, 1877-08-21


They lad rarity at tioo1cy's last evening"
something not often seen in this clt5-a cast en-
tirciy too good for q piay. Al a general
thing, the Chlcago managers have, by lint Of
spccfAl e1ertou, gotten together such curtously
awful aggrcgat!ons Of mltnlcs that they had
RrcattroubIe To .elect from tho Wide catalogue
OF 'dIocr plays which they cou1d I'll through.
That MAS the. reason that made y. r. Allen put
upon the stage " for ono night only " the creat-
est literary effort Of the Milwaukee, !seatfatt,-
The Bucket Of Diud; or, The Bully Butchers
Midnight Revenge" was what he called It,
a. near ~ can now be remembered.
That pulley of selecting plays
has been relig!ously followed, and when once Ia
Willie m actor fell of nger his heal and Noun-
deretf nl,out the kind critics tls1ed him out and
Get him I'D aRain. By sorue curiou. oversight
Mt. Hoo'ey and bis deputies rerertcl the origt-
nal ordcf last night, aud billed play "elicI, tic
company wandered around In and came out Of
With the general idea that they had not been
out Ut their depth anv of the time. TO out the
matter shortly, the play was simply dafnnable,
anu II struggled On from an unsatisfactory be-
ginning to an incomplete and unintellTgIbic end
Without alore thnn general idea that plenty OF
folks had been killed. and so,ne norc had disap.
pearcd without the ceremony Of leaving card.
number: First, that they did not chuck tic
whole concern out Of window when It vas
'.alsercd anti atlaptel from tho French i; second,
siat they mounted It In style be1.ttnE play Of
yell. TO have exactly suited tae eieeu.ion 10
ss jew" jos eeiosk ass Tor foq Ses coz sase s1
est Harry Hudson for coun! De be-
quit. parsou A fos .Yat%ad4. 1"e md Aliee ns,
Logan for lfaryu<rtf<. Then ihe thing
could have gone along comfortably enough, and
noboly would have felt that be Of slis vas
o'Seil made I'amt Grdndet vanq,1lsl, all Ills
foes In manner calculated 10 do hunor alike to
hls head and heart. Mr.. James WAS properly
and comfortably killed after the proper amount
y feared he would. Nj. Pafselic va weighted
down with tho department Of the evening. and
Ma!seh ,n th,t a61nt 1 .sperly, bnt evidently wsi.
swell out hfe chest. That lie did not appear
until toward the last vas creditable to hta good
Judgment. My be he cast the play. It is oet:
not t. say anything about the female caFactcrs.
thc character: II there be any turning point in
Of TUG .'Voicc Of Naturc.." Marguerite Is x
pectcd 70 recognize her father. whom she never
Bastue, by. the call Of this voice ot Nature;
yet oy The bidding Of the tane Voicc abe is e1-
pected to diaown the noblsman who brought
as her fathcr. THIS mar 10 all WY
we'll, but the nnze Of melodgatnat!cs which the
authur designed as a plot fails to sly whv this
voce Of Nature should not tall her to her
mbthcr, who, being equally unknown will, her
father, Is about will, her from time to time. It
Is questionable. also, whether the voice Of M
tusc-to tav nothing Of the propHctIes-shoulti
not hare sgt the young woman straight when
slle discarded her only.oyei lover on the sus-
ptcfon that he WIS making lore 10 her mother,
Bat pSrhaps thg fact that the p1ay Is Frcnehy
explains thcsc things. Only few people suf-
fesed under the intllctinn.