™ with more elaborate surroundings. ¥ : T HATERLY'S MINSIRELS * are at the New Chicago. During the past week they have crowded the theatre to overflowing very eyening, and bave revived an interest in minstreley such as was scareciy to have been ap- ticipated exeept rom a combination like this, which comprises the very best talent of the kind 10w in the country. & LOCAL NOTES. Frank Mayo with “ Dayy Crockett” comes to the Adelphi next week. The Union Square Theatre Company will ar- rive at the Pacific Hotel irom Toledo this morning. Mr. Harry Sanderson was in the city last weck, and Las arrunged for the production of Guorge Fuweett Rowe's version of ©The Ex- iles™ at Hooley’s Theatre. Miss Louise Graham, who made ber debut on the stagre v Chicazo, bas won _hizh praise from the New York press for heracting in the part of Aariein ** Our Boarding-House.” The Haverly Minstrels, at the New Chicago Theatre, will Yemain ancther weck, and five 8 programme containing sume of the latest specialties and comicalities i the biack art. Tom faylor’s play * Love Levels All " will be played a1 Standard Hall oo the 15t of April, by a select company of nmateurs of this city, under the direction of Mr. Henry F. Byron, an actor who is said to be an actor of celebrity in pe and in this country. B A dramatic agency for the Nortbwest has just been opened by Arthur G. Cambridge m.u} C E.. Tnckswn, in Room No. 2, New Chicago ‘Theatre Building, where they will attend to £ show business " in all its branches. Mr. Cam- bridge has had & wide cxperience in theatrical life, and ouzht 10 be well qualified to conduct stch a concern suecess{ully. A few evenings since Miss Etta Monroe gave an cxbibition of her elocutionary accompiich: mentsat a small private reception at the resi- demee of Mr. J. 8. VanDerslice, No. 1578 Mich- zan gvenue. Selections from ‘Shakspeare, and rom’ varions other works, were readered in & style highly complimentary to Miss Monroe as an elocutionist, and very agrecable to those who were her privilezed listeners. M. John R. Allen Lns returned from a visit to New York, where he has been occupied i locking up 1resh taient for the New Chicazo Theatre. With the exception of a few of the principal houses, be eays theatrical business-is Dot very bright in New York, and, a5 one map- ager remarked 10 him, one can't tel] what kind of business any liouse is doing, the dead-head system is run there to such a frightful extent. A'musical and literary entertainme; riven on Thursday evening at the Boten Bans ongrezational Church, which promises to be 20 unusally fine intellectual treat. 1t is for ¢ benetlu of the chiurch, aud. the Society have . jpainsto preparcan entertsinment that ~ should be worthy of the best occasions. Prom- {pent in the programme is the name of Aiss £ m;gn_;lé&zfl im[::m&wno is announced to de- nteresting r Fulk will preside at the srpme o0 Louls Mr. Alexander Wurster, the manacer German Theatre tn this cits, Takes & beacht. op the New Chicago this evening. O this oceaston will be presented a new singing farce (Grosee Posse) by Kueisel and SJacobson. sfr. Wurster has made great ces during the past year in bis efforts to'give first-class German perform. ances in this City, yet owing to the Dbard times 800 other causes be did not receive the sunport from the'public which he sbounld have had. Re deserves a substautial recommition from theGer- mans in this city this evening, to make up in some measure for the loss he nos sustained dur- ing the last year. On Monday evenine the long-cxpected pre- sentation of “A Celebrated Casge ” will be g'fien 8t McVicker’s Theatre, with the Union Square Company as the exponents of the characters. It is not necessary to acquaint the public here with the fact that this drama has been the principal attraction of the season in New York and elsewhere, and that it is the roduc- tion of the suthors of ““The Two Orphans.” It i said to excel that celebrated drama in emo- tional interest, and its production at McVicker’s, with the aid of the exccllent scenic artists of that theatre, will constitute an event in the nis- tory ot this prosperous season. Mr. E. A Sothern will open an engagement at Hooley's Theatre to-morrow evening as * The Crushed Tragedian,” a character. in which bo has won almost as wide & celebrity as he en- joved in his Dundreary. The play Is & rear- rangement of Tom Taylor's *The Prompter’s Box.” It deals with the stage,—its oddities, its technfcalities, jts defcats, its successes, its { roses, its thorns, its magnavimities, and its etty jealousles, The character of Fitzaltamont s 2 satire upon the old stiited, frothy, bellos- {ng style of acting, and Mr. Sothern appears to have achieved in the delincation an artistic triumph second only to his first. The household fairy extravaganza ‘¢ Aladin, or the Wonderful Lamp,” will be brought out at Haverly’s Theatre, under the manazemnt of John Elisfer, who will em%loy {u its presenta- tion the entire resources of his two Opera House companfes. The programme announces, in the gargeous language of the great bill-writer of the Northwest, *~a perfcet blaze of brilliancy,” ¢ magnificent pageant.” aud “a tremendous dramatic compauy.” Mr. Elisler will appear as Karrac, and Miss Lillie Sweeney as Aladdin. Among the other attractions “are_the Milton Jaspers, Charles Diamond, Katie Howard, and Frauncis Norton. We are also promised new scenery, brilliant illuminations, dances, ete. A STAGE-STRUCE ELK. A correspondent of the Cincionati Commer- cial gives an amusing account of the initial rep- rescntation at the Broadway Theatre of George Fawcett Rowe's version of “The Exiles The public curiosity Lns been stimulated for weeks by the anuouncement of the thrilling sceno which was preparing for_George Fawcett Rowe's play of *¢ The Exiles.” Tt was to be a Siberian landscape, and through the forest. flyinz from enec- mies and from wolves, was to dush n sleigh drawn Dy reindeer apd dogs.’ The reindeer were ta ve represonted by elk, anusually fine specimens of which_bad been_obtained, and they were being trained fn secret, becanse of the war of injunctions over the play. The opening night the house was packed—ihe joint result of the reindeer and the in- Junctions. The piay advanced untll the forest sceno was reached. The 8now was falling fast, and the perspective was quite Siberian—the conven- tional Stberia at least. The viliain encounters the married beroine, who is alone inthe forest with her sister, their horse baving been devoured by the Wolves. 