Morning journal and courier., 1880-01-05
Entertainments.

with full chorus and orchestra, will appear at Goes Opera House. On this (Thursday) even- ing they will present Lecocq's military comic opera, in three acts, entitled 'Little Duke" and on Friday evening the well known and favorite comic opera, by tho same author, known as ''Girofe Girofa." The company is they will be greeted by crowded houses on both occasions. The sale of reserved seats will commence at the box office tomorrow morning.
 GRAYs' DRAMATIC ASSOCIATION.
 One of the great attractions of the season, and to which anticipations are already strongly
 directed by the multitudes of friends of the
 organization, will be the entertainment to be
 given at Pecks Grand Opera House, Tues
 day evening, January 18th, by the Grays'
 Dramatic Association. The association has
 been working with great spirit for weeks past
 in preparation for the event, and with every
 indication that the affair will be racy, rich and full of interest. New, original and very amusing features will be introduced, and aside from the fact that the affair will possess pe- culiar local interest, the performance promises to be decided hit and one of the very best ever given by the Grays' association.
 THE PROFESSOR.
 The new comedy, ''The Professor" {" will be
 brought out at the Grand Opera House in
 this city on Thursday and Saturday nights of
 this week by Mir. Will Gillette and good
 company, including Miss Georgia Cayvan.
 The piece is pronounced bright and full of fun and we'll calculated to excite lively in- | terest. MT. Gillette is popular actor, was | with Raymond in Sellers, and is 8 gentleman
 whose merits have already won him host of
 admirers and warm friends. The Professor
 will be opened at the Arch Street Theatre. Philadelphia, on the 18th. The following is from the correspondence of the New York Dramatic News: 'sA fair audience witnessed | the first production and was thoroughly de- ! lighted. The piece is refreshingly original in | every way, and the character of the Professor,
 as played by MT. Gillette, is entirely new and
 unique and at the same time intensely funny. His efforts to recover the lost | art of love-making, and the dreadful entan- elements into which he blunders, until finally
 he is wrought up to pitch of insane frenzy,
 are at once pathetic and irresistibly ludicrous |" ROME AND PoNREu.
 We are glad to further announce to our readers that the Rev. H. G. Spaulding, whose | lectures on Rome and Pompeii have been at tended by large and cultivated audiences in Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore Y and other places, will deliver in the Grand Opera House a course of six illustrated lee ! lures upon Pagan and Christian Rome and the destruction of Pompeii." The lectures,
 which will be brilliantly illustrated with dis
 solving views by means of powerful stereop- ! ticon, will be delivered on successive Wednes- day evenings, beginning January 18th. This l same course of lectures is to be given in Northampton, Mass, during January and February, and the interest concerning them in that town is so great that three days after the sale of reserved seats began hardly dozen seats in the whole Opera House remained un-
 sold. While MT. Spaulding was delivering I the lectures in Hartford, two or three months ago, the Hartford Courant spoke of them as follows: s'With the enthusiasm which Mir. Spaulding
 brings to his work, and the vivid pictures of the ancient city which the stereopticon presents, it would be impossible for even the most cursory student of ancient and medieval history to find an evening spent in such an ex- ercise other than in the highest degree enjoy able. @
 Altogether the lecture was one of those so rarely enjoyed, which. while full of instruc- ton for the expert scholars, was adapted as well to please younger students, and while perhaps more deeply interesting to those whose foreign travels have made them personally familiar with the scenes present ed, yet satisfied as well ss any substitute
 could those who had not enjoyed the privi- lege."