Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-10-15
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC ART.

VIII bNtu MlNu DdltuhuH comedy of
SeH, quite a clever production, which was
performed with considerable ecldt last Thurs
day to very large audience.
Is 1t not possible for the manager of the
Opera-house to effect an engagement with
Charlotte Cushman2 II would certainly be
one OF the most brilliant ever played in the
city for, we doubt not, the great traqedienne
could draw largely for month. Mr.. An
gerson played five weeks, last season. at
WOOD 8, and II the fame Of the artist be
good criterion, Miss Cushman could surely
remain as long, with profit at tue Opera
house.
We feel satisfied we but echo the wish of
thousands of the lovers of amusement in
Offering this suggestion, and are convinced
that such an engagement would prove. ne
cuniarily, a success, while, at the same time.
it would tend to elevate the dramatic taste
Of the city, and quicken its apparently luke
warm love Of the legitimate drama
NATIONAL THEATER.-Jane Coombs closed
her engagement at '0ld Drury" with the
week just passed. She leaves a number of
friends in the city, who will not fail to pray
that she may speedily overcome those faults
IN her elocution which render her imperson-
ations at times positively painful. Her ex-
cellencles are numerous, and her imper-
tecuons few, and yet the former are almost
lost to her audiences because of the latter.
They, nevertheless, could be very easily
remedied and it is because we wish her the
greatest success in the profession she has
chosen, that we now refer to them. If she
will improve, as she may in this respect, her
future will be succession of triumphs in
histrionic art; if she will not, her star will
set early, and be forgotten soon.
This evening, Mr.. Collins, the well known
lrlsh comedian, will appear in Rory o. More
the performance concluding with Dick
7tHpia.
-WooD's THEATER.-The Seigrist and Zan-
tretta troupe will remain during the coming
week, and perform at the German Theater
Charlotte Champion will commence an en-
gagement at Woods next Wednesday.
SMITH & NrxoN's HAL1.-Thiodon's Mu-
scum of Art will remain at Smith L Nixon's
Hall throughout the week, and perform
nightly, we doubt not, to large houses. II
is very deserving of the patronage it has re-
ceived, and should be visited by every lover
of art.
NEW YoRK-The Tribune thus speaks of
charlotte Cushman's impersonation of "Meg
Merrilies:"
Miss Gushman having done for the present with
mrs Haller' and Blanca" in which sno first ap-
peared, for some nsorutable managerial reason that
Monday nie6t appeared as meg III Serres His"e TSa Gn
house was crowded to It's circumference. and has
night 'O' " '''"'''' inconvenience eS'h succeeding
Miss Cusbman's success as ''AIeg" is as great as
ever. Time has robbed this wondrOus characteriza.
ton Of no particle Of its wild energy has detracted
nGthing from the strange power that makes it fas
the personotion years ago, are now as greatly i'm.
pressed by its grotesque, weird earnesness In the
yigor with which it is given. There can, we think
be question that the Meg Merrilies Of CIarlottc
Cusbman STANDS at the very head of the school of
formance. ~
The New York Express, in discoursing
of PATHS debut in Linda di Chamoani, saws
she looked vastly prettier as the little peas
ant IN her cap and short petticoat, than in
the finery of "Violetta;" she sang, of course
with elegance and ease; the Luce di quest,
ANNA was very agreeably given, and the
" Consolarml was peremptorily and de-
servedly encored. Brignoli, wonderful to
declare, was willing to exert himself and re-
peat the duet he absolutely went to the side
scenes and beckoned to Patti to return,
This unheard-of good nature was duly ap-
The first sod Of the new Theater on
Thirteenth and Broadway, was turned, on
Monday morning, by the veteran Waliack
himself, surrounded by all the beauties of
ms Court For the lot, $50 by seventy-fve,
Whlch he has taken on lease of ten years,
he pays MIR. Gibson an annual rent of $iO 600
year, and all taxes. In addition, he is to
pay ~, 800 for the entrance on Broadway.
for the first five years, and So, 500 for the re-
naming five. Mr.. Wallack lodges with Mr..
Gibson $4,000 as security for the erection of
the building, which sum, on its completion,
is to be allowed in the first payment of rent.
Inc Iteater IS estimated to cost, in erection
ana httlngs, $780, 900, and at the close of the
ten years passes into Mr.. Gibson's hands.
II In discoursing of musical n,atinsss the
New York Sun says "they are not likely to
flourish in this country. They are not very
well attended,. and the impression Justly
prevails, that the company by which they
are frequented, is not of the kind most
favorable to virtuous influences. Ladies,
unprotected by their natural guardians, are
brought in contact with loose, over-dressed
women, around whom swarm worse men, of
the sort who wear diamond pins, patent
feathers and dyed moustaches, and who
stare from the steps of hotels. The per-
formance is dull, the orchestra lags, the
principal singers often excuse themselves,
or sing without spirit, the audience rarely
exceeds 600, and the mixture of daylight
and gas-light makes sickly atmosphere"
VARIET1Es.-Mr. Balfe is said to be writing
new opera for Miss Pyne and Mr.. Harrison.
j. Russell Smith, of London, announces
as ready a dictionary Of old English plays
prior to 100.
.-Signor P. P. Boccomini, one of the prin-
cipal members of Madame Ristori's COM
pany, has died at Amsterdam.
AN operate performance recently given
in Paris, for the benefit of the Syrian fund.
realized $4,000 francs.
-Voltaire's comedy, in one act. RLndis-
ereL which has never been played since 1928.
is now in rehearsal at the Franeais.
AT Dresden, son of Schnorr, the cele-
orated painter of subjects from the "Nibe-
Iungen, has made q successful debut as
leading tenor in one of Wagners operas.
Miss Fairfield, the Boston deJutante at the
Howard, is to make her first appearance as
Louise de Lignerolles," in the drama of
that name.
--Sivori, the violinist, recently gave
eighteen concerts in Milan, three of them for
The benefit of Garibaldi, to whom Sivori was
thus enabled to forward over $500.
-Calzado, manager of the italian opera at
Paris, has engaged for next season Pence,
Alboni, Gardoni, Mario, Graziani, and
others not so well known in this country.
Carl Formes arrived in New York in the
Sd1ondi. Mademoiselle Sassi, eontralto, en-
gagged for the Cortesi troupe, was passenger
in the same vessel.
Prince Ernest, of Wurtemburg. has lust
been married to a celebrated German singer
named Natalie Frassini, the daughter of the