'The villain has his sleighs near at hand, but he refuxcs to gave her unless she will consent %o marry bim. Her husband i3 a political convict, and ig dead to her. Will she consent? Maddened at the thought of hier sister's dying of coldand Lu: perthore, she consents. * Bring the sleighy shonts the villain, and Lis attendants rush away to get them. Every neck in the andience was streich- ©¢d to get_ the imst sight of the wild and untamed elk, and all the actors on the stage were evidently nervoue for foar il might not ¢o well. Here was a greatrisk. The animals, instead of assbing across the stage, were to come on, stop, and start agsin, Still, they bad been traincd. and the an- dience was all anticipation. First camea small sleleh_drawn apparently by four waolly dogs, amisble little trotters they were, but really shoved aloug by the fierce looking Cossucks who rin along- side. Mhen came a sleigh drawn by oné deer—and such a deer! n place of the e}k thal were promised us was one tame, Iat, frightened old doe. so hiehly civitized that 'she “was fairly round shouldered, und, of courre, without a gign of horn. The last of tbs’ inoffensive cavalcade was an old white borse, 0 long released, apparently. from service in front of horse-car that Liese late hours made him slcepy. Instend of dashing across the stage, then, the irain came down toward the foot- ligts, and then, after stopning to take in the new Dpassenyers, was to rush off at the right hand of the undience. Everybody jumped in with the ut- most expedition, tne uctors tulked loud. the or- chestra tooted, the dogg made & bold push, and the deer followed: wihen, just ae the doss' were aboutto mase a noble exit, the first sleigh wout klap-bang agulnsta_scene, *he deer was blockaded and the borse and his sleigh etranded iu the widdle of the stage, Down came the cnrtain with a rush, the women in the sleigh bobbiny their hends nv to Ece if it woe goingto fall ou them, and the sudi- ence screamtng with Jaughter in a way that I never Reard an audichce laugh before at unintentional stage fun. NEW YORE THEATRICALS. From Our Own Correspondent. New York, March 14.—In the line of dra- ‘matie gossip there is nothing noteworthy. *Our Bachelors ' is having a succgssful run, through the inimitable periormances of Robson and Crane, and the _decided taste of the public for fun. “ Uncle Tom’s Cabin’ closed at Booth’s on Saturday last, aiter a season of full houses and overcrowded matinees. The vresentation was assurcdly unique, and the unique is in favor. *The Exiles™ seems destined for jong and_paving run. The proprictors of the Boston Thestre gave up their effort to seeure a perpetual injunction as to the play, only asking the Court 1o restrain Messrs. Dull & Co. trom using the name. An_injunction to this cifest was vesterday refused, aud there seems to be nothing further fn the way to prevent the pro- duction anywnere of the new adaptation from the Russian novel. The ** Celcbrarea Case™ draws steadily, and the Union Square people, what with their success in Baltimorcand their suceess at home, are perbaps the most satisfied managers in the metropolis. H. G GREEX-ROOM NOTRS. Mr. Henry Irving is rehearsing Louis XT., o character in which his friends expect him to make & mark. The papers sunounce that the Count Bozenta has joined Lis wife. The success of the Countess bas bad & magnetic infucnce. Agmes Robertson (Mrs. Dion Boucicault) re: turns to this country next fall and appear in two plass writtea for her by Tom Taylor, J. K., Emmef (* Fritz") and his_wife have joined the Red-Ribbon movement. “ They both signed the temperance pledge,” says an ex- change, st Bridzcport, Conn.” Betore leaving San Francisco, Miss Maud Har- rison had a penefit. The posters read thus to eyes not near enourh to see the interlineation in small type: “Maud Harrison Led Astray Positively the Last Time.” _“The Deluge; or, Paradise Lost,” is the title of a spectacular picce at the California Theatre, San Francisco. T. W. Keene plays the Devit, John Wilson gives Adam, W. A. Mestayer raises Cain, Fravkie McClellan is Abel, and the Kiralfy trouve does the ballet, Miss Genevieve Ward, who has been engaged Dy Jarrett & Palmer for a tour in the United States, will make her debut in’ New York as Queen ' Katherine in “Henry VIIL" Mr, Jar- sett hos purchased the superb scenery oud his- torical aceessorics provided for the production of the play in London by Mr. Calvert. Mrs. Crowe (Miss Bateman) bas taken Drury Lane Theatre, London, from the expiration of ihe present jease. London says: * We hear that Mrs, Crowe is backed by a ldy with mil)- jons,~a lady who has always shown a wise and liberal interest in the dramatic art,~the lady under whose patronage Mr. Fechter was in- troduced to a discrimivating ¥nelish sudience.” Another aspirant. A Janesville paper says: #Miss Clara, daughter of Dr. & S. Judd,rof this city, has deferminel to make the stage her profession, and_will join 2 combination herc next week, taking a leading part. By all means let her do jit. This is a free country. There is no law forbidding woman from bexrio~ ning at the topmost rung of the ladder and workiug her way down. They can all do it. A St. Louls paper says that a prominent law- sear, engazed in & casc, Was s savage in his onslaught upon his_oppoucat that the Judze on the bench rebuked hi. In the evening he weat to se¢ ** A Celebrated Case,” aud was so deeply affected tbat be shed tears the whole time; and next day, whea thetrial was resumed, he was 6o i1 that he could with difficuliy bold up his head, on account of his overwrougnt emotion at the theatre. ‘The Dramatic News says: * The statements madeina large portion of the press about Mr. Siaughter shadowivg his wile, Maric Waio- wright, in St. Louis, and threatening to shoot any one who ‘paid ber attention, are untrue. Mr. Slaughter went on there, at the advice of ims wife's counsel, to have o formal meeting with ner as to the disposition of the children, which it was understood she was willing to give fip. She afterward changed her mind, no meet- iny took place, and he came back to New York. He lived publicly av the Lindel}, and. being an old resident of 8t. Louis, was_naturally kiown 10 a great many people—therefore the absurdity of ‘shadowing? her secretly, . The thing was evidently started as anotherjadvertising-dodge.” Another Booth has been added to the stage in the person of a granddanzhter of the first great Booth—Jupins Brutus. She is 2 daughter of the present Junius Brutus and Agues Booth, and bears the pame of AMarie. She has the Booth chin and mouth, but instead of the dark, tragic complexion of most of her family. has a sweet, fair {ace, with gentfe eyes and 4 Wwinning expression. Her method of acting may be con- trasted with the method that has become asso- cisted with the name she bears in almost the same way. She has pretts, taking ways about her, but she scems hardly forcible enongh—or scemed 50 on the night of her debat—for_evea iu"!_;lf;-'}!;t’ ozt she played, with John S. Clarke oots. _ Stll, she is youns d time to improve.