, 1872-12-29

LuG CDlA, VIII ACL LNO Ci Ills pAfL5s
the Martens family will emerge iu it, aud vic
with tho mcllitlnoua Thomas Ca!; aul n Miss
Granger, rcputcd to be beautiful being, will
unnaask ler beauties to tho Eas Light. THIS is II
nohlo prospect.
London paper gives this glimpse Of tho last
scene in the career Of tho oi,co great actl ess.
Miss O'Ncill: =" The remains Of LAZY Beuenor
were inferred on Nov l, in the family yanlt,
III Castlemart'r Church-yard, ireland. Tho
funeral cortcgo was moro than !. NIL: iu length
Tho chief mourners were Sir Henry Wrixon
Deecher, Bart, Mr. John Wrixon Bccchcr, and
the deceased. The tenartry of Sir II. W. Beech
er, to the number \: zoo, walked four abreast.
The windows Of tho Bailyhass National School,
in which tho deceased lady took deep interest,
we're draped in black, and q black streamer was
suspended from the roof"
THE LAST AND THE WORST.
Dumas, fills, is shortly to retro from literary
life, he afserts but prior to his Withdrawal, he is
Claude" This latter work, says paria cor
| respondent, twill assuredly bo al extraordinary
and bold essay even for Dumas, for since the
production of La Dame aux Camelias, he has
followed a certain dramatic scale Of thought,
| which from Les 1dees de Madame Aubray' and
la Visito de Noces,' has gone 'crescendo' III
interest as well as dcpravity Of conception. La
Femme Claude will naturally be tie most en-
ergetic and violent Of moralizing medicine, and
to pave the way for it's advent, he has succeedod
in having his fret comedy reproduced, to show
the Parisians how his IDEAS have been
&C cacoiyed and interpreted since his
! dramatic debut, and Low tho crndities
! OF conccit ho holds in reserve for them havo
| been weighed and thought over before produc-
! ton on stage IVES possible. His forthcoming
| work will undoubtedly bo the great theatrical
attraction Ct tho winter for this great anatomlst
| Of the vices of the heart. This would-be moral
| izer, is well known rs Blsilfu1 and charming
llrun1atist, q perfect master Of scenic effects,
| and an author uneouallel and unsurpassed for
his craft in nLornicG the most revolting and i'm
| moral theories i'll tho choicest and most elegant
| phraseology and ovo15tLiug tends to prove that
La Femme Claude" will, like his pre;}eces-
sore be particularly furious and offensive to
the corrupted society whose degraded morals
I the talented writer is so dcsirous OF lettering.
| SINGULAR DIVORCE CASE
has been commenced in Tennessee, growing out
of ''stage business" George J.. Grammar is
an actor, botter known as George Gray, and Ais
| wife, Mrs. Mary E. Granlmer: is hnown on the
stngo as :uins Bette Gilbert Gray" The
couple woro married i'll Memphis few years
ago, the lady not belonging to the profession ct
| thai time. She went Oh the stage afterwards to
assist her husband in supporting her, or rather
| to support him, for lie was not G thrifty man.
She became popular, and really a good actress.
| lady" in travelling dramatic company, and her
husband sank back into follower Of the
company. having no position in it whatever:
Gray's vito had to go through the motions OF
Gray gloVorad at her from dark corners III tue
audience and behind the scenes. Iu her poti-
ton for divorce she relates that about five y.ars
ego, she was playing Julia in Richeliou," and,
braced repeatedly by both the Cardinal and De
-3fauprdt, her husband, well-knowing that this
| legitimate part Of The performance. seemed to
regard it as ::pcaching in his manor" and
rudely rebuked hor in the presence and hear!ns
OF some. if not all, of the actors and actresses.
Some three months since, at Columbus,
mississippi, ehe went on the stage with q
| gentleman Who WGs actlnG Tho part OF
William -dhlen, and in the progress OF the
play, it became proper for Linn to kiss hor,
but her husband, affecting TO conEilor that this
was not " nominated in the Eond," insultlnsiy
| asked her, while yet On the stage, and III the
hearing Of others What in tho h-ll are you
| Introducing new business fOr:"-apd when she
| retired behind the scenes and attempted to show
him from the book that this was part Of Tie pro.
scribed 81 fornula," he jerked the book from LEI
| hand in very angry manner, and addressed hel
in other language exceedingly gross md often.
! Eivc.
A CHINESE EEHEARsAL.
I The troubles of G Chinese tragedlcn while en-
! gagged in rehearsal ere thus narrated BY the San
! Francisco Chronicle:
Thomas Koppa arrestcd few 7ays ago charged
with having assaulted and battered Slim Gum. KoIp:
| ia fa:r-haired, bluc-eycd, rotund A1nsterd2raer
Sling is l"nk md tawny Tactar-a Clinanla1-
"wrinkcd and brown as bag OF heather" IL Is c1se
l
street, and it was his devotion to his sublime rrofc
eion that brought down upon him the ven
q Ko .n IT M tht the
Dupont aud at the close Of esch nights perform
ings tho part he is to play the following night
willis tho members of ha family discourse appropriate
&e be eomDined eject et si' WIFI Is Is quite % inspiring
Last Friday night Sling came home with an inanruse
nf ltin
nished pork and rat pie, he called his family circle
around him to open the rehearsal. Impressed with
the importance Of the occasion the nsicias let Them
selves out with uncommon animation ind the TRACE
dian began his recitation in moro energetic and i'm
aad s pcacefuy @ anorng in T his 'n' Ga ta
dreaming Of broad forests and rir0ng streams. Thu
trunks OF tho trees were just changing into BloEns
beer when 10 the first wEans Of the celestial gong dis
PEELED the enchanting deluaion, and kopra opened hi
:" Got in himmc1! Dose dam shincy7nan YES go
blay his dragedy und rcoosc again., aud then ho ruI
cd over and tried to SO to sleep again:
1t was Ill in vain. Sling Gum had by this time be
como thoroughly inbued With the spirit Of the char
acer he WIS to assume, and WAS j" "chawing soap
astounding nannner, while the orchestr: fairly howl:
It WEB too much for human endurance 1nd the Ell
sagea Dntchman ep.ang out Of he'd aonn:d his ho0t
clo Of the Gums lo began to lay about him like Fra
Tuck with his quarter staff. The appalled, tragedia
sentative Of tho force put stop to the havoc that We
being wrought By the infuriatcd Eopra. His was Al
rnigncd before Judge Loudcrback Saturday, Iii
| only excuse was:
II bledge you my vurd, shudge, don't got :n
ehklcep for week mid dis tan, fuoibhne-s
j, I dink it about baJcd OUT" He was ordered
appear for sentence to-day.
, MUSIC.
: | The local musical world is m absolute blanl
There wero 10 concerts last week, and there vii
be none this week. We ellall haro n
music in fact until next week, when the Scgni
English Opera Troupe will inaugurate its scaso
at the Academy Of Music, Of whom more here
after. After the long rest OF concert goerl
their season ought to prove 3 remarkably rent
nerative one. Meanwhile all musical intoros
J., centres in intelligence from abroad.
. TURNER HALL.
!. Tho programme ut the Turner Ha1l Conce
J. this afternoon is as follows
l. March, Souvenir dc Syi,iicnoc" ".,...... .Ziko
2. Owe rture to 'Yelea". .Ressig
g. Waltz" Always Merry" Strau
!. t. potpourri-" From my Album. Eau
g. Duo for two Clarionets. Labtzl
Mcssra. Hfis:nbdch and Zsuch
= D. tlnale from " Martha". -Etoto