, 1879-03-16

] 10 ner. Finally. she runs away from her aunt
no1se and. seeking refuge in the PAINTERS studio
finds that her love IL rcciprocatel md all end
happily. All this, however, serves no other pus
poee than to give Miss Lolita opportunities for i'll
| nn:nltiSa;ed merriurnt.
NEW YORK.
] "PEAFonE'' 1T A CHURCH CHOIR.
Special Correspondence Of The Tribune
| NEW YORK, March I've have virgil
"Pinafore."
Fact.
| It comes from Philadelphia, and it goe ava,
Just, Just in -. time. had ii remained there a1pothe'
] week, its-but digress.
Edgar d Fulton brought it over here. I know
| OF its virginity, because Fulton told me. Ant
Fulton never misses fire. He is posted.
This yestal entertainment is given us as q sor
| OF sugar-plun to roll under our tongues whit
we mourn Tor Caycndish. Ada was to hay,
opened at the Broadway this week as Rosa!iu1
! But she slipped up. She played in Brooklyn
couple otTeeks ago, and contracted bronchitis
understand that Horace Wall did not do the
CONTRACTING for her this time, though he has
made Most Of her bad contracts this year. This
was her own speculation. And when she found
she could make as disastrous job as Wall him.
self, she said she was willing to die. She came
pretty near doing that, TOO.
The only thing that saved her WIS the fact
that Frank Pierce was cast for Jacques to sup
port her, and o. Il. Barr for Orlando. When
she discovered that,' she wanted to live long
enough to find something worse. II she does,
she will see the three next Ccntennials.
But Miss Cavendish is really very ILL.,. She
was attacked seriously last Thursday night, and
is to be laid UP, according to her doctors pro-
Cramme, for at Ieast a month--if his fees cou-
tinue.
On Friday, Chandos Fulton scooted for Phila-
delphia. There was eagerness in his eye when
be started. Before be arrived at his destination
there was q cinucr in his eye. Chandos. like the
wise men Of old, guided his steps by the re1ec-
tion Of '.k.ar.'' She didn't land him in a
stable, but he struck q cburch-cho;r the first
thing. A rude individual who sat beside me the
other night said Fulton was guided by inchoiry
hut it wasn't any such thing. That man was
murdered before morning.
When the manager Of the Broadway hove In
sight, that Philadelphia choir rose up as one and
said: I'VE know what you want; it is Pima
fore.' We hare been practicing it for mouths,
aud the congregation are tictsled to death with
it. They say it just knocks the stutIlng out Of
in New York, has it, Just say the word, and
we'n get up and come for you"
Fulton said the word, and they came for him.
IT IS A SUCCESS.
New York has seen almost everything, but it
never before saw comic opera done by church.
choirs. That, to borrow one Of Ralph Waldo
Emerson's most immortal phrases, takes the
rag off the bush. These noyices sing the music
OF the piece as it has never been sung in New
York before. They are little queer as to
makeup and acting, but as singers they get
ahead OF the best we've had. Every solo is en-
cored, as is also almost every concerted piece
Is P,nafore y is the only item on the programme,
and the performance always lasts till half-past
10, owing to this frequency Of recalls. So, you
see, the audiences here virtually get the
piece twice c2ch egcnng.,-for, whenever
one OF the amateurs gets an encore, he or she
goes back and sings the whole song over again,
no matter if it has forty verses. There are some
things about this performance that would make
a hearse laugh. The man who plays Deadye
goes through the piece like a cross between q
sexton and u Blue Island aycnuc
horse-car driver. His ideas Of makeup are
wild and terrible. In order to repr cscnt the
curious optical trouble which is Dicks trade
mark, this Philadelphia chorister has pasted
over one of his eyes section Of visiting card
upon which there is a round black mark. Tie
effect given is similar to that produced By a
in tie distance. All these people |
are little queer in their notions OF paint and |
powder, and consequently they look mighty
funny. Among tie sisters and cousins and |
aunts there is tall and rather eaunt female, who
is clad in painfnlly-plain black silk, and whose
principal business it is to look solemn and watch
he girls. Obviously she has been chosen by the |
guardians of these tender shoots to take care OF |
.1lu shield them from the harm which the phila-
1elphla villagers believe exists all over the
ropolis
On the whole, this company is well worthy of |
he rernarkably-extended patronage it is rcceiv-
M. 1t is elnioensly respectable, and has made |
II enormous hit on that account as we'll as be-
ause of the splendid treatment it bestows upon
'ullivap's music The piece is to be retained |
or the present.
THE M'v1CKER PARTY.
The party which is to come to McVicker's
7ilI be fully equal to any that has attempted
he comic opera thus far. It will embrace Eu-
enc Clarke Is Capt. Corcordn. Charles Vivian
S Sir Joseph Porter, Haidee Heller as Little
}uttercup, Laura Joyce us Josephine, aud Max [
iaretzek as chief OF the profanity department.
he other parts will probably be filled from the
ompauy now playing at the Standard Theatre.
Considerable interest will attach to this party
'ith It. She has long been anxious to adopt
he stage Us profession, but dur.ng the iitc OF
.e late coniuror, RoberI Heller, she was oblie-
! TO abandon her desire. She IS good singer.
nd has d tiue personal appearance. The proha-
ility is that she will make q favorable impress
Oh.
At the Lyceun "The Sorcerer" and "Pina-
,rc" are now playej together, under the guld-
nee OF Fred Kullnlan, the ticket-ticnd. 1t is
;tracting fair patronage. Freycr's party bid
rcwen to The Fl1lh Avenue last Saturday |
eht, and went over to the City OF BrotAerly |
owe.
Monday night, Steele Mackayc's ''Thro' the
ark ~ was brought OUT in the presence of an
1mcnse throng Of witnesses. The piece is
irrlng and somewhat extraordinary melodrama,
ID it may be said that there is more "uclo"
,out it than there is '.dralna." 1t is Strong
auythiny little too strong. But it is graphic,
ID in many respects Il rcry telling picce OF :
ork. The story may be briefly rold, and the !
uopsis thus formed will be lound US interest
!, as the play itself. indeed,
s'THRo THE DARKn ,
rather an elaborated outline OF a thrilling tale |
an rounded drama It's strength is its e
sakuess. Mr. Mackaye has worried it over too | i
uch, and has used all his energy on the crust t