National Republican., 1880-03-29
Am USBM ENTS.
,rd's opera.IIouse-." Fairfax"

Ford's Opera House" Fairfax"
Abbey's Park Theatre Company will begin
weeks engagement ut Ford's this evening
with Bartlcy CampbelPs great drama, Fair
fax" The dramatic critic of tho New York
Tribune, who Is an authority upon such mat
ter, speaks thus of tho play:
There is a good tone Of actual Life about the
piece, and there are moments of dramat effect
In II deity devised and neatly handled while the
text Is nccked hero aud there with bright lines,
aud while every part Of the work Is suliused with
that earnest sincerity which is so cmlnently char
Gccrslic of its author IL Is splendid baSls-thc
same sincerity ofpurpose steadfast pluck aud frank
Willingness to dash pelmell into dramatic effort
on which to build up the stately structure Of
mind that shall be ripe In knowledge Of the world,
fresh IN invention and clear In is perception und
strong In its exercise Of tho methods IN which to
use n fine and firm artistic faculty. "FairmX' Is
useful play. II was cordially received being
! smoothly acted by The regular stock company Of
the Park Theatre, the chief members of which
were hailed with the kindly welcome that always
| awaits them.
"rhe Pirates of Peuzanco" Is underlined for
| next week.
Theatre Conique.
Excelsior" is evidently tho motto of tho
managers Of WashingtOn's variety theatre par
crcelicnce, for week after week now attractions
crowd its stage. This week there will be
Mr.. Harry Clifford in his great sensational
drama Of Sentenced to Death" together
with the famous Martcll Brothers, Dlks aud
| Wade, Jcn and George Powers, Williams
and Sully, Howard and Coyne the Russells,
Nellie Gelmon, Frank Lewis and the mann
moth stock company besides Tho artists
who appear arc oil stars of the first magn-
| tudc, and an unexceptionable entertainment
may be expected.
Jerome Hopkins Lecture @ onocrts.
Mr.. Jerome Hopkins, tho composer pianist
and organist will give two of his lcciuro.con.
certs in this city this week. The first will be
| given in tie Sunday school rooms of the Met
| Il -
o'clock. The subject will be Tho riano.
| forte Its History, Uses and Abuses" The
| lecture will be illustrated with piano pieces.
| The second lecture .concort, with organ solos,
will be given Wednesday evening at Calvary
Baptist church. the subject chosen being
Some Kinds of Church Music"
National lThcntrc--"rhe Bankers Daughter"
The following is the plot of Bronson How
| ards great success, The Bankers Daughter"
which will DO produced this evening at tic
National Theatre, uuder the auspices Of A. NJ.
| Palmer of tho Union Square Theatre, New
York:
| LtliGn Ucsibrook, q bankers daughter has pet.
| tishly quurrelcd with her lover Udf0ld RouPcdDe,
while She Is ut the same time courted by count.
| She, however. finds her heart in Hdr0!Gs posses.
SION aud is on the point of going after it, aud max
| ing her peace with him, whom her father tells her
OF an oiler of marriage from JohH S,ebc'OiU. aud
| presses its acceptance us the means of saving his
bank aud family and the poor dcpositors from
stipulation that he shall be told shv bring bin
no heart. The banker. ON the verge of ruin breaks
faith with his daughter, cOnccals the truth, makes
thcmHtCh sells the girl receives the price aud saves
| his bank. Harold goes to Rome to study
art and forget his love, and LRiOn becomes n wife
nnd mother, 1t looks like II happy family after all
until the persons OF the anto-nlpllal scenes meet
in Paris and memories OF tho old love force eXpa-
| nations. Harold hears for the first time the cause
OF LiHdn's treatment of him, and rcklmdlGd pas
sion in him meets With virtuous ropuse from her.
| The count, who still follows her, Is promptly on
| hand, takes occasion 10 insult UdTOId, and duel
fatal to the latter Is the result. LHidtl becomes
a prey to remorse for having blasted the
life OF her lover. and finally being tho
cause of his death More explanations como
and SircbclOy learns the true story of his
| own marriage, and Lillian, tortured OH tho
rack OF recent events cannot nt tho moment own
her love for her husband. lie leaves LHioR and the
child as an 0ctO honorable duty since lie believes
his purchased wife has not yet learned to love him,
and she discovers her wicly love and devotion too
late to call him back. The deserted wife returns
| to her father with her child, and mourns her
husband as one dead aud forever lUst to her.
After three years of separation there is another eX.
PLANTATION and reconciliation brought about,
chiefly by tho little girl, who is now ablO TO write
letters 10 her father and mutual oyo for their child
rcunltes the long-estrangcd parents.