—Excliange. Jounzand by = Ellaand Frank Dietz, two talented younz Americans, sister and brother of Miss “Linda Dictz, now playiog the leading parts with the Dopular London actor, C.F. ngogh!xn, st the Unlon Sfiunxe Theatre, New York, are givinz o series of successful recitations at. Langham Hall, London. The London journals_speak of th artists in high terms. Miss Dictz pos- sesses zreat intellizence, charming naizete, and grace of mauner, Shehasa most expressive face, a clcar, musical, well-cultivated voice, ami much refinement _of style,—qualifications spec- ially conspicuous in her admirable rendering of Tennyson’s **May Queen,” Hans Andersen’s “Swinenerd,” Mrs. Browning's “Motber and Poet,” and Robert Browning’s ‘‘Count Gis- mond.” Mr. Frank Dietz particularly excels 1n the delineation of the humorous, as exem- vlified in his recitats of various_sclections from Bret Horte and Mark Twain, delivered in that eculiar style so dificult to be attained by any Euf- a true-born Awerican. MUSIC. TAE CHORAL UNION CONCERT. The only musical event of the past week was the sccond concert of the Choral Union, which was given at the Union Park Congregational Church o Thursday cvening, and culled out a large audfence. The opening number was Han- dcl's well-kmown * See, the Conguering Hero," followed by Abt's *Woodbird" sud Smart's lovely part-song, **Stars of the Summer Night.”” Each was gisen in excellent style, though the Jast exceeded the others in the finish with which it was eiven, and was beartily encored by the audfence. Mrs. Freeman sang Blumenthal’s «Love the Pilgrim” in an agrecable manuer, and Mr. Edward Dexter gave asong of Mar- shall’s, “The Mountaineer,” very spiritedly. Part first closed with a_voeal work of Franz Schubert which is but little known in this coun~ try. It Isentitled “Gebet,” andis o kind of hymo or prayer for solos, quarlette, and chorus. It had the misfortune to be translated so poorly as to give ecarccly suy idea of the dramatic power of the orig- fnal, ana the chorus was lacking in vigor, probably due to ipsuflicient rehearsal. The Sole nuibers and quartette, sung by Miss Grace A. Hiltz, Miss Mina Rommelss, and Messrs. Whiceler ana McWade, were by far the most sat~ isfactory portions. Part second contained a chorus in seven parts by Gaugler, “* Deal Gently,” a very pleasing number; Hatton’s W Wandering Minstrels”; and an ancient Part Song of John Benet, datingr back to the year 1500, It was a charming work, and its antique air ouly rendercd it the more impressive. 1t oueht to be betier kuown. The Misses Grace A. Hiltz and Mina and Pau- Iine Romumeiss sang in thoir usual exquisite man- wer a trio of Hemrich Proch, * Speed Thee, Little Boat,” the marked feature of which was the perfect blending of the three voices and the univy of expression throughout. Being enthu- siastieally encored, they replied with a lovely trioof lloel, “The Worid Lies Hushed in Slumber,” which only served to helghten the fmpression made by the first. Mr.J. E. Mc- Wade gave Tesca’s “Wanderer,’ and, belog heartily encored, sang o humorous. selection. The violinist, Mous. Buisseret, gave two violin selcctious in excellent style, and was recalled Dy the audience after the first number. The concert, us a whole, reflected_great credit upon the Society, and especially upon their. leader, Mr. lackman, whose indefatizable labors have brought it to the presentcondition of useful- ness and prosperity, aud 1o whom we wish con- tinued and increasine suceess iv the future. THE THURSBY CONCERT. The present week's record will begin with the concert at, McCormick Hall, on Tuesday evening, by the Thursby troupe, which includes Mies Thursby, soprauo; Mr. Carleton, baritone; Mr. Pease, pianist; Mr. Colby, nccompanist and dircetors and the remarkable boy violin virtu- 050, Master Leopold Lichteuberg, some account of whom was given fu_our last Sunday’s issue. “The programme will be as follows: TART L Piano solo—** Marche Tanuliauser ™. «es Wagner ., Pease, *\Will o' the Wisp ™...., Cherry Deecriptive son; ifr. W. 7. Carteton. Violin solo~Romanza in G... ........Beethoven aster Leopold dickterberg. Arig—**Le Pre aux Clercs™...... ... Herold {With violin oblizto by Masier Lichtenbers. ] Miss Emma 0. Thursby. Pisno Solo—** Polonaise " (Miguon). .......Pease Song—**Les Romesn: Ar. W lin and piano—¢*Ber- Duo for vit ceunse " - . A. I Pease [The violin cspecinily written for Mastes Lichtenberg. ] Master Lichlenberq and Mr. Pease. Lullaby—"*On! Uush 11 y Baby". A Miss Thurs Violin Solo—**Russtan Airs " i aster Lichtenberg. Grand duo—**T Masnadieri ™ 7 iss Thursly and M. Carieton. MR. BAIRD'S POPULAR CONCERTS. Another of Mr. Baird’s popular concerts will be givenat the Third Presbyterian Church ou Tuesday evening, the 19th, with & programme that is certainly * popular,” embracing Smart’s uartette, My True Love hath my Heart 7 OMrs. Fox, Mrs. Kempton, Messrs. Barnes and Goldsmith), Gabriel's * Cleansing Fires " (Mr. Goldsmith), Ganz’s Since Yesterday 7 (Mrs, George B. Carpenter), Gabuss's ** Fisherman 7 (Messrs. Barnes sud Goldsmith), Gounod’s Flower Song? (Mrs. Kemuton), Balfe's “ Couldst Thou but Knmow ™ (Mr. Barnes), a sclected song by Mrs. Fox, the * Quis est Homo ™ (Mrs. Carpeuter and Mrs. Kewpton), Adaws’ ** Naney Lee” (Mr. Goldsmith), Mol- loy’s * Little Bruno ” (Mrs. George B. Carpen- ter), Mollog’s * Clang of_the Wooden Shoon ' rs. Kempton), aud Verdi's. *Aiserere » fi.\:rs. Fox aud Mr. Barnes). THE WOLFSOHN TESTIMONIAL. On Thursday evening, the 2Ist iust., will oc- cur the long-talked-of testimonial concert to Mr. Carl Wolfsohn, the well-known leader of ihe Becthoven Society, for which an admirable programme has been vrepared. Mr. Wolfsoln upon this interesting occasion will have the as- sistance of Miss Thursby (soprano), Mr. M. D. Whitney (basso), Miss Biumenfeld (piano), Mr. Rosenbecker (violiv), Airs. Hall (alto), Mr. Knorr (teaor), Mr. Gill (baritone), the Beethoven Soulety, and o full orchestra. ‘Lhie programime wWill be peculiarly interesting, as will be seen by the following analysis: Miss Thursby will sing Mozart’s_recitative and rondo, “*Mia Speranza ‘Adorata,” and the Barearole from Mcyerbeer's “Star of the North,” with an oblicato of two flutes. Mr. Whitney will smg Han- del's noble aria, *'Shall Lon Mamre's Fertile Plain? " and Randegger’s well-knownsong, “ The Mariner's Home is the Sea.” The instrumental solos will be the first movement of Beetho- ven's C_minor concerto, with the Reluecke cadenza for piano, by Miss Blumenfeld, and the Beethoven romauza in G for violiv, by Mr. Rosenbecker. The Society will sing Rail's “Morninz Sor the “Spinning Chorus,” from “ The Flyinz Dutchman” (ladies' voices), and the inale to the first act of * Lohengrin,’ in which Miss Thursby will take the part of Eisa; Mrs. Hall, Ortrude; Mr. Knorz, Lohengring Mr. 'Glll, Telramunde; avd Mr. Whitney, the ing. ‘The orchestra will open the prozramme With Mendelssohn’s * Fingal’s Cave Overture.” Witk such a prozramme as_tais, performed by such_excellent talent, coupled with the clairs Mr. Wolfsohu has upon the musical pubiic, th testimonial ought to be a very substantial on The sale_of reserved scats will commence Lyon & Bealy's on Tucsday morning, the 19t! THE LIEDLING RECITALS. 