The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1871-04-28
Music aud tho Drama-The Last Act.

In few days more comes smiling May +,
garlanded with sunshine and famed by the
balmy breezes of Spring. The close Of the
penitential season Of Lent and the sweet
music of the Easter chimes have closed the
last of the dreary entr'actes of the theatrical
season, and the curtain has arisen for the last
time, to fall when the summer solstice will
dren of Thespis and Melpomene to the sea-
side and the mountain top. We have yet
clear month or six weeks before us, and that
period is rife of promise-Plats fir gesang.
Lyric art first. Next week the three opening
performances Of Albites' Italian opera COM
pany will take place at the Academy Of Music.
Kellogg, States, Himela, VILLAIN and Law
renee are the bright stars in this lyric con-
sIellation, and we may expect Madame Fash
ion to do her prettiest in dedecking the boxes
with lovely faces. braided coiffures and elegant
toilets. We trust the result will be happy
omen for the fall and the long -wished-for
debut Of the Swedish nightingale in opera.
Apropos of this bird of song, she will soon
take wing for the shores of the Pacific, where
Truthful James, All Sin and Bill Nye will
emulate each other in bidding her welcome.
Here in the concert line we have but single
Philharmonic night left and an abundance of
small benefits. Jerome Hopkins led his
Orpheon artists through the mazes of an ella
borate programme on Tuesday, and DR.. James
Pech will give one more of those delightful
church music concerts, which, in a fashionable
as well as artistic point Of view, have no
rivals in this great metropolis. The Church
Music Association seems to be the special
protfge of Fashion, for the tickle goddess fills
the seats Of Steinway Hall with rich toilets
and Fourteenth street with liveried equipages
when DR.. Pech waves his baton. But besides
these musical notes there comes the Teutonic
saturnalia, the Saengerfest, which will agitate
every emigrant from Fatherland during the
June calends. Beethoven and book beer,
Handel and Hockheimer, will preside at this
great festival. Then next month the Club"
will be convulsed by the triennial classical
jubilee Of the Handel and Haydn Society, who
have secured that queen of oratorio singers,
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The dramatic outlook is equally brilliant, if
not more SO. First, Mr.. Booth has produced
that delightful romance of the 'sdivine
William" "a Winters Tale" than which no
tome of yellow-covered literature can be
more absorbing. and which all the
immense resources of the Twenty-third
street temple of the drama have
been called into action to fitly represent.
The young-old comedian, Charles Mathews,
has made the Fifth Avenue theatre an mex
haustible fount Of laughter by the clever por-
traitures of the dramatist and the critic in
Sheridan's last play, and the rehearsal of Sir
Fretfuls tragedy brings tears (of laughter) to
every eye. Foote'S sterling comedy, ''The
LIAR" with the accomplished Lester Wallack,
bids fair to hold the boards at the Theatre
Francois of New York for long time, and
Chantrau will shortly redeem the Jsasco of
Orchard ILL.," at Niblos. The Olympic Is at
present the exponent of American frontier life,
and Lima Edwn's of American "Pluck." The
smaller theatres are putting forth unusual
efforts in order to make the close of the season
as brilliant as possible. Take it all in all, it
would be difficult to find another city richer in
the musical and dramatic line at present.
Among all these attractions we must not for
get the farewell of Seebach tonight, trGg<di-
enne who has created an impression that will
not soon fade, and who now makes way for the
bewitching Raabe, the Lolita and Maggie
Mitchell of Germany. The people have nobly
responded to the exertions of the managers,
and enterprise and judgment this season can
not complain of not having found liberal re-
turn and appreciation.
THE TERRIBLE RAILROAD ACCIDENT on the
New Jersey Central Railroad, at Crawford
station, yesterday morning, by which four
men were instantly killed, appears to be one
Of those cases in which the negligence of the
victims brought on their cyn destruction,
rather than by any recklessness on the part of
the railroad. The facts, as telegraphed, show
that the baggage wagon Of travelling circus,
containing four men-wh0 were inside the
wagon-and the driver, was standing on the
track when the train came along. The driver,
it seems, was asleep, and unconscious of the
approach Of the train until too late to avoid
the danger. The consequence, of course,
was fearful. Four of the unfortunate circus
men were torn to pieces and their remains
scattered along the road. There appears to
be no blame attachable to any one but them
selves; but this deplorable event should be
warning to people to use more caution at
railroad stations and give the track wide
margin.
THE RoUGH ELEMENT is very unseasonably
asserting its barbarous tendencies again. One
of its representatives insulted gentleman
who was escorting two ladies in Seventh
avenue car on Wednesday night and finally,
as tho gentleman was leaving the car, struck
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