The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1869-08-01
The JesuIts Exhibition


On Wednesday evening last we had the
pleasure Of witnessing the exhibition of the
JesuitS College, on Baronhe street. AS
usual, the hall OF exhibition was so crowd
ed with ladies that it was almost impossi-
BILE for gentlemen to, obtain standing room,
much less a seat. We were consequently
obliged to take position at the extreme
rear of the hall, much TO our chagrin, as
we did not, in accordance with our usual
experience of boys elocutiOn, expect to
hear more than about one word lin every
be the feature of the evening. We were
agreeably disappointed in this anticipation,
however, as almost every word was dis
tinctly audible to every individual of the
audience present. We have never heard q
set of boys of the same age as those en-
gagged in this piece, declaim with greater
distinctness and volume of sound.
We can say as much also for the good
taste and appropriateness of their tone and
gesticulation. Their movements were free,
natural and full of spirit, rejecting equal
credit upon the competence of the gentle
men who had prepared them and on their
own active intelligence. The play was
highly interesting drama, originally written
in Italian by Jesuit Father, and trans
lated into English by an American Jesuit.
Its scene was in Rome during one of the
and the events represented comprised the
persecution and martyrdom of "a Christian
family. 1t would be difficult, we think, for
any one to discriminate justly between the
youthful actors as to relative excellence,
where all were so perfect, and doubtless
each of the six dramatis personG had his
special admirers and partisans among the
audience. For our part we were rather
more struck with the acting of the oldest
son of the martyr family, represented by
A. Lazare, and of G. Ryan, who had she
part of Roman Project and chief persecu-
tor, than with any other. The piece was
put on the stage in the usual faultless and
attractive style seen Mt the institutions of
the Jesuit Fathers.
After the termination of this drama, pre-
mip.as.were distributed among the success
ful students, and within the space of less
than an hour quite considerable library
of handsome books disappeared in that
way. Among the happy victors were some
whose names were called 80 often as to
finally excite storms of applause, chiefly
among their fellow students. The most
prominent of these seemed to be Ed. Skin
ner, under graduate; B. Buchanan, belle
lettres class; George Theard, first grammar
class; Geo. Mallard and Raymond Bourk,
second grammar class Richard Williams
and Frank Bourk, third grammar class !;
Paul Dcussan, first preparatory class, first
division Felix Cohen, same class, second
division Raoul Armant, E. Torregrossa
and Francis FACET, seeondpreparatory class,
first division, and John -Dahman, r. de
Castro and Achilles Parisy; same class,
second division.
We see that this valuable institution,
though not sending forth any graduating
class this year, has list of nearly $50
students. For thorough education SO far
as the course extends we suppose that n
better school cannot be found in the South
and we congratulate parents who design
giving their sons collegiate education
upon the facilities here put within their
reach, ..-.-...:r ,........-., e