Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1881-02-22
THE CHANFRAUS.

The Chanfrau Company, whose engagement
here was announced in our issue of last week,
occupied the Opera House on Thursday and
Friday nights and supplemented 1t by Matt
nee on Friday afternoon. There is but one
opinion expressed by the large audiences. who
greeted them at each performance and that is
one OF enthusiastic commendation.
Staunton was treated to emotional acting
such as only finished artists like Mr.. and Mrs.
Chanfrau can successfully depict. If there are
any differences among those. who filled the
spacious auditorium as to the merits of the
performances, 1t is simply as to which of these
was the most intensely realistic and finished.
Mrs. Chanfrau as Jane Eyre was superb. Mr..
Chanfrau as "Kit' was at at his best and gave
the conscientious and careful effort to his task
that he would have done before the footl1ghts
at Wallack's or any metropolitan assembly.
The support was all that could be desired
The central figures in the combination are
above the timidity of envy and are not afraid
to enlist fine ability in their support, and Mr..
Tayleure has selected the best.
We lack space for further comment. but suf-
flee it to say, that this company will always be
welc ,me to Staurton. Mr.. Tayleure showed
managerial nerve in bringing a large and ex-
pensive organization to an untried field, but he
seemed abundantly satisfied with the result
He spoke fatteringly of the appreciative and
exalted bearing of his house. and promises us
another theatrical treat when the appropriate
season returns,
"GooD- NIGHT, SwEErHEART."-Andthe rea-
son they loved each other so, was that he had
just brought her the February number OF the
SOUTHERN MUSICAL JOURNAL, of Savannah,
Ga. Their eyes had grown dim and their
breaths mingled, as he read to her Holmes
sweet "Opening of the Piano." She had gotten
hint worth having, and.information, too, in
"Who was Robin Adair?" "Bellini and Pasta"
had held them like short love story, and she
had played few bars of the "Marseillaise,"
and as he read aloud its origin, and followed
with the Haydn's Creation" incident. Then
their own romance was SO new and tender,
that they sat very close, as she read "Charlotte
Cushman's Romance" A little ashamed now,
they laughed over "Bill Arp" to get over it,
and. instructed by Jean Paul's article on 1.-THE
Language of the Heart" she began to play the
new music Of this number, "The Lost Chord, y
and sang it too. Then she dashed into the
brilliant "Elly Waltz and turned back to the
January number for the new Bernhard Shot
tische," and "The Angel and the Child" Then
she played "COme back to the Old Home
Again." in the same number, and he said he
,oould. That's how they parted SO at the door.
Send a cent stamp to the Publishers, Ludden
Bates for specimen copy of the JOURNAL,
and you may likewise enjoy it.
MARRIED.-Last Wednesday, at 81 o'clock.
p. M, by Rev. DR.. Stricken, at the residence.
the brides mother, in this village, Mr.. Thomas
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Waynesboro'.
Miss Katie Hanger; Mr.. s. NJ. Donald and Miss
Nina Stout; Mr.. G. A. Shirley and Miss Bette
Gallagher; Mr.. P. G. Kennedy and Miss Pattie
Hanger; Mr.. Claude Fry and Miss Jennie
Hanger; Mr.. J. A. Turk and Miss Kate Cush-
ing Mr.. George R. Hanger and Miss Fannie
Gentry; and Mr.. N. H. Hanger and Mrs. Hol-
man. The presents were useful, ornamental
and valuable.
Soon after the marriage the company present
were invited to partake of a most excellent
feast prepared for the occasion.
The guests enjoyed themselves with music,
song. and pleasant conversation, until the ar
rival of No. Express. upon which the happy
couple embarked for Richmond, where they
will be the guests of the. BRIDES uncle, A. G.
Robertson, Esq.
We wish them long life. prosperity, and hap
piness.-South Riuer advertiser.
LITTELLs LIVING AGE.-The number OF The
Lifting Age for the weeks ending February 18th
and 18th, respectively. have the following note
worthy articles Jacob van Arteveld, the
Brewer of Ghent Edinburgh; A Glimpse at
Newfoundland, Nineteenth Century; Plutarch,
and the Unconscious Christianity of the First
Two Centuries. Contemporary; Emperor Alex
ander's Reforms, Fraser; The Invincible Ar
mazda. Gentlena,,s Magazine; Story of Queen
Louise of Prussia, Chambers Journal; Frank
auckland. Pail Mall Gazette; Haroun Alras-
child. An Apology for the Snow, and The Storm,
1881, Spectator The Plane Tree, Hardwicke's
Science Gossip; with instalments Of 1.-THE
Freres,' 'Don john" and "Visited on the
Children" and Illouscha, Shadow of Russian
Life. Also the usual amount of poetry.
For ffty-two numbers of sixty-four large
pages each Tor more than $500 pages Year,,
the subscription price (Ss) is low; while for
1880 the publishers offer TO send any one OF
the American 81 monthlies or weekIies with
The Living Age for year, both postpaid. Lit
tell q Co., Boston, are the publishers.
ACCIDENT ON SHENANDOAH VALLEY Rail-
ROAD.-On last Thursday afternoon a passenger
coach of Capt. Smiths train, on the Shenan-
doah Valley railroad, was thrown from the
track and capsized, near Horseshoe curve, g
few miles south of Elkton, Rockingham coun-
ty, formerly known as Conrad's Store. The ac-
cident was caused by the sinking of an en-
bankment. The Car contained but a solitary
passenger, who escaped with severe bruises
| The brakeman, c. ID. Fisher, however, sustain
ed serious and perh fatal injury, one leg be-
| ing badly fractured. The damage to the track
and train was repaired Thursday night, and
trains are now running as usual.
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