Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 8, 1878, Page 12

THE - CHICAGO “FRIBUNE: S SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER : & 1878 BIXINHN PAGES THE STAGE. THE DRAMA. . THE PAST AND FRESENT.. ‘Thanks to the valiant firemen and their toar- nament, which brought an extraordinary crowd of visitors 1o the city, the tbeatricil business of tbe past weck has been such as to infuse new hope and courage iuto the hearts of the | managers. The long-forsaken galleries of McVicker's, | Hooley’s, Haverls’s, and the New Chicago have been crowded night- iy by the canny country folks, -who are less particalar about style than enjoyment. Your “fat and preasy citlzen” will pav his extra half-dollar at any time rather than climb a stair, but your pradent farmer has no seruples of that kind when 1t involves an extra outlay of silver. Itis safc to £ay that our excursionists have becn agrecably cotertained, for the week has been prolific of £00d thestrical matter, with s cousiderable ‘varicty to pick and choose from. * Diplomacy” has farnisbed a choice sample of the best school of ‘modern French dramatic art, while Ray- mond’s eccentricities, aud Colvilie’s Follys, and Tony Denicr’s time-honored bat ever delightful ‘pantomimic sports, have offered ‘abundance of fup, frolic, and cxatement. A change comes over the spirit of our evening recreations this week, and we wilf be called on to contemplate scenes of a different order,—* sad, bigh, and working,” some of them, and with comedy of 8 less extravagant type. Alter a four years’ ab- sence Mr. Joseph Jeflerson returns to Qelight us with that perennially interesting ©old man of the Catskills, “Rip Van Winkle,” avd the community is all impatience to renew ke delightful scquaintance. It is satisfactory 10 know that Mr. Jefferson is in vigorous health, and as much an epthusiast in bis art as he was fifteen years azo. Agcdoth notwither him, nor custom stale the infiuite, varicty of tudt uniquo creation. We anticipate for him this season one af the finest engagements he has yet played in Chicago. = ‘Then there is John McCullough, that finished artist and genial gentleman, who comes to floo- ley’s Theatre with a repertory of standard plays, and supported by a company of artists whose names are renowned throughout the country,— fuch_as E. L. Davenport, Fred Warde, Maud Granger, and Harry Meredith. It will be a week of hard work for the compauy, judging from the frequent changes in the bill, bt it will undoubtedly prove a weck of high intel- lectual enjoymett to the public. Haverly is not behind bis neighbors in the effort to give somcthing new to his patrone. The engagement of Mr. Barvey Macauler, who 0Dens 1O-MOIToW evening with bis pew play, “A Messenger from Jarvis Section,” form not the Jeast of the coming attractio The picce Lias been produced in St. Paul, where it has met with a vers flattering reception trom the oress and the publi. Mr. Macanley is an able actor, and has lomg been a2 successful mar ager, until ~ the hard whelmed him for a period. amood wany years since be trod the boards in Chicazo, where he was in times past a popular favorite. Altogether the present week promises to be one of unusual jnterest in our theatrical world. LOCAL NOTES. James Douglas, manager of Henck’s Opera- House, Cincinnat, is in Chicago this week. Miss Minnic Edrington joins the St. Louis Comedy Combination at Bloomington, 1il., this week. Mr. and Mre. John Fielding left yesterday for Derroit to begin an engagement” at the New Coliseum in that city. L Mile, Marie Bonfanti, who is to open in' ** The Naiad Queen” at Hamlin’s new theatre, is stopping at the Sherman House. JMr. John McCailough, Mrs. E. L. Davenport, Miss Mande Granger, and Mr. Harry Meredith arrived in town yesterday, and are stopping at .the Sherman House. Miss Grace Cortland, the leading lady of the Jobn Murray Combination, has just recovered from a severe attack of sunstroke, and is sgain ‘Pplaying with the company. “Touy Denier’s Pantomime Troupe show at Mhwaukee to-morrow and Tuesday: st La- Crosse on the 1lth; Minneapolis, 12th; St Paul, 13th and 14th. Frank Hildretn is engaged as Treasurer. Mr. Barney Macauley opens to-morrow even- ing at Haverly’s in “The Messenger from Jarvis Section,” in which ke sustains ithe parc of Uncle Dan,a character said to abound in <quaint humor, with touches of pathos. The Dplav is written by Mr. K. A. Locke, and is in Tour acts. The cast for “Rip Van Winkle at McVick- er’s for to-morrow eveuing includes Jefferson a5 Rip, 3. B. Everham as Derrici: Von Beekman, W. A. Lavalle as Nick Vedder, 1sadore Davidson as_Cockles, Maud Lafayctte as Hendrick (the «hild), Walter Relly as the srown-up Hendrick, Miss Annic Grabam as Grefchen, Alma Lafayetio S;mg child Meenie, Belle Melville as the grown leenie, John McCullough's repertory for the week is a5 follows: Monday and Tuesday evenings and. Wednesday matinee, “ Virginius™: Wednesday and Thursday evenings, * Richelicu 3 Friday, “Qthello”; Ssturday matinee, Lady of Lyons ; Saturday evening, * Richard L1I.? As stated elsewhere, Mr. McCullouzh will be su vorted by Mrs. E. L. Davenport, Mr. Fred B. ;\;’a;-de,mhslmud(;mgu, sud Harry Mere- i Mr. J. H. Huntley and Miss Florence Kenne- dyare here completing the organization of their company. which leaves to-night for Nash- Tille, where they open the scason om the 16th. The company comorises the following: J. H. Huntley, C. N. Pendleton, R. H. Strovg, ter Burton, George Anderson, W. E. Todd, G. W. Mitchell, Florence Kennedy, Marion De mme, Efic Vaughu, Ceilia Crisp, 20d Belle Wallace. Henry E. Wheeler is busiucss man-- ager. ! Hamiin's mew theatre will positively be apened during the ansuing week, the attraction heing, as previously uwnpounced, Dalrsmople’s romantic idyl, “The Naiad Queen.” The cast, hallets, and accessories will require a corps of 100 persons. The theme is somewhat mytholog- ical, sugwrested by the legendary lorc of the Middle Ages. with songs and choruses appropri- ate to those days. Everybody is familiar with theold story of Rupert snd Lurling, and it s unnecessary to rebearse it here. Elahorate scenic Cecorations have been prepared for its ‘production. McVicker's stock company, with J. H. bim- self as manager and *gtar,”? will start out this ‘Week on a three-weeks' tour throurh the West- ern towns, opening at Joliet to-morrow. The company comprises McVicker, Learock, Roland Reed, T. S. Edwards, Harry Pearson, 3J. M. Brown, W. A. Whitsker, Miss Alice Hns‘t‘.‘mzs, Miss Meroe Churles, Miss Aflic Weaver, Mrs, Jameson. The repertory inclodes * Simpson & Co.' “*All That Glitters,” “Mr. and Mrs. Peter White” “Sweethearts and Wires,” “Caste,” “*Yonr Life’s in Dauger,” “The Sus- picious Wife,” and “T've Written to Brown,” The selections are good, and with such a com- pany our country cousius will bave A yenuine trest. Mr. Horace McVicker acts as business agent of the party. -YELLOW-FEVER BENEFITS. Miss Lydia Hastings, the dramatic reader, lod by 2ood musieal and dramatic waleat, wiii sbortl y givean entertainment, at Hershey Hall for thic beneit of the yeltow-fever suffer- ers. A number of Jeading “business men have taken the matter fn charge. Touy Denier has, with characteristic goner- osity, wiven the use of his house and entire com- pmy for a benefit, to the yellow-fever sufTerers., L will emé:.eolt nfllhe Ne: Chicao this after- noon, and. considering the object, should b liberally attended. Mr. Denier wllll'donxu: L‘x: entire recaipts to the cause, not eveu talang out ihe expenses of advertising, etc. This is kind and liberal on his part, and it remains for the public to respond in a like irit, and roll up & thumping sum for the l’(:lie!sll,nnd. The following letter from New Orleans bas heen received by i fises lll:Bumu.! A'nhnr Cambridpe, of the Plcase sce what you can do for th profeasional people in Chicago, I, 1 bate formed ve their entire re- cel."l‘g cverybody threw lng‘thalr salary for that nieht, to vrofessional people of Chicazo. Galves- ton, Fort “Mzn. and Dallas, Tes., have respond- ©d already. Sec what vou can do. Send by ex- Bress or Teclar Jetter to F. 4, Quick, Prestdent iemarck Variaty Association, No.42 Royal strect. .