New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-01-09
Amusements.

sT CsARIns THEATRE Saturday evening Kowes
tragedy Of Jane Shore . was performed at the ST.
Charles Theatre with Miss Dean as Jane Store nirs
Potter as .aiicia MIR. Janison Gtoste' Mr. Magic
as Lora Hastings, and Mr. Msddocks as Dahaoh. The
plot and character of the piece ere lar from pleas
ing to our taste but never listen TO the ner-
yous diction and apt dialogue-the strong sounding
sentences of Rowes writing without feeling that he too
had drunk from the pure well of English undefedt
and won by merit the proud position he holds Miss
Dean played some of the in the piece admirably
but there others in which, think she did not ap
pear to SO great advantage 1t is difficult to dsentangle
from web of varied weaving thread here and an
other there imperfect when their imperfectioa is
slight and unimportant Miss Deans in any portion
of the tragedy-and we shall not attempt it. Mrs.
Potters Alicia exceedingly good and challenged
very high place in the performance The amusements
concluded with the farce of the Stage Struck Tailor
in which Ben de played Tom Tape and Mrs Bernard
Sally Scraggs =usu5
g Lucretia Borgan was produced on Sunday evening
to very large house, Miss Dean playing Llefeia Mr.
Maggie Genaro, Mr.. Maddocks Duke .aionso Mr.
Potter Gibeto, and Mr.. w Davis Jsppo. Lucreta
is one of the which Miss Dean appears DUR
ing almost every engagement and is therefore probably
avorite with her. with most other star actresses. We
do not nevertheless think that she excels in depicting
the @withoring scorn, unquenehabe hatred, and wan
very much question excellence in that department OF
dramatic power and had far rather her the Con-
tess in Love Mariana in " The Wife, Mr.. Mad
docks' Duke overdone.
After the tragedy, Old Jordan, who drnnmed at the
battle OF New Orleans appeared and was received with
immense applause Mr. Dufield sang the 4 Battle OF
New Orleans and was very loudly applauded. The
performances concluded with Ben de Bar Robert Ma
caire.
This evening Miss Dean takes her benefit Blanca n
the play of Fazo character in which the New York
writer's praised her very highly. She also plays Mrs.
Chilngtunc in the Morning Call" The bill and the
actress ought to draw crowded house.
PLAcIpE's VARIETfEs.-0n Saturday evening Chenys
comedy called the Soldiers Daughter cast to Mr. Bass
as Cor HeaftaN Holland Timothy Quaint. Allen ~
Frank HsaytuH and Mrs Stuart HTtotD Cherry was
performed and went of quite WE'LL though owing to thu
aoeueney of the weather there not large attend
evenings amusements.
On Sunday evening the farce Of "a New Years Eo
iays' the domestic drama called A Fathers Love- ano
the farce of Cockneys in California; rcproduceC
10 very respectable house and went off, they AWAY
10, with applause.
DAN RIcE's AspHlrHE ArRE.-We have been ATTRACTED
| to the Amphtheatre number Of times by the exceed
ing merit of Madame Tpuruare's performance. She j.
certainly q wonderful equestrienne and has thus tal
drawn unusually crowded audiences. On Saturday AM
sunday afternoons and evenings there was continued
rush into the building, and her grand bareback &C
1 brought down the house az it always does.