5 Tuwillbea very pleasant announcement Y concert-goers that Mr. Liebling, the pianist, his decided to Zive two piano recitals, the first 1t “hiels will_oceur at Hershey Hall on Kriday evening, the 22 inst., with a splendid pro- gramme, including the Beethoven Sonate, ope 13; Scariatti's Sonate in A _major; Niemann's Gavotte, op. 16: Hensclt’s Etude, 0p. 2, No. 7, and “Sprine_Song,” op. 153 Grier’s Album” blatt,” op. 1%, No. 7; Sterndale Bennett's “Rondo_Placevole”; Jadassohn's Tarantelle, cschetizky’s “Les Deux Alon- Essipsfl introdluced here); tne Wagner-Liszt _ **Spinnerliea;” and Raflls “Giga cop variazioni," op. 91. At this recital, Mrs. Jeony Kempton will ging songs by Men- dlessohn ~ and Franz, Spobr's —*‘Cradle Song,” and the “Prayer” from ‘Stra- della.” The second recital will be miven oo the 20th at the same ball, the programme including _ selections from Schumann and Chiopin. - Mr. Gill and Miss Clara Munger will have the vocal selections, and the latter will sing one of Mr. Licbling’s own songs, ** Adicu,”” which will be looked for with fnterest. Mr. Liebling has now been so long in retirement, engaged in teaching and study. that bis rentree fo thé coucert-room will be very heartily wel- comed. THE LIESEGANG CLUB. The first of the second series of Liesegang etamber concerts will be given on Friday even- ing, the 22d 1wst., at Brand’s Hall. Lovers of classical music will havean opportunity of hear- ing Mendelssohn’s Quartette, op. 12: Rail’s Trio, 112; Haydn’s Theme and Variations, op. 76; and Schumann’s Quintette, op. H. Mrs. Rloss will, as usual, take the piano parts. THE CARPENTER COMBINATION. _ “The remarkable combination of conzerf artists made by Mr. Carpenter, including Miss Thursby, Mrs. Ames Billings, Miss Abby Clark, the original Swedish Quartette, Mr. Fessenden, Mr. Carleton, Mr. Whitney, Master Lichtenberg, Mr. Allen, Mr. Pease, and Mr. Coloy, will ap~ pear at McCormick Hall on Mouday evening, The 25th, and previously at Milwaukee ou Fridsy evening, the 22d. The vrogrammes have not yet been furnished. Miss ‘Thursby’s enzage- ments this week are_as follows: McCormick Hall, 19th; Aurora, 20th; Wollsohn Testimoni~ 21_‘3‘15!; Milwaukee, 22d; closing here on the 25 The Freii :'gfifiilfl‘gA CDNCSIIIITS. i e Freja Singing Socicty will give two con- cort S Crnne Hatl ot vamtors Cof Masch 23oud 80, with the ‘assistance of the Swedish Lady Quartette (the first one); Miss Bertha Buerze (piano), 3ir.. Christian 4 Kopvhz‘s “8t. Patrick Overture”; rlh;i\rqust perfeet tite. v sy Kraun - (violin), Mrs. C. Carring- ton (soprawo), and Messrs. ~Lewis and Baird, sccompanists. The Soclety Lias a male chiorus of about filty voices, selected With great care, and thoroughly drilled under the direction of an exceilent leader, Mr. Jobn L. Swenson. The other artists are well known to the musical public, and, with the choice programmes which are in rebearsal, there is little: doubt but that these concerts will be thoroughly crijoyable. LOCAL MISCELLANY. Mr. H. 8. Perkins conducts the Ashtabula, 0., Convention this week at Geneva. Mrs. Rive-King played in St. Paul o the 12¢h. Miss Abbic Whinnery was the soprano of the concert. Miss Kate Terey Douglas, of this city, sang with success at Downing’s thirtcenth concert in New York on the 10th. The Whitney Concert Party will give a con- cert In St. Loufs on the 19th, at- which one of Mr. Goldbeck’s quartettes—*¢ Sunset ?—will be sung. Mr. Creswold will hold a fall rehearsal with the orchiestra and chorus for the performance of Mendelssohn’s * Hymn of Peace ”’ on Monday evening, the 18th inst., at Story & Camp’s Music Store, 211 State street. Mr. 8. G. Pratt has decided to give a concert some time next month, at which he will intro- duce a number of his compositions ot heard here before, including the anpiversary over- ture and the symphonic poem, ** The Prodigal Son,” both of which Lsve been given in Berlin. A musical rcunion will be given at the Chi- eago Musical College to-morrow evening, in which the Misses Jennie M. Reid, Millic Water- man, Sadic Hayman, E. and M. Lonergan, Anna Culbertson, Nora McMaton, Emily Ieel, Millic Kellogy, Mrs. N. G. Iglehart, Mrs. George T. Coombs, and Mr. Rosenbecker will take part. The Turner-Hall programme this afternoon will include Faust’s * Fackeltanz Polonaise™; Mann’s # Nocturne; overture to Bargiel's * Meden s Loedermaun’s * Swedish Wedding March the andante from Mozart’s Quintet, op. 103 Lisz’s First Rhapsodic; Meyerbeer’s ¢ Sehiller March ; Gunals waltz, “Cazetava Tauze™; and Schileffarths *¢ Schuetzen March.” The forty-sixth of Mr. Eddy’s orzan recitals was given yesterday noon at Hershey tiall with an eXcellent programme, which included Bach's Prelude and Fugue in A; Schumanu’s “Skiz- zem, in C major and C minor; Samann’s Toc- catain A flat; Eugene Thaver’s Sonata in D minor, op. 4; Batfiste’s Offertoire in A flat; and Hessé's Fantasic ju C minor. Mrs. Kemp* ton was the vocalist, and sane Haydu's ** Spirit Sonz” and “The Clildrew’s Kingdom,” by Biumenthal. A large.party of amatenrs performed the can- tatw of “Esther” at St. Charles on Thursday aud Friday evenings last with finc success. Some of the singing, espeaally of the choroses, was admirably done, while that of Mrs. Har- rington, Maid of Monor; Mrs. Zabriskie, the ucen 7 Mrs. Sinclair, Wife of Haman; §. B. Iiunt, Haman ; and A, D. Kelly, Mordecal, was frequently applauded. The success of the per- formance should induce other interior towns to emulate the exumple of the people of St. arics. One of the most pleasing musical cvents of the week was the periormance of » Dapiel” at the Western Avenue Baptist Church on Tues- day evenings Jast. The solo parts werc sustained by Miss Hardy, Mrs. Hall, Mr. Greenleaf, Mr. E. J. Wilson, and Mr. Joun McWade. The lonors_of the evening were conferred upon Miss Hnrdg' and Mr. McWade, both of whom received ell-merited encores. The solo of the [Herald, written in the score for the tenor voice, was transposed to the base clefl, and was admirably sung by Mr. Wil sou. The choruses were performed ia 8 spi ited manper, and with a precision that would rellect credit upon some of our. larger musical socicties. The conductor, 3r. Scribner, de- serves praise for the mauner fo wiiicl the can- fata was placed before a crowded and appre- ciative audience. ] A concert_and literary entertainment was given in the Oukland Congregational Church by Mme. Rita on Tuest evening. As with all ‘entertainments ever given in the chureh, the audience was very small. The m and the recitations were good, and were well received by the audicnce. Miss Jessie Bartlett was no- nounced to sing. but, owing to sickness, did not appear. Mme. Rita gave the waltz * II Bacio,” by Arditi, and *She Wore a Wreath of Hoses.” ~ Mr. D. A. Eddy, the basso, rendered ‘A Marioer’s Home is the Sea,” by Randegeer; and “ Naney Lee,” by Mollo and Mr. Charles Smitn, of the Orientals, eral selections. Tbe finstrumental numbers re taken by Miss Emmilie Cleaver and Mr. Fred