New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-05-22

digcStS OF this sort. lnFN are very uh'Inl-a9
readers who know the old Biographa Dramatica"
and the "TheSpian Dictionary can testify.
Western newspaper, revewinga performance Of
Hamlet says: Hamlet must have been n IT,
markable man not TO have gone mad in the midst of
such characters as his amess mother the inspd and
discOrlant Ophelid. and the noiSyily empty LdGtes
as they were presented on this stage We confess 10
our secret satisfaction AT the poisoning of the
Queen, who, in rougng her checks, got donbie
dose on the end of her nose. and experienced
malicious iov in the uuskilful staLLirg of L0erfcs
who deserved death If for no other reason than Tor
his unaccented lamentations over the demise OF
horse-hddlc sister. whose departure should have
been To- him source of JOY. hc graN"-dlGgtr dld
we'll not only in his professional work. hut IN erect
tually buryng the addressed OphChG. We never
attended funeral with more pleasure.
Mr.. Riccs Evangeline Company will appear at
the Grand Opera House tomorrow night i'll his bur
lcSque of Longfellow's porm-thc text rewritten by
J. j. McNally. 1t is not possible To approve Of the
taste which could subject subject 50 beautiful to
the cheap and common treatment of bad barbecue.
Reflections Of this kind, however are 40 totally ont
of harmony with the average feelings Of the present
time that anything like ,trcnuou, oljcciion, To the
proceedings of Mr. Rice would. perhaps. be out of
place. Nevertheless il may not hc ami>s To remind
the learned Mr.. McNally and the contrntcd Mr..
Rice that there are n few persons cNtant 10 whom
the travcStc of Mr. Longfellow poem i, outrageous
and abOminallc-ouc reason hcing that t,'- manner
OF II Is destitute 81 a'hN, We P'nsi'i' ,n'f'I.
Im,,b ~ thi tT,rL and tn tLirL if admirable: and
To them accoriinuly. We commit the appreciation
OF tins JOY ,NI. llo'l I4H VII, li'r,i' NH jII'F
f, nav tt II,nh .,tif,j !Tl t.iiiJ Il The >.at,'
Thc London correspondent of The Eo.f'p HrGM
writes thu, of Nh MrCuiiou-h fist app, aian'c in
that city: The bic event of tine board Tie rr,'-
cnt week has lcen rour Nj john Nr(u.luueli- ap-
,,oliuce NJ I.r,.l, Lam. Theatre This .-.t. house
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OF a century. Int u,yeI .aw au aHl.'cc civ, i'~ Il
MP to sr'h rami,~.Iu,n~ ri 81" .'>in' I''u W.
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thc nov. ~tr King. q. Nl,t ullou.h va-,,irily uo,
playing hi, hc>t sri, "n' Of I'd" l.ir' II 3nG NOES
II, on, Oh t.r 49,, ~,
Mt lrNihS' III 40 unG i'''' ms 'pP''' ',f '.".''
or M upon the i'H'i'"'> u'"'''.' ,"". '-'' '''
Booth SO long ago emrI"Ncd I'D the I'aIN N''',
scene. where tGssio i ST upon 10y E"i'r1i' ana
stcalthly wounded by Idf"; and Ih' L'Rd'" i"''''
much impressed 10y the novelty 81 THIS rr"crrilhI'
commendS II a. "snCulaTlv happy ~ 'h' i"iI"NlhS
strain: II Is IN the last scene oi the i"ir'h a'
narrow. dimly-lIVhtcd street, mace ""iN'' H't ny
the tall houses that close II IN on ei'hrI 'd' H"'
cr;G0 lies dead upon the ground. and fGssi0 wounded
,a ol,,o ,,.;.l bis dcodli.st foe s. the scene j.
n''u t,io w. - r i,l tb. t,,o The nigit
NJ iII'l,"i ~ ,', -. 80 4. T,n L.nJs
!, I'd, n, anu "a ,, ,l tbnn,L, lash, across
nlIli ny H." ;,i ,l tt,L, I misc. In. syy,,-d
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