The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-06-09
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The Beethoven Centennial.

using the sureSt and quickest means Oh success.
They have spent at least $1,000 per day in this
department alone. They have paid every singer
in advance, and upon the day when the festival
commences they will have expended at least
$6O.O 900. This looks as though their enterprise
deserved appreciation, as if every lover of music
in general and Beethoven in particular, and
more especially as if every glorfer of
Gotham, ought to be willing to assist.
Such, however is not the case. Up to
yesterday only one hundred tickets of admission
had been sold, and only siI of these admitting
to the full course. This is an encouraging state
of things, is it not? What triumph for the
Bostonians if this Beethoven affair should prove
a failure after all The reason why the pros
pect is so disastrous is suppose, that it is not
the first of its kind. The musical hubbub at the
Hub one year ago took all the gloss and new.
ness off such enterprises. People feel as though
there was nothing further to be done in that
direction. The prime instigators for the mo-
ment are beginning to pull long faces among
them elves. Very naturally. 1t will not do for
them to abate an iota of their advertisements.
That would be too significant. Returning were
as tedious as go oer But the one thing certain
so far is that thousands of dollars have gone
out, and certainly five hundred dollars have not
come in. This hardly looks as though
$4,000 music-lovers were to be
crammed in the Skating Rink. One
of the features" of the programme, by-the-by,
will be the singing of Miss Rosetta Wright,
colored damsel with a remarkable contralto
voice. The friends of the chorus-children
among whom Miss Wright was discovered
strongly objected to this, and endeavored to
raise q disturbance. But the disturbance re-
suited in Miss Wright's favor, and she is to sus-
tain a leading part. This is an interesting spec-
men of musical miscegenation. The soprano
and contralto qualities are said to unite in Miss
Wright's organ with the harmony of milk and
moasses
Cheap Housekeeping.
Here is an ingenious piece of ADVERTISING
"a young married couple, without membranes,
would be willing to occupy and take charge OF
gell-turnished house in a good neghborhood dur
ing the summer months, in the absence OF the
family They would charge nothing for their
trouble, on the condition that the expense Of house.
keeping were betrayed, including servants"
You see it is not difficult for wealthy family
to place its house, furniture plate, apd valua-
bes in general in the care of competent and
faithful hands, who will take charge of them
for almost nothing! Easy terms-free board
and lodgings, 'including servants" for the time
the family is absent. 1t seems incredible that
adults should exist who are fools enough to
believe in the existence of such foolishness in
others. Meanwhile, there are numerous mice
people" who do live in just some such way as
this They belong to that dismal world of poor
but highly respectable relations that were born
in sphere which fate does not permit them to
remain in. 1t is not such a pleasant
thing to he living on familiar terms with people
who could buy all you have got an infinite num-
ber of times over without feeling the loss of the
mon, =. In such state of things it is pleasant
to have helping hand outstretched to you, if
only for little while. 1t is pleasant (iS it, l
wonder?) to be able to live in four-story
brownstone front for three months at a time, as
if it were your own, Tending off the ignominious
hour when the rightful owner shall return from
his summer loiterings, and you be compelled to
HE away to little wooden cottage in obscure
suburbs.
''Fernaude."
True enough, as one of the papers here says
Fernando is the ''most genial, the most genuine,
and the most deserved success of the season."
The plot has been very gingerly treated by Mr..
Cooney and Mr.. jackson, the two adapters of
the original. In plain, outspoken language, it
is simply ths:-"Fernande" is the assumed
name of young girl who involuntarily, and by
the force of circumstances, is the mistress of a
gambling-hell proprietor. The Countess Clo-
thilde," beneath whose horses, in fit of despe-
ration, she had thrown herself, rescues her, and
name of marguerite" Here she is loved by
the marquis Andre" former lover of "Clo-
thilde" The latter, to take revenge upon her
faithless lover, hurries on the match, concealing
from "Andre" ''Fernandes" former life, but
deluding Fernando into the belief that he is
acquainted with it, and overlooks it, Fer
nande" has her doubts of this, and upon the
very marriage morning writes TO ANDRE note
confessing all. "Andre" receives the note, but
"Clothilde" artfully worms it away from him
before he has read it, under pretense that it was
not meant by the writer to be delivered until
after the marriage ceremony. Fernando"
thinking she is understood and forgiven, is
married to "Andre." Then "Clothilde" pre-
pares for her revenge, which is to inform
"Andre" of "Fernande's' former infamy. In
this she is foiled by "Pomeral her cousin, who
snatches the note from her, and by main strength
forces her into her bed-chamber and fastens the
door upon her just as "Andre" and Fernando"
arm in arm, return from the church. At this
point tableau of very great beauty and effect
occurs, the audience rises with emotion, and
the theatre is thunderOus with cheers and
applause. In the next act, which is
the last, "Andre" and Fernando" are discovered
happy in their retired home. "Clothilde," who
has watched her opportunity, enters by secret
door, by means of which, in former days, she
and "Andre" used to keep tryst together, and
confronts her former lover at dead of night.
Here she gluts her vengeance and reveals "Fer-
nande's" past shame. A scene of fierce passion
ensaes between "Andre" and his wife, whom he
has summoned at this aspersion on her name.
Finally, when the heart-strings of the public
have been sufficiently tugged at, "Pomeral"
enters with the letter Fernando" had written