Koberts.” Recitations were given by Miss Grace Brooks and Miss Henrictta Monroe, both of whom are very promisivg readers. NEW MOSIC. We are indebted to William A, Pond & Co., New York, through the courtesy of the Chicago Music Compauy, 132 State street, for an admur- able budget of new music, including Sullivan’s + Lost Chord,” fu A flat; *The Royal May,” song aud cliorus, by Ferdinoud - Dalcken; “Thinking_ of Old Times,” by Edward H. Phelps; *Jesu, Redecwer,” a duet for soprano and alto, arranged [rom Adam, by 8. B. Whitely, and two Easter_Carols by tho same,— «Sing”Sweet Carols, Nizht is Past,”? and “Brightly Gleam _Our Bauners”: *There is a Yountain Filled with Blood," =a sacred quarterte, by Edward F. “Fill the Font with . Roses,” an ‘Esster cantata, for quartette and chorus, by George W. Warren; “Un Fleur d'Orange Valse* by Henry Mayer; and a st of easy progressiye exercises for all voices, twenty- seven in humber, by Paolo La Villa, an Ltalisn teacher in New York. We havealso reccived from Boosey & Co., throush the same Louse, the following uew music by the popular En- ish song composers: *‘Seaweed.” by Dolores; “The Maid 1 Love is Six Years Old,” by Ham- ilton Aide; **None but I Can Say,"” by Arthur S. Sutlivan; “ We_Two,” by Virginia Gabriel; and “*Forget Me Not,” by Alfred “Scott Gauty. Mr. S. G. Pratt, our well-known pianist and composer, 1S not idie. Hesends us his “Rev- erie,” for piano (*‘Scelen-Sehnsucht’), an im- provisavion on_the theme of “The Swees Bye and Bye,” ‘“Fantasie Impromptu,” and a “Graude Valse Etude” of his recent writing, of Which we shall speak hereater. CONCERT AT HIGHLAND HALL. “The Music Department of Highland Hall gave its mid-year concert a few evenings sjuce in the presence of a lurze and appreciutive audience. It is not cnoush to suy of the programue that it. presented an unusually fine selection of classical music. The several numbers were rendered with rare good taste and sqmc. Prol. W. S. B. Matthews and Misscs Weston and Muneer divide very cqually between them the credit of thorough and scicntific trafning, shown 50 evidently in the work of their pupils. The overture to **Egmont * (Beethoven) performed on wo pianos by Misses Grubbs, Royee, Helm, and Reid was executed with great evennessaud The Schumann pieces Case were characterized by great deli c touch and fine expression. AMisses Fischer®wd Rogers, in the Largho from Beetho- ven's second sympliony, showed great accuracy fu cvery part snd Wwon the applause of the andience. The Scherzo, m_ B flat minor (Chopin), was delivered by Miss Sweet with rare facility aud spirit, which fully met the hih ex- pectation of her friends. = Selections from i Euryanthe* were well handled by Misses Me- Mabod and Bentley. Miss Niles, in the Larghetto from Clopin’s concerto in ¥ minor, exhibited a skill far above the average, and in her accompaniments to some of the yocal num- bers performed that difficult duty with singulur delicacy and subordinatiou. Misses Ewing and Chapman, in the overture to “The Son and Stranger ” (Mendelsohn-Newmanp), were justly applauaed for the excellence of their perform- ance. Perhaps it is only just to Miss Herns- berzer to say that in her p Fantasia_on Themes from Faust” (Gounod-Liszt)—sbe sur- passed all others, except Miss Sweet, in bher wonderful technique and exquisite taste. These two young ladies nave been for three or four years running their musical race under the Same training In pleasantand honorable rivalry. Passing to’ the vocal numbers, the lirst sonx, % Orpheus with his Lute,” was sung by Miss Patch wigh a little trepidation, but with much promise " of excellence as u vocalist. Miss Amanda Case snowed her fine contralto voice in the * Clang of the Wooden Shoe.” The select chorus suug Schumann’s “Tumbourine Girl and Meyeibeer's “Our Flowery Banks,” but did themselves highest credit in their renderine of Schubert’s ** The Lord is my Shepherd,” Miss Nestor accompanying. This Somewhat difficult number passed the ordeal of criticlsm with un- usual suceess. Of all the vocal parts, however, none_was received with such demonstration of dehght as Gabussi’s “Colebresa” by Misses Jones and Case, who were fairly compelled to Tepeat it. The presentation of such a pro- gramme, executed with such taste and correct- ness, is the highest evidence that music in this institution is mo_mere sham, and coufirms the reputation already attained by its teachers in his department as unsurpassed in their skill and fidelity. MUSIC IS NEW YORK. " Fram Qur Oun Correspondent. New Yorg, March 14.—By the way, I hear many doubts expressed as to the success of the Thomas summer concerts in the Garden. The place is too larze for orchestral mausic to be made tboroughly effective. Then, it is consid- ered questionable whether the class of people who like Mr. Thomas’ class of music can be drawn fn paying numbers. The majority of them are likely to be out of town, and_many whio are in town have no_faucy for the Hippo- drome. Gilwaore’s band Was certainly more ap- 5 orooriate for the pl nd played popular ma- sic. Still the band did not do a' prosperous business Jost summer, Only experiment can rrove. and, if the experiment does not pay, the ossees of the Gorden are not the persons to go on losing money. Insuch an cvent, it is not impossible for Chleazo to again secure the € finest orchestra fn tlie land * for 3 season of summer concerts that will pay. * There has been much regret at the ill-success aod unfortunate end of the German opera troupe’s career. Chiefly, it may be eaid, because of Mme. Pappenlieim’s connection with it. For the orchestra there is no symbathy, and for the perpetually hoarse singers very little. It is bad for artists to be hoarse, but it is worse’ to take the people’s money and venture at a perform- ance when scarcely a member of the company is in fit condition to sing. The public gave a gen- erous support to the troupe, and it is not true that patronage was withbeld because the man- agement dared to begin tbe season fo the prov- inces,—a reason given by one journal with much circumstance. The whole trouble was with the company, not with the audiences, as Mr. Adams Irnu[’:ly admitted. Too much ambition with too little money, and consequently too little talent. On Monday next the second operatic venture begins, at Booth’s instead of the Academy. Ms. Strakoseh predicts o grand scason, and there scems no reason why lie should not realize bis oredictions, for there is certainly an operatic hunger among the inhabitants of fashionable Maurray Hill. It must be a very poor and third- rate company that could not fill Booth’s in this condition of things, whereas here are—and all to be seen at once on Friday in * Mignon '— three_prime donne, who have made through your Western country such 2 newspaper tour as three prime donne never made before. E. G. OPERA OX THE FRONTIEL. The following letter will be of interest, as it appertains to an old operatic favorite, now re- duced to the necessitics of opera on the fron- tiers To the Editor of The Tribune. CHEYENNE, W. T., March 0.1 inclose pro- ramme of the opera of ** I} Trovatore.