| In reply 1o tne above it may be stated--thit 1he members of the theatrical {n‘otsskln bere are already taking steps1o give a sries of ben- €its for the sutferers, ia which all the managers will heartily join, Mr. Hooley has been making DPrevarations for some days' past, and was oniy Yeaiting the arrival of Mr.” Jotn McCullongh to §ymplete the. Srriorements. It is probsbie that- erivy, MeVicks 1 Slaserly, AlcVicker, and the others wall unite in GENEVIEVE WamD, - A New York reporter: gives the foflowing- ode in the life of Genevieve Wl:d'l:](::z'r.l%: 1.psh of Ohe who professes to know her welts She w3s born in America, and weat abiSad 1 giucated in an operatic echool She” b UG Xew York darine the searon of 1853 or 1664, 1w not certain whict, and 2ppearéd™in opera wnder the name of Mme, Guerravella, which,. hterully translated, mesns **a beautifal warrior.” T have been fnformed that she adopted this cognomen be- cauee of & victory which she achieved over a cer- tain Ruselon of high rank, who, having married, subacquently deserted her.' The reason he ausign- ed was that the marrisce was ndt in sccordance with the rites of the Greek Church, and tnerefore 1 With troe American pluck, howerer, she appeal to the Czar in _person, and finally ‘husband to repeat the. ceremony to. her n. Havicg attained ber object, sbo loft band at the altar, and’ never aaw him after- T bave heard it said that he wus banished fo Siberia. At any rate, she secared a divorce. Then, being a highly-cultivated musiclan, aud scorning to take any of the property of her former husband, ehe turned her aitention fo the sisge. -She sang two or three years jultaly, came lo Americs, and made her appearance at ihe Academy of Music, chaperoned by the distingmshed diplomat, Chev- alier Wyckofl.. Her voice failing her, she retircd from the operatic field, and commenced a ‘course of etady under Reguier, the great teacher of Ris- tori and Rachacl Ristori gelected her to play Mery to her Elizabeth in ‘*Mary Stuart.” fler erformsnce of Lady.Hacbeth in French at the Bm St. Martin Theatre, three years ago, was a. revelation to theart critics of Parle. ¥rom this on she becaine a marked favorile -in professional and social circles. She is probavly tlie only Amer- fcsn who can play witn equal effect ana excellence inthree or four lanzuages. BOUCICAULT. i A London correspondent of one of the East- ern papers has the following bit of personal foseip about the Boucicault Tamily: I read ina new weekly journal, conducted with a rough dash and spirit by Ar. Sampson, late editor of #un, that **Dion G. Boucicault. 'son_of the famous borrower and adapter, is m London. It is stated on good authority that he is a sort of pleni- potentiary {rom his papa to his mamma to patchup the tronbles that have been fomenting for somc time. —troubles which gave rise to Mrs. Boncicault's intentions to visit America profeesionally next season. Mr. Boucicault does not wish Mrs. Boucicsult to appesrin public agawn.” This is rather”an unpleasautly-familiar way of putling things, but Mre. Boucicault's friends will, accord- Iug 1o information which reaches me, be glad to learn there i2 a prospect of her srriving at a com- fortable understanding with her husband, which will do away with the necessity of her visiting America professionally. Tne piece which she re- cently purchased from Mr. Tom Taylor and Mr. Paul Merrit was not succeesful at the Qlympic, and she did not like the part which was writien for her. Mr. Taylor isat work on a new plav, which she hoves will be more in her tine. But Mr. Boucicauit 13 opposed to ber continuing to act, and more par- ucalarly objects to her apoearance in America. She is not, as { understand, anxions to run counter 1o his wishe, #nd everybody Who respects hee hopes the question may be amicably settied. Boucicault is very unpopular with a_portion of the English press, and onehears things said against him continually. It is only fair that the other side should be exhibited now and then. E. 3. BUCKLEY, The Dramatie News tells the following story about £4 J. Buckley and Barry Sullivan: Buckley was cast for the Player King in **am- let, ™ and the version insisted upon by Sullivan was ealirely new to the gifted but independent E. J. Rehearsal after_rehearsal, E. J. B. wonld come up emiling, ‘but, alas! imperfect. Each time poor Sullivan would protest, **Good Gawd, sir! Why is this thus, sir? and each time the peccant Buckley would briefly extenuate his of- fense by eaying, ** Fall, sir, full.” Sullivan was much concerned to understand the explanation, ood asked a b{’sundrr what he ‘meant by the. “iphrase.” **Fuil®’ quoth his interpreter; “'why, the rentleman means ‘ that he was a bit tight last night—screwed, 38 you call it in En- gland.” +*Ah," eaid Sollivan. < Very well.” Ihe first performance of the plece Buckley, wio had not at any time justined the epithet ho applied 10 himself, turned to Sullivan, who was playing Hamlet, fooked him squarely In the face, and said, with a world of meaning, **Full thirly times." Sullivan gasped for breath. Buckiey then re- sumed the lines of his part, *‘hath Phabus’ car gone round.” "**By Jove," murmured the great Irish-Analo-Australfan trazedian, *Ibelieve the Tellow spoke the trath. GRIEN-ROOM GOSSIP. - Tossiand Ristori will play together in Paris next month in * Macbeth.” Denman Thompson is playing his “Joshua Whitcomb? in New York, where he appears to have achieved quite a success. Mr. Clement, who has played sfar parts fn Gilbert’s plays in Loudon, G as the leading man to support Modjeska season. He is said to be a clever actor. - +. The Jenny Hight Combination opened their season toa fine® house at Janesville in Frank Jervls’ comedy, -** Woodland Wild Flower.” The performance was well received. © The Orrin Brothers, managers of the Royal Cirque and Theatre, Havana, with their busi- Dess manager, Leon de Leon, lett on Friday for New York, where they open this month. 3 Rosc Eytivge will return to 'England at the termination of her season nere.” She will play iu London for an indefinite peridd in a new drama by Mr. Charles Reade, and then make a tour.of the British Provinces. According to the London PFra, * Clarissa Harlowe " was dramatized forty years ago at the Olympic for Mme. Vestris, who played the beroine. Of course, Boucicsult was then writ- ing plays, so we can’t quite fix she. charge of plagiarism npon him even in this case. . Mr, Frederick Vokes, the leading member of the Vokes family, has sustained o, severe loss by the destruction by fire of his_picturesque suburbanresidence, Lilian Lodee, Fulham road, London. The bouse, formerly Known s Arun. %—llu&onsn, was erccted in the ‘reizn of Henry T. Henry Trench was' badly beaten in the aitemot to stop Byron, the boy tragedian, from playing the *Celebrated Case” in . Lynn, Mass. Byron swore hie hud wnemorized the play {rom bearmng it at the Union Square, and the Court permitted him to go on, 50 that French and his “legions were routed Lorse, fout, and drugoous. This establistics auotlier preeedent in New Engiaud. - Mr. K. F. Thorne’s uew comedy of * Bilifards” has not met with much applause in Philadelphin. One of the critics says: * The zame of billiards played by the experts has no further connection with the comedy than its presence at the end of the