New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-08-31
THE DRAMA.
GRAND OPERA

The new ballet pantOmime, at the Grand
Opera House, Of the best pieces OF the kind that
have CHANGED to see, and 1t has brought out
with unusual care and taste 1t Is framed In rich
scenery that and It's wealth OF incident IL made effect
i've by scrupulous attention 10 detail The piece is
called "Uriea, the Demon Of the Night" 1t pro-
duced Monday evening, for the first time and it
last night repeated In the presence Of considerable
company Of amused and bowitched spectators 1t is the
work Of Madam Tanner herself who plays the chief part
In it, and whose dlshng vlgor intense style, and airy
grace impart vitality and beauty to the Illustration OF
her ideas. "rella IS In three acts, and 1t tells the
story of attempt that Satan made TO clutch the soul OF
mortal hero In which attempt he near being sue
cessful, but in which he was ultimately bafiled.
This hero Spanish nobleman, who had lost his
property at the gtabe and who, thereupon went
very naturally, to the devi-for assistance Urieita
dispatched to his aid and Uiela became fascinated
by his beauty Even the internal mind. II appears, must
confess this magical spell The result viii be conccured
UfielLa got jealous Of Count Frederieks betrOthed
BRIDE wiod her away, and caused her to be sold into
slavery To her from this fate, the Count signed
mOrtgage-to Beezcbub-On his spiritual essence, and
whereas everybody had gone from Spain Tunis every
body came back from Tunis to SPAIN There Uriea
to exact the forfeit and take the hero to
gon hotter than New York in the Summer Of 1870
when tho anguish Of the lovers touched her heart and
she destroyed the fatal cOntracteeing back TO her
Internal master TO take the consequences OF
however the good action bore its fruit All the demons
of the pit espying her bosom crucihx that the CRATE
full mortal had placed there, shrunk back dismayed and
while UJieila borne upward by celestial angels, the
Count walked TO church with his BRIDE and Satan with
drew into retirement This in bare outine-nOt map
prOpriate tO!a baet-s Uriea" Tie judcious reader
will perceive that good deal of skill and labor need
full to the telling of all this, in panOmmic action They
were notwanting in the performance OF Madam Tanner
and her baettroupe. Eyeryincdcnt was boldly pre-
sented. Nothing was surred. SO elaborate, indeed,
were the temptations brought 10 bear the mpecuni
inobeman, at the start that his plight seemed at
tines almost comic while the spectacle OF his yaorous
integrity quite threw into the shade that older and
of the good Saint Anthony These chiefly
took the form Of insinuatng dances. We glad TO
notice. though that the Count seemed comparatively
nsensible to the charms of adpose, and boldly dehed
literal wilderness of legs To enumerate and describe
all the dances would be to imagine vain thing not to
make the heather rage. There Is no need TO take that
risk Enough TO say that they numerous, full of
the flavor OF character generally appropriate and nya
riably neat Criticism Of these matters would be thrown
away. Candid praise Of Madam Lanners thoroughness
and finish method is, however, mere matter of JUS
tce. The thing that she does may be trval-and we
think IL IS but she does 1t entirely well. No female
dancer that have equals her in expressvencss
OF pantomime, and only one-Mle iMoracch-surpasse5
her in symmetry Of execution. 40 UTseId, she acted
with that intensity which showed real devotion to
her calling; and this quality is something that we al
ways hail with pleasure. Upon the nature and influence
of balet-dancing nothing need hero be said. The
topic has been used up in times past, and 80,
to very considerable extent has the thing itself Our
duty is fulfilled in recognizing, In this instance,
that baet-dancing has been put forward at its best
"Urela" has great advantage over pieces like "rhe
Twelve Temptations" 1t is kindred with them, indeed
in gOrgeousness of rappngs, and in romance OF nara
tiveblending the natural aud supernatural the actual
and the fanciful But it Is expressed without words
which that it does not waddle under weight VI
the rubbish commonly used in these The stage is
brght-save when the foul fend sends his murky thun
derstorms blur itand tie pageant gay and volatile
and il illustrated by merry music. - Tonight Mile Ber
tina Lind takes her benefit at the Grand Opera House,
playing Leila, in this baet-and on Friday Madame
Lanner will take benefit. The engagement OF these
artists a separate feature, is slowly drawing toward
close. They will DO followed, already announced by
Opera Boufe, produced with Nile. Lilly, Mile. Monta-
land and eighty opera buffers besides fresh from Paris
freshness be possible from that eaptal-The follow
ing Il the cast Of "Uriela":