, 1876-11-12

school-chlldren should not allow this matter to
oe crowded out Of the mind By press OF other
Things MIR. +. ". Root, No. 15j State street,
receives the subscriptions. Let all patrons of
music send him 81 each.
Associate members Of the Apollo Club not hay
plying at No. 155 State street during the re-
lnaindcr OF the month. Those residing III DIS
taat parts OF the city are requested to observe
.nls Ihe Secretary has been ca.lled East OH
business Of the Club, and the delivering Of
charge of Mr.. George II. Brodcrick. The pro-
sramtnc TOR the opening concerts Of the season
will shortly appear.
The St. Louis Republican says: "All lovers
Of good music will he sorry to hear that this
Well-known contr2'to singer is about leaving the
city for :: permanent residence in Chicago, where
she has been engaged FOR the choir Of tic Church
OF the Unity-thc Rev. Robert Collycr's. During
the last four years Miss Curtis has tlcscr:elly
held prominent place among the vOca:sts Of
st. Louis, and has carned the wcil-1ncritcd rcpu-
tation OF being the foremost of our contraltos.
Both III the concert-room and in the splendid
quartctte Of the First Presbyterian Church ncr
beautiful voice has become SO familiar that her
departure from among lis will cause many re-
easily filed. Miss Nellie Uhl will take Miss
Curtis placc at the First Presby yterian Church"
THE opERAT1c GODS.
n the Editor Qf The Tribune.
CHICAGO, NOV. 1l-ln your Issue OF To-day l
lenicnt criticism oil the rendition OF ''Thc Bo-
henan Girl by the Strako~ch troupe ut Mcvick-
cr's Theatre last evening. While tho article dis
plays much kindness and extended generosity On
the part OF the critic, feel very sure it cannot
msSt With the unbiased Of the
the affair, however, in the best of humor, laughed
ut the numerous mistakes, and preserved Its pa
tence with the exception Of enc Of the gods in The
gallery, who tEaphatically requested 3tr. Karl to
60 for the officer who was about to arrest 4rine :"
In the first part If the foregoing quotation heart
lily acquicsce, but to tho clause In reference to tile
god :" must oucr objection. When f1oreSfciA
(Mr Wilkic! was oftct.ng to dr1i4e (ofiss McCul-
lochl hls adnltation and praises through Fair
creature: fair crcaturc!' dFliue seemed ''stucl'
OF her lines and instead Of edging up to the
promptcr TO obtain her ''cue, I" or swaying about
IS if offended, to distract from the too pa1pablc
blundcr she stood stark still, and allowed the mis-
ncsa-
Then 1t was that a. 'god' in the gallery, whose
patience was thoroughly exhausted, in moment
of thoughtless feeling for Mr. Wilkie, requested
kics role was in itself ono liable to cast discredit
upon his really fine abilities, he was never i'll
tended for such character, and it would have been
much to his interest If "iudisposition had caus-
Kari, 1t can be sald that his singing was strikngy
fine, and had it not been for the abominable per-
fornnncc ''thc gods Ut the gallery would have
called him before the curtain at the end OF tho last
act ana rendered to him one of Chicago's cntha-
siastic oratlons. one or THE 'GoDs.''
The god to whom hc refers did request Arli.e
to Ego on" and there was another god ut an
earlier stage Of the proceedings who requested
Mr.. Kari to go for'' the soldier about to carry
OFT Arline. Tie one god was impatient; the
other was indignant.