drama: and the introduction is se clumsily managed that independent of the skill displayed therein it is necessarily rearded as an intrusion. The billiard exbibitivn given by Mr. F. B. Adams aod William Sexton excited more interest than the play. The bulls were cent tiying over the table, and caroms and *‘massees” of extraor- dinary skill were shown to the andience. - They excited the applause wners acting failed.” Phillis Glover died recently in London of Apopl She was comparatively little known in America, although sne belonged at one time to the Union Square Company und the Chiestnut Street Theatre, Philadelpbia, snd played a brief engagement at Hooley’s Tleatre, Chi- cago, svon after the fire. She was the daughter of ‘Giover, the Glasgow mavager, and became the wife of Tom Powrie, 3 favorite Scottish sctor, who died many. years ago. Afterward shie married a Germau, who trotted her about forawhile und then deserted her, leaving - tne noor girl at one time in a state of semi-starva- tion in New York. Her career has been a sad oue, and those who knew ner will pot regret thiaf sbe is 8t peace, s Modjeska, Genevieve Ward, and Ada Caven- dish, and Mary Anderson have ail arrived m New York, anil the interviewers are having a busy time. In the coiwversations there isa hit- tle about art and a ereat deal about millinery and ormaments. AModjesks, after reconuting the plays she intends to appear in, proceeds to inforin the reporter all about the designs for her new costumes,—how “Zichy, the painter 10 the Emperor of Russia, made.the sketeh Cleopatra dresscs. and Rapos, the Belgian patot- er, made Lhe sketches for the Fey Woffington dresses aud for Camille.” The costowes for an- other are designed vv 2 famous sculptor, and the ornaments for Ciespatra are made after the latest patterns sent to the Berlin Museam. ¥rom all of which we eather that the comingy stars this season are _rapidly degencrativg into fashion-fizures. ~ Worlh, the man-milliner of ris, will henceforth be recoguized us the great- est dramatic author of the ae. PHILADELPHIA. NED THORNE, - Special Correspondence of The Tribune, YemapeLraia, Pa, Sept. 6.—After a prelim- inary season that has been about as profitable s ull preliminary seasons, in that it has left the managers to pay their own gas-bills and the combinations just about cnough.to pay their hotel bills, the regular season will begin next Monday, when the Chestnut Street opens its aoors for the fall ard winter season of thirty-six weeks. The first theatre to test: the temper of its patrovs in the heated term was . the Walnut Strect, which presented’,* Chicago,” ¥ith its lurid flames, for one week, then * The 0’Dono- vans,” with another fire, for - & week,—probably on the principle of similia simiibus curantir. Then Mrs. Chanfrau played her ' first engazement in this .clty for many years; but “Parted” did hotscem’ to attract much’ money, and the result was. 'a pecuniary falure. This wegk~ we have Mr. E. F. Thorae, who is well knuwn in Chicazo, with one of Mr. H. T. Craven's Gramas, “ Business Before Pleas- ure,” whith has been rechristened * Billiirds, It ignbt much. of a play, but it ~affords an op-- Jportunity for Mr. Sexton, also well—and per-’ "baps not favorably—known' in Cnicag,ito'ex- it !'x:n fl with- the cue in conjunction with # Yaok who finds the !'pa Betier than dramiing for o Nem ";1‘2:}‘: Bonar Mr. Thorne was quite good_in the leading part, and one of the Mlflufims was Miss Mabel Jor- q;.{;,_a niece of Mr. Thorue, who inherits all the family_beauty, belog a dauzber of.:Georsy Jordan and Emily Thothe. Sbéisa fine, hand: Some woman, young, and, talented, thonth, naps, as yet, better adapted for posing than for light comedy. ., e “The plans of the theatres for the fall and win- ter have been pretty well completed. . ...; THE WALNUT SIREET, 4 as'usual, bas’ the pick of tlic stars, It hasa zood stock compsny, headed. by -Mr. abd Mss, Charles. Walcot, Mr. Harry Méredith, Mr. At; Kins Latrence, Alr. George . Howard, Mrs. E, L. Davenport, and Miss Lizzie Creese, and filled out with a nutber of good .stock sctors, whose reputation is ereater at homo than abroad. Nexu week they will prescot Rose Eytinge for tlie first time in her new play, * The Woman of the People,”—~new because it is a new adapla- tionofa very successful old drama, ** Madeleine; or, The_ Pride of the Faubourgz.” -She is very much pleased with it, and expects that it will be a success. In an interview yesterday she said that she would: return. to Englund next zutumn to play the séason. She had many ad- vantageous offers to stay over there, .but thonght it Lest to come back, as “she had intended. She had hoped to begin with a mew play’ by Mr.- Reade,’ but found that engegements had been made for “The Woman of the People,’” and so she should mive that. She tbought it a better work than **Rose Michel.” Sheis anxious to play Shak- speare, she says, but the public do not scem to want it. After Rose Eytinge, Tony Pastor— after ““the Woman-of the People” the man of the boys.: Then comes Lotta, who wiil produce * La Cigale” for the first time in this country. She writes that she is reheatsing the funny business, and that she can stand upon’one toe now with the greatest of case, to say nothing of wagging her left ear. Janauschek will play tor three weeks, and then will come Miss Ada Cavendish, who, by the way, is very much dissatisied that she cannot have - more than 2 fortpizht in New York. Besides that, “she wanted to ' open in anything clse besides the two pieces in which’ she is an- nounced. Why didn't she say so in season! Mary Auderaon will follow lier, -and then ** Around the.World " will be revived for a fort- night, after which Mr. Barrett will brinz out his new play. After this, Mr. Goodwin hss two 2ood things on bis hauds,—John McCullough and the Colrille Folly Company. He will prob- ably play them in the country, alteranting them at the Walnut Street according to the promise of the business. As If this was not cnough, enzacements have positively been . concluded with the Williamsons, EMe Ellsler, Sothern, Raymond, and Jetlerson, aud for the revival of **The Exiles.” When John McCullough comes he will bring the fine scenery from the Boston Theatre which made such a feature of the pro- duction of *Coriolanus? last year. THE ARCH STREET fomains under the same manazement, thouzha change in some of the subordinates would have obviated some well-grounded complaints. The opening will be brilliant, with Modjeska tn those dresses desizned ** by her artist fricnds in Paris,”—wasn't that the pufl par excellence? Sbe plays two weeks, begiuninz on tbe 16th, Eliza Weathersby and Nat Goodwin filling fn next week. Then will follow Clara Morris and Fauny Daveoport. This is o remarkable trio to come tozether, The *“Dinlomsey ™ combina- tion will probably follow, and Milton Nobles is down for Thanksgiving week. Beyoud that the manager sags nanght. THE BROAD STREET : is golng to deserve success this year. The vet- eran Jobu T. Ford will be the mauager, with J. Fred Zimmermao as business-manager, with on interest in the theatre. They have a very good thing in their contract with Mr. Clarke, who bought the property last year, for he has pro- vided the meaus for the thorough renovation of the house, nnd has given them to understand that he wants it established as a first-class theatre, and that it is to be shut up rather than Iet.for any second~class shows. 