Morning journal and courier., 1881-02-22
Entertainments.


 This evening Professor D. Cady Eaton will deliver the fourth of the Series of lectures to mechanics in. North Sheffield Hall. His sub- ject will be t.The Laocoon, :" and the lecture will be one of the most interesting of the course The doors open at 7:S0 and the lec- ture will commence promptly at 8 o'clock.
 .--.sz.s'4Y sCoTT-sIDDoNs.
 E The three delightful theatrical entertain ments that Mrs. Scott-Siddons and company are sure to present at Peck's Grand Opera House next Friday and Saturday evenings and Saturday afternoon cannot fail to draw out generous patronage. The sale of seats for all the performances opens this morning at Loomis'
 PIANO AaAGIoALs.
 Mir. E. A. Parsons will delight those who visit the Atheneum this evening with his eel ebrated Piano Magicals." This is the third in the series of MT. Parsons entertainments, and those who attended the. previous ones will need no word of commendation to in- duce them to attend again. The admission with reserved seat is only 50 cents.
 AMHERST GLEE CLUB.
 This evening the Amherst Glee club will delight the citizens of New Haven by grand concert at Peck's Grand Opera House. The club has received high praise wherever it has appeared. Much interest is manifested in the concert, both on account of the excellent reputation of the club and through genuine interest in it. The concert will no doubt be iberal1y patronized, and from our exchanges we are safe in saying that it will be an enter tainment of more than ordinary merit ROSE AND HARRY WATKINS.
 This afternoon and evening Rose and Harry Watkins, supported by frst-class company, will appear at the New Haven Opera House. The play at the matinee this afternoon will be Kathleen Mavourneen," and this evening it will be ''Trodden Down. or. Under Two Flags" Both are excellent Irish dramas and will no doubt draw crowd ed houses. Reserved seats are only 75 cents. Tickets for the matinee are 50 cents for adults and 25 cents for children. This being Wash ington's birthday large houses may be antici- pated at both performances.
 HAyER1Y's MINISTRIES.
 Haverly's minstrels who appear at Peck's Grand Opera House tomorrow evening, have been meeting with immense success in all places they have visited. In Boston recent ly, at the Howard, the troupe was greeted with one of the largest audiences that ever filled that theater. The Ad0ertiser says: ''1t was with difficulty that even standing room could be obtained after the rise of the cur tain. The company on this occasion fully sustained the high reputation which it has obtained in times past, all the old attractions being presented besides several absolute novelties. Billy Kersands, James Bland Bob Mack and his educated chicken, the Bo- hee Brothers, and score of other genuine colored performers, kept the audience in al most continuous laughter. The same pro- gramme will be continued during the week" THE YOUNG BRAZILIAN vIoLINIsT.
 Maurieio Dengremont made his first ap- pearance before New Haven audience last evening. Though but child in years, he is a man in musical attainments, and yet does not excite that painful feeling so often rous- ed in an audience when youthful and undue precocity is exhibited. One scarcely thinks of him in the light of prodigy who is to be admired, yet pitied, witha1. We think only of the handsome little f, How before and his soul-touching music which is the natural and spontaneous outcome of an intensely mus ica1 nature, and not the fruit of forced and unnatural growth. Dengremont began at the age of six to study the violin under his fathers instruction, but now studies during portion of the year at Paris with Leonard, and spends the remainder in giving concerts. His playing belongs to the Belgic school of Sphor, Kreutzer, etc., and not, as incorrect ly stated by New York papers, to the French school Young Mauricio has a repertoire of 45 pieces which he plays from memory Last night he made his first ap- pearance in De Beriot's Seventh Concerto, which he played beautifully Before he had gone through ten bars the audience was en- tirely won over, and was so still that pin dropped might have been heard; and it re- mained so during the entire concerto. Den gremont's lowing is free, his tones are won derfully pure and rich, and clear as bell. Not scratched" or slovenly note was heard through the whole concerto It was eXquls- itely rendered, and the slow movement was given with wonderful pathos and expression. He was called twice before the house, but re- fused to give an encore. Whatever may be his future developments, there can be no doubt of it that Dengremont n0ao is a musical phenomenon, considered in the light of his youthfulness. The potpourri of Spanish airs that he next played hardly called for as much of the artist as the concerto. However, it was very sweetly played and won for the youthful performer four recalls, and he was finally obliged to appease the house with ''Romanza of Sworis, " a charming compost tion and charmingly played. At his last appearance he played Leonard's Souvenir de Haydn,-a series of variations on the well known Austrian national hymn. This was superbly rendered and especially ifa1 fbo of ha yvh the violin gives the melody in sustained legato style with a staccato accompaniment. When young Mauricio finished, scene occurred which is seldom witnessed. Although the concert was over, nearly all of the audience remained in their seats sounding forth stormy applause until he appeared again and again, finally giving them to understand, by appearing without his violin, that he wished to play no more. Not only is his technique splendid, but his conception and rendering of the music is surprising. His playing is char acterized by poetic warmth and refined briliancy; the soft passages are rendered with delicate touch until the notes fade away to the very shadow, of 8 sound, 'and yet asmanly vigor is by no means lacking. It is to be hoped that youth of so much promise will not disappoint our expectations by future de- velopments. Dengremont's support was above the average Hubert de Blanc, though mak- ing no pretensions, is really neat and fin ished pianist-a first class artist. De Blanc gave as an encore Ascher's 'fLa Source" Miss Trafford did not do herself justice. hav ing cold. Instead of ''The Wood Nymph's Call" she sang canzonet of Salvador Rosa's Mia Piccireila.'' If possible, let none miss the matinee this afternoon. Don't fail to be there if you wish to see and hear @ youthful genius of high order.
 Temperance.
 At the temperance meeting at English Hall | last evening MT. Bailey, MT. John c. Collins l and Alexander Troup spoke, and dozen or more signed the pledge This evening at 7 l