The New York herald., 1879-03-25

OF endcarmcnt followed, some over-enthusiastc
youths and old gentlemen addressing the heroine as
"Avvy" and "Yony.' but the audience reser,ing
its forces for hitting welcome TO the noble person
ator of noble name, and when the Count, capiaily
made up for sothern ambled gracefully to the centre
and front the Sotnern cqne, which came TO scon teit
its knees to rattle abjecty against each other as
cheers, roars. yells catcalls, whistles and other
tokens of esteem shivered the trembling air INTO
multitudinous vibrations. The Count bowed; his
tragic brow cast OF its wrinkles; he was evidently
pleased and was not ashamed to show it. His lips
moved; perhaps he said something. but If he
did only the sensitive phonograph OF heaven caught
ns .s nns appa%ss eyen 1s one and seon
person who noted the shortness OF the noDielnans
vest shouted. .Georgie.. pull down your vest
suggestion which the audience heartily emphasized
Soon afterward. during temporary lull the Count
was heard to speak the line, Ive got an ideah. and
the audience applauded as heartily as II this was
an acquisition which no had be-
fore suspected Then he discharged an as
hope to equal unless he first takes
"A four years course in lunatic asylum. Occasion
ally did he preface pun with the announcements
knowedgng its intellectual nforiority to the noble
comedian. would respond piteously. MAKE it
light" AS each pun was proponnded the unani-
nous reply of the house was ''Give it up. When
the Count said of some one that he was
a lunatc ribald youth exclaimed. ''Why.
he must be your long lost BROTHER and when the
asserted his of brains the surprise
Of tho audience seemed to know bounds. Such
was the hero-worship Of the spectators that they
could to have in mind no ono but the player OF
the title role. When Asa Trenchard expressed
jackass. he besought to keep away
FROM Georgia." and when the American COM
planned of the lunch set before him, because
there nos"nnush'' served. he advised
to ''put George the plate But even friendly ad-
miration cannot stand everything. and when in
the second act Georgiana surprised her noble lover
in the act of flirting with Florence Trenchard with
the final result that the Counts arms and shoul-
dcIs freghted with the combined charms
of both beautous damsels, the regard OF the
audience changed to an. envy that was almost
demoniac in its expression. This temporary
unpleasantness was allayed, however. by
the Count exclaiming Never about something:
at which--well everybody that has heard "Pinafore
knows what comes after Never and every man in
that audience had evidently 'done the leading SEN
sation.
As whole the Counts performance was evidently
pleasing. but there those in the audience who
seemed to that in departing from high tragedy the
noted actor was committing an error. The support
better in personnel and dress than has sometimes
been seen in New York for the same piece. Indeed
some of the acting good as to cause regret
That the bulk of the beholders had not come from
deaf and dumb institutions instead of private unatic
asylums In.pne respect the audience was remark
able; whenever the curtain fell it almost to
man and sought the neighborng bars.