1t will open on the 106th with Heller, and Booth will follow on the 14th of October. Then will come the Hess troupe, and Barney Macauley, * The Messenger from Jarvis Section,” will arrive on the 25th of November. Mr. Clarke himself will play here during the winter. WHAT THE COESTNUT STREET WILL DO no ove knows. Mr. Gemmill still sticks.to it after all the original partners have-drawn out, and is now the sole lessee and manager. The company is a little stronger—on paper—than Iast year, but whether it will prove so or not on the stae it is too soon totell. e has retained ooth Mr. Sheridan and Miss Glover, and has se- cured the return of George Holland. .Mr. Harry Leg, who is well known in Chicago, will be the jnvenile man, with occasional assistance from Mr. Gemmill, who still bungers for the foot- lights. * What will be the plan of the theatre is not announced, bat, as it opens with * London Assurance,” it is safe 1o say that it will be the. same—standard piays well mounted -and.cos- tumed, and presented by the remular stock company of the’ thcatre. This was the policy last season, and, thougzh they did ‘the “best that they koew, thev had only two paying weeks and only six paying nights during the whole season. Vas not that cnough 10 satisfy any man short of ‘s McVicker or an Ellster? Tt is to be hoped that Mr. Gemmill's perseverance will bring better results this year. IN MINSTRELSY. we shall lead the world ss usual. ‘Mr. Carncross has the Eleventh Street Opera-House as sole manager this year, with one of the strongest companics that he has ever got tozether. ~He- sides bimself, he has a fine teoor in Arthur Cook, and has given up the middle to E. N. Stocam, who is one ¢f the best interlocutors in . the business. Matt Wheeler and E. M. Halt are now. on the ends, bus they are liable at any time to rive way to Hughey Dougherty and E. F. Dixey,. who are both ‘in the company* The comedisns Quing, and Wesl{n, and Casey cou- tivue, and Kugene will still be the Parcpa and the Nilsson of the troupe. : MAX OPENS HIS OPERATIC SEASON at the Academy on the 21t of October. This is the third year that e has selected this city for the opening. perhaps on the principle of first trylog it on a dog. - We shall have all the other troupes that there are going, and Ole Buil is coming over'to make a farewell tour. He will be with us. in midwiater. Miss Anoa Bishop, we believe, makes no more farewell tours nutil next year. + ‘RW. M. . ’FRISCO. MAGGIE MITCHELL, ROBSON AND CRANE, AND ~HENRY WAKD BEECHER. © . Special Correspondence of The Tribune. SAN FraNcisco, Cal., Sept. 2.—An item is going the rounds to the efléct \that Miss Kate Claxton has offered Maggie Mitcheil $1,000 pre- mium over acd above the price the last-named Iady paid for her new play, “Birds of Yassage.” Miss Maggie Mitchell producod this desirable drama at the California Theatre on Monday Jast, and plaved it two consecutive nichts. During that time every one saw it who wanted to, and no one Why saw it éver wanted to see it again. It 'is a'potpourri of “La Perichole™ and ‘| #Don Cesar de Bazan,” with nofhing of the best of either, and affords even Magwmie Mitchell no opportunity whatever for the play of her specialties. S ‘e Jady bas not had a prosperous run at the Culifornta, and “Birds of Passage” almost de- stroyed her last week, but she happily pat on “June Eyre,”.and they gave her zood-bye with rather better houses. Already Raphael’s cherabs, metamorphosed, Dave been in the windows for a fortuizht, which meavs that Robson and Craue open uext week iu_ “Our Bachielors.”. They will have big houses. Tley always draw. People will 5o to laugh. That is why Heury Ward Beccher has Dbeen such an inmense success. He struck the humorous veiu, and the rst hearty tha-ba that went up from three thousand throats was the premonitory chlul:i of »x'szy nszaldt;n dollar. cecher preached in Dr. Stone’s Congrega- tional Cuurch on Sunday. R Lickets were issued fo_the pewholders first, as a matter of course, and to the great public sfterward. They began to come in crowds and sit on the steps by Bin the morning, By half- past 10 they grew impaticnt, threw the doors open, reckless of the doorkeepers, and, plung- ing in, disposed themselves about as comfort- ably as possible in the bespoken pews. A feature of the service was the singtng of Mrs: Msj. Pond, 2 bonny blonde bride whom | the enterprising agent brought t0 California tor a wedding trip. She was formally Miss Tsabel Stone, of Bos- ton, 10 whose critical audiences she'wns known asa concert and church singer of supcrior voice andculture, but hag not appeared in public in San Fraucisco excent on this one oceasion. He has managed to make himsclf particularly odious'to the workingmen, and they have made several abortive attempts to gei up a demon- stration against him. When be Jectured in Qak- land, across the bay, last week, a mauifesto was issued among them, and 'an attempt was made toholda street-meeting in” front of ' the hall vzl;;:re he was speaking, and get up & riot if pos- A similar affalr was intended for_last Thars- day eveniog in front of the Metropolitan Tem- ole, but the leaders’ were courteously tendered {rec passes, and they could not resist the tempta- tion, 50 their poor fallowers were oblired to dis- Derse without having any lark. 2y He his been S0 iberaily patconized that the less give six or eight. : e He basinterfered-greatlyvith -the theatres; for the returns iz “any of them bhave not been | big enonzh to pey gus-bills.” : . - Thc&hnve been ronning the Komance of a Poor Young Man®. at Buldwin's; with James - singiog and musical theory conducted as here- O'Neill a5 Manye " ut 1he: play wis 40 clasely. {deatified wich Montaxue, and Iis dying amongst us 50 recently. broughs. bis, first: season.in the Dlay so forcibly to mind as rcally to have inter- fered with its success with anew hero. . Another cause for thedullness in theatres has. been the Mechanic's Fair, which; since. the erec- tion of . the mammoth pavilion, is as regular as the earth around the sun. - - g oo by, AR . Ttissimply a .moostrous advertising affai and, as they preseut the same articles year after Year, it loses its attractiveness in the course of -.But it.is a place: to go at night; there are lights, and ‘music. and . crowds, soda-water and Dbeer, and it is chieap, As an extra inducement, beeris uow offered the thirsty.visitor, without charge. . 3 % Beside the viles npon piles of dry groceries, the case upon case of ready-made underwear, the eternal pianos and their eternal azents, aud the furnisbea apartments, which are really mar- vels of upholstery, there is.the Horticultural Department, which 15 sometimes Fnss.-mlu. and the Art Departmént, -.which fs wrever- ally _execrable. But some peoole, in fact ‘many hundreds of people, 2o uight after nigbt and promenade up and gown and down and up and fancy they are enjoving themselves, while the theatrical managers are gnashing their teeth and groantu in spirit, nad wonder- ing where the people.are. The Mechanic's Fair has but- one recommendation, the doors are closed and the lichts turned down at-10 p. w. JASSARTH. MUSIC. MISS CART'S SECOND CONCERT. 5 .~ The proeramme for Miss Cary’s second. con- cert, which will be given at the Unmon Psrk Conzregational Church to-morrow evening, will be as follows: . < i -...Hesse 1. Organ—Prelude and Fagut . Organ—Prelude and Fugue. 3tr. Lous Falk. 2. Song—*'Cherry Ripe™ armonia, Quarte 4 Rondo—*No. 00, to"" Ifisx Annie Louise Cary. 4. Song—‘*The Mariner's Home s the sea” - xandegger o M. 5. Trio—*i0n the Ocesn .Concone Mrs. Faruwell, Mrs. Buifour, and Miss Cary. PART 1 4 L Song—**To Sevilla}’ .. Jrs. Farwell. 2. Organ—Overtare to ** liunyadi Lazlo Mr. Louis Falk. . 3. Spinning-Wheel Quartette. lurmonin Quarlette. 4. Song—'*Just as of Old * veeuseees.Pedse Miss Annie Lowise Cary. 5. Quartettc—*Spring Is Coming ..., Goldbeck Harmonla Quarlelle._ YELLOW-PEVER CONCERT. : . A concert will be given on Tuesday evening, the 10th fnst.. at the Sinal Temple, corner of Indiana avenue and Twenty-first street, for the benefit of ihe’ yellow:fever sufferers, upon which occasion the foliowing programme will be performed: ‘ PART 1. 