New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-12-26
AMUsEM ENTs.
Academy of Music.

Santa Claus, mounted on high horse, rode
swiftly into the Academy yesterday, and
distributed rare and costly gifts to the little
ones. The Academy was full last evening TO
see "Undine," and hear Mrs. James Oates in
her popular songs of Captain Jinks of the
Horse Marines, "and "Walking down Broad
way.r The matinee to-day was well at
tended. This evening and tomorrow
evening ''Undine," with all it's magnifcence.
the vol1ptuous "Can Can" dance, the grand
ballet of Golden Leaves" the ''Firefy"
BALLET, the "Shadow Dance" and Mrs. Oates.
Monday evening the musical, spectacular,
comic, fairy extravaganza, entitled Little
Red Riding Hood" with new scenery, ward
robe, properties, and brilliant effects. This
will eclipse any spectacle yet brought out
at the Academy. but Mr.. Treasurer Kittredge
will provide seats for all who go early to the
box office.
ct. Charles Theatre.
1t is hardly conceivable that the genius of
man can devise anything so beautiful as the
gorgeous transformation scene which closes
each performance OF "Cinderella, or the
Lover, Lacquey and Little Glass slipper" at
the st. Charles. Multitudes of little children
were delighted with it at the matinee yes
terday. "Santa Clausn met them face to
face as they entered and he exercised a
wonderful discrimination in the appropriate
bestoWal of gifts. Every one was satisfied.
This evening is the last production but one
of the spectacular burlesque of cinderella,
and we advise everybody who has not witt
messed the play to see it. There is fun alive
all through the representation. Whitman's
Partisan ballet troupe embraces the familiar
names of Mile. DIANA, who dances all over,
Laura Bell, Lecompte, Barena and Mons.
Marvig. The comic polka by Hattie Vallee
and Mons. Marvig the Hungarian polka by
Mile. Diana, and the "Cancan," by the com.
pany, are exquisite. Monday evening,
s'Midsummer Nights Dreamsn will be pre-
sented, with Ben DeBar as Bottom.
Varieties Theatre.
Just look into the house at the first
Lancashire Lassn matinee today, and that
was all there was room for. Manager Floyd
struck vein when he brought out this dra.
matte sensation. 1t has not yet failed to
draw full house, nor will il if it is kept on
the stage for a week or two. The taste OF
the theatre.goers of New Orleans does not
materially differ from that of other cities,
where the Lancashire Lassp is long time
in wearing her welcome out. The Party
by the name of johnson" is an original char.
acter, but Sheridan sustains it to perfection.
Miss 0rton has rather melancholy role to
perform, yet considering that comedy is
natural to her she comes fully up to the re
quirements of the drama. No performance
tomorrow evening. Go and see the" Lam
cashire Lass" this evening.
The Crescent City Museum.
Thousands of gifts, the glass blowers art
displayed in their creation, were distributed
yesterday during the day and evening.
| Price of admission trifing, and everything
wonderful can be seen there. Go in any
time.
The National Theatre.
Inc benefit this evening at the National
Theater, for the actors and actresses of the
Olympic, who lost their wardrobes and
were thrown out of their professional en-
gagements by the destructive fire the other
| night, will result in big house. Great
numbers of tickets have already been sold
| and the house will be full. 1t is the frst
| Olympic performance which ladies can at,
tend Go there and be benevolent, or be
| benevolent and go there.
The Steam Man.
| He has come, and proves to be a curiosity
He holds daily and nightly levees at No. 3.
st. Charles street. But he will probably
put himself on the race track and convinc,
the world that he can make better time at
tached to buggy than the fastest nag tha
ever trotted.
The Family of Dwarfs.
The genuine original Tom Thumb, ALA
| Charles Stratton and his little wife, Com
modore Mutt and Miss Minnie Warren, viii
appear shortly at Masonic Hall. They hav
lately been travelling in Europe, and mad
| quite an impression before the ladies of th
| Court at Windsor Castle.