Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1874-12-23

A Hare Entertainment at the Opera
House.

A Rare Entertainment at the Opera
Miss JEANNE Patterson made her
second appearance before Knoxville
audience yesterday evening, and fully
sustained her well-deserved reputa-
ton. She was introduced by Sam.
Mckinney, President of the Young
Men's Christian Association, with
few graceful and appropriate remarks.
Her audience was not at all common
surate with her high merit, thing we
regret, and those who remained away
certainly missed great deal. For the
space of two hours she held the audience
spell-bound. At times everything was
so still that the falling of a pin could
be heard, as she in pathetic tones re-
cited Jeptha's Daughter, or 1.-The
Famine" from LongfeIlow's Hiawatha.
Especially in the latter was her excel
L. MT voice displayed TO advantage,
while she repeated in sweetly plaintive
tones the dying words of the Forest
Maiden.
Again in her rendition of Miss Nc
Bride" by John G.Saxe, 1.-The Board
L
wick papers, and a selection from the
far famed Curtain Lectures Of the fa-
NOUS Mrs. Caudle, the audience was
thrown into irresistible paroxysms of
laughter.
We heard il suggested, that to make
her rendition OF the Caudle Lectures
perfect, only needed that the good
looking President of the u. NJ. g.
A. should have appeared on the
stage and personated Mr.. Caudle.
Such is her genius that she can touch
the pathetic or the humorous in ones
nature, and excite tears or laughter
almost at will.
Miss Patterson is certainly an artist
of a very high order. 1t is the province
of the artist to interpret, to translate,
to gather into focus the feelings and
beauties that else were invisible to
common eyes. It matters not what
is the subject, nor what the field of
art, whether landscape or statue,
a melody or lovely character, the
work Is the same. Nor is the power
less real or less rare, which enables
the artist to clothe In new colors things
familiar, ! to elevate and ennoble charac-
tiers and ideas already dear by associa-
ton. The true artists are few, but
there Is no mistaking them. Their
touch is Ithuriel. In this rare corlpa-
ny Miss Patterson is entitled TO a
place. 1t is one of her birth rights.
She Is true artist, and like true ar
fist she reveals beauties unseen in all
that she touches. It is true she does
not attempt to create new scenes or
thoughts or characters yet, she in
fuses new life and adds iuster all her
own to scenes and thoughts, with
which we had supposed ourselves long
familiar. .rr.-r-.. ...s
Her dress, her manner, her voice
and her whole demeanOr is chaste and
womanly, free from any attempt at
display or extravagant affectation, and
while she appears perfectly cool and
collected on the stage she is modest
and unassumiGg, seeming to be uncon-
scious of her own powers. We have
never known an audience better pleased
than that at the Opera House last
| night, and certainly few audiences
have had better right to be pleased.
| We learn that Miss Patterson is to
remain with her friends in this city
several days, and we sincerely hope
that she may be prevailed upon to give
another entertainment during her stay.
If she will so consent, we bespeak for
her crowded house.