, 1877-05-27
AM USEM Ely1D.
Review of the Dramatic Sea-
son just Closed.
The New Plays and New Act
ors Presented Here.
Notes Of the Week-.-The Green
Rooms Of Chicago and
the East.
The Music of the Year.--Two Hun
dred and Seventy Concerts
and Ninety nine ~
Operas.
A Summary Review Of the New Per-
fornlances and New Per-
formers.
The Appollo Festiyal-The Programmes Us
Revised and Amended.
Local Miscellany~-0peratic Notes at
Home and Abroad~--NeW
Music.
The Appollo Festiyal-The Programmes rs
Revised and Amended.
Local Miscellany--0peratic Notes at
Home and Abroad~--New
Music.
THE DRAMA.

| THE SEASON REVIEWED.
The regular dramatic season OF 1S7G-'7 may
be considered closed, for the only local company
| that survived the hardships of the season dis
banded last night It is Is nearly as may be q
year ago to-day since our last annual review ap-
peared, and the time has come for another.
There is as little to chronicle now that Us pleas
! ant as there Was then The review will be only
record Of financial and artistic failure; Of bad
! plays, bad acting, bad management, bad audi
enccs, and-shall modesty claim this Judgment
for her owns-of bad criticism, The plays that
uaro. na1v rrare not oood ,nt, +boso tha, wore
"els IN. "e'e not @ uu . 'nosc 'a ann1 ".ss
Iooo "ele 1os "e" .uoee .nas WY W.. Aet.o
were nor eood, anu those tnae were goou were
not we'll acted; those that drew large audiences
did not deserve success, aud those that deserved
eueee'' u1o nos Is' 49, Aae teaul'o nA's
oeen pecun1ary loss TO managers;
grief and disappointment to the judicious;
and perhaps only ioy aud comfort to the dis
49,. 49, - p"D' *, n '..u ~ s'
Sited It's SOUL anu found theatrical dlVert1se-
ment in the domestic circle.
THE SUMMER SEASON OF 1876.
s+aue % n,,nn ~ tha es ,she, su 1aes ,as p
e1o"ee - upun .ue esasou ~ -. q "noie uocs no'
extend 10 the summer OF lo'5, ID which we're
seen the most enjoyable dramatic representa-
1f% %f1at nc; ;c t,,1
.'0A y. .N 5eun'. ~ oe eue
to1aat, 1uus e4aee ~. auu'4 ao1c on'o" >qoate
.onnpaut ~ LIZ aoopseu 'ne' pfacl'ce oi lliak1ts
ITO eut1ue1 neaoqu@l te!S netes a1o tuele Is
teason u 'ooh 1ol Iepe1atioh o. Inc experience
1a1s year, oeslnn1ns Win the presentation
u our ooaro1ns-aouse os a company OF
e2cellenI ACTORS az Acs1ckef's Theatre to-mor-
row. Our record begins with the production Of
''Rose Michel" at Hooley's Theatre, May
~, 1876. Rose Eytlnge pcrsonatcd 7tosc
Mtehe, and had efficient assistance
from Mr.: ]. B: Studlcy, who assumed the part Of
a. 1aer!e -: Ineenes. Aiser brilliant run o. nvc
Comic opern 1 Succeeded. @ Monday, I June @ 1s s the
Uni; Union square company opened is second an
n4al E1 sumner !, ,+ season az hooleys producing
fe1reo3," 5ts WIN cast including Ihorne, Far
!on lion Sara esS 5e%et ,at2a0s fds Vernon a
Marie " Mnklns, Maud aud Harrison, and Kate Glrard
june ~ The Two Orphans :" was revived,
m and % Wa fooned sf gay o q BY run e
July Il 1.-The Two " Men Of Sandy Bar" was
produced July Il Conscience was revived
1or one week under the management OF
ser a1e saason enlea eha "t9 tue Union
fG Whole Great Was f5 Oh
2 comfortable sum OF money was realized.
Other attractions OF the summer. were " The |
n1eketoLeave 1at Man; WITH F5ank Alken "a at the
''inkie at the Museum tJune 81; Hooley's Min |
strcls at tue New Chicago Theatre up to June
T. Crane, OSe1n, i and i ii TIE lamsnted E, Louise
Hawthorne opened at McVicker's Theatre June
vlrslninn," y, Ihs Lady OF Lyons" and
ycnn.e ..e Ill., r Da'lu !. n uarrlcK ana Inc
n res,,lt ot their weeks work tI,cy. 1,sd obont
SIS above expenses 10 show. At the Adelpni a
series OF bnrlesque performances was given by
lhomas M ma num- larry Allen, Adah Richmond,
,m4n Ini,, 'n'9 WIZ ,s AsseI a,o yune ~
precar,ous existence during Tie sum1neF viii, the
pieces already mentioned, and ttAliriatn's ]
Erlme @ e. (June l9); "orphan Gencvicve" GJune |
ysi ne sSSen sisters M :. (July -; Black.
Eyed susan = Guy ~ "Ihe e. French Spy"
Guy l3l; mz9e' guy ~; "lhe Gunmaker
o. alosso" = tJuly3i); "the CorsIcan brothers"
tAue. q John Dllion played q week during the |
summer = at Hooley's I'll Theatre, beginning ,t1 Aug