Morning journal and courier., 1881-01-31
Entertainments.

| ton Ideal Opera company at CarlPs Opera House on next Wednesday evening cannot fail to draw 8 crowded house. Whitney and other New Haven favorites are of the cast. and splendid performance is assured. Se- cure your seats at Loomis' in advance. aRAYs' DRAMATIC ASSOCIATION.
 On next Wednesday evening the Grays' Dramatic association will give one of their popular entertainments at Peck's Grand Op- era House. The programme will be varied one and will no doubt delight the large audienc which will surely be in attendance. Reserved seats should be secured at Peck Sperry's mu- | sic store.
 | ART STUDIES.
 Bartlett's art studies in painting and stat uary, with the Yale Glee club and Yale or chestra, will be the attraction at Peck's Grand Opera House on next Thursday and Friday evenings. It will be fine entertain ment. and will no doubt be literally patron ized. Reserved seats may be obtained at Loomis'.
 GRAND BENEFIT ENTERTAINMENT Reserved seats for the entertainment in | behalf of the United Workers and Board of Charities will be sold at Loomis' this morning at 8 o'clock. No more attractive programme l has been offered the community for years, | and we are confident that our citizens will be eager to attend. Secure good seats by early application.
 UNCLE ToM's CABIN.
 The ever popular drama "Uncle Toms Cabin" will be presented at the New Haven Opera House on tomorrow and Wednesday evenings with 8 matinee on Wednesday af- ternoon at o'clock. It is Jay RiaIs con- pany, which is one of the best in this play that has ever appeared in this city Re- served seats are on sale at Loomis'
 voYAGERs IN SOUTHERN SEAS
 The beautiful spectacular drama, written by Jules Verne and D'Ennery, "voyagers in Southern Seas, or the Children of Capt. Grant, has been secured by MT. Near for the New Haven Opera House for next Friday and Saturday evenings and Saturday after noon. It will be produced by the original Boston Theatre company, Eugene Simpkins supervising. The cast includes the star Mile. Bonfanti, the premiere danseuse and Mile. Ernestine Bossi and the grand selected ballet of fifty. The company consists of sixty peo- pie, and two cars are required to transport
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 HAZEL KIRKE
 Oflate years so many plays have been writ l ten by authors of inferior merit, willing to l stoop to any trickery in order to gain success. that until recently it was popularly supposed l that no play could ever hope to run for any l length of time unless it abounded in coarse l and indecent allusions, vulgar jokes and sem sational scenes, whether of the sentimental or | blood and thunder" kind. But Steele Mac | kaye's drama of Hazel Kirke has dispelled | this allusion, proving that the public can and | will recognize and support true merit. So | well known is this play that criticism upon it at this late hour is hardly necessary Suffice | it to say, Hazel Kirke is thoroughly moral in tone, little sensational possibly, but not extravagantly so, having wonderful hold over the sympathies of an audience, being calculated to excite it's interest to high de- gree, and absorb it's attention from beginning to end play like this cannot fail to leave an audience the better for witnessing it, and every theater-goer should devoutly pray that 1t may be the forerunner of many of the same and constantly improving character As brought out by the Madison Square Thea ter company at the New Haven Opera House last Saturday afternoon and evening Hazel Kirke scored an instant success. The audi snce at both representations was excellent in every respect. In the evening the house was i, literally crowded The acting throughout the 'ntire cast was fine. Mir. Couldock as Kirke he old miller was matchless. So well did Mr. Averling assume the character of Rod ,ey that the moment he appeared on the i, tage the universal feeling of the audience vas, Here is great and noble hearted man. D 6r. Ferguson as Pittacus Green kept the rouse in shouts of laughter. With the ex- eption of slight tendency to overact Miss t 2. Ellsler and Mir. Levick, in the characters \ f Hazel Kirke and Lord Travers, were all . hat could be desired. In the case of the ormer this tendency to fall into the so-called heatrical style was well exemplified in the VI cene where she bids farewell to the "old ls ome" ere throwing herself in the mill :, tream. As whole the play is certainly emarkable success, and Mir. Mackaye de- e srves the thanks of the public for his good il 'ork. o