The New York herald., 1875-12-26
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC NOTES.

gerousy ILL.,
Mr. John Brougham's new comedy is looked for with
much interest
wachtel appears as Arnoldo in civilian Tell" on
Monday evening.
ssThe Romance of Poor Young Man" win be pro-
duced at Wallack's tomorrow.
Oakley Hall will fuse the various elements of life in
his .'Crucible" every night this week.
The variety theatres all promise great attractions for
Christmas week, and will well repay visit
Miss Jennie Hughes will be the leading attraction in
the forthcoming pantomime at the Eagle Theatre
The programmes OF the FIRST representation OF
Julius Cesar at Booths Theatre night will
be made OF gros grain silk.
/ II is proposed hold grand musical festival in
Dublin next The Exhibition Palace is sug-
gested the most available building for the event.
The oratorio Society OF New York, combined with
Theodore Thomas orchestra, Will give performance OF
Handel's messiah" tomorrow night stenwAy Hail.
This will be the last week OF the French plays at the
Lyceum. On Thursday Nine. Lormiani will take
benefit when the play win be 'Par Dro de Conquete"
The benefit to Mr. William Freligh will be given at
the Academy OF Music Thursday afternoon and
evening The tickets good for either performance
"Piquen at the Fifth Avenue Theatre, continues to
draw good houses and, as It is full Of sensation and
interest promises to have long run AZ this charming
theatre.
danapalus" has been successful in Birmingham. We
hope that production at Booths Theatre next March
is assured.
There Will be change at the Union Square Theatre
this week "Rose Micheln continues to draw crowded
houses and viii well repay q visit from the holiday
making folks.
Dalys travelling company, under the management
of Mr.. J. W. Morrssey, will begin a OF
three weeks in Galveston, when the BONANZA 'DL
vorce' and other comedies will be produced
s'The Two orphans'' is very successful at the Bos-
ton Theatre. Miss Kate Claxton who played Louise,
the blind girl, charmngly here has made = great
hit in Boston, according to the papers of that city
grand drama entitled "Regina sarpL" by NM
Denayrouse and ohneb, has been produced at the His
torique, Paris The Is laid in Corsica, and the
plot upon OF the vendettas for which that
island formerly SO much noted.
Negotiations in progress to obtain from Wagner
permission tho German Opera Troupe who will
Drury Lane next season to play his operas, Some Of
the best German singers expected in London, and
It even contemplated to bring trained chorus
and orchestra
The visit Of the Prince Of Wales to India has been
naturally the OF great deal OF writing, ana
the dramatic authors seize the opportunity. piece
is now playing the Criterion Theatre London called
"A Trip 70 Inda,n and is said 10 be full OF humorous
incidents and adventures
Miss Adelaide Nelson, whose health Is entirely
restored viii appear shortly in historical drama
by Tom Taylor Miss Nelson will visit this country
next autumn whom she will appear Booths Theatre
and afterward through the States under the
agement OF Max Strakosch.
correspondent, writing from Moscow, says OF the
favorte American artistic, MISS Annie Louise Cary
"Among the newly arrived artists OF the season must
place Miss Cary in the first rank. She has agree
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siderable power and sorority. She sings with taste
and acts with and effect In tragic roles her
cess has been very marked, especially Azucena in
III TrovatoTe.'
After absence of nearly two years Mr. Lester
waack returns the boards OF his theatre where his
eminent talents a comedian have been SO frequently
displayed and where his temperance will be hailed
with delight by hundreds OF admirers After New
Years Day Mr.. wallack win appear in the very ap-
propriate comedy by Robertson, "Homo." After long
and successful engagements other houses and other
cities Mr.. wallack returns TO his home. the most
elegant and tasteful OF all temples OF the drama and
the universal desire OF the New York public will be
keep him there, and 70 themselves
piece Of much more than usual merit has lately
been produced at the Olympic Theatre, London II is
entitled buckingham" and Is by Mr.. W. G. Willis, tho
author OF "Charles l. !" In which play Mr.. Irving
made so great a sensation some few years since To
the reader Of English literature there is hardly
any nobleman Of that age familiar His
play OF the "Rehearsa' is well known, and he
lives forever in Dryden's carcature Of Zimri" and
from the fame Of hts great duel with tho Earl OF
Shrewsbury whom he while tho latters wife held
his horse in tho guise OF page But Mr. Wills
fBuckinghamn is not the i'Zlmri" OF Dryden the
assassin OF the injured husband but the brave, pol
ished though daring cavalier OF the time Of Charles L
and the Commonwealth The historical facts upon
which the play founded are as fonows:-
George viIers about twenty-five years
OF nre when he fought battle OF Worces
ter and that battle his estates confscated
and given the republican general Fairfax villiers
ien England but upon hearing OF tho Kindness with
which Fairfax had treated his mother he returned and
married the daughter OF Fairfax Cromwell, indignant
az this alliance, arrested Buckingham and committed
him to the Tower Upon this foundation Mr. Wills has
constructed an elaborate delightful piece which he
tells in verse OF considerable merit The following
tracts win give idea Of Mr. Wills poetic and dra
matte power Returning TO England with the double
purpose or bringing his young king back and wedding
the fair Mary Fairfax he says
Al home again
ruined fugitive at home again.
Home or my birth, there IS an honouryet
Reserved Tor thee-an honour 10 be bazoned
In golden characters about the room:
''Here did George Villers shelter and preserve
His young unhappy KingW
Again, In the scene where Cromwell commits him TO
the Tower
CROMWELL.
50 may God do 10 me " roquite not
This business full measure 10 thy bosom.
This " your Whilst she pines and withers
Thou, too shalt pine and rot IN deepest dungeon
Those golden locks shall srzzej that straight back
Bha bend with care, DO u for months years,
AZ sno shall droop so shalt thou droop and vithcr
II she should die, that day she dies for love
Thou diest for tTeasoDl seize him To the Tower.
BUCKINGHAM
do not plead With thee against this sentence,
But trust me, tyrant, thou shalt share IL too
! do condemn thee also 70 dungeon,
Whose Dailer, Fear, shall keep the golden key,
And people every shadow with assassins
Tremoe BY night thy chamber is dungeon.
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