™ as ren- ered by the De Murska-Richings-Bernard troupe here recently: ul W. A. Morgan "Tho same opera was given here by this troupe not lonz ago, before De Murska joined it. Then Bernardsaug 2 Lunaand Mra. Bernard Leonord, but as frontfer audiences are not eappased to be very critical, and as Harry Gotes had left them in the interval. the eharacters wero taken as given fn thie prozramme. 1 think it un_cvidence of con- siderable versutility fora voice to beable to render both Di Luna and Manrico, or Leonora and Azu- ceng. it would have rather surprised a Chicago andicnce,~one singing in Italian and the rest in English, but we're glad to get music In slmost any shape, and are not surprised at any kind of treat- ment. 1 will close by saying that if you want ta hear Mrs. Richings-Bernird fo_her best, hear her a8 Azucena. Am sorry 1 can't say as much for her fusband os Aanrico. Ax OLD CHICAGOAN. MUSICAL ITEMS. The Thomas orchestra zave its fifth rehearsal at Steinwny Hall on the Idth fnst., the pro- rrammo fncluding Rieinoerger’s Fantansie, op. 7 (uew), nnd Beethoven’s C minor symphony. Max Pinner, one of Liszt's pupils, played Liszt’s First Coucerto. On the 20th and 23d, Thomas plays in Boston some lizht programmes, with the assistance of Mathilde Wilde, Six. Tagliapi- etra, and Aadelino Schiller. = The Adams- Pappenheim troupe commences a season of eiglit nights in Philadelphia, to-morrow cven- ing, under o new management. The Kellogg- Cary troupe commence their Now York season at Booth's Theatre to-morrow evening with Aida.” Hese’ troupe will be in_ Philadelphia this weelk, opening with ‘* Martha.” The Oates troupe open in Brooklyn to-morrow evenmg with « Murjolgive”" in English. De Murska is ouce more on Lier travels with a small troupe. She wasin Kapsas City on the 1ith, Leavenworth the 12th, Omaha the 14th, and Council Bluffs the 15th. Miss Thursby will sing next Friday evening in Milwankee. ‘The Whitney Concert Party sings in St. Louis on tbe 19th, and at Jacksonville on the 20th. 'The original Swedish Quartette sings in St. Paul to-morrow _eveniog. ‘The_ other quartette was at Columbus, O., on the 15th, Briguoli, with his troupe, comprising Galeinberti, Tazlavictra, and Susini, gave “Don Pasquale” in Nushville, Tenu., on_the 13th. Camilla-Urso plays in Buffalo on the 22d. 8. B. Millg? farewell concert will be given in New York on the 24th of April. ‘The Milwaukee Mu- sient Soclety gives its 252d concert on the 12th, producing Brahms’ C minor symphony and Men- delssohn’s * Walpurgis Night.” ATSICAL NOTES. Nannie Hart is going to siug Norma in Cleve- land. “The Berlin critfes are loud in their praises of Essipoll. The new music hall in Cincinpati wil seat 4,350 people. . The Saengerfest of the North American Saen~ gerbund will be held in Cincinnati in 1879. Wagner promiscs the first performance of « Parsifal ” in the summer of 1850, at Bayreuth. An American baritone singing at Ancona has adopted the curlous nom de guerre of “ Georgio Sweet.” . Carolina: Richings has been sued for several bundred dollars by members of her troupe. She is very poor. " The composer, Rubinstein, has been givng a serics of concerts in Russia fn_order to_ raise funds for the Red Cross Soclety. He had very great success. 2 An old student of Liszt says that the master is very much imposed upon by beople who, mak- ing use of a letter of introduction, perform once or twice in his presence, and, having re- ceived a suzgestion or two, advertise the fact that they bave been his pupils. Rerr Joachim, head of the Royal Academy of Music, is bitterly hostile to the Wagner socie- ties, and objects to begeivg appeals on beball of the Bareuth Festival, a3 derogatory to the art. ‘The Wagnerites, ou the other hand, con- tinue to give entertainments and to hold meet- ings, where Herr Joachim and the Academy of Music are both roundly abused. Mme. Papoenheim has accepted an engage- ment from Mr. Mapleson, the lessee and man- ager of her Mrjesty’s Opera-House, London, commencing early in June next. The contract covers three consecutive seasons, it being in- tended that she shall take the place of the late Muwe. Titiens in all the leading roles of the Iyric drama, Her first appearance will be as Valen- tine in **Les Huguenots.” Nicolai's “Merry Wives of Windsor,” with which Carl Rosa has opened the present season of English opera fn London, was 8 great sue- cess. The overture was encored, and so, too, snd most enthusiastically, were the prima gon- na, Miss Julia Goylord, and the contralto, Miss Josephine Yorke. They are both American Tirls, and all the journals, from the Times downyard, speak ot both their acting and sing- ing in the warmest terms. Miss Marfe Vap, a youne lady of Cincinnati, made her debut in opera fn_that city recently with the Strakosch Opera Company. She has been under thorough training for several years, and has, it is said, mastered a pumber of the most diflicult_overns. Her first appearance sccms to have been a complete success in every point of view, the part chosen being Gilda in the opera of ** Rigoletto.”” The lady’s_voice is described as @ clear soprano, broad and strong in the middle register, clear and sweet in the upper notes, bolding its volume well through- out. The performlug rizhts of the operas of tne Pyncand Harrison repertory were disposed of by auction in_Loudon, Feb. 12. Althouh * Lur- line” fetehed £130, and “The Bohewmiun Girl 7 £160, Balfe's ** Enchantres ™ (with the songs * 3y Task is Eaded ” and * Woman's Heart 7), and “The Dauguter of St. Mark’s (with *“We ay Be Happ Yet ) weat for five guineas cach, Still less fortunate were otber composers, for Benedict’s “ The Crussders ” went for a gulnea, and Henry Lestic bought his own operctia, “The Romance,” for two guineas. Balfe's “ Maid of Artois,” which contains “The Light of Other Duys,” did not get a bid. i et A PORTENTOUS CALM. Wonder where the baby is! My ! how cross he's been to-day. Glad he's still for just a minte— Hope he hasn’s fun away What a contrast {s this quiet To the din that reigned before! “Thiere he is. the little rascal, Hla pehand the closet-door. What is Mamma's birdie doing That he is 50 »1il] about? *T'se been doin’ your crochiet-work-e Got 1t most all waveled ontt™ Ctcago. Miruiz C. Poxenor. A Lover of Birds. Commander Jose De Gama Macbada, who aied receutly in Paris, was a great lover of birds. For their benefit be converted a corver of his apartment into a bathroom, where he had thirty bachs, carefully tempered, for tho use of his feathered fricnds. He left to the Society for the Protection of Animals 20,000 francs, the in- terest of which is to pay the Salary of @ person who shall see that drivers do not ill-treac their horses, and he left his birds to the care of women, to be selected from a certain province, whose people are noted for their kind disposi- tions. A number of birds which bad died, and which he had embalmed, were buried with him, Vetagr placed upox hits breast. EW . YORK. Abundant Material -for the Pen of a Playwright. The Case of the Foolish Heiress Who Married an Adventurer. A Story of Bomance Worthy a Lopez of Spain and the Olden Time. Cost of Amateur Playwriting-- Count Joannes’ Manager. From Our Oun Correspondent. . New York, Marcn 14.