National Republican., 1882-12-13
rnEArnns ANp Acrons.

Miss Mather will this evening play tho
titular character in Leah" The complete
success of Miss Mathcrns Juliet, and her more
than ample justification of all the papers of
other cities have said about her, give value to
the statement that this effort has been highly
praised elsewhere. The audience of last
evening was large as well MS very enthusiastic.
Miss Mather made has an unqualified success
here.
The bill at the National theater has been
changed for this evening. Mr.. jefferson and
his company will play Coleman's comedy,
"The Poor Gentleman"
Barry and Fay, in their new piece illus
trative of life among the Irish In America,
are booked at Ford's for next week. The
piece is entitled Irish Aristocracy."
Concerning his son, who is member of the
Mather company, the tragedian Salvini says
to an interviewer: "It has been stated that
was directly opposed to my sons going upon
the stage, but this was not correct. l shall be
glad to see him follow the profession, pro-
vided that he gives promise to become,
after due study, an artist. III see
that he possesses the qualities out Of
which a great actor can be made, | shall
do all in my power to school him. The
boy may do well; l hope he will. Some peo-
pie tell me he speaks English splendidly I;
others tell me he will never be able to master
the language. l am glad that he is with
American instead of English actors. The
Americans have more fire; more genius than
the English. All, if ! find that he possesses
the power, l shall take his instruction In my
own hands, and If ! succeed in giving the
Americans great actor, shall be delighted
l hear that they are receiving him very
kindly, and | feel deeply grateful for it,"
The first orchestral concert, under the di-
recton of Prof. Bernays, will be given at Lin
coin hall tonight. The orchestra will be
composed Of forty-five picked musicians from
this city and Baltimore, and the programme
has been carefully selected, SO as to please
both the cultivated and popular taste This
effort on the part of Prof. Bernays to popu-
larize orchestral music is one that merits en-
couragement and will no doubt receive it.
The Washington correspondent of the Cleve-
land Leader tells the following good stories of
two wel-knOwn actors Ned Thorne the
actor is playing here with Nat Goodwin in
The Black Flag and his presence has called
up some pleasant "reminiscences of his past at
the capital. One was told me to-day which |
have not yet seen in print. Ned was living at
Chicago some years ago when the Owl club
was in its infancy. One day his wife
paid visit to New York, and as she
left him at the depot she told him to
be good boy. She said she would pray
for him that night Ned replied: We'll,
if you do, hope you will pray that l get
Owl club to play poker After the train
pulled out he carried out his resolution, and
contrary to his usual luck he won right along
After playing all the night with good cards
he looked at the hand dealt him, and eX-
claimed as he made large bet My little
woman is at it sure enough. He had the
four jacks and took the pile. He says he be-
lieves now in the efficacy of prayer. Some
years ago Thorne was not as popular as he
is now, and he and his brother Charley some
times got completely broke when on q starring
tour. Once continued his friend, they were
out ofmoneyat Des Moines, Iowa, and tried to
get away from their hotel without paying their
bill. They threw their valises out of the win
dow and walked out of the front door of the
hotel as though they owned it. They went
to the back and looked for their carpet-sacks,
but they looked in vain. At last they hap
pened to glance upward and saw them hang
ing in among the telegraph wires, which ran
in a line of twenty strands story below their
very window. They returned to the hotel
and made breast of the matter to the land
lord, who had previously refused to let them
out with their baggage while their billwas
unpaid. The joke pleased him SO that he let
them CO." ''
A New York correspondent asserts as SOL
emnly as if she were announcing the death of
her favorite grandmother that Patti "wears
no undershirt when she sings in 'Traviata.'
The world will be great deal more contented
now that it has this knowledge, but it is inn
portant to know the why's and wherefores
Her costumes" says this sagacious chroni-
