The weekly Arizona miner., 1878-12-27
BARNEY THE BARON, ETC.

ASorAFR SrCcEss FOR OUR THEATRE
 Last evening the Prescott Dramatic Club
 placc1 on the boards three short plays
 two Farces and one original Drama-which
 had the desired efiect-that of calling out a
 rnusiny house, ard furaishing amusement
 of higl, order for rle evening. J. l..
 Hall. as "Barney OToole,' was a good
 msle-up. and filled the place to perfection,
 and could hardly have been performed bet
 ter bv sn old professional. Mr. Rash made
 a good Augustus. arricuIatiug every word
 and sentence clearly and with much ear
 nestness IL is true that he was somewhat embarrassed upon meeting the young
 widow. "Lady Margaret" but inc soon re- covered himself, ara left it stamped upon the minds of tke audience that he Is pos acsscd of eensidasai:R stage talent. NIT.
 Anderson was first-raie ''Balia Blufien-
 imrg." perfectly easy, uEc"ncerned. aud cil. tirely at home on thc stage. Jnn. Lloyd, as 'Kari,- always fixes up things in good
 shape. and without him our Theatre would
 l.e like wagon xiti one wheel broken.
 N. Masicrson, the ''bs;a.icf:" i}oH Souchet,
 rs,e slarber;" Coles Bishiori. the htailoFs'
 snd H, f. Foster, the "cJok, all under
 stood their respective chara"tcrs, and added
 ,nuch io the iaierest of the play. Miss
 Parker made sa,,orinT Lady Margaret,
 in her quie,. graceful H,aagef, and is quite
 a fayarite with Prescott aadighsse, Mrs. C. ". Beach as "Enih, took well, and re- .eived the congratulations of old proies-
 rionals on the stage. for her success. Miss
 Ayilkins. as "Kmna," 1t is usslass for Us {" describe. S:c has stage talent, aRd we all know it. The second play. which ny the
 way is original. and was, fast evening, first
 pisyed on the stage was we'll fctad. Md
 night Marriage" ls the titie given It by NIT. Fitch, who has carefully dramatizci II from an Engiis ma9agne. The play Was we'll received. bat many expressed them selves as not altogether satisfied with tho result. from the flct that if WAS shorter t6an
 anticipated, ami the audience eycitcl to
 bigs pitch, ,wlien the play close leaving the a sonaYl,gt in the lark as to wha: become oi certain cLassoters who, 1t was though7. should have got marFied tn make every thing ns lovely as desired. ihe acting by Hon. Taomas Fitch aS Prince Faioq,ml
 ttll, oId uncle of Lady Luciol. showed him fe be at home in his o@n production. lhoS. Corlis. as 'Chcyalier Mangoni,' tock well with the audience. ''Lady Lucio," Hrs, Fitch. cl:cited much comTant ap praise from competent erincs, every person aG' mitlinQ that Mrs. Fitch did some excellent emotional soting. diuicuit to excel any where. In fact, thsFa is nothing but talent connected with our Theaife, and consc- 1 qucaty everything placed oa tine boards has to be rendered. in Q creditable manner. i "A Regular Fix was ths last of the three | plays. and judging from thc srplanse it ! clicited from the audience, we believe it i was the msslerpiccs of the evening. This ! Farce was produced last year at the Whip ! plc Theatre. and was well executed; still, ! ve believe that it was roa1erSl lest eveaing [ ia more mastcrly manner. Col. Astiip, as Hugh de Bass" was perfect. ana more !. could not bsye been made out of the char 1 ecter by the most adept professional. Mar tin is always good on the stage. and with ! experience improves. "Ar. Surplus" Ca law : yer), by Murat Mssterson, was just apopt ! ns near perfect as it was possible to make | .he ci,arsc.er IT. fact, all those who took ! part in the laughsble Farce of "A Regular 1 Fix" did his or ter part anmirabiy, and thus smother crown bas been added io the | name aRd fame of one of tis best amateur ! troops on the Pacific Coast-'hae Prescott [ Dramatic Club. {