—The Lopez-Morrison case is respectfuily recommended to Mr. Bart- lev Campbell et al. for consideration. It has a highly dramatic favor, and, with such changes of fact as any plagwright ventures on with sny plot, could be made to work up well m the vivid aud realistic domestic comedy line. Here, ready furnished to hand, is the abundant material: Heroine, young and ionocent, with 2 heroine’s view,of her ows wrongs, and a heroine’s desire for romantic lover and matrimony. Also with a rich and stern papa. Herofne is not, in real- ity, beautiful or brilliant. On the unhappy contrary, sheis of weak mind, and hasto be caretnlly watched and treated. But this is one of the features casily altered, playwright cans- ing watchful care to appear as domestic tyranny to prevent designing young men with large bopes and small fortunes from getting ot papy’s hard-carned wealth. Enter hero through the kitchen per amicable arrange- ment with cook snd housemnid. Hero not prepossessiug, but ambitious, and with aristocratic name,—Lopez. How tbe Lopezes used to create despair among the Spanish beauties fn the veracious Spanish tales! Lopez is described by an unfecling attorney of the otber side as one of those adventurers who came from nobody kuows where, and live by doing nobody knows what. So much the more ROOM FOR TIE PLAYWRIGNT'S PLAYFUL FANCY. Lopez, proud of his name and not ashamed of his record as wmnle-driver in the undeveloped regions of California, Wyoming, Idaho, etc., incliues to marriage with an heire: Being possessed, by report, of ooe spouse already, he does not care so much about the girl, but to the heiress be is fervent and true. Cookand house- maid sce a chance for post-nuptial comfort, and themselves establisued in a home where them- selves must rule and reccive large wages, They becgme the artful match-makers; also, the peace-destroyersof a household. The ear of the too inmocent heroine is filled with stories of joyous marriage, the cvils of paternal tyrapny, and the shame of beinz guarded and tended like & baby-baby, expressed in italies and with a capital B. In consequence, heroing meets bero—who has borrowed brenkfast and $5 from cook, to make an appearante upon—in the basement aren. Correspoudence proposed and favored; ditto .promenades by stealth; ditto meetings in_the play-house at the childrew's matinee. Follow letters thick and fast,—letters such as, one should hope, only this Lopez, of ali the Lopezes, could originate. ~ All the same to heroine. Love is anything, but not critical. TUEY MEET SECRETLY, and walked and talked. He said he should like - 1o marry, but he had no money just at present. She said she shoutd like to marty, but she too ‘bad no money. When his fortune arrived via ship from the West, and he could afford to fly with his bride to Wyoming, far from stern and tyran- vical papa, at that time he mizht veuture to spesk nya certain day. But not so was thear- rangement to hold, when the cook and the Thousemaid formed allisnce. By the advaace of some swall sums, Lopez the impecunious was able to seem wealthy, “esides saving a rag- med 2 bill for the mimster. The beroine’s woes were mede to look more woful from day to day. Letters, and iwalks, and talss, mysterious hints of despair, the agony of Lope deferred, also money deferred. Papa mean- while roes on about his business, unsuspecting. Never thitks of peeriug futo basement area o sce Lopezes thronging after his underwitted daughter. Never thinks of plotting cook and housemaia. . Way clear for deouement. Heroine and bero meet_in_eurnest. They walk to Episcopal clerzyman’s, but tius time they do not talke. - Clerzyman asks both if they wish to marrv. That was what they came for. ‘Heroine, however, trembles, and refuses to rise. tence, MARRIED WHERE SHE SITS. ‘Tablean ended by the seeurine of witness and §2 by the clergyman, who belicyes he must have at least ten times said sam until he opeus the envelope. Chance for playwright to insert \Words in clerzyman’s mouth. Lopez and bride walk back to paternal mansion. Sbe to her chamber nuiet'{(v, heto the neccssary cash-box of the cook. Hero at this juncture said to be upberoie, unwortby of the Lopezes. Said to boast of his heiress, and of the sum he will wring from unsuspecting papa before u. p. is allowed to retain his daughter, and be- fore Lopez will ueree to 2o to Wyoming, Ldaho, etc., and never come East any more. _Another Jetter, but aot to beroiue, who has kept ber room aud her secret. Letter this tuoe to sealthy tyrant, telling bim news be never cared to hear. Domestic Scene, lawyers, de- tectives, Lopez clajms his pride. ~Cook and housemaid’s influence counteracted. Bride re- fused to be claimed, saysshe was drawn into ‘marringe azainst her consent, was deceived by everyhody, has not and pever will live with him of the aristocratic name but tramp-like aspect. Court decides against hero, whose lawyers doubtless see their fees in the future. MONTHS ROLL aWAY. No more walks, and talks, and remarkable billets-douz. No more Lopezes in basement areas stealing away innocent heiresses. ~ Detectives and lawyers, however, at work. Lopez fol- lowed, according to testinouy, into places where a young and_loving Lusband ought not to haye gonme. Habits, companions, pros- pects, all deseribed gs bad. Wealthy papa finally asks to have the mar- riage anpulled. There are affidayits and counter-affidavits. To one of these Lopez unfortunately signs his name without reading it. Since written by a lawger, hero excusable on every ground but legal ground. Testimony is introduced. Witnesses paint Lopez in a suit of black, without so much white as collar or shirt-front. Heroine repeats that she did not mean to, but was led on by false inducements; cools, for instance, told ber it was probably the ouly chance to get a husband; that Lopez was rich and desperately in love with her. TERO AT LENGTU TAKES TIE STAKD in his owa defeuse. Denies a great deal, even too mucn. Denies some things which he had sworn to in the aflidavit that he did not read. Judge here_becomes an active member of the company. Informs hicro that he is under arrest for perjury; sefids bim to the Tombs; annuls the marrisfe_yfhich Dever was a marriae, and seuds herainefbme with her papa. ‘Thus closes a domestic drfma, whose outlines have much in- tefested many people in the metropolis. The playwright, as suggested, wouid tind it necessary to make some changes, and_to provide a more satistactory finale. A real Lopez of the gallant Spanish school, possibly