Morning journal and courier., 1880-04-09
MIR. pArrIsoN's RECITAL.

play will be given afternoon and evening, and the house will be packed on both occa- sions.
 MIR PATrIsoN's RECITAL.
 Mr. J. N. Pattison gave the second of his pianoforte recitals at the Atheneum last even- ing to select and appreciative audience. His subject last evening was 'Gottschalk.' He opened with the great musician and authors ''Last Hope," and after speaking in pleasant and instructive manner in regard to it, gave striking illustration of the competition on the piano which was received with much enthusi- asm by the large audience in attendance. Other selections followed in order according to pro- gramme, and when the banjo solo (sketch gro- tesque) was reached there was great enthusi- asrn manifested and double encore followed. The singing of Miss De Lussan was particu- larly admired. In her rendition of Farewell to Thee, Darling, she received hearty encore and responded with But then what could I do." The entire recital was delightful in all its parts and gave great satisfaction. The next recital will be given on Friday evening, April 16. The price of tickets for the remaining evenings of the course, 'tLiszt and Beethoven,' will be only 75 cents. They may be obtained at Loomis' Temple of Music.
 UNCLE DAN'L.
 | This evening Mir. B. Maeauley will appear at Goes Opera House with his own excellent company of comedians. The play to be pre- scented is E. A. Lockes comedy IA Messen- ger from Jarvis Section" The Chicago Times says of the play: ''It is of the modern sort and of the very best of it's kind, and no time or labor is wasted anywhere in the play from beginning to end. Every bit of business leads up to something else. The story is kept con- | tinuously in view, and the interest and atten- ton of the audience is never allowed to lag. Uncle Dan1 is an honest, shrewd and kindly old fellow, with whom the sympathy of the spectators goes in all his moods and all his scrapes. The assumption of this part by Mr. Macauley is quite worthy so excellent an actor. It is clear characterization, no more over strained than the somewhat high pressure of his surroundings compels. MT. Macauley's fa- cial play is remarkably good quite frequently he incites roar or round of applause by the mere change of countenance." The play will be given again tomorrow. The house will be crowded on both occasions and those intending to be present will do we'll if they secure their seats at the box office this morn ing.
 PIRATES OF PENzANCE.
 "The Pirates of Penzance,'' the successor of H. N. s. Pinafore. which has had such an immense run in New York, will be pre- scented at Peck's Grand Opera House on Saturday afternoon and evening of next week. The plot is thus given by an ex- change: The hero of the piece, indentured by the blunder of his nursery maid to pi- rates instead of pilots, quits the band on arriving at his majority, as he supposes, but subsequently ascertaining that he was born on 8 29th of February, so that his twenty-frst birthday is far postponed, he returns to the band through views of duty presented to him by the Pirate King The pirates, who had not less conscientiousIy recognized his duty to follow his convic- tions, are also accustomed to spare all or phans, and it is on the plea of being an orphan that the venerable Major General who has bought a place with lot of an- cestors ready made near Penzance, and at tended everywhere by 0 troop of pretty daughters, corresponding to Sir Joseph Por- ters sisters, cousins and aunts-is spared after capture with his daughters on the beach, Another repetition of this trick of ill assorted delicacy is the meditative plaint of the policemen's chorus that the lot of the the stern necessity of interfering with the criminal classes even in their hours of in- nocence. When the the enterpristng burglars not a-burgling, When th cut. throat is not occupied in crime,
 (Chorus)- Pied in crime, ] Or listen to the merry village chime, When the oosfers finished jumping on his sn @other, '
 (Chorus)- On his mother,
 (Chorus)- With another, A policeman's lot is not happy one ChoruE-Oh, when constabulary duty's to be done,
 A pohceman's lot is not a happy one, ordinary relations is seen in the wooing of the | hero by his old nursemaid, who like her pro- totype, Little Buttercup, has set affections | high. The venerable First Lord of the Ad- | miralty in FtPinafore," and the jolly Judge in | Trial by Jury,' are repeated in an aged prig | of a major general, who, like the review-writ- | ing major general at present at the head of | the British army, can answer hard aorostics; I've pretty taste for para quote in eleeiacs all the crimes of Heliogabaus; In comics can floor pecularites parabolous. can tell undoubted Raphaels from Gerard Bows and know the crOaking chorus from the Frogs" of Ars-
 tophRnes.
 Then can hum fugue of which I've heard the n,u-
 sic din Afore,
 And whistle all the airs that internal nonsense
 stPinafore."
 write you out washing bill in Babylonic cunet-
 form,
 And tell you all the details of caract.cus' uniform In short, in matters vegetable, animal and mineral am the very model of modern major general
 For the rest there is the same pretty, trip ping and dropping crowd of young girls in gay, big bonnets and short skirts, with their dances and rhythmic chorusss, for the charm ing background of several scenes. Two or three characteristic and original posings are contrived for this lavish display of fresh and piquant loveliness, in one of which the young ladies simultaneously take of one slipper l to going in wsding, when, sOh, horror ]" Gin unison), the Pirate appears and they hop two steps backward and in anoth- of love of the youngest of the daughters, the rest discreetly make believe to talk busily about the weather seated on the ground in knots 80 as to allow their sister to i'm prove her time with the young man, and wa- tering place fashion, make hay while the sun I shines. The alternate listening of the pretty maidens and renewal of their buzzing chatter, when observed by the lovers to be evesdrop- ping, are charming, and something quite new. There is no definite interest or color of scene and locality to give character to the drama as in "Pinafore," though the scenery of the ssc- ond act which takes place amid the pictur- ssque arches of 8 ruined abbey, is very fne The whole is written in the pure, vigorous, fresh and unstagy Saxon English which is Mir. Iilbert's strongest and most enduring hold on he admiration of critical auditors, and no ioubt large element of his remarkable and 1arFn auanf T1nTu1ar suaoaar