New-York tribune., 1867-02-08
THE DRAMA.

Mr. W. II. Whalley who lis both an industrious and
careful actor and one who works faithfully in a
difficult field Of labor continues his series Of STAR
performances mt the B0wery Theater popular
pTogramme comprising four plays, Is Just now pre-
sented and gives great satisfaction to the Orentas
The New-York Circus offers pleasures for chill
dren and for this direct TO 1t the partic'
lar attention of readers. An equestrian diversion
called " Blind Mans Buff"-which, though not new.
is very good-has this week afforded much arn'ise-
ment TO considerable audiences. The usual miseella.
neous entertainments given, including an act or
horsemanship we'll worth seeing, by the handsome
and spirited CarlOtta de Berg. The horse comedy or
Jockey Club Races" will be Withdrawn at the emf
Of the present week. A Matinee VIII be gwen Oh
Saturday.
Our readers are again reminded of the Bunyan
Tabeaux of which we spoke at length last Saturday,
and which are exhibited nightly, and on Wednesday
and Saturday afternoons, at Union Hall, corner OK
broadway and Twenty-third-st. The exhibition -
one that richly merits popular attention
"The Black Crook" will be given at Niblo's Garden
tonight. The spectacle has, apparently lost none OK
its attractivencss, and its withdrawal may be re-
garled-if fact at AS fact of the remote future.
A Matinee will be given on Saturday, being the
25th of the season.
At the end of the present week the "Brd of Para
disc will be withdrawn from the stage of tho
New-York Theater, TO give place for the revival of
Tom Tayor's The Tcket-of-Leave Man, which il
to be brought out next Monday
Brooklyn readers reminded that the favOrite
comedy of Ours" may be seen at their Academy
of Music this evening. Mr.. Lester Wallack VIII ap-
pear as Chdlcot and the east OF parts VIII be nearly
the Same as heretofore at Wallacks Theater.
mixed performance of comedy and opera will be
given at the French Theatre on Saturday evening.
The comic opera of :" Les Noces de Jeanette" will be
preseuted-in which Mile. Naddi Is 10 appear-and
also the comedy of lie Meutrier de Theodore"
Mr. Hartz's entertainment at DedwOrth's Hall this
week is of an unusually miscellaneous character, and
brim full of comic effects that il not only puZ-
zes his auditors but keeps them in an almost con-
tinued state of laughter. few of the illusions pre-
sented have been seen before-such as the Floating
Head the famous Hat trick, and the Talking Bell:
but most of them quite new. 1t is scarcely need
full TO add that they performed with that ease and
grace and perfect skill for which Mr.. iiartz Is re-
markable among magicans. An especially neat trick
illustrative of sleght OF hand lis that which s dono
with the egg the hat and the three rings Mr. Hartz
makes kind of egg-nog, putting IN three rings bor
rowed from persons in the, audience, pours the
mixture into the hat, and then takes out n
garland of flowers to which the three rings
this as exemplying the finish and the amusing char
acter of his general programme His most startling
novelty is illusion entitled Proteus" and TO this
the attention of scientific minds is especiry invited
The curtain rises, revealnga cabinet six feet high
and three feet square, with but one door bell il
hung within and the door is closed The bell is then
heard to ring; but when the cabinet Is opened the
bell is nowhere to be found. An assistant Is sent IN
to look for it. He, too, disappears, and Yankee
comes forth Mr.. HartZ himself then enters and dis
appears In short this extraordinary cablnet-froni
which there is but one way OF egress and which 10
raised above the floor and so placed as TO preclude
all decepton--seems TO possess the power OF making
those invisible who enter It, and fairly deties the
keenest scrutiny The illusion Ia one of the cleveresa
that has ever been shown in New-Yorki and with
the Indian Basket Trick and the others that we havs
ment of those acts of magic in which MIR. HartL has
few rivals aud 10 SUPERIOR