The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-02-18
Tho City Amusements.

At THE ACADEMY or Music Weber's opera of
Der Freisoh,ltz will be performed this evening
by the Parepa-R Rosa troupe.
AT the matinee tomorrow Martha will be
given, and tomorrow evening there will be
farewell performance of The Marriage Of
Figaro.
At THE CHEsNUT Mr. Frank Mayo will have
q benefit and appear this evening as Badger"
in The Streets of Ne,o York. matinee to-
morrow.
AT THE WALNUT this evening Mr.. Edwin
Adams will have farewell benefit, when he will
personste "Sir Bernard Harleigh" in Dreams Of
Delusion and Grover" in W5ld Oats.
There will be q matinee tomorrow, when Mr..
Adams viii appear as 'Claude Menotte" in The
Lady of Lyons.
AT THE ARCH Mr.. A. E Brady will have a
complimentary benefit this evening, when he
will appear as 'Major Wellington de Boots" in
Euery6ody's Friend. The performance will
commence with the farce of Lend Me Fiue
iSh,llings in which Mr.. Craig will personate
s'Mr. Golightly."
A matinee performance of Little Emily will be
given tomorrow.
AT DUpREz & BENED1cT's OPERA House q
variety of Ethiopian comicalites will be pre-
sented this evening.
SIaNoR BLITz and his son will give magical
entertainment at Musical Fund Hall this even
ing. A matinee tomorrow.
THE SRNTz-HAssLER ORCHESTRA will give
matinee performance at Musical Fund Hall to-
GRAND stereopticon exhibition of dissolviug
views will be given for the benefit of the News
boys Home, at horticultural Hall, on Monday
evening, February 81. The entertainment will
be under the direction of Mr.. o. II. Willard
THE PILGRIM.-This entertainment opened at
Concert Hall last evening to a large audience,
who expressed their pleasure by frequent and
hearty applause. This entertainment Is not
strictly panorama, but is series of paintings,
some of them by artists of high reputation illus
trative of Bunyan's "rilgrims Progress" AS a
work of art these pictures are, as a rule, much
number of them are of very decided merit, as
might be expected from such o list of artists,
among whom we find such names as Leutze,
Nehlig, Sommer, Carmeincke William Hart,
Chapel, and others. OF course such works are
not to be judged by rigid high art standard
of criticism as they are painted with the express
view of being exhibited in certain manner,
and the artists have consequently adopted a
broad style of painting that Is effective rather
than fine. As popular exhibition, however,
this is very much superior to the ordinary run
of such things, and 1t is an excellent illustration
of Bunyan's great prose poem. We are not dis
posed to be hypercritical about an entertain
ment of this kind; but at the risk of APP
pearing 30, we suggest that the theatrical
effects with colored fires, attempted in several
that are good enough to stand on their own
merits without such adventitious aids as this
1t may be, however, that panoramic audiences
admire this cheap sort of sublimity which Is q
sufficient excuse for its introduction, however II
may violate the canons of good taste. The
paintings are described In an illustrative lecture
by Professor j. w. Balm, and several appropriate
sacred airs are sung by q lady and gentleman
the latter of whom has an unusually fine voice.