The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-09-04
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CRITERION COMEDY COMPANY.

CRITERION COMEDY COMPANY.
The New York Criterion Comedy Company is
billed for the Opera House for Wednesday and
Thursday of next week--F air Week. This party
was considered last season the finest and most
perfect comedy company in the United States.
The party to-day is the same, with but two ex-
ceptions; said by the Times to be decidedly the
best travelling organization this country has had
since the Wyndham's season, eight years ago"
The company is organized without reference to
the ''star system, they are all stars but with
view to putting plays on the stage with perfec-
ton only acquired by o first-class metropolitan
stock company There is no doubt the manage
ment have succeeded At the close Of q two
weeks engagement beginning Aug 8, at Chica-
20, the Tribune said:
Continued rehearsal has worked great change,
and now the comedy is presented quite as anus.
ingy as ever 1t was presented in this city. Dur
Ing the engagement the audiences have been
large.
Freaks" the play to be presented, Is one Of
the funniest farcical comedies ever written. The
play abounds in laughabe situations, and the in
terest is unilagging throughout. 1t is the story
Of some amusing blunders which arise out OF
mistaken identity, and some Of the popular
freaks of the day are shown in an extremely ri.
ciated. Ii was the company's leading feature
last year, meeting with unqualified favor; and
The Dramatic Necs, Aug. 81, tells US that for 1850
it has been greatly improved by changes in the
text.
Theatre goers may expect treat not often OF,
fered in Ottawa during the visit of this company.
Seats sold at Simon Bros.
sPRAGUE's GgoRGIAs.
The entertainment by Sprague's Georgia MIN
stres WAS "A very poor affair The trouble seems
TO be that the party started oHt before they were
ready, several people being yet due II seems To
have the elements for a pretty good company
when filled up and properly trained
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC NOTES.
The repertoire of Mrs Scott Siddons will com
prise "Komeo and Juliet" "As You Like II,
THE School for Scandal" and two new plays.
Jennie Lind who left the stage in 1860, is still
! hale and hearty. AS Nine Otto. Goldsmith she
| is a worthy looking and somewhat stout lady
with white hair. She will be 50 years old in DC
tober.
The official list OF artists and the repertory Of
the Abbott English Opera Company for the com
| ing season are as follows: Emma Abbott, Julie
Rosewald, and Tnerese Marcy, sopranos; Zelda
Scguin and Pauline Laurel, contraltos; Signol
Brignoli, William Castle, and Frank Augustine
tenors; Lithgow James and A. E. Stoddard, bari
tones; Severe Strini, basso; A. W. Tams, bassC
buffo; and signor Tomas musical director. In
addition TO the regular standard works, THE
Lovers Pilgrimage" THE Merry Wives OF Wind
sor," 1.-The Gem OF Peru" and Carmen" will
be given, the rehearsals Of which are progress
ing daily at Augustin Days Theatre.
The Rive King concert company now forming
ling In New York will comprise the following ar
tists: Mile. Laura Bellini, for three years lead
ing soprano at the La Scala, Milan; Miss Emily
Winant, contralto; Sig. Volonte, baritone; Herr
Ferdinand Richter, the celebrated Russian yio
llinist; Nine. Rive King pIanism; and +. Quick
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