Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1856-04-29

still in port last night
The Cuba departs oday at 6. P. N. for Pa
ducah.
The ALeOnia departs this evening for St.
Louis. -
Dramatic aud Musical Entertainments.
Mrs. MAoREADY, assisted by Mile. CAMILLA
URso. gives dramatic and musical entertain
ment at the Odd Fellows Hall, next Thursday
night.
Mrs. MACREADY is native of Delaware, a
well educated and talented lady, at one time a
favorite of fashionable society in Philadelphia.
Having passion for the dramatic art, she en-
braced the theatrical profession, and, in 1853,
made her debut at Walnut Street Theatre, in
that city. Her success as an actress was such
as to place her in high rank, and to open 20
her easy access to the temple of fame. An.
moved by the vexations incident to life on the
s;age, she finally determined to adopt differ
ent branch of the profession, that of dramatic
reading. In this most difficult department, a
biographer records, she has won "a succession
of brilliant triumpls."
"Her Dramatic Readings" he adds combining
the rhetorical effect Of the stage with the sysmpath
les OF familiar and almost, domestic circle, have
presented a new aspect of the profession. They
challenge the interest Of all VIII cherish taste for
dramatic representation, but who shrink from the
associations with which it is usually connected,
They appeal 70 the numerous excellent persons who
wish for refined aud elegant amusement, as well as
10 those who find their recreation from business and
care in graceful and exciting intellectual displays
Her delineatiOns Of character are OF the utmost ut
~ TO those who intend TO enter upon the theatrical
profession From the example of such practised
performer more may often be learned in few even
inRs, than from months Of merely dldsctic discp"
line"
If a 1.-THE of what Is said of her efforts in
this line be true, our citizens may anticipate
real intellectual feast from her.
Mile. CAMILLA URso is young Italian girl,
whose wonderful execu ton on the violin has
given her renown in the old world, and is
making her name famous in the new. From
a sketch of her history, we make the follow
ing extract relative to Ler success when mere
child:
At this period she was lauded to the skies and
success followed the young artistic everywhere.
Dilletanti, artists everybody, overwhelmed her with
praise and loaded her with bon botS and toys; a
kind of ovation TO which the little Camilla was not
yet of an age TO be ihsensible Proud of his daug
ter ~ UrsO started on a tour through the depart-
ments Il was succession Of trumphs. Then a
series OF concerts in some Of the German cities,
Heidelburg Barden, Mayence another series OF ova-
tons Finally they returned to Paris where Mas
sart awaited his pupil with impotence. Camilla re-
turned with new ardor 20 her studies. In few
months she appeared in the public concerts Of Paris,
before audiences whose verdict decides the fate Of
aspiring artists at the Sale Herr Societe Polytech
niuue, the Conservative, the Association OF Musi-
cal Artists Every where her success was the same;
and crowned with the approval of these audiences
she now is walking in the steps Of the greatest Vr
fuOs She plays the violin not as any well organiz'
ed child might play after certain period devoted to
study, but indeed With a skill truly prodgious. Her
pose, her energy, her bowling, reveal the CONSUME
mate artistic! But what is most surprising is the
sentiments Of her execution: she eXces in that es-
sentiaf expression which comes wholly from the
soul and which the composer, from lack OF means
to note and write out abandoned TO the discretion
and intelligence OF the eKecatane. Camilla Urso
came TO the United States in 1852 and has perform
ed at the principal concerts in New York, Boston,
Philadelphia and indeed all the principle cities OF
the Uuion to the admiration Of all. She was for
some time connected with Madam SOntag and was
with that distinguished lady when she breathed her
last.