The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-04-18
The Performance of the Char
lotte Thompson Party.
Coming attractions at Har-
pers Theatre.
General gleanings Of News concerning
Celebrities.

in two different plays. At the matinee,
Jane Eyre was produced. with Miss
| Thomnson in the title roll, and in the
evening, the trashy play of "a Plant
ers Wife" was given for the first time in
this CITY. 1t is to be hoped that Satur-
dav NIGHT witnessed its initial and last pro-
duction in Rock Island, for as play, it is
devoid of merit in plot, situations and as a
literary production. No one character is
well defined, or true to nature, and the at
TEMPTED comical portion borders on the
burlesoue to such an extent as to be totally
out of place
Miss Thompson and her support struggled
with the characters they were expected to
impersonate, and by their superior acting
prevented the piece from being flat, in
sin;d failure Both the afternoon and
evening entertainments were well attended,
and during the performance of Jone Eyre,
the applause was frequent and well-de-
served. In the evening very few exhi-
billions of popular approval were accorded
the star or her support. This was due TO
the fact that very few opportunities were
presented for really fine acting. Such as
existed was made the best Of.
WIDOW BEDoTT.
Haverleys Widow Bedott Combination,
will present the play of that name at Har-
per's Theatre next Wednesday evening.
The sale of seats for this entertainment
commenced this morning at Marshall's Drug
Store Charles B. Bishop assumes the
character of the laxative widow, who is in
search of second husband. The comedy
is good andiwholesome, and those who en-
Joy good laugh, should make arrange
ments to hear the Widow" next Wednes-
day.
The New York Herald in noting the per-
Torrance of the company says:
BISHOP as the Widow Bedot, at Haver-
ley's Fourteenth Street Theatre, has made
one of the hits of the dramatic season.
OPERA.
On next Friday evening the Strakosch
Hess opera company will present at Har-
The cast includes Ostava Torriani, Laura
Shermer, Abbie Darlington, Sara Burton,
Emma Prissy, Arthur Byron, Hugh Talbot,
Hayden Tilla, Gottschalk, Hall, Conley, Ar
thur and Allen. At Davenport Curmen
will be presented and on the following
night Faust will be produced Each opera
will be given with full chorus. Sale of seats
commenced next Wednesday at Marshall 5
drug store.
FOOTLIGHT NOTES.
Robert Ferguson has Joined the Florence
Herbert party.
Adah Gray and company are playing in
ST. Louis.
MY Geraldine" party play at Quincy this
evening.
Lolita is now playing 'Heartease, which
she abandoned few years ago.
Grants trip around the world" is now
| done up in a panorama
| The Hassenwinkle combination is boldly
playing Hazel Kirk and "a Celebrated
Case" throughout the northwest.
1t is announced that Miss Davenport will
produce her new play. 1.-THE Princess of
Bagdad," in Boston Monday. evening.
The scenery that McVicker is preparing
for Zone Hundred Wives" is said to eclipse
anything of the kind ever seen in Chicago.
A Leadville paper stated that we'll
known actress who visited that city went
to saloon after the performance, played
poker, got drunk, licked the bartender, and
| cleaned out the crowd. Of course she was
very indignant and was going to cowhide
/ = o aIi tha LIST ay-
planned to her that it was a first-class puff
that would get her an opening in good So
| ciety in Leadville. And then she thanked
him and gave him a dozen passes. 1t
| takes a little while to understood Western
| ideas of success.
Maidenly modesty is suggested as one of
the causes lettering Anna Dickinson from
/ appearing ar Claude Melnotte. The lady
might have compromised on Boomers.
| Mr. Sims Reeves, the famous English
tenor, is taking leave of the English public
in an extremely deliberate manner. He
| babe farewell to it in ballads in series of
| concerts, and he was to sing for the last
| time at the Philharmonic concerts on March
| "a This month he will commence his
| farewell performance in oratorios, and will
have associated with him many of the most
distinguished vocalists of the day, including
Mime. ~Albanl, Mime. Christine Nilsson,
probably Mime. Adelina Patti and certainly
Mr.. Santley. His farewell performances
are almos as numerous as those which the
late Ole Bull gave in this country, but he
does not announce each one as positively
his last appearance.
! The critical London Telegraph has these
pleasant words of praise for an American
singer in noting a recent performance of
Sullivan's Martyr of Antioch: CAS- Mgr-
gp'Sta Mrs Osgood gave us no occasion to
| regret the absence of Nine. Albani, who
created the part, SO earnestly did she
enter into the spirit of the character as well
as of the music. Her rendering of the
martyrs estate death-song should especi-
ally be commended by its intensity and the
fervor of its aspiration. 1t not only realiz
ed the composers idea, but justified the
bold treatment which leaves the voice
alone, as.i were, in the empyrean, while
the accompaniment swells and surges
far below. Mrs. Osgood was warmly ap-
plauded, but received not one whit of honor
more than her due"
The San Francisco minstreals sof New
York will visit the west for the first time
in many years the comming summer.