1. Organ solo—Overture * Lours Fall 2. Quartette—*‘Yon StolezMy Love .. . Macfarren AMrs. Palk, Mrs. Ja[l;nmn. Mr. Schultze, Mr. o 4 wen. krry Wives .. Nicolai 3. Septet—** First Movement ™ .. Beethoven Messrs. Fehl, Eichheim, Bru Wiesenbach, Juller, and Ulric A. Thomas 4. Arinfrom **Mignon”. r. Ed Sonnam- -Maeller Hewitt 5.5olo for' clarinet, - from bula™ ... J ifr. " Wiesenbac] 6. Duet—**The Singing Lesson™ .. Afrs. Falk and Mr. Bowen. 2 PART 1. o 1. Septet—'‘Andante and Variations ", Beathoven Mesars. Feld, Eickheim, Bruce. . Wicsenbuch, “ " "Maller, and Ulricci. 2. Quartette—*Song of the Triton ".......3lolloy Chicugo_ Concert Party, 3. Solo for violoncello. .. Ny idars, 2y Homes Sulli 'y Hea: omé ... Sullivan trs: 6. K- ohwson 5. Laughing Trio. Iy -2 eeee.eoo Martin Jrs. Fatk, Jr. Schultze, and fr. Boiwen. i 6. Closing gverture, for orchestra and organ. . MR EDDY IN BOSTON. *. Dwight’s Journal of Afusic, any tribute from which is praise from Sir Hubert, pays Mr. :Eddy, our well-known organist, some very ‘handsome compliments upon, the occasion of his playing upon the organ of the new Old South Church in Baston. It says: “Ioall his performauces we were impressed by two gual- itics which we have rarely found possessed in -50 high degree by any of our orgamsts. The first was a certain art of phrasing whicn, in the nature of things, would seem to be almost. im- possible upon the organ, and yet by some clever management he'did give us the cffect of phrasing, even without accent. The other was his “perfectly linn and even tmé in fugue-playing. ‘This was felt particularly in his clear, express- sive, and most satisfying performance of the great Bach. B Minor Prelude and Fugue. lIle knew how to keep it gninf at its own natural and steady gait. It was plaved thoroughly in tempo. These two quali- ties arc in themselves the test of a good, sound organist. . Karely have we ever been more completely absorbed in- the delight of any music than we were while that glorious prelude and fugue went sounding on. We trust that Mr. Eddy will visit Boston again during ‘the coming season, and that we may hear him on the great orgau at the Music-Hall.” LOCAL MISCELLANY. The fall term of the Chicogo Musigal College ‘comsences oo the Sth inst. Mr. Carl Wolfsohn has’ returned, and the Beethoven Society must go to work. Mrs. Jennie May Jewett, who has been filling some successful engagements in the East, has returned. f 5 Hans Balatka s at preseat in the city, and hes been conducting some of the relies of the Abt Society. : Miss Jennie Dutton-.and Miss Emmns Baker have been engaged 28 members of the Unity Clurch choir. « Mrs. Clara D. Stacy, the soprano, & _in the concert field, under the'auspices of the Redpath Lyceum Buirean. Mrs. Kempton has returned from Janesville, Wis., and will at once resume her profestionsl duties with her large class of pupils. Miss Atice Lansden, the St. Louis soprano, formerly of Chicago, had a reception at the res- fdence of Miss Kate Castle last- week, while en route for home. . Miss Ettie Builer, the soprano of Plymouth Congresational Chureh, has returned to the city from her " Eastern vacation, a portion of which was spent in study. Mr. Ledochowski has retarned to the ity, af- ter a trip of several weeks on the St Lawrénce and in Canada. 'The Chicago Conservatory of Music will oven next Moaday for tbe fall torm. The Chicazo Musical Colleze has cnzaged MeCormick’s Hall for the symphony rehe‘::\fials which Mr. Rosenbecker will conduct every Friv day morning. Only pupils of the college wilt admitted. - ° A correspondent writesus: “ When the wheat men get tired of * In the sweet by ana by, bow would it do for themn to learn Costa’s ‘No weevil .shall befall thee’? Th's is Bar(elley ood enough for your Kye, but it's the best 've sed lately.” ‘The Musical Society for™ Mixed Voices under the direction of Mr. Robertshaw resumed its nectings for practice on Tuesday evening last at the Apollo music rooms. There was a zood attendance. During September the meetings arefree to any persons interested in the work of the Society, i R. A. Snalfield, music publisher, New York, sends us the follownz new music: “Nanc Lee,” adapted for tornet, violin, or fliaté an: Piano, by H. B. Dodworth; “Secrct Love Valtz,” by ¢Mrs. Baker; “Down on de - Ole Plantation,” song and chorus, by Clitfora Cox; +As the Years Glide By,” song, by Richard A. Saalileld; and “Tarry with Me,” sacred quar- tette, by H. Clarence Sage. The “Galaxy Quartette,” consisting of Mrs. Bessie Miller, Mrs. C. E. Daniels, nn§ Messrs. Olucy and Kyle, have returned from their pro~ vinéal tonr, which was very successful. Mrs. Aliller’s solo slngmg (soprano) was spoken of in the highest terms by the press, and Mrs. Dan- icls contributeq, to the variety and interest of the entertainments by her recitations. Their lnst concert swas given at Blue Island last Satur-* day evening. - Tae Hershey School of Musical Art besius its 1;31\ term on Monday, the 16th of September, with largely increnseqa. facilitics for -musical instruction of the highest order, as will be scen tlsewhere, - Special, advantaves are offered for the study of modern. languages fn the French, Lialian, and German classes” of Prof. Eugene Yan Kienze, for whicn tickets.of membership for the year's course may be obtained at o very low rate. There will also be classes in sight 4. Song— tofore. The system of free advaatages will b gontinued as in the past. New,class rooms bave | Zeen added -- for..the - neéommodation’,of the larrely-tucreased number of pupils, and vatious new Kuropean and.American musical. periodi- eals will-be found in the reading-room: - 3 - - DWIGHT'S JOURNAL, = - The new musical paper which afessrs. Olfver Ditson & Co. are abont to_isgue will Tob sup- vlant Dwight's Jowrnal of Iusic. It will be good news to all musiciaus that Mr. Dwight, although he closes his conaectionwith the --Ditsons at the end.of the preseut -yeax; witl ‘continue his ‘ex- cellent.paper. under the auspices. of <other- pab- lishers, and ft will be stilf better news that these publishers are not' engazed in_selling or ‘pub- lishing music. " The eminent ability with - which Ar, Divizht has conducted bis paper, during the Dast twenty-tive vears has made, it the hizhest musical authority in America, .-Goder the new | auspices its veteran editor will_ave. an .oppor-. tunity to still further. enhance its use{ulness, as he will not bo bampered by any of theexizencies | of ‘“the trade.” . + .- | v 5 RUSSIAN ME3IC IN PARIS. - - A correspondent sends us the following sketch ot tne Russian music which will be performed in the Paris Exposition: i Among the garks. or fragments of work3, which are annonncef for tho Russian concerts, - there are | several ans agd symphonies from *¢ Jo Czar,™ audl **Rau<slan et Ludmiis, ™ two master ces of Gligla; two churcn chorunes. by Lort- niantzky, onk of them the celebrated +* Prayer of e’ Cherubim "5 a song and choras of''Roussalk: from the opera ‘of *-Darzomajisky "; neda Ballad"; a crand -fragmentof mow ™ opera of Antoine ltubinstein; certo for piano and orchestra by the the creat lesend of Rimsky-Korsakof,: Tempeter'; the Overture of the drama. **Jean le Teeeible™; and two symphonies of Tchafkyy: The charming Russian dive, Mlle, Anna_de Belo c4, and the the dramatic soprano, Mile. Polensky, ! will take 4 hand in these cancerts, which will take | place on Sept. 7, 14, and 21. Mr. Henry Wienl- | awsky, of nniversal fame s & violinist.and the two pli Wieninwsky, with' the dircetor, Nicolns 'Rubinstein, will 280 play iu these three congerts. i ... CARL ROSA'S PLANS. ‘The London Figaro of the 24th ult. says: Mr. Cari Rosa will commence his provincial season at the Theatre Royal, Bristol, on Monday week. and will continae th the English pr Gl Cheistmun, when he will open ut Dublin. - 3r, Carl Rosa's chief novelties will be Mozart's ** Cosi fan tutte ** (for waich Mr. Rosa thoughtlessly, but absolutely, declines the Figaro’s suggestion that he shal) call it ** They all do it ™) and Meyerbeer's *~Les Hugnenots.” For the ‘present Mozas's opera is namcless, and neither librettisc nor man- ager can give it a title. . [n its present cuise, as an English adapation by Mr. Matihison of the version of Devrient. 