The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-03-16
AM UsEAzENTs.

ACADEMY OF MUsIC-The audience which as.
sembled last evening at the Academy, in response
to the announcement of the production of "ixion,
the Nan az the Wheel" aud the appearance Of
Msude st. Leone, as the French Spy was good
nature0 as it was large, for every one had evil
denty come there on that particular night for
especial enjoyment The consequence was that a
very tedious delay, between the acts, was toler-
sted without a murmur. These interminabe in-
tervals should be avoided hereafter, for not all
audiences would be so patient as last nights was.
The French spy was playe ed with considerable
spirit. and we thought the battle scene between
the French and Arabs as lively as the enb-
segment kicking match between 1Oney Bd.
card (Cavsnagh) and his Arab captor, was
vastly amusing. Miss ST. Leone, in the leading
part. displayed herself TO advantage, infusing into
the character considerable of that interest which
is, in the popular mind, attached 10 it, while Belle
Boyd as Col. De Courcey was dsshingly a Ia mali.
tdire. We thought The young ladies' VINO appear
ed in the ballet remarkably early risers. Why,
does the reader ask Because they were dancing
before the Deg, who, by the way, was personated
pleasiDgiy by Billy Pastor. But Inl0R, after all,
was the attraction. as being a novelty. BE may
have been King of Thessaly once upon a time,
but since then has gone around so much that moth
ing Thessalian remains about him. Miss Jennie
Engel undertook 10 represent him. and In the uu-
dertskiDg was, as she always is, very acceptable
to her audience, whom we were glad TO hear Gp-
plaud her hen she first came out. Attempt to
sketch the piece tonight we. cannot. Get your
y
of Ixion for yourselves, and then go aud see what
6 modern burlesque writer can do. We must
mention incidentally that as Mercury Miss Fanny
Stoc1neller is success, completely a success,
while Miss Qainton is hardly laundering enough
for q gruff, old clOud-compelling Jupiter T0ndns.
The scenery aud generalmOunting of the piece are
literally gotten up, and the cast embraces all the
fsvorites, with Cavanagh as very funny Miner
ca, Belle Boyd as Venus, Maude Sc. Leone as
Ctipid, ard all the rest of the 0lympian boys and
girls 10 match. OF course, all this will be
pested tonight. Visit, then, the cloud capped
Olympus.
ST. CHARLEs.-Mrs. Lander's Charlotte COrddy
a character chosen from the stormy revolutionary
days OF France. when the people began to weary
OF the idols they had wrought with their own
hands, and saw in popular rule worse tyranny
thsn they had charged TO their dead royalty, did
not draw together last evening the large audience
that il should have drawn, still the dress circle
showed brilliant array of ladies, desoste as the
parQuette may have been, and Mrs. Lander may
at least feel assured that her hearers last evening
were moetly of a character to thoroughly compre-
bend and appreciate her artistic impersonation of
one of the great women of history. In the third
act where, in the garden of the Paais Royal
she, after hearing the avowed vengeance
of RibOujet (Stevens) and his Red Republicans
against the Triumvirs, soiloquizes, " Aud must
this Caesar Of the scaffold still hew at the neck of
Frsnce?" there was quiet concentrated power
in her manner which gave, we thought, en- entirely
new phase OF her versatility In the assassination
scene the interest thrillingly wrought up to
the spectator that, when the aveDging knife FELL
il seemed in its stroke to send gasp of agonized
feeling throughout the house. To these two points
we have only space this evening TO sllude, express
sing, at the came time, hope that Mrs Lander,
who in her singing OF the , E dhs9 the week eek
repeat the performance of last evening. She ap-
pears TO night as Mary Stuart.
NATIoNAL.-Messrs. Spslding and Manning, de-
servedly encouraged by the patronage they have
received, announce another weeks stay, with
change of programme, including Ethiopian vo-
casms by DeBerger, Shaw, Banker, Brown,
Sherwood and Patterson; violin solos by John
Schneider, burlesques and comic sketches by the
company, and nightly distribution of a hundred
dollars worth of gifts 10 the holders of lucky
numbers, given them with the admission tickets.
As all olio entertainments, the performances of
the troupe have met with general favor, and the
coming week viii probably prove it.
CRESCENT CITY MCsEUN-Col. Ames offers 10
amusement seekers at his museum on ST. Charles
street. opposite the st. Charles Hotel collection
Of novelties, animate and inanimste. human and
brute, animal. vegetable and mineral. such a. ont.
side Of New York does not probably exist in the
United States to-day. The two.hesded woman
Christine-Miy gives daily levees, and the man
frog, Mr.. Richards, makes an entrance at and
O'Clock each evening to his tank, where under
water, he eats, smokes and talks with all the ease
in the world.
A LIVING woNDKR.-At No. 70 St. Charles
street may be seen on exhibition a natural
living wonder in the shape of a three horned
and three eyed OK, captured about six months
since near San Antonio Texas, by Mr.
ID. Mckenley Of that city. The readers of the
CRESCENT may rely upon finding. in an inspection
of this curious animal, much interest aud food for
study. It's owner and exhibitor, Mr.. MCKINLEY,
proposes, we learn, to exhibit it at the next State
fair.
SPRING HILL CoLLzeE ESrERrA1sMEsr.-The