New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-01-15

stunted by the cold. Pshaw!
The audience seemed delighted with the show,
ana Rarey will have another crowded house to-
night when he gives his second "lecture," Chat
is what he calls them,) 1t is lucky thing for
Nixon & Co. that they have got hold Of something
to draw upon Forests off nights For weeks and
weeks Conway and others strntted and beloved
through miserable 1nelOdramas 10 the great enter
tainment Of a few dead!eads, but don't suppose
the average cash receipts su1iced to pay the gas
bills.
Rarey's show will draw as long as he can get
fresh.subjects. The philanthropists Of the World
newspaper (they are really too good for this
world) call him the Howard of horsehesh, and
wind up pathetic editorial with the following
touching paragraph: He (the horse) is generally
docile, the cases absolutely demanding the Rare
yam discipline being infrequent and exceptional; +;
but how much Of suffering the poor animal under
goes from ignorance of his nature and require
ments; how often his life is shortened by brutal
disregard of his capabilities and necessities, is
h2oacn only 10 the horse himself
You don't really mean that, now do you?
Forrest has announced Damon for his first benefit
tomorrow night. That will be his fftieth perform
ance during his present engagement. He has
played far only six parts Hamlet, Lear, Othello,
Macbeth Richard III, and Spartacus. His Hamlet,
in spite of popular preudices against it, has been
declared by the critics to be bis best performance.
He proposes to go on for another fifty nights,
which will bring him into the middle of May, and
make the largest star engagement in dramatic his
| tory.
| Very much to the delight of Flora McFlimsey,
the opera has got upon its legs again. The italian
artists are to open at the Academy the Dist of
this month, and to sing alternately here and at
Brooklyn, where the new opera house is to be ded
icated on the 18th and l7h with ball and concert,
and opened for opera on the 2}d. This italian -
troupe has four pi'Ha dO1l11e, neither of them from
| the sunny land. ColsOn is French Adelaide Phil
| lips halls from England and Judea; Miss Hinckey
was born in Troy, not the home of Helen, but OF
| Heenan; La Signorina Elena is Miss Ellen Conran
all the way from Ireland, via the Conservatoire OF
Naples and the Imperial Thcater at Rio de Jan.
| eiro. Frezzoni, the only Italian prtlnd donna
hereabouts, can't get an engagement. She has nc
| voice to speak Of and would ruin any manager in
| his costumer's bills. The forlorn hope Of the sea
soc is Miss Hinckley, who is said to be cross be
| tween Adena Patti and Fccolonini-a good mix
| ture. On dit, that Hinck1ey'S mamma has brough
the young lady here to prevent her from throwing
| herself away on snufy old music master. Louisi
kelloggis mentioned as one Of the company, bu
| don't think she'll come out She is pet of somt
| Of the Academy stockholders, a circumstance
which don't help her with the public and she made
| rather bad thing of it concert singing in thu
| West. The German troupe disbands after singing
for Stigelis benefit on Friday. Formes goes bacl
| to Europe, and says he is engaged at Covent Gar
den. Stigelii is engaged at Havana, and Fabbr
| goes to Milan. Fabbr is one of the greatest lyric
tragedans in the world, and l wish you could have
had taste of her quality.
We are indebted to Jefferson for the sole theari
cal sensation of the week He gave at the Winter
. Garden, last night, Robsons burlesque of {" Ma
| zeppa." 1t is screamer, and just the thing TO
Owens and Mrs. Leighton. Jeffersonis 'Mazeppa'
was a compound OF Forrest and Pet Booth ant
was all the iunnier for its apparent earnestness.
The tight times have troubled Wallack, they say
in raising the money for the building of the nev
theater. He has another antique in preparation
This time he will give us 70 La Dame de st. Tropez
a piece originally written for Frederic Lemaitre
and done into English fifteen or twenty years ago
1t is high-pressure melo-drama, full Of jealousy
poisoning and all sorts of terrible things. Th
present version is said to have been done by
Boston gentleman; and am not at all surprised t.
years behind the times in literary as well othe
matters. Jefferson has arranged Dickens las
Christmas story, '' A Message from the Sea- 70
the Winter Garden and the same house has nev
piece written for Jefferson, by Fitz James O'Bria
and Frank Warden. 1t turns out that Tom Taylo
has shut pan on Laura Keene, and will not give he
advance copies Of any of his plays. Who in tn
world has not the fair Laura had row with?
Times are very tight with the Werateou'S abou
town. Manuscripts ever so good, won't sell. Th
Harpers have fallen back upon an old lot Of store
and sketches, some two hundred in number, an
so you may expect to enjoy the gushings of var
ous and sundry infantIe geniuses. j. Herbert
whoever be may be, purposes to publish on the Is
of February, the initial number Of the &C America
Conservative Review a monthly, sixty.four page
folio, to be written, he says by the ablest pens
the country, and conducted after the fashion of tl
London Saturday Review. That spicy weekly
the Saturday Press, which died of that terribl
newspaper malady, the shorts, is to be resurrecte
next week, under the title of The Bohemian.
am afraid it won't do; in such stirring times a
these people don't care for light literature.
Au rer0u', Colonel,
EENFANT TERRIBLE.