Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1876-01-21

hori, displays marked power as an actress,
and sings very prettily, her voice being a
niezzo soprano. Mr.. Henry X. White, Jr.,
who plays the disagreeabe and difficult
role of Don Jose, is known in Bratteboro
as member of that popular musical organ
lzation, the Ingleside Quartette. lie has a
very pleasing baritone voice, aud one of
the most popular songs in the opera "In
happy moments" falls to him. The char
acters of the King and the Marquis are taxi
en- severally by Mr.. George Titus aud Mr..
George Fitch. Tho task of directing aud
accompanying falls upon Mr.. Leon Reach,
one of the most p romising OF our younger
panists. This troupe has already given
this opera upward of thirty times aud al
ways with great success. We bespeak for
them a full house.
MISS Po1TER's ENTERTAINMENT.
The sixth entertainment Of the regulor
lecture course took place Tuesday evening,
and consisted in readings and presentations
by Miss Helen Potter, assisted by the
Brattleboro Orchestra. OF Miss Potter
there can be but one opinion; she has won
for herself, through long and careful cult
walton Of natural giris,au almost unrivalled
reputation for versatility, in her persona
lions OF real and imaginary characters.
While she renders in accents of the most
| heartfelt sincerity whatever is touching
aud pathetic, exciting tho sympathies Of
her audience and moving them to tears, as
in tho touching little incident relating to
our war, and purporiing TO have taken
| IL, tt. 4
ing Miss Potter opened her evenings pro-
gramme-yet, at tho same time, she is none
the less admirable in her humorous aud
| burlesquo roles, while in the scenes from
Katherine of Aragon, Il Ia Cushmau, she
proved herself 10 be no mean tragedienne
thus displaying through tho progress of
her rich repertoire a most wonderful Vari-
ETY. Of acting, wholly free from any labored
attempts at producing effect. The pro-
| grammo actually given was nearly as fol-
lows:
MUEIc-ORcHIsTGA.
l. Medley Overture. L. y. Catlin.
PART L-READINGs.
2. True story from our War.
D. The Creeds Of the Bels..- .Bungsy.
5. Poem on the English Language. story.
Q. Reading OF Grays Etgy by School Glass.
MUsic-oacuLsrnA.
7. Grand Selections from Chilpcrc. Herne.
PART n-PULPIr oRAToRY.
| g. Mourners (E1hortation)
| o. Too Learned (Apnogy
| 10. Ny Sheep (Nague.)
MrsIc-oRcHEs1pA
II. ovefiure-Poet and Peasant. Won Suppe,
PART nI.-PERsoNATIoNs OF CELEBRATES.
IL. Katherine CT Aragon, Ia Miss CushmAn.
| Scene l. Her Plea in Court.
Scene ?. Divorced and Dying.
(Note.-Iienry VIII divorces Queen Katherine that
| he may we'd Anne BoleynO
MUsIc-oRcHEsIRA
Is. Concer, Poka-solo for Corrct. sohutter.
| IL. The Society fAyorite, Ia NaccAbs.
tNote-A specimen Of modern conversation as an
is. Blunders, a Ia John B. Cough
MusIc-oRcureTrL
l6. Inaugural Polonaise. Oh. Baeh.
1t would be difficult TO compose a pro-
| cramme which would give freer scope to
Miss Potter's varied mplishments than
this one and not the least among her &C.
complishments is the pure and elegant
manner in which she reads English. Her
! prom unciation might well serve as a model
| for those who are not entirely satisfied with
tue nasal twang and fiat a, so much affected
by our very worthy but rather inelegant
Brother Jonathan" Tho selections for
reading, forming the first part Of the enter
tainment, were all pleasing and well rem
dered but the poem 10y Story, as read by
Miss Potter, burst upon us like revela-
ton, bringing to light world Of power
and music hidden in our language which
we, either through Ignorance or careless
ness are little inclined TO trouble ourselves
about. The difficult selections from Ten
nyson aud Bungay were read in a manner
which defies all criticism, while the "read-
ing class" was thoroughly enjoyed by all,
and especially by those members OF the
! audience who had ever had any experience
in country schools.
The second part Of the programme, while
il; was perfect in its way, and helped to
show eff to good advantage the e1traordi-
nary versatility Of Miss Potter, was on the
whole, perhaps, in questionable taste.
However, the last part Of it, under the head
of "Sbeep," was irresistibly comical, and
brought down the house.
But the real, genuine talent of Miss Pot
ter unquestionably lies in her presentations
of celebrities. 1t would have been difficult
indeed TO discover in Katherine of Angon,
that it was not Miss Cushman herself be-
fore us, but by no means difficult to recog-
nize that, whether through the medium OF
Miss Cushman or Miss Potter, it was in
reality Katherine of Aragon pleading for
her rights, and then, in a second scene,
sending messages TO her profligate "lord
and MASTER" while dying, before our very
eyes. This scene, we do not hesitate TO say,
was one Of the finest specimens of acting
We have ever witnessed. Modern CONVEX
sation as an art, carried on by fascinating
| young man with 'airs" in his whiskers,
was simply iniInitable, as was also the lee
| ture on Blunders Ia John b. Cough.
But let us not omit TO thank the Brattle-
bOro Orchestra for the share it had in en-
tertaining us Tuesday evening. The mu
| steal selections were pleasing, and perform
cd with much taste and ensemble. This
was particularly the case with the selection
from Chilperlc, and the overture to the
Poet and Peasant.
THE MASONIC REUNIoN-A LARGE AND
brilliant GATHEHlNG--bEATILE
DOES HERSELF CREDIT ONCE MORE.
The fourth annual reunion of the Con-
necticut River Valley Masonic Union,
which was held in Brattleboro on
Friday afternoon and evening of
last week, was in every respect
a brilliant and gratifying success. For
day or two previous an unusual degree OF
activity had been noticeable among the
Brattleboro members of the fraternity, aud
the northern train on Friday afternoon
broupht n cav thrOnp of ladies' and GENTLE