The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-01-10
AmuRoments.
DIVORCE.


Manager James Wallack, who brought to Otts
va the 1.-TWO Dromio" troupe In December last
will BIZ here again ON Thursday evening next, Jar
IS, when he will bring out August inc Days ia
NOUS New York society play, divorce"
Wallack has now a partially new company, hay
ing only six of the members of the Dromlo
party; but WallacK assures us he still retain
Owen Fawcett, the strongest man in his lat
company and has other good talent Fawccs
plays, in Divorce" 7emp}eton Jill, the lawyer
the funny part of the play; and we think Tho
drama will be very well brought out
Wallack is making new start and although
having with him a larger company than the late
one, he has concluded to reduce the scale OF
prices to insure full houses. The admission will
ke,--in the circle on lrst floor, 30 cents; par.
auettc, 81 cents; gallery, 80 cents. Reserved
seats will be found at Simon Bros Music Store
for 50 cents after Monday morning.
THE PAST
The Herbert Dramatic Company closed their
engagement in this city on Saturday evening
last with the 1.-TWO Orphans" II any hold the
idea that only Kate Claxton can play Louise, or
her company the 1.-TWO Orphans" this last pre-
sentation vi the play In Ottawa would eiiectu
ally explode the heresy; for the company gave
the piece in an unusually good manner-equa to
the best style ever given in Ottawa. Kate Clax.
ton has chiefly gotten her fame in the part OF
Louis through her marvellous escapes from fire
in Brooklyn aud st. Louis. 1t is not through
extraordinary acting, for Florence Herbert pre-
scented the part on Saturday night fully as well
as Kate Ciaxton has ever presented it here; ex.
cept, perhaps, in ClaxtOns marvellous facility Of
making her eyes eXpressionless, in which she
cannot be eEcelled. Florence Herbert certainly
presents Louise in very powerful manner while
Marion Bent makes La FrOcltdrn as terrible u
woman a. Louise is an abused one. Gotten made
. capital P,c1Id and we have never seen JdcYues
Frochad better played here than by Guptill. Ce-
ell Cotton was not the ideal Henrietta and did not
make as much Of the part as there is in 1t, her
acting lacking depth and force. WentwOrths |
Gseyat.r was done with good taste and was very
C%editable to him, while Herbert as Pierre was
very good. The other parts were well done and
the play, given without balk Of any kind, was
a fitting close to successful week and merlted
the largest house OF the week. which We can say
it received The party leave here with the best
OF feeling toward our people and promise to
come again, which we hope they will do, know
ing they are bound to succeed again.
MiNsTRELsY.
WHAT'S claimed to be the Original Georgia "
MINISTRIES appeared on Tuesday night They had
large house. The only thing abon, the show
worthy OF notice Is their left handed fiddler who
leads fair orchestra and street band. The en-
tertanment was a wretched affair. The singing
was miserable in the extreme, the Jokes were
stale in the prehistoric age, and the plays" and
t'grand finale hattcr than stale dish water. Bill.
was the best thing Of the eyening-not rcmarka-
BILE in itself but good by comparison. We hope
the "Originals" will spare US in the future-an-
other dose would depopulate the burg
NOTES
A Mendoza band Of amateurs are rehcaring
'Jack Cadc."
Mrs. Scguin is reported sick at st. Paul, Of
congestion OF the lungs.
Edwin Booth is reported in bad health-suffer-
ing from pulmonary trouble.
All should observe the place and get reserved
seats at Simon Bros. Music Store instead OF at
Glorer's. }
The play Of divorce" on Thursday night, Jan.
Is, will be finely played and Ottawa people should
give them full house in order to encourage and
sustain low admission prices. I
The scenic artists OF McVickcrs are working {
on models from the setting Of "L'Assomoir," at
,he Paris Ambigu to be used in Drink which
will receive its first presentation in Chicago on
the 10Th.
Lolita, the actress, was witness in a st. Louis
lawsuit. what is your agey she was asked
People might not believe me If | told" she re.
piled, "for some say am forty.nve" That was
,he only answer she would make.
The opera season for 1880 begins in Chicago
On Monday next, Mapleson's "IIer Majcsty's OBJ. q
era Co" singing at llavcrly's. The programme +
or tae week is Martha "Wallerla), La Sonambu- r
a" Marimon as iD,jnd; LINDA di Chamoun" v
Vallcrla); 'La Ftglia del Rcggimento," Mari I
non'as N0,fd Aida" (Ambre), Faust" Val +
eria AS Maygheita; Saturday matinee, Marimon;
Sunday night USth) Rossini's "Stabat Mater"
Prices, So, 500, So, 81 and 80 cents
The PIRATES Of PenzaRce," Gilbert and Sulli. u
gan's latest, produced in New York last week, d
will be a 'go' and big one" says the Dramatic
News The text is said to be overwhelmingly fun C
ny and the plot more elaborate and interesting t
than of pin" The Woria says: 'The piece is /
dramatic elaboration Of a "Bab" ballad "A mer- +,
~ satire on the common foiblcs OF humanity an
Of common place sentiment to re- \
iculous sentmentalty and the reduction of the
principle Of duty to absurdty, Compared with V
Pinafore' it is infinitely superior in plot, Ian.
suage and humor, while unsteady there can be t
no comparison, the airs and choruscs of last C
years. success being unworthy Of critical atten- II
ton, while the music Sullivan has written for f
Pirates OF Penzance' might have been written
Tor grand opera"