, 1876-04-30

L correspondent of the London academy
writes from Edinbure an Interesting criticism Of
Salyini's first appearance before an English
speaking audience as Aacbekh:
In spite Of somo bitches, salvinib Aac1<fh had Al
emphatic Success The creation is worthy OF place
simplest and most unsympathehc Of the thrse; but
the absence Of tho finer Nneaments Of Hamt<t is re
ss nas se ina u ase eena ap
royalty of muscle, and that courage which
conea of strong and copious circulation. :,
pleased ia audience best. Haete.hs voice. IN
The talk with his wife, was thing not to b. torgotten
to h.ve blood il bis utter.nce. Never for moment,
in the very article Of the murder. does he posscss
his own soul. He is man on wires. From first to
In tho fifth act this lowest circle reached and
It is S2lvinia finest moment throughout the play.
r. & s - ~ e1.p np ns ooKsd
OtAeto. From the first moment he stepa upon the
stage you see this character is creation to the
fullest meaning OF the phra1e: for the man
sasady arrive. WITH Banqe On tbs Rsat fsr
and red-bearded, sparinG Of GESTURE full Of pride
the battle like beast who has eaten his I'll. But IN
the nth act there is change This Is stl the big
the same faca which the earlier aca could super
hcially good-hunored and somct1mes royalty cour-
teous. But now the atmosphers Of blood, which per.
yades tho whoe tragedy has entered into the man and
aubdued him to s own nAtu1e; and au tndescrthahls
degradation, slackness and puanees, has ovortAken
his features he his breahed the air Of carnage aud
supped full ct horrors.
Janauschek will succssd Hiss Nelson Ut the
Hagmarket, Lo ndon.
It is rumored in New York that Miss Fanny
Davenport Is engaged to be married.
The Bro oklyn Theatre, it is said, has hzd fair
SUCCESS this season,-a surprising fact in the
dramatic history OF thst city.
The Kelly l. Leon Minstrels haya settled
permanently at the Twenty-third Street Opera
House in New York. Tomorrow ia their open
lpg.
Hatton, the English playwright. has dramatiz-
ed Havthorne'p s.Scarlet Letter. and will pro
duce the piece at Newcastle With Louiss bow
ard as HestoK Prynne.
The Vokes Family plsyed at the Brooklyn
Theatre last week. They vail occupy the Union
sauaro Theatre. New York, on juno Is, when
the regular dramatic company begins its soason
In Chicago
There is excellent authority for saying that
some years ago to marry Mr. Louis Jennings, Of
the New York Times, will return to Wallacks
next fall. She vii! spend the summer with her
husband in Europe.
tThe Gascons." play very successful in Lon
don, has been purchased by Mr.. Edward Arnott,
late of the New Chicago Theatre, now 1t the
Brooklyn Theatre. 1t will probably soon be
brought out in New York City, and then played
through the country.
When George, this Count Joannes, had fin
ished his performance OF Hamlet" he came
before the curtain and began to recite the
biography Of William Shakespeare. He had pro-
ceeded as far as the birth Of the great poet,
when the audience dispersed.
The Furbisn company played The Two Or
H. 3,1- II,
week; "she Stoops to Conquer" was presented
at the Chestnut; Rose Eytinge in ''Rose
Michel" wae tho attraction ut the Arch; Mckee
RaDkns companycontinued 1t Col Woods: and
calendars Goozg1A Minstels appeared 1t Horti-
cultural Hall
The London Aueneum praises Miss Nelson's
Interpretation OF Isabella in 'Measure tor Meas
ure," and says that during late years few in
stances Of Shakspearean exposition more ample
and more satlHfactory have been supplied BY the
London stage. The New York Tribune judges
that Miss Nelson is perhaps the most satisfao-
tory general actrass on the stage.
Clara Morris has now in hsr possession IN ad-
mirab1e copy. by Sir Joshua Reynolds, Of his
famous portrait OF Mrs. siddons. She purchased
this art treasure while abroad last summer and
It has just reached her residence. Hiss Morzis
had S some !, .. thoughts ct appea5lnE in Cor
has been forbidden by her physicians to do 10.
alr. Wheeler's play, *' Twins." closed ita brief
run OF fourteen representations at WalIack's
Theatre Tuesday night. Tho Tribune vas un-
necessarily cruel in noticing the failure, saying:
2" The lack Of taste, which ia the faculty which
prescribes and preserves form, the lack OF dra-
matte instinct in construction, and the lack of
that culture which would 1t least have kept out
the SILLY melodramatio business at the close,
explain this result" '' London Assurance" was
given It Wallack's during the remainder Of the
week. !" Ferreol" continued at the Union
Square, "Pique" at Dalys, Henry r" at
Booths, and Brass ut the Park.
The New York 1ri6uns says: ave we're
wholly in error IN our accidental conjecture that
Lancaster and Julian Magnus,-forthcoming 1t
tho Union Square Theatre, IN the fnllness OF
time, might b tho dramatizstion Of 'Oendril-
ION sfso hernlded. Mesars. Lancaster and