1t is wholly immaculate from s moral point of view, ond f **Thava do it won't do, Alr. Carl Rosa and Mr. Matrhizon had better call it “They a' don't do It.* ‘The remaining novelty wiil be an Enclish version of **Les Hurnenots, 7 with Mme. Vanzint as Valenting, Miss Yorke 38 Urban, Aise Burns a3 the Queen, M:. Maas as Raoul, Mr. Cell1as St. Lrus, M. Crotty as De Aerers, and Me. Pope as ifarcel. Mr. Crotty is an Irish gentleman, who was, until recently. an employe at a Dublin bank. Iie made his debut under Mr, Carl Rps auspices, and has zained considerable credit i the provinces a5 a Bigh baritone. Mr. Carl Rosa will open a season of £nzlish opera tn London 1o Feb- runry, and his chief novelty will be '+ Piccolino, a0 opera of which. at s recent visit to Paris, Mr. Rosa secared the sole - Znglish right. **Picco. lino " 12 the work of Al sardon and M. Guirard: it bas aiready bad a runol one hundred nighta at tha Opera Comigue. 4nd 115 about w be revived there in September, with Mme. Gatli Marie in her orig- Insl title role, For this overa M. Guirard bas gained the Graud Prix dee Societe des Beans Arts, with a bon of 5,000 francs for the bes: comic opers, and he has uldo been made 3 Kmizht of the ‘Legion of Honor, and Professor of Harmony at the Conservatoire. THEODORE THOMAS' COLLEGE. The first oflicial intimation ot the scope of fn- struction to be given in the Cinciunaty, Music College, under the leadership of Mr. Thomas, has just beenissued in circufar form. It says: : It ia the aim of the College to impart instruction, theoretically and practically, in_all branches of mugical education. - The plan of instruction adopt- ed heré is intended to give to the student who wishes to become a profeasional musician a meth- odical, sctentific, and complete. education. This comurehensive system is necessartly of the highest advantage to the amateur who wishes ‘to learn one or more special branches ‘of the art and science of- music. In orderto render this system practical and effective, talented teachers will be employed, who are able to execute as well as teach. The departménts of instruction are ten in number, as follows: The voice, in choras classes and solo singing; the orchestra, includ- ing special instruction’ on each instrament and conzerted playing: | theory. including : harmony, counterpoint, instramentation, and composi- tion; piano playing; the-organ; history of music, lectures on musical subjects; score play- ing and conducting; languawes, Italian, Ger- man, and French; clocution; concert-room-de- portment, dramatic expression. ‘the circular concludes thus: ‘Thesc are the principal departments of instruc- tion; they will be agded to or moditled: 83 circum-" - stances .require. Pupils may study only one special branch,. but tuey cannot receive & diploma of graduation unless they arc_able to passan e~ amination in branches required for that pur- pose. The course of instruction in the College of Mnsic of Cincinnati offers superior advantages to thoze who wich toacquire the art and science of music, whether as 8 profession or as an accomplisiment; but the - Colleze offers additional attractions mot fonnd elsewhere in this country, in the series of symphony and chamber concerts given nndor its direction, As a vart of their musical education regular students will have free admission to the rehearsals of these concerts. The College will open for the reception . of students carly in October. Aoplications for ad- mission may he made fo the ‘Sccretars of the Col- Jeze of Masic of Cincinnati, O. The Professors . and instructors . inthe difierent departments are now being engaged. and will b4 ‘annoanced at the earlicst possiole date. - Apropos of . Mr. Thomas, the ‘following from the New York Sunx of the 4th will be of in- terest: g The Directors of the Brooklyn Philkarmonic Society, ot u meeting in the Academy of Music last nieht, received the resignation of Mr. Theo- dore Thomas, the conductor of their concerts, Which was contained in the following letter to Mr. _Horatio C. Kine: w York. Aug. 22 1878.~DEAR Mr. Kixo: 1 been offered ab eugazement for & lan perfod np- on such terms that I have folt it 3 duty tomy family and myself to sccept. 1t and signed_ a.contract to-dny. The eogagemnent will begin about the st of Octobar next, aud wiil prevent me from acting as condactor for you Ssoctety during ils season. as has herctofore been contemplated. I cominunicate this fact 1o yon at the earllest moment In order that yon may have ample op- portunity to make your arrangoments accordingly. The iriendly relations Uhave had with you and the Direci- ors fur a nuinber of years makes it very dificait for me to announce this to yon, Sincerely yours, < Tazo. Troxas. The resiguation was accepted, with recrets, and & Committee, composed of Mesars. Sheldog, King, and Burnbam, were appointed to convey the Soci- ety’s regrets 1o Mr. Thomas, and express their sorrow ai losing nis valued services, 'The same Committce were ordered to confer with snch per- sons asin tneir jndgment it wanld be to the best interests of the Society to consider for the position of conductor, and refer the eame to the Directors at their next meeting. This action was taken to delay the choice unul the New York Philhasmonic Directors shall have heard from Remicke, the cel - ebrated orchestra-leader of Leipsic, whose services they hope to obtain, and who will Drobably be of- “fered the position of conductor of the Brooklyn concerts in the event of his comng to this conn: try. 1f this plah fails, the Brooklyn Society will probably choose Mr. Neuendorf as their leader, ~ MUSICAL NOTES, Edwin R. Mollenhauer, the violinist, is at work on a new opera. Signor Brignoli hias become a member of the Roze-Mapleson Coucert Compauy n the place of Signor Frapolli, who will not return to the United States. | " Marie Krebs having been ordered by ber phy- sician to discontivue playing for a few months, lier engazement as solo pianist at Covent Gar. deu concerts has been canceled. ‘Miss Rose McGeachy, the soprano of the Mad- ison Avenne Reformed Episcopal Chureh in New York City, has beeo enzaged as leading singer of the Max Maretzek-Fryer Concert Company. Mrs. Florence Rice Knor, assisted by her sis- ter, Mrs, Marie. Rice Cook, gave a sacred con- cert at Jackson, Mich., last Sabbath evening, which added $150 to the fund for the aid of the yellow-fever sufferers in the South. * Tt is not improbable that Herr Wagner's carli- est opera, * Rleuzi,” maybe heard at Covent Garden Theatre next season, Aa English adapt- ation has been written by ME. Pittman for the Berlin cdition in Italian and German. An Australian newspaper speaks in high terms of Signor Kosanti, the new tenor robusto of the Strakosch Upera Company. His Edgardo, says the ritic, is a wonderfully fine_representa. tion, his acting picturesque and eflective, aud his vocalism superb. : Herr Tausch, of Dusseldorf, has accepted the conductorship of the Glaszow orchestra (with which Von Bulow gave some concerts last sea- son). The post was first offered to Herr Richter, who declined; next to Sir Michael™ Costa, who also declined. Offers were