The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-06-04
ADJUSTMENTS.

BorREE DnANATfouE.-On Saturday evening, al
the Opera House, the Club Dramatique Louisi-
annals gave another Of their highly entertaining
performances, for the benefit, this time. OF Miss
Eve DablesteiD, clever young lady amateur
who has frequently assisted them in their efforts
to amuse and instruct their numerous friends.
The house, we are happy to say, Was crowded
from pit TO dome, as the consecrated phrase
says.
The programme consisted Of Ernest Blum's
fascinating, II not perfectly constructed drama.
of Rose Michel The powerful title role was
intrusted to the beneficiary, who acquitted her
self Of her tack with credit, especially In the
great scene OF the fourth act (the mothers
crucial test), with her daughter Louise, Miss
Estelle D.. We take the opportunity to e1-
tend our sincere congratulations to Miss D. for
her excellent reading OF the part OF Louise, in
which she evinced thorough conception q the
fully sweet voice, supple and sbounding in pathos.
HOf the gentlemen amateurs. MIR. De LEtsng, az
Georges de Buissey,. was very good, his reading
1T times being excellent. Mr.. N. Bienvenu made
q good de Parlien. The other principal male
A. M. Lambias De Grandchan,p, by Jules Bar.
iac; Moultnet, by Henri Gerber. La Con,tesse de
Buissey was Nine. NJ. Vezan, who played her
part admirably.
We have but one word OF reprovsl to address to
our young amateurs- IL that the wigs OF several
fitted them very awkwsrdly, and in some cases
made them appear much too old.
PROFESSOR CooKE's EXPOSURE. - About one
thousand people were present at the Academy OF
Music last night to see Profess or FL. Cookies per-
formances OF the tricks OF ''spirtualiste," and
I'D it not been the Sabbath there would probably
W have been standing room in the auditorium.
Ne regret that the performance, owing TO certain
inter- options (Which will however. not rscur, }
closed NJ such q late hour that We have not the
time to do justice to the extraordinary entertain
ment offered by Mr.. Cooke. We can only
say that he fdlflled all bis promises,
at least as much Of them az the length Of the en-
tertainment permitted, and including the mani
festations OF the Davenport Brothers, Charles
Reade, Mrs Holmes, and other notorious "me-
diums." Even though we had the time, it would
be too tedious and detailed task TO relate every
interesting feature OF the entertainment, but
they we're OF the cleverest sort, and performed
with neatness SURPRISING, tenfod, any OF the So
called spiritual manifestations that We have been
unfortunately subjected to- Mr.. Cooke IS, besides,
q ready spe aker, OF preposseseng appearance,
courteous, cool. headed and ready witted. The
interruptions alluded to above we're mainly due
to an endeavor to bring upon the stage, on the
committee of scrutiny, some believers in spirit
ualism, or better, believers in Esprit mediums,
whose only objections were that certain manifes-
tations we're not performed in the same manner
claimed for the original mediums. La every
case, however, Prof. Cooke seemed to have
the best OF the argument, and had the house al
most unanimously on his side.
We are most sincere in asserting that a more
clever or neater entertainment, to say nothing OF
its surprising qualities could not be wished for
by anybody. Prof. Cooke made only one ex-
posture last evening, that OF Mrs. Holmes ring
trick. Tonight, among other things, he will
perform Fosters blood writing and pellet tests
and SHADES slate writing test, together with sew.
eral interesting exposures. Secure your seats
for IN interesting and instructive evening.