Morning journal and courier., 1881-10-21
Entertainments.

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 Entertatnments.
 WIDOW BEDoTT.
 The Neil Burgess Widow Bedott company
 appear in this city next Thursday, Friday and
 Saturday evenings.
 | . AMERICAN THEATER. The American Theatericontinues to draw I large audiences nightly This weeks bill is
 good one, and those who enjoy frst-class | variety entertainment should make visit to
 this popular place of amusement. HAvERLY's MAsToDoNs The simple announcement that Haverly's ! original European mastodon minstrels will | appear at Peck's Grand Opera House next | Thursday evening is a sufficient guarantee of | at Loomis' music store.
 THE CRIMSON OPERA COMPANY. The Grayson Opera company come to this city well recommended. This combination
 was the first to produce ''The Mascot'' with it's proper costuming and original music l Friday evening and Saturday matinee 'sThe Mascot" will be presented, and on Saturday evening the new opera Patience" The com pany deserves large audiences.
 .- THE o'GRADYs.
 On Friday and Saturday evenings of next week MT. and Mrs Herbert O'Grady will ap- pear at the New Haven Opera House sup
 ported by native National Irish Combina-
 tion," when they will present the great mod ern drama ''The Eviction" The play. is
 highly recommended by Charles Stewart Par nell, Patrick Eagan, Michael Davitt and 1 others. A grand matinee will be given on Saturday afternoon.
 THE HOWE CONCERT.
 The concert to be given at the Atheneum
 next Tuesday promises to be grand success. Several of our distinguished citizens have an-
 nounced their intention to be present Such well known artists as MT. Charles T. Howe, 1 fiutist Miss Fannie c. Howe, soprano Mir
 B. A. Parsons, pianists, and the celebrated New York Philharmonic club will present programme of unusual excellence, and the | concert cannot fail to be an enjoyable one.
 The box office opens this morning at
 Loomis' Temple of Music for the sale of tick cts.
 THE cARRENo CONCERT. The concert at the New Haven Opera House last evening called out a fair sized au- | dience. Madame Carreno is without doubt
 the foremost of lady pianists Her playing
 is superb, and if she does not rank with Won | Bulow and Rubenstein she comes closely af-
 ter them. Her selections last evening were
 the 'Grand Fantasie'' Oiszt), ''The Harmo
 nious Blacksmith (HandeD, "Springtime
 Waltz" (Carreno), and Liszt's arrangement
 of Paganini's ''La Campanella' The last | named piece, one of the most difficult ever
 written for the piano, was superbly rendered
 and the artist was heartily encored, to which
 she responded by giving Gottschalk's 'tPas-
 quinade." The rest of the company do not
 deserve special mention. Signor Ferranti | sang well, but the audience did not seem to | be over pleased with him. Madame. .Carreno
 Is always welcome to this city. Better SUD-
 ported she would draw large audience. PATIENCE
 1.-The capacity of CarlIs Opera House was l well tested last evening, when Gilbert and 1 Sullivan's new opera Patience was presented,
 the largest audience of the season being pres- l ent. The productions of Messrs Gilbert and Sullivan have been so excellent heretofore
 having been almost worn out with popular
 ity, that the simple announcement of a new work by them creates furore only satisfied
 by 8 witnessing of its presentation. In this new work the artists may be said to have scored another triumph. The opera depends upon and will receive it's success, however, more from the dialogue portion than from the music The latter is of somewhat high CT grade than that in their other works and there are but few numbers in the score that are bright and lively and taking with the popular ear. The ibretto is an ingenious and remarkably clever work and sur passes all others in genuine wit and satire. The audience last evening appreciated this fact, and were kept in a constant state of glggle bordering on laugh, and. perhaps, overlooked inferior portions of the opera on that account. The music at times was poor ly rendered, both fundamentally and vocally, there being lack of life and expression. The orcnestras rendering was, perhaps, aesthetic, and in keeping with the sense of the libretto. A little more of the American life and snap in place of the slow English method would improve it. The voice of Mir. Harry Pepper was very harsh at times. and 1t IS fair to infer that he was suffering from 1 bad cold. MT. J. B. Mason, who was in good voice, sang we'll and received the first encore Carly in the opera. But little enthusiasm was aroused throughout, the | duo between Mir. G. W. Wilson as Buntborne and MT, J. S. Haworth as Grosvenor receiv- ing the greatest amount of attention, being | repeated several times. Mr. Wilson's concen ton of the role of a 'EFleshy Poet' was just | about the height of ''festheticism," and | from an 'testhetic' point of view was all that | could be desired, in fact it was, in the words | of the author, 'Hquite too all-but" Mir. Ha worth also rendered the character of the ''Idyllic Poet"very clevefly, doing the asthetic business in the most approved style. Miss Sadie MartiEot, long popular in this city, gracefully rendered her part as one of the ''rapturous maidens,' but seemed to enjoy the opportunity of skipping of the stage in a lively manner, and in fact when she has an opportunity to be little more lively and less rapturous it pleases as well and is quite be- coming. Praise is due to Miss Emily Pearl and Mrs. Anna Granger Dow, who did. well, and the company as whole is an excellent one. A good chorus and handsome costumes added much to the attractiveness of the per- formance. Patience will never gain the pop nlarity of Pinafore the Pirates or severaI others that might be mentioned, there being 3 little too much of the aesthetic business in it to stand many repetitions. It is announced that the company will again appear in this city, at the same house, on Monday, Eovem- Der '. The Railroads.
 The Norwalk Gasette says that the line for } new railroad now being located by the Van lerbilt surveyors will make 8 good and safe road, and one which can be run at great kI.,rr da |