also made to Max Bruch and Tausch, with the result above stated. ‘The New York Philbarmonic Club, composed of Mr. Richard Arnold, violin, who is now stay- ing with Leonard in Paris; Emil Graw, viola; Cuaries Werner,violoncelio; Eugene Weiner, flute, late of the Thomas orchestra; Julius Grantzberg, violtn; and Wilhelm Lowack, double . bass, will give chamber concerts fn New York during the winter. The Hess English opera season will be inag- gurated In Brooklyn, at_the Park Tneatre, on the 16th inst., with “Faost for the debut in this company of Miss Emma Abbott in the role” of Ifarguerite. Mr. William Gastle will sing Aaust; Mrs. Ed Sezuin, Siebel; Mr. Ellis Ryse, Mephistopheles; and Mr. Brazan, a new haritone from amatour circles in New York City, will make a-professional entree as Valeatine, .. -Auzust Wilhelmj, whose advent in this conn- - «4"try will be the musical event of the coming sea- son, will be accompanied by. Mile. Fdustina, a pupil of the Brussels Conservatory of Music, * to which institution she was recommended by the King of Belgium. Maurice Strakoscl, hay- ing heard her sing, offered her an’ enzagement . for five years. . Wiihelmj's first concert 1n . America Wwill ;take place on Monday, 23d, at, . Steinway Hall, oot . z The London Athenezum says that a trulv great pianist bas been playing at the Covent (arden Promenade !’Z}m{ry. Mme. Montigny-Rem- G, 1/ " | Mauteson are Mame, rovinces | auty, a rupil of Herr, Rubinstein. was firt he: in Enclaod ot Prof. Etlals - Musical o :natinee. and she. reappeared. Jast season witl siemal success.. 'The lady s accepted in Paris as the most sccomplished ladv pianist:.in . tii French Capital; but she must be. ciassified ' in the livst rauk of perfgrmers, be.they male.or: female. it R The' artists who; witl comé Lo Am Gerster Sal Hauck, Mile, Trebelli, Mile. Pai ¢rmeister, Mme, . Denierle, Mile, L Messrs. Campantnd, Battini, Grazza, ‘Galassi, Franceschi, Thierry, and Foli. ; Yorlk, Gerster will appear for' the first. time as ‘s in * Lohengrin,” ' Linda, Susminia 1o Le Nozze de Figaro,” Martha, Dinorahand Mire' Mlle. Salla will appear for the first time ds dida, Elsa in *Lobenirin,” Zenora ln *“Fidello,” and, Yonng Anna in_ *Don Giovanal,” - Miunie Hauck will appear for the first time’ a5 _Zeiltia 1w *Fra Diavolo,” and Se’ika in *L’Africaipe.” Mile. Trebel}i will_uppear for the first timaas Leonora 10 ~La’ Favorita,” snd Fules in “Le Prophet.” i The Berlin zorrespondent of the London Gobe, | witing under date of Aue, 21, says:.* Glimore's Amencan band ha¢ quite a sucvess last week,, when they gave at Kroll's o number of conceris, yerv numerously atteoded. Musieal . critics not only praise the precision of their play and the perfection with which they render most diffienit compositions, but acknowledge that the tones they prodace on brass instruments almost rival | the melodious strains of stringed. struments. Gilmore’s style of vonducting Lis orchestra, and the elegance of their exzeution, will probably lead to a thorough reform of the Gerinan ¢ tary music, whicli Is rather ‘rouh in itskind. ! Inview-of the high ealogy accorded ‘to G more’s band by such _suthorities as Ferdinand Hiller. Franz Abt, and _others, It is quite incon- ceivable bow rumors can have been set afloat in the United S:ates of a failure and meditated dis- bandment of the company. These reports, which are utterly untrue, wust have been set atloat by some jeaious rival, intent on injuring Gilmore and his musicians at_home. Previous i0 returning to the Umted States the band is likely to visit Russia, whence urgent mvitations have been received. i \ THE GAME OF CHESS All communfeations for this department’ shonid b addressed to Tuz TRIBUNE. sud {ndursed *"Chess.™ - CHESS DIRECTORY. CRICAGO Citrse CLUB~No. 50 Dearbornstreet: . . Cuicato Cuss AssocLeTloN—Hanseg & Welch's,. No. 150 Dearborn street. opposice Trinuxx Baildinx. Chess:players meet daily at the Tremoni House (Ex- chanse), slermuo House (Rascutent), wnd at 423 West Madison streew. coruer of Ellzabeth. TO CORRESPONDENTS. * Fhiltdor.~Write 1o Dr. C. L. Moore; 68 Cortlan street, New York. i J. W. H.—We belteve 1..Kt to Q 5Is the correct de- fenseto 1..Ktto B 5, in Problem No, 143, B. F. L.—Proulem No. 144 13- perfecuy sound. Your solutlon 0 the Enigms 1n saime 1ssue wili Dot answer. . C. G.—~Black has better defenses In Problem No. 144 thgh 5ou bave given credic for, The ocher soluilous are0. G. R., Philadelpkia—The Chese Recopd for August apreared unexpectedly last week~the first we huve scen tn three months. May we hope to see It mare fre- quently In future? E. B.—[ takes P seems o be a good défence proposed solution of Prodlemn No. 142 sball have varly actentign. thou we must dechine tnscribiak itas you wish. 5L . G.—In sour analysts of Problemn No. 143, in the yariation 1..Ke io B 5, Ktto 5. 2..Q takes Pch, the RIng escapes at Kt 4. ' 1t is this defense. by the way, L..K1 10 Q 5, which alone defeats the authior's solution. 15 Problem No. I Bl 2. Kto B3, we do not seé Dy nate DY your methol, i t0 your 142, 2. The problem i for divers remsous ENIGMA NO. 143, From tie Glasgonn Herald. BY MR 0. X. BAEDIEE. Whtte, Black. Klng at Q seventh Ring at K R third Ituok ag K Ke square. ueen at Q 8 fourth YawnatK Rt seventh % ‘White to play and draw. PROBLEM XO. 145. EY. MR. C. A. PERRY, CHICAGO. Tlay Kook at X B sevelith o7 7% : ‘White. “White to play and mate In three moves. SOLUTION TO ENIGMA NO. 143 k. Kt takes P 4 mute Correct golution to Entgma No. 143 recelved from &. Benjamin. E. Barbe, and W. H. Ovington, §. L. Syers, and C. G, ¢lty: J.'W. flousion, Irving Park, 1lL.: B. F. Lincoin, Ottawa, 1i%.; Kt., Turner, 1. 0. CHESS I¥ PARIS. . Plased In the elghth round, on the 11th of July. The notes are by Mr. Potier. v s =UY LoPEZ. White—M_ Rosenthal. 1B 4 0 ProQ ks Kitohs BtoBa(x) ProQKi4 P1oQy 1001 BtoK Kis wRES Bto K4 R4 Biokis toht K3 T Lakia B () takes B Plok k4. Lo KR4 Kt takes ki takes Kt Castles: t takes B P iakes Pralie 810 K wh7 it P takes P I takes P R takes B takes P Piokt 6 05 (e) Kt takes B toKt3 RtoReq W6 to k8 ch toKez: RtoKR7eh wWES wh7ch toKta 0 kK5ch || Kes o kdch * K to KL () Mates In four moves. Kt takes F {8 the corroet reply. an i et L CROITMALTR s 0 t0Q4, Bto Q3 (If BtoKt5then P takes K, foliowed afiet Kttaker Pby Q1o O 4). 5P to B4 or 6. .Cashien ireateuloz . and'| suppose no one z to be handicapped with Black's position. " 0Ll UKe o) etween etrong players u move of thia kind It fo- sulting. " { imagfue Zukertort was pleased to be 50 in- sulte (d) Thisunwise capture was the cause of much risk subseauently, Heuhould play ¥ to K 1t 4 at once, (e) If Qto Kr3then 1210 K8 cl f K to Kt then R 1o K7 ch: and If Q10 3 Black doables his Hooka. win ning fn cach case. (0P takes Kt would leave him with s creat deal of resonrfe, If indeed Black would have afterwards ans W Rk o he Blshop gl takes P of course the 10] es, and 12 e Famie. Westminster Papers, 7 SOt 404 whib CHESS I LONDON. ‘meeting of the Counties Chiess Assoctativn: FRENCH GANE. Black—Mr. Jenkin. 1Bkl An fateresting game in the Cup Tourney at the recent White—Mr. Thorald. P80 K 4 755 FesEx ety FTLutTo & e e e O £ o wp- o 3 cia 7er GEDE o S SCeECERD 7 SEE| Rlg SERGEE 7 SR o 5%5 i‘.‘f’- £ H 3. (w) If Black_had'taken the proffered Pawn it would Rhave afforded White an nnpgfllmfl{ for an attack on the King's flank by 15..B 1o K1 2, totjowed by K to Bsq. 1l 'judged. ~ Black falls W see that White can an exchaage of Queens. Kt to B4 would have' iven & atrong actack. '%’l As. ‘[{Pfinu: between two evils castilng seems prot- erable to this. b 3 () The ending fs 33 0dd as It 15 interesting, Snely played by r. Thorald. gl ‘ NOTEE. . 