The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-10-22
AMUsEMENTs.

CAMP STREET ORPHAN ASYLUM BESEFIr.-There
will be brilliant affair at the Opera House this
evening, If energy and talent inspired by the i'm
pulses Of charity, can combine to produce 1t. A
number of our prominent citizens, ladies and gen.
tlemen learning of the necessities. the urgent,
pressing needs Of the excellent institution known
as the Camp Street Orphan Asylum, have joined
together in an effort to relieve them and at the
same time do it in way which cannot fail
to enlist the sympathies of the general
public. Charity is beautiful at any time
charity never faileth-but when the fair divinity
comes to us, borne on the wings OF melody and
sense OF hearing and our pity for distress, then Is
she not ten-fold more radiant! so in the cause OF
fair charity tonight, hundred and fifty amateur
vocalists and the finest orchestral sccompani-
make melody; and it will be before crowded
house, too, judging from indications. Scailler's
cantata, The Lay of the Bell" and the cantsta
entitled the " Power of Song" will constitute the
principal parts of the musical programme. And
as q pleasing variety, there will be series Of
statuesque groupings by members of the Chal.
mette Club, representing the -Four Seasons and
Charity. the patron goddess of the occasion. We
sincerely hope that the entertainment may realize
for its noble object a substantial result such as
will gladen the hearts of the fstherless ones in
whose interests it has been originated
VARsKTIEs.-The knights of the Round Table"
are a number Of shrewd. inscriptions schemers,
who give their name to the comedy which was
last night played at the Varieties. The plot Is an
exceedineiy deep laid one, and requires in its
development the closest attention OF the spectator
who would follow and unravel it through to the
denouement. Schemes of treachery are met by
counter schemes, men concoct villainy and then
prove fathless to each other with the most re-
freshipg coolness and sudacty. ln short, the
piece is an exemplifcaton Of the diamond cut
dian ond principle, mingled with some very
pretty specimens Of domestic comfort, of limo.
ceDce and of frivolty. MIR. Sheridan appeared
as CAPT. Cozzens. the cool, calculating plotter ;
Mr. Ralton as Leonard Darcy. another Of the
same ik; vining Bowers as Tom Itaer. e. the \. IN.
fatuated; Mr.. Cogswell as Sir Ralph Booue, the
| man Of fortune; Mr.. Floyd as Smith, and Miss
Freeman as Marie. the child stolen years before
| by 1.-THE aipsy maiden" In some parts the piece
scSsnes Of 1hH are &
| umphs (it always does,) amply compensated for
| this. and sent the audience home well pleased
| with the entertainment. Tonight the knights
of the Round Table, will be repeated.
| ST. CHARIEs.-Manager De8ar will. on the Sec
i ord proximo, throw open to the pubic the doors
/ of The Old Drury tor the winter season. The FOL.
loving are the members of the company engaged
/ by hIm:
Ben DeBar. manager; Charles Pope, acting
/ manager and leading man.
| j. A stevens, juvenile; W. NJ. Ward. first
| beavies; F. R. Pierce. first old man Nat Hyams
| e 4 low comedy; l. D. Kinlin, second comedy
| Tom St. Clair, second old man; G. I. Murphy,
| singing walking gentleman Joe Gobay, prompter
| wm. Megloching call boy; W. H. Particle, Sec
| ono bes yiee; w. h. stuart, y. hOWaru, ". pray
j. Trimbie n Miller, utility and general business
Louis Mayer, leader of orchestra; VIM. Haghes
property man; Tony Ecett. stage carpenter
| Miss Henrietta Osborn, leading lady; Mrs r
r. Pierce, juvenile; Mrs. Rosewood, first old
woman; Mrs. Kate Shubert second old woman
Miss Belle Howett, soubrette Miss Hattie Vale
chambermsid; Mrs. w. II. Stuart, Mrs. Campbell
Mrs Gobay, Miss Aggie Young, Miss HemaI
Clifford. Miss Hoffman, Miss Brsndell. Mari
smith, the famous comedian, will open with Mr.
DeBar on the I'd, and the following star perform
ers will appear at intervals during the season
Miss Jean Hosmer, c. w. Coudock and daughter
Mrs Lander, Lolita, Helen Western, Fanny Jansu
| scbek. Marietta Ravel, the whitman Ballet Troupe
| Edwin Booth and host OF others.
ACADEMY OF MusIc.-Another member o. tn tn
company Dick Ralph. arrived yesterday, and WI
| appesr tonight in his inimitable character dc
Ineaiiug the woes Of the delapidated femal
| whose father sould charcoal, and shat was th
cqrse of itu There will also be variation of pre-
| eranme in other respects. including new intel
iude by DeBerger and that humorous Ethiopia
Pettipeiil, q wooden shoe speciality by Collyer an
his pupils. and Hungarian polka by the queen I
| the ballet, Mile SohIke,