Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1880-11-13

AmusemenIs.
The Fay Templeton troupe played
here to moderately good houses.
Their genius is burlesque, and we
are inclined to think that they
would be more successful if they
would play pieces avowedly and in
tentionally burlesque in character.
Certainly they were more happy in
their rendering of Chou-fieuri, which
is written expressly as burlesque,
than in either Mariana or The
Chimes, for which they have not
sufficient vocal force. Fay Temple
ton is a froclicsome fay, who made
wild havoc with the fancy of young
GAINESVILLE, while in a quieter style
Miss Alice Vane gained approba-
ton both IS actress and singer.
The Agnes Wallace Villa COM
pany are to play here two nights
next week. The entertainments for
Wednesday, the 18th, are a drama
entitled "After Years. and a bur-
lesque Cinderella. On Thursday,
the 18th, we are to have ga Daugh-
ter of the State" and BrOugham's
capital burlesqne of Pocahontas. AS
we have never seen this company,
we give the opinion of an eastern
journal:
We cannot recall the time when
we have undertaken TO "write up"
an evenings amusement with more
genuine pleasure than we feel in
speaking of the Wallace-Villa COM
bination and their appearance in
the Academy Of Music last evening.
One reason for this is that there is
no occasion to attempt anything
critical, and another is that what
ever we may say of them that is
good cannot be misapplied, for the
whole performance was first-class,
and in many respects meritorious to
a superior degree. That pretty So
cial drama, tAfter Years." was
played with that indefinable nicely
which gives reality to fiction and is
the essence and acme of stage art.
Agnes Wallace, patient in endur-
ance of the greatest wrong a woman
can experience, and grandly trium-
plant in the victory and vindica-
tiOn of the supreme moment when
she has the enemy under her foot,
was Helen Malvern indeed, and
gave truly fine, sympathetic and
Womanly representation of the char
acter. Her support by Miss Sabre
DeShon, Little Lucie Villa, and the
rest of the company, was entirely
adequate, and the play was in every
respect cOnspicuOuSly easy in move
ment. The change to the roaring
burlesque of Sam Villa in "Cinde-
rella" was rather sudden on the dis
phrague, but afforded relief from
the tension of "After Years" Sans
"ClOrinda" was immense in the full
length and breadth of that very de-
scriptive word. The audience rOared |
and roared and insisted on more of |
Sam till it looked one spell as tho |
he would have the rest of the even !
ing to himself. His makeup was
beyond description, his
the ideal of burlesque, and |
his acting, well-gO and see. Little
Lucie Villa was a delicate and |
Cinderella, and the Fairy |
Queen gave nice example of child |
acting. All the support was excel
lent, and it will be long time be-
fore we have an equally funny bur-
lesque, unless, indeed, we have it .
Osl0egO Palladium.
And now on the 22d and 23d John
will be on hand. John
is one of the most successful of those
who make fun for the sovereigns.
He never misses it, but always gets
a unanimous vote in his favor. If
he had run for representative of
Montgomery county, Rufus Rhodes
could not have beaten him.
Then on the Goth and 9th we are
to have Janauschek once more. We
would urge on all our people who
have the intellect to appreciate art
Of the highest order, that they owe
it to themselves and to the cause of
art to patTOnIZe entertainments OF
high class when they are brought
here. Our public amusements are
what the public makes
them, and if people neglect high. art
and patronize vulgar buffoonery,
then buffoonery will come for our
and art will hold aloof. The
moral and the religious ought to
patronize the better class of enter
if it were only for the
sake of keeping out those which are
vulgar and licentiOus. If we want
moral and intellectual entertain
ments there must be moral and in
tellnctnal natronnpa.