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messed the performance:
4. c. WIeeler's play. "Twina,7 WAS produced On
Thursday Ut Waacks to very Eull aud friendly hoIse.
The scenery. thanks TO Matt Aorgan was exquisite.
OF tie actors Lester Wallack alone did we'll; Ada Dyas
in particular played her part withoat gleam OF in
telligenca or enthusiasm. TIE play itseI, though
clever aud crisp IN dialogue IL hEouka
manager Of the Park Theatre wrote the c1itiQue IN
the Ua7id.
Byron's latest comedy is =. Wrnklos."
Miss Isadora Cameron il to have benedt ut
the Portland Museum Tomorrow night.
aIr. nignoA was welcomed in New York bS the
critics with fresh illusions to his siug-song de-
livery and unintelligeut conception Of the part
Of Uensy Y.
The Boston Saturday Erening Gazette, high
critical authority, says Of - Iatred Ill HGsto
:. It is far superior to 'Our Boys in construc-
ton, in interest OF piot, and in naturalness."
Mile. Sa.ah Bernhard, OF the Theatre Fran
cais. hiss scufptured for this years exhibition. IL
l1e~aiza, ~ Mother Holding on Her Knees the
Body Of Her Drowned Child" Hitherto she haa
only sent il bnsta.
Miss Mary Anderson. Of Louisville. having
ncted in that city and in Now Orleans AZ Meg
-Ntrrilies. Erads.e etc, ID pronounced an actress
Of extraordinary talents. ana has beea inr,tod By
numerous cit,zens OF Louisville to accept COM
plime1.tary benefit.
sigror Rossi will appear for The 6rst time be-
fore an English auaiaace at Dzurv-Lane Theatre
On Wednesday, the 10Th Of April. The the4tre
will bo under the join: management OF Mr. Aol-
lmeshe8d and Mr.. Chsttertou, and the first play
produced will be '' Hamlet."
The Uoason Thestre Was occupied i.st week
hy the original Julius Caesar" company from
Booths Theatre, New York. including Barrett,
BsusH, aad Davenport in the cast. ''paul Re-
we're continued in its fifth week At the Mcse-
um, and :. Married in Haste f" wss the attraction
ut tito Globe.
Ir tho production OF .:The Mighty Dollar at
the brooklyn Theatre last week Mr. Edward
-Arpo,t, formerly Of the New Chicago Theatre.
sustained Lilo part OF Roland Eo're. Air.
Arnotr has been severely criticised i'll Naw York
and BROOKLYN. since leaviug Chclso: for care
loss,less anG general iuoAicicscy. Ua did not
make fayor.bIo impression IN thls city.
Another series OF comedies h1s begun st the
Crystal pal.ce, under Mr.. Charles Wyndhan. It
commenced wish tho :" Merry Wives of Windsor"
appeared. Tins will 10 followed by the :" Com
edy OF ErrSrs," the Honeymoon" Stlll
Waters Run Deep, Mr. Charles Rcade's 'Ladics'
hattie" and Nj. It. S. Gdbert's ''Pygmalion
and Gslatea."
Julius Crsar" was played in the Academy
Of Masic, Philadelphia, on Saturday evening,
April :. and as each act WAS finished its scenery,
1TDrEftAcB UuA llItAbAk0 AE10 AOaAVA NA "24ta44u
trucks without the knowledge OF the audience.
1t II O'Clock The performance was over, and At
midnight tile great company OF sixty-hye persons
and four freight cl1s we're On route to New lork.
They arrived in thst catr bofote daybzeak- At
u O'Clock Sunday night ell had reached Boston.
John aIcCullough pla5sd the second and last
week Of hts engagement at his OWL theatre,
euiipc April s. The same week witnessed the
last nlgh:s Of Barry Suihvao at Bald Tln's Acad-
envy Of Music; tho continuation Of the WoEfel
Sisters engagement at Wade's OperA-Honso;
the eighth and last week but one Of Mrs. Oates
and her company 1T Ma5uire's Thek:ro: and the
reunion OF both wings Of the Cshfornia Min
strss a. the Opera-Housc.