a_cousin loved at 12, a sailor cousin lony since given upas a victim to the sea, must come to rescue the heroine from tyranny, and both bride and_papa’s bless- ing, together with a flat in Mrs. Stevens’ apart~ rent house, and a handsome allowance, House- maid must be shown as reformed, a clerk in a candy-store, and au ipmate of the elegant Wom- an’s Hotel. Cook might be put under Miss Corson and taught how to atiend to her own basiucss. Hero—well, the only thiog thac could be done for him wonld be to let him go West, find the otber wite, and GROW UP WITI TIE TERRITORIES. Now let the playwright take the case. But let no amateur try his hand atit. The fate of the Harvard: student who wrote ** Gold Mad " shouid be sufficient warning o the ama- teur. Youne Dacey’s production was a costly affuir to every one concerned. It cost his father $1,000 to start with; it cost Mr. Flem- ing, the manager, & Week's time aod Iubor, and also, be claims, some money; and it cost the actors and actresses s good share of their promiced pay. The average daily receipts of the week’s performances were $18, while not. even free tickets could draw a respectable aud- ence. No wonder that Mr. Dacey the elder felt pocket sore, and_that Alr. Dacey the younger felt heart sore. But it may be 3 good lesson, and one that will extend beyvond the ambitious author of “Gald Mad.” Not even a Harvard student can do cverything, whatever the popu- Jar suppositfon in_that respect may be among the young ladies of Cambridge aud other sub- urban villazes. Mr. Fleming, in statiog his ‘poverty, made it appear that be'had not realized a fortune from his connection with the Cougt Joaonmes. He had considerable expectations irom the Count’s Sunday night LECTURE ON ** HELL,” for which Gilmore's Garden alone was dcemed sufficiently spacious. This proved to be s mis- take, like to that ol Col. Ingersoll’s manager. The Hippodrome 1s so large that even fun and frolic get lost fn it, and scem to swallow, them- selves. ' There were over a thousand _ peoy hear the-character. lecture, but whed it De‘:n'." time on Monday to pay the actors in “Golg Mad,” Mr. Fleming's share in the lecture re: ceipts were said to'have becn but $10K Thy was not o nalikelv, when the exorbitant rents] prices of toe Iippodrome are taken into cop. sideration. -If you: want to exhibit there, voy must pay for the whole block. HG THE GAME OF DRAUGHTS, Commanications inteaded for this Departmeny +h0ald bo addressed to ToE TrnoNz Dustome g 170, P.-0. Box 215, Chicago, 1N, - For Pablisher's price-list of standard tho game, address the Draught Editor, - > CHECEER-PLAYERS' DIRECTORY. Athenzam, Nos. 63 and 65 Washington girest, PROBLEM N0, 57, By AxATECR, Chicago. White. 7% /i l. 3 Black. Black to move and win, POSITION NO. 7. By Crantes BATENAY, Grand Raptds, Mich, Black man on 25; kings on 20 and a2, White men on 27 and 31; king on 13. White to play and win, TO CORRESPONDENTS. 1L. C. Chipman—Solation corsect. Charles J. Davis—Position accepted. Henry John Cook—Book sent by mail, Charles Bateman—Correction received. John F. Thompson—~Price st duly maled. (@ Fhnis Toroibor favae, o T be e George L._Beach—(1) The chllen, one W Shackes, & repated Choguos fomgt ‘}57 Mr. Henry Hatzler, of Cincinnati, i considereq {he strooest plager in Ono. (3] The gume wif use CONTRIBUTOR’S CRITICISMS. Mr, Frank Greeniee, of Lafagettc, Tad., thathe can druw SMr. Hefier's untnished pucs No. 177._‘The position stands, Black men on L, 3 8, 14, 23, White men on 15, 24, 20, 29,30, '32." Black fo move. Mr continaes the play as follows: 18-17 | 3—7 219 =218 Gresnies 2925 , T—10 15—6 2o | im0 E {a) 18 Mr, Hefter sanisfed? F. G. Mr, efter also bands in the foilowing ansiyd iu continuation of game No, 177. Biack wenonl, 3,7, 8 0. 12, 13, 18. White men on15, 19, %, 25, bg, 29, 30, 33, This places the game back &7 prize problem No. 44, Eack to move and draw- 218 Drawn, 117-26 113-10 Drawn, ; 24-19 Drawn. 6—9 lzs—m 19-15 13-11 9-13 25-22 lw.m 3-8 A 19-15 13- 25-30 | Drawn, e=n s |- i-d w5 (ool lsem’ W wss o (acls 10— 6~1 | 6-10 n-16 |- 1B3-7 |z 1813 {1510 1~ 6 w19 | 1218 g |ew lsoon. 13-17 119-16(2) [12-19 12522 | W. wias (a) Siegel sent some fine pay on 25~22. entirely overlooking the 3 for 2, - (%) 15—11 a1 this, point draws, but 25-22, 3 given in all previousansiysis, loses, as proved cou- Clusively by Mr. Zanoni, of Cincinnatl, 0. Thiz makes the original position good, from which ail tnis play originates, for truly Black have to draw. B . Herrze Norz: 26—22 wag also pivenfora draw in the original analysis. —Ep. CHECKER CHATTER. The editor of Phelan's Checker-Player has dis- continued its publication forevermore. Our forelzn exchanzes announce the Bridgetamn Club Draughts Tourney In progress, with sixty- nine entriea. Mr. A, H. Mercer, of Buffalo, N. Y., recently vislted the piayers i New York City, and, wita the yoog champion, made the followlng &ol Yates, 2; Mercer, 0; drawn, 5; total, 7 games. The Boston Globe tays that Mr. Kirkwood and r. C. F. Barker ore playing s match of tweniy- five games; fourteen have been Snished. tne score being: Darker, 2; Kirkwood, 1; draws, 11. Messrs. Strond and Sullivan, of Wilmington, Del , recently contested a match upon the foliow ine_conditions: Stroud undertaking to win len games before Sullivan wins three. Kesult, Stroud, Io; Sultivan, 0. Mr. Yates hos received articles for snother matck for the champjonship from Afr. Wyllle, shmiisr to those recently puolished in the Zurf, and thoy 37 in the main acceptable, with but 1wo points in dif- ference. Alr. Yutes proposes to have the msich played in August, instead of June, 88 proposed by 3r. Wyllie. ~He insists, also, that thero spall be 1o chaiice for o drawn match, and to avold ft. 31d 1o compel each player not to pluy regetition ames he snggests that, if at the close of the Bficesth game the score i3 even, play ahall be continued o2 Tl a game 1a won to decide it. The articies hate been returned to Mr. Wyllle with these smend- mexts, properly signcd by Mr. ¥ poiuts'are satisfuctory to Mr. W ‘may be considered under way.—Turf SOLUTIONS. SOLUTION TO PROELEX X0. 56 Between Lill and Stoddsed. Mo ! 13- 10-18 (Z-m 1e-15 (U—18 Pk SOLGTION TO POSITION 30. By lfenry Joba Cook. © — — 015 |3-2 .1 a-27 123-18(1) 116 v‘(_”u‘l".‘u o firsh podliiens 11—18 ! 23 | fblte frm i Ry |—15 32~ 1528|218 19 sl D et jodion GAME NO. 170—ALMA.¥ Played in Chicago, Dec. 11, between C-F.Bask#f and Go, W, Scott. Dukersmove. .. og o9 (-1 13— 6 7-11 iTe 12l sz | 5= L =] P £ GAME NO. 180—SUTER- * Plaged at Janesville, Wis,, between A B Yorss and Charles A. Cheater. ~18 11-13 b} -1 -9 gg:f; 17—!% o] 2723 117 pave GAME NO. 181—FIFE- Between Mr, R. D, Yatcs and Mr. C. Heftt Y ntes piaying blindfold. Yates' move. = 017 (i [ 1) g 514 57 19-9 514 s o 1524 Dran. 1z GAME Xo. mfiammgn‘!; Sk First game plaged in the Terre Hau Tunmafixnenl Detween Messrs. Harry Owea 8% Barton Brumfel. ‘Brumflel’s move. 22 11-16 14—-7 a8 2025 Bl