New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-12-13
- Pygmalion and Galarea'' at the yari-

''Pygmaiion and Galatca'' at the Yari.
cites,
Pgg0aalion, celebrated sculptor, whose
works, should credit be given to legendary
lore, rivaled the graces of life and its
beauty in enduring marble, prayed fer
| yently to the Heaven he worshipped to en-
dow his statue of Galatea, his favorite
work, on which he spent years Of wit and
| study with the quickening pulse and the
breathing vital shape. His devotion is
answered. Down from its stony pedestal
descends the statue, and lives, moves and
has its being before his very eyes. Itspeaks
to him in love and tenderness, and in sweet
simplicity doats upon him as it's creator.
Awe stricken, the power of speech at first
passes away, and he looks upon the living
prototype with dread at the awful power he
himself had just invoked. For awhile the
behOlder, unacQuainted with the moral
that the fable teaches, is in suspense, which
in the action of the comedy is not
allowed to last long. The scuIptor's
wife has but left him a lew moments
before the miraculous feat of the gods
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to grow more in love with the strong
GateteG The flesh and blood now falls upon
his breast, and, viewing tue shapelv limbs
and beauteous form he has chiseled from
stone, he draws aside the veil which the
newly-born woman innocently has woven,
and tells her she must not love him-he has
a wife. The relation between man and wife
is to her unknown. In wonder and amaze
ment she hears of wedlock and its COM
mands, and Graves from him the love of a
father. He fears the jealousy of his wife,
and sends her to the house of Murine, his
sister, though she is unwilling to go. His
sister, not knowing of the miracle, re-
prOaches him, and the animated statue
listens, gaining another lesson of the world
into which she has been ushered by his
prayers. And so she becomes knowing of
death, and her eyes are gradually opened
to the mysteries of the world.
PhtySOS, patron OF the arts, comes with
wn5S6 hit Ta & d t9 BIZ by the statue of
alone Chl,yS0s makes the acquaintance OF
the animated marble, and at first takes her
for a model, or one who farms out heF
charms, but yielding to her innocence; Is
discovered by his returning wife with MS
arm about her waist and his helpmate De-
comes fury on the spot. Lenctppe, a sol
der lover OF Lu6 SCul pun . SlSUSA5 oAAISoS 49,
u fawn his arrow has wounded to death,
| and GulateG calls him murderer Tor having
| DESTROYED a life, and, without naming what
| life it was. so announces him to his lady
| love, who bids him BECOME. So the sculp-
| TORS creation, scarce twenty tour hours IN
| the world, has brought down trouble upon
| every one with whom she comes III contact.
And then Cyn10cq, the sculptors wife, re-
| turns and is soon dazed with jealousy OF
| oUA TINA greater tndQ
| the rest falls over him.
The author of the comedy has improved
| every opportunity to make this legend ap-
pear real and invest the guide wife's story
with the guise Of fact. In vain he wishes
she were marble again and once more the
unfeeling stone; there she is III flesh anu
blood. The simple story of the statues
love for the creator to his wife, takes the
shape of husbands guilt, and she deserts
his he'd and board, while the wife of the
art patrOn bolts him outside for the same
| reason.
Ia the windup Pygmolion, who has beer
stricken blind, is taught by his sister TO be
leve be is cOnciliating his offended wife
while the reality is that GGl0tcd personate
her. Then he speaks and tells ms Oette
half he never loved the animated stone
which GuIatea receives with a sOrrowtu
wall. The wife overhears the conversation
and comes in to be taken to his heart Whll
GGt0teU, who succOmbs in anguish, ascend
the uedestal, and while she means heart
, rending farewell is again transformed to !:
cold and inanimate statue, and the coined
} ends where it begun.
| Mr.. Robinson displayed the sculptor
: feelings, his struggle with his heart, b
conquest over the yearning OF his sou
: with great power. But he has not enoug
of animation His bearing when the narbI
woman first breathes alive, would lead on
= tr slrlpose this sort of thing is all right, an
2 marble statues become alive every day I
! the year. The power lie can exert ne 0ot
not and there is no startle to his passion
e it all loOks3 mattelt OF tact Inc "@f"te"
I Miss Jane RiguOld, it has been the test
4 monv Of nearly all who have enjoyed tn
e comedy since it began to run, IS draw
t with the llaicete and pathOs which IL
: author intended should adorn it. The &C
Y ing showed that the actress had set ne
s heart upon her other self, and was bent {
s carving out the idea OF marble woman
T thing of beauty
Mr.. Raymond received hearty apPIauS
n in his play of the art patron who buys
b statue by the cubic foot, and values 1T a
e rordiDol1. while his oddities and comlca
j ties were very well accepted.
e The comedy begins and ends in t!
s studio, which is put on in a style by NJ
y Piggot never excelled in this city. eVe1
= piece of carpentry anu painting SHINING Y
e real, and the whole studied with taste, al
/ set each like the living beings to play
h Out through the Tudor arch which spa
i the Varieties stage the eye goes back to Il
1t time when
L Music, heavenly maid was young,
4 For the stage is like window throul
Il which we look backward into the past
It into the wanderings Of the human hea
And in this drama the old Greclan, as
was. lives in action and moves in the sal
- costume (only preserved in the silhouett
IL which illustrate the notes to Anthol
J. series} the very dress this ancient he
- wore in the early days when art began
u sprout and the genius OF mechanism TO be
- fruit.
ID There is q general complaint that tin
l i9 are dull and money scarce, and in this CO
N dition of things many people rake togetl
in all the money they can get, borrow lit
10 more and buy lottery ticket that Wi
n That was the way a small boy did the oil
Y. dav. when he borrowed five cents to add
ID the twenty cents he already had, and W
~ ~ it bought twenty-five cent ticket, VIII
of drew prize of $3.50. Tomorrow is to be-
IN grand drawing Of the single number tick
IL in She q4ouisiana state Lottery. Ss g
If IF take PLACE at eleven O'Clock in the morni
an over the rooms Of the company. Somebc