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the Fifth Avenue Theatre successfully. The
cast will include au the strength Of the company,
llr. Dillon excepted. The scenery and other &C
cessories Of the piece have been prepared with
great care aud at considerable e1 peusc. There
seems to be no reason wbyit should not hare 3
long and successful run.
MYERS OPERA HOUSE.
The minstrels have met with some inconveni-
ence during the past week, but have succeeded
in holding their own SO far as regards business.
Mr.. Arlington has been missed from the stage,
having been detained by illness. Ho has SO far
recovered that he will make his appear
ment of his customary mi1th and vigor:
sufficient number OF novelties will be offered
to please those desirous OF change, and the
old favorites, go far as presented, will be rem
The principal piece Of the weak will be the bur
lesque Of ''Robert Make-Airs," !" for which new
and handsome scenery has been painted, and
which has received various other ingenious ad-
ditions from the inexhaustible playwright OF tho
as good IS those Which have gone before it,
which is sufficient praise. Tomorrow nights
performance will be for the benefit of Ben Cot
ton, than whom there are few people IN the
minstrel business with q 1arger circle OF friends
GENERAL GOSSIP.
Charles Reade has begun suit against the
London Adrertisc- for libellous criticism Of
one Of his plays, laying his damages at E1, ,ooo-
A tragedy Of Shakespeare has been reformed
for the fret time on the Spanish stage. At
Madrid, Hamlet" has been brought out in 3
Spanish version by Don Carlos Coello.
It is reported that Mr. DAILY will transfer the
Square, after the LIST Of May, when Messrs:
Shook l. Palmer bid farewell to tho carcs Of
management.
Mr. ". J. Florence has received q letter from
gentleman personally cognizart OF the circum-
stances attending the case of conscience Of q
young man who returned money r.: taken Il from hla
Man at Birmingham. The youth was the son
Of the vicar of Stratford-on-AVon, and Was edu-
Gated in the game schoolroom where Shakespeare
! learned little Latin and less Greek.
The other evening, in Cincinnati, while one
sister, WAS reproaching the other in Whose
Wife," saying: Sometimes I think you hate
me. too; when look for sisterfy sympathy, my
sister gives me but hatred and scorn; twill driyo
me mad "a crazy woman in the audionce rose
up and cried: ''Eully for you, my grill You're
| right, had sister do the same thing By NE.
Yes, your heads level, my girl! You just give
| it to her! I know how it is myself"
| The Sacramento Union says: Sam Chapman
| has perfected an invention designed to produce
! a handsome scenic effect on the stage Of d
| theatre-that OF a full-rgged ship appearing,
advancing, and increasing in size The ship, as
| she ia intended to appear on the stage, WILL,
| when first seen, DO about eight feet long, but,
| by an ingenious machinism, operated by five
men, she will increase in length to forty feet as
she advances, her hull will rise proportionately
sails be properly sot-in fact, the effect will be
exactly the same Us that OF a vessel sailing into
port from distance. She will have full deck,
| poses. sreal ship" t652
| 4 New York correspondent OF the Cincinnati
| Gazette thus speaks Of q rising actress:
/ "Mixe,n the new play, has taken the town, and
1 IL m the II. Ihe most
portaut in the piece is Miss Clara Norris,
Western lady, who came here two years ago.
| any metropolitan theatre. DAILY evidently knew what
he about, though sone people thought he didn't,
the thought OF his engagement Of provincial woman
She attracted attention at the start, AID has been
sSs gaining in popularity t % a a's d 5f S hy
Theatre hsve heard old and ahrewd critics and
| theatre-goers Of half century. enthusiastic in
pearaucs in A1ixc" week ago, they go fairly into
tapturea about her, She has genius for acting aud
She studies hard and WORKS hard. She performs her
part well, and there ia not word or gesture IN the
wrong place Or out Of time she s,n make al the
| all events, mosten their eyelids and I'LL their
throats with lumps large Il !uchrnond ogsters*
predict great fame for her in the line Ehe las chosen
| and that, too, before very long
Mr. Be11ew, in the course OF his reading in
New York few evenings ago, took occasion to
refute some statements Of Mr. Fronde in regard
| to the literature OF Ireland. In the COURSE OF
his remarks, tho gentleman said:
| Why. next to Shakespeare, every literary man and
every dramatic artist will gve the place Of honor to an
| I1ishman-Rehard Brineiey Sheridan. Ia not he the
.uthor Of the two comedies Of re ~ as.
dul 2" And where Vas he born but IN dear old dirty
aud ,nuchbsloved Dublin WHO, again the Lecturer
stoops to Conquer" which had Of 400 nights at
Drury Lane Theatre when originally produced, and
VA twice played By royal command before the King
! the vitality Of that f1fQQuN
| comedy that only the year before last It was
| reproduced by Mrs. John, Wood 1t St. James
| Theatre, IN London, and ran uninterEuptetly,
il remember a.ght for nearly three hundred nights:
| shall forget the beauty and completeness OF
Of the part Of IT, Hardeast, Undertaken and admir-
bly, executed by one Of yo'lr own faTorte actors Mr.
Marx Smith. And who vas Goldsmith Eas no not
! Then, again, how about congreye and Farquahar :
Are not theirs historical names as dranattsts7 And
we're not they Irish1nen7 WHAT shall SAY Of such
constellation Of minor lights as O'Keefe, Murphy,
Richard Lalor She'll and Maturin? The present geu-
Grafton bag Cork produce Janea Sheridan Kno"es
| last, but not least, Limerick Gerald Grltln-
MR. BYnoS's NEW PLAY.
OF Mr. Bgron's new play, cold Soldiers the
Pail Mall Gazette saTa:
In his new comic drama Of Old Soldiers, produced
1t the Strand Theatre a1r. Byron has equipped him
self with effective part, which, however, is close
following Of characters he has esaayed on former
casions Of his own rrcviding Mr. Lionel Lrrtyef Is
young gentleman Of fortune, leading retired Life IN
cottage upon the Dcvonshro coast he is the son Of
general officer who, dying upon the battlefield has
bequeathed his orphan child to the care OF one Cas-
sidv his soldierserv Irish CORPORAL And tne
young Lionel stand. much in need Of the guasdianshp
Of faithful Cassidy foc he il to the
deuce IS tmid weak constitutionally ndolcnt, and,
indeed haf-witted although be has the gift Of Ut
terng nuberless faceous and satirical remarks upon
all Kinds of TOPICS Two Of his De7onshire neghbors,
stold soldiers "-Captdin afc1nr5sh and Ars. Mojo1
discovering his wealth, have married MN aoEn
a. likely son-in-law; for each has r1a1r1agcable
| daughter, named respectively Kate Ne7arish and
3fary 3foss Between these veteran parents esseIe
conflict Mr. Lertre the cause Of the str1ie 1s
most Indifferent to its result He is not to
marry all, but since that Issue haa been aenhteg
decided without his being consulted In the matter he
content to take to wife Kafe or Nary a.
chance may direct. Indeed, hc appears to be Eather
an spprorer Of the old proposition that marriages
should be arranged by the stae the brides nKe me
euro Of souls in the gift Of the Lord Chancellor or
some similar functionary Of the Government. In tue
nrat instance, Captain he1artsh trnnpns ana ~'nse g.
marry Ea Mrs. Majo, Aoss however, ,.a Is ae.s[ aes :.
| mined combatant, who does not know wien sne II
beaten nor what it is to despair Of ultimate success
She has secured important ally in the person 81 ono
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