, 1873-05-25

10r nor bY southern 4TRHatlst.
ACADEMY or MUSIC.
Mr. HaTt's variety combination still hold their
places in public favor, having played to moderate
houses through the week. An entire chungo Of
programme was made last week, but it can
| scarcely be regarded as change for the better.
rst ia 81 The on Tesf e. e Feees
| Island Cannibals" will appear, followed by
"Arr.h na BroSue" " With now scenery, dresses,
and effects, with new olo, comprising i" One
Dog" the latter Introducing trained dogs. On
Monday, sensational piece, written expressly
for the company, entitled ''Tke Race or, The
Mysteries Of the Turf" ," will be given.
GENERAL NOTES.
Lotta is in England. contemplating q summer
tour on the Continent.
The coming OF Tommaao salyini, ths great
italian actor, next season, is now formally an
uounced.
Mr.. Jefferson will act at Minneapolis, Mimi,
on the 29th Of May.
It is stated that thore aro 142 theatres in Rus
aia-one for every twenty towns.
The Boston Adrertiser says the new play Of
"Poyerty Flat" just produced there. fits its
name with singular felicity.
Mr. ". E. Sheridan, late Of the Boston Globe
Theatre. will be a member OF the dramatic COM
pany at the Brooklyn Park Theatre next season.
Ben DeBar. the actor, has purchased the
Grand Opcra-House on Market street, in st.
Louis, formerly the Varieties, paying s36,0o0
cash.
play has been produced at West Hetford,
England, founded upon recent local murder,
in which the principal actrcss achieves success
because she is ''the very image OF the mut-
deter."
/ Lydia Thompson's troupe Of blondes gives in
dications OF dissolution. Lydia goes to England
to marry one Henderson, and Miss Weathersby
will go into the legitimate drama, next season,
at the Globe Theatre in Boston.
Mr. Manse1l, Of London, has ta1en a lease OF
the renovated theatre in Fourteenth street, New
York, that was to have been Mr.. Fechter's Ly-
ceum. The Mansell Brothers have been known
in the world Of London theatrical enterprise for
Bome yeats. 1t one time they managed the St.
Jamea Theatre, in that city.
Dion Boucicault's new piece in preparation at
Wallack's, !. Mora or, the Golden Fetters." is
picture Of life in New York, Of . class similar to
New York" Tie "golden fetters' refer to
curious bracelet worn by the leading female
character it consists OF pair Of elegant hand
cuffs made Of the precious metal. Mora Vaneyk,
q New York actress, ia the heroine.
4 Milwaukee lady, on Saturday last, took her
three children to the matinee to see 5" Tho Fire
Waif." They were delighted with the scene
where the house takes fire, but thought they
could improve 6n it. On Monday they invited
| their young friends, while their mother was ab-
ceoded to tho parlor, spread the piano cover
over chairs for curtain, piled ehaTings On the
carpet behind, with bits Of boards, diah Of
stolen tar, chair cushions. ETC., and applied tho
match This private theatrical: strange to say,
| was gotten up at cost Of only $500.
4 correspondent, writing from Calcutta of
| theatricals, says that one Of the most popular
! plays there, tho "Naya Natak'' (or New Drama),
| il devoted to the evils Of man taking second
vito while his first is still alive and, after
series of domestic cnlamities. it ends tragically
with the death OF suicide Of the principal parties
concerned. Another play, entitled chino Hun
dred Rupees" deals with the old custom OF
selling Hindoo girls in marriage. 1t is q note-
| worthy fact that all the Bengal dramas seen by
this writer appeal to the popular dissatisfaction
with the ancient domestic institutions Of native
society.
The death Of II. D'Atale, the we11-known man
with the iron jaw, is announced as having taken
place at Fall River, Conn.,, on the 18th, from an
attack Of pleurigy. He arrived in this country
in June or July, 1870, in company with the
the management Of Sam Colvillae, and first ap.
peared at Woods Museum, New York. Some Of
his fcats we're extraordinary, notably that Of bo-
ing hoisted to the proscenium Of the theatre,
supporting his own weight and that Of 6-year-old
boy by little piece Of rubber attached to . ropo
led through bloc. and held in his mouth by his
teeth. He was also nble to pick up barrel half
tlned "ith water y nus soosn. IT, az. ne a ,e1gns 9
soow 1ne - tema9 ma dast 1 zE"s o attscho
At me tune o. ns oeatn = a1ano "aS a'sacneo
to barnnms c1cus'
There is class Of people whose motive in at
tending places Of public amusement will forever
be riddle. They mako themselves an object OF
remark to all around them by the owlish seren-
ity Of their manner and their total Indifference
to the entertainment offered. No guah Of humor
disturbs the solemn placidity Of their expression,
and no touch Of pathos can alter the ca1m-lke
stoIidity Of their countenances. When the au-
dience becomes dcmonstrativo, they cast q
Metlusa glance noons ene", as @ i.m VI @p
p!ause ware a1sply u s ~ NV ~ tha toa
contempt pus as nopony u tay y rs Inc
anu lpoa 1nes ptps sncb ueonIa aror
so TO theatres is indeed mystery anless they
consider It "orn 10 ee "a .po n1 tr
o. cice a 1a ni M nit thoy wore Contiguous
to tombstones.-sea3 FORK to"'''te7c'o4 Aooe7-
f1ser.'