The egsn. of tho week in New York, to which
allusion has elsewhere been made in this col
u1np, was the production Of tho nav comedy
.'Twins at Wa!lack's Theatre. The preyioas
evenings there we're occapied by Tears, Ida
Tea,s." and 1.-The Rivals" s'Ferreol" con-
t1nncd It the Union Square, '' Pique" at Daly'a
aud Brass" at the Park, '*HeurF w." with
Klgnold. bishop. and Thorue in tho cast, wss re-
yivsd a. Booths.
Miss Beatrice S.ranord, the San Francisco girl
who made her debut in London aud failed, be-
gan her first Ameucan engagement at the Wal
nut IN Philadelphia last week. Sho ha5 much 10
Ishrn and much to uulearn. ty all accounts, be-
io,e sho can hope 10 attain a1y prominent posi-
ton OF, the stage, "Dure WAS produced At the
Ehestnr.t-Street Theatre, and the McAee Rankin
combination cuptiuued ut Woods Museum. G.
Fl. a1acderE1o.t nlled .n engagement III "Sen-
teuced to Death " :. Mrs. Drews Theatre. The
Tnkes family are announced for Tomorrow night
1t thus theatre.
slr. and Mrs. Florence were at Brooklyn last
weok; the Fu1bish Fifth Avenue Company a.
pit:sourg john L. Owens at st. Louis; AIR.
Sot.lern at Washington and elHeThere; Rose
Eytauga a: Rochester, john 7. Eaynond on tho
Iowa circuit the Matthews Opora-Bouffe Com
oany at New Orleans; J. r. Jennings III Nasby =
ptay, LIMITATION" at Baltimore Frank Mayo at
albany, T. T.; the kirlIfy Brothers with divided
compauies in ':Around the World " at Prosi-
deuce, II. l., and st. Louis; kat1o Putnsnl and
Maggie Mitchell u: Milwaukee Oliver Doud
Byron, and ColTi1le's *'Jullus CDsar" Company
at Cincinnati
Coi:illos " Spectacle Of Iul:us Cesar Game
TO an untilaeiy end in Cincinnati la4t Wedues-
day. Tie Enquirer says: 1t hea been the
moss marked failure of tho season, chiefly owing
to the fact thas three Now York socond-1ate act
ors, imported to do Marc Antony, C1tus Cas-
Si,.s and Erutus, failed to satisfy tho most char
liable Of audiences. :Ald1ich ID repute3 good
actor. He has conCea!ed the fact here under
can't that the kindlest criticism failed to have
uny effect upon. Roberts Is simply ansediluviau.
and Fitzgerald milk-eoppg. That is tho story OF
the failure Of the trio to fill the places which putt
lie expectation had assigned to Bangs, Barrett
and Davenport"
Mr.. H. J. .Moutague acted at Wallack's Thea
tro MONDAY and Tuesday i'll :" Tesrs, Idle Tears, It
little ope-acs play, written expressly for him
and intended to dispIay his abilities as m actor
in new light. The story il simple and sad. It
is that Of father who accidentally sho. and
killed his only child, and whose mind was
wrecked by tie horror Of the caamity.
After four years his friends try the experiment
Of pereuadlng the remorseful father thst the &C.
cidant had occurred only in a dalirious dream
and to thus END his second Bon, whom he has
never seen, il introduced to him ~ his first.
The full SUCCESS Of the scheme ia prevented by q
very natural incident, but the unhappy mans
reason is nevertheless restored, and his gricf
for the dead boy il assuagad oJ new love for
the survivor. There appears to be considerable
merit IN the play. 80 far as ona can ludgs OK It
from I Newspaper account.
MUSIC.