4 Our Problem this week Is one of the author's happlest efforie. ‘The Enizma may posiblyprove a noveity to :'::1;0! our.readers. IL183 very heat: problem: of 1ta & 3 ) 28 E S 4 H \ The friends of Mr. Max Juud, of St. Louls, have made a proposision to match him ‘agulost Mr..Hosmer; of this city, for the Weatera champlonship and o Siske. Of $200. “Thiese to chess athieres are 10 doubt vo evenly naichil, and a mectlag beiwsen them Woald | excite much ntereat. Waterbury has gone and * cooked ™ the only rematn~, fng (7) sound set 10 that now remarkably ansound suc- | cessful tonrney. (vide CUIOAGO TRIGUNE and St. .LOuts M. V. Costes’ our-mover a et - sara. faer, We have expresscd £o opinfon whatere, the wuge.ers oT OCIICTUAAo e 1ine Tate Susbatie T ey, e did What we could f0r (13 Suceess, howogos 250 and "m0k Take the Lok track when we Tty bust ™ set entered 1o our credis, Hoaay - Problem-s)ving 3:one of the most Invizorsify & whaty 5 to the mind USCas Lne Prosect * yOUF expaeta wntat exercises Gne can have s idea, " 52 )5 those who 50 the Praulom s 4 i ¢ho seafe Tl next seer for the solation. bedr In mind thai there is more iz wb3ss problem taaning charule or ridals areAli10ps Whehive F0u v menta exérefse, trut: summit oAl 1o ind vodraelr Ezyresa s =drgqusand HUMOR, - “Dofish talk? Ceriainly; out In Coloradp- Pike?s Peako—borest und Stieam. o 0 It seems a little odd to bear a Greenback mag talk about the golden oppurtunity. To blow out & kerosene iansp with safety to - vourself—get somebody else to do the blowflg A man with a new watch should not hurry, Tie should say; “Tbuféd my tine."—Crapl. - The worst thing about a mosquito s its lan soliloquy as to whers and when it had bettey settle down and bite. The wiser who hoarded his money.in 2 yase ™ 3ald-he did it because be betieved i the sayins. *¢ Urn your mouey before you spend it.” : * How much was this butter, did yon say7v . ** Seventeen cents, sir.”” Where on-earch have the other two gone? 1 can only smell fifteens Hennepin County, Mion., has $%3,337 o jts Treasiry, and owes nobody. What under the * | i f| sun is the Treasurer waiting fori—Turuer's Falls Keporter. . 3 Perhaps Queen Victoria made Beaconsfel’s private secretary “ A Companion of the Bath # 45 a grentle bint to tne Premier to * wash hisseif - | more regler.” i Somebody has discovered that, whenever the | erain 13 cut and banied in, the tramp makes his ‘appearance on the stubble, and demands wori or bread.— BrovXville Democrat. % . [ ° A iaree number of eminent lezal people have orgunized the National Bar Assoclation. Thg is probably the nacural resuit of getting peer down to three cents a glass.—Burdelte. ¢ flev.ver got enny more o’ that sweeten'd salve, mister’” was the delicate way in which g Preston agricaiturist asked for a fourth plage of chocolate ice-cream.—Norwich Dulletin. 7 The New Haveu Seyister, in evident reference to Kearnes's exordium about Orion and the other stars, wants to know i¢ the olain working people of Lins country want to be led byz bloated astronomer. L A Michigan man by fecding a tramp accident! aliy found a fong-fost brother of his wife. Thig should be taken as a_terrible warning aeafms; something or other, because he has had to keep on feeding him ever since.—Cincinnati Break. Jast-Table. i An M. D. who lately opened an office was fs. vored by a visit trom his voung wite. Wishing to start an interesting subject for convers: he said: *My dear, bow many peopie do you suppose pass by wy oflice in-the course of z .. hour?” "I stiould judge they all passed by, nonchalantly exclaimed the wife. b There is mnch importance displaved fo.tfe manly tread of the police: there is much pide - shown in the looks of a darkey with a white: ribboned hat; there is much lizhinessio the pait ot u prize pig: but, for 4 conglomeratton of alf these, give us one little boy after asummer- dav’s- fishing, with a sixfeen-foot pole in one hand and 2 threc-inck sunfish in the other— Syracuse Times. i Bustan Commerelal Prulletin, Mede-in Modesty: The blush. Sound mouey: The orchestra’s salary, . Those we sball Miss: Our daughters till they are married. : Puck. The heated term—Go to —! ‘Why does Ktaruey take of his cost when b orates! Probably to **cool his tissues.” ™ ' - Send the Indians a ton or two of penny whis- tles, and let'’s bear no more of their untaotered mingds. . Yon may think_you know the ropes-com pletely, but a pretey girl can Zet yon on 2 string any day. o Why fs an auctioncer who sclls 2 womana - bottle of cordial a base coward? Because he- ‘knocks her down an’ elixir. The man who is not afraid of war or yellow feyer is generally afraia to take out a paperof tobaceo in tae presence of a crowd. g He said he rather gucssed he knew bow to.- sail a boat; but the gentle zephyrs that, ki the wavelets aver his watery erave mourntally. : whisper: *“He luffed not wisely.” DEATH, MY DELIVERER. Deatn. my Dellverer, 1 drink to thee, Out of this poison-cup, A draft su'sirong, s0 swift, so sare, To thee I'll drin 1t up. The hour is late—we are alone, No one but you and I— And loug we 51t while black bats it And straugely night-birds cry. This chalice holds my life's red wize, Too bitter, Death, for me; Ipour it. und with steady band Lset 1t down by thee, From thy cold clasp 1 take the cup. Kemember! thou hast said: Gblivion shull jall on thoss . A name my own—the Dead. Oblivion! Enough for me! ** So'fill the cap, nor waste e # One drop: since now "tis sweet, what trow . Lfor the after-taste? Across the wall a gray light strikes: Quick, for the nizht-hours pass! Aly Comrade, Death, 1 drio to theel - 75 Agaln, and drain the giass! o Curcaso, 1878, Lono M, W, 57t MUSECAL: i OPERATIC NEWS. The Celobrated Atists and Artistes ol the Coming Season, and Others, and Their Preferepees. - Kellogg, Cary, Roze, Lucea, Nxm, Capont: aud Steakoseh for Ones in Harme- Tigns Accord, Some Reasons Why These Farous: Artists Sing the Praises of the Weber Piano, 1t is only within a year or two, so to speak, ¥ that musical people in. the IFest have come .10 ¥ know about the Weber Piano. In New York, where we are informed that the retail sales ofs these Instruments exceed those of any other maker, almost the entire production has disap- peared. To it5 prestize there 1 no dombt 10" some extent due its ready acceptance here, but, - beyond this and above it, although a priori & partof it, the question of merit takes precedence, i as undoubtediy the most potent factor in the . sum of its briiliant reputation. ¢ it Ask any moderately posted person for the: s Dames of the, two best makers, and Weber will 4 surcly be one, althoush aboat 'the other thers £ be howeser much uncertainty. = Among artists, who are supposcd to have a deeper insight, theif ; constant and general use is conclusive; Whiio ¢ among every-day purchasers any full expressfons, of satisfaction excludes consideration of -2y 5% other Instrument. To the Piano-maker Whoix compares the interfor mechanism, the various iy improvements that add to the durability of the % Instrument, to the solidity of tone, its :Iruhex pathetic and, sustained singing quality, i the evident cause of superiority is revealed. T¢ the general public ic 15 something else—a sense of satislaction with tone and . toneh, an mdefo- able confiden: the growth of a subs tle but unerring fogic that at once defles analy: sis and challenges controversy, and this se0SC, 1 of security in the public mind is woll measared 7% lsay the sm::r?en:h m;fixe x[:y Mesars, Root dar; ons, Ageats for the sule of city and_the Northwest, that their sales of. these Instruments for the months of Juiy sodl Angzust, 1875, bave beep five times greater ma; i furthe copresponding months of last year, 2o ten times greater than for the same period £, years ago, about which time they first uflflflv“(, iheagency. : £ | CALES,