The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-12-13
THE RETURNING BOARD.
The DeSOt0 Business.
Anderson Did Not Come to the Front.
Wells. Kenner and Casanave Apprehensive.

It The Returning Board was called to order a
n alf-past II O'clock all members present but An
e dersOn.
d Wells said that urgent business required hi
: attention, and therefore he was constrained t.
adjourn the meeting until Sunday at 10 O'Clock.
Sunday, he said was not exactly the kind O
day on which Returning Board business ought
to be transacted, but he supposed none Of the
members would object to meeting informally
and considering the business or questions which
2 would come before them in order Monday.
No objection to a Sabbath meeting being
made-none of the members having previous
, Sunday school or church engagements to fulfill
the Board stood adjourned.
This important business dodge on the part Of
Wells is altogether too attenuated. He is con-
sclous OF having perpetrated great and serious
wrong on the people, by his ruling in the case of
DeSotO parish, and he came to the front this
morning with bosom overtlowing with apprc-
hension. Anderson was no where to be seen,
and it is presumable that he too felt that the part
which he played in the DeSoto business was cal
culated to derdte hm-but not in the affections
of Louisianans. Casanave and Kenner acqui-
esced in Wells's proposition to adjourn, and it
| Oohcu do Cilou6u uHey were lutIc eager " bot
away. They can't feel satisfied or comfortable
about that DeSoto business.
ACADEMY OF MUsIc-Bmespue amd Specially
Artists Monday Dec. H. we are to have q
double company at the Academy. Mr.. Bidwell, in
preparing for the holiday amusements, proposes
giving US that most popular Of all amusement,
burlesque and variety. The burlesque is De-
III fan r. II
NAL Prince" The variety stars to appear are
the most prominent in the country. We find an
old fayorite, Geo. s. Knight, Dutch comedian
VIM. Ashcroft, an eccentric comedian and sketch
artist Of new and original style; Misses Rem
melsberg and Clintop are both pretty, graceful
and talented danseuses, Zegrino and Moulton
are famous aerial gymnasts. These artists are
introduced in the burlesQue, which has very
strong cast and is well gotten up with new
scenery, wardrobe. properties, etc. In the cast
will be found the Fisks, Miss Glover, Mr.. White,
Miss Wren, the Misses Libby, Taylor, jackson,
Graham, Martin, and the Messrs. Pike, Knowles,
CASTOR, Ober, Lester Hill and Others
When MIR. 7. G. DELICIOUS travestic of HAM
let was first played by G.. L. Fox at the New
York Olympic, it created perfect furore. The
press praised it with almost unexampled unan-
iEity, aud the public endorsed it Old Probable
ties had no power to lessen the night houses, |
and ladies' and children cried for it :" at the |
Wednesday and Saturday matinees. No bur-
lesque ever produced in New York can boast Of |
such signal and Of such solid success; and the |
reason seems to US very obvious
The author has not only taken familiar theme,
but has treated it with thorough knowledge Of |
its hidden as well Of its superficial. meaning.
Not only is the language Of Shakespeares ''Ham-
let burlesqued, but the situations are slanted,
as it were, into comical position, while the whole
story is turned out OF its serious channel into a
comic one, even while it follows with perfect
gravity the current OF the story.
What kills most burlesques of the day is want
IT sequence in the story and of substance in the
reatment. This one has both, and it covers the
narrow OF nonsense. The story OF Hamlet
$ travestied thus The GhOst is not dead but
las been put under bonds by a United States
Commissioner to remain in boa,'diug-house
While his wife marries CluudtuS. The Ghost slips |
ut at night and confides in Hamlet in very
unny travesties of the terrace and grave yard
Gene. Hamlet repudiates Optelid, who pretends
MADNESS and death, and is brought to the grave 9
ard in wheelbarrOw, at the very moment Ham, q
mOrallZes over her lost waterfall.
The result is q free fight, in which all parties
Din, and a final reconciliation, when the Ghost. 9
'oto"tus and Ophelta return during the combat +
Gene. The situations Of the original are very t
osely adhered to, though broadly satirized. \
or instance, Hamlet and the Ghost pause during I
leir colloquy to take friendly glass and in
er mad scene Opheiid ''strews flowers Of odors q
Neet. IN the way OF onions, cabbage and car 1
rosemary" In the play scene the detection is G.
one by means of shadow pantomime, in which
re play-klng pours gallons OF whisky down the
hosts throat and then elopes with the play.
leeD and in the offer to ''play upon this pipe,
18th shag tobacco. h
The language, too, is followed only to be made :;
tensely absurd, as for instance the Ghost says .
! find thee strong; but weaker shouldst thou be
han the dull weed all grocers sell for tea, W
ers thou not dra,ra by this.'
nd again Hamlet says:
lis not alone my inky cloak, good lack. $,
Or customary suits Of aces black.
'r have that within which beats this shor:
lese but the trappings and the suits of-whoa! 49,
As some clever critic Of this piece has sug-
sted, MIR. De Leon has turned his mind into a =
nvex mirror and held up the great original be-
re it. The audience sees all the figures there
It he sees them brOadened and fattened into
ost laughable dimensions. 1t is like looking at
akcspeares masterpiece, shown in the bowl FL
spoon. And this same Obliquity of intent
lich carried Hamlet Burlesque" to near its -
ndredth night in New York and made it =
eat success in Mobile will doubtless earn it a @,
~ rich reward here. both in applause and in
e green currency OF this realm Of freedom and Al
e drinks. n,
Slow Work. 1t is now forty-one days
ice the election was held in this State, and &C
there still remain twenty-slx out of the
ty-seven parishes to be canvassed and COM RI
ed. At this rate when will the final result NJ.
the election be promulgated by the Return
! Board? Is not such law and such
icials appointed to execute it frauds upon =
) people and disgraceful to the party that
uld SO openly insult the intelligence of the =,
; by forcing upon the people such an infa-
JUS statute? b
Rudio. the Gallant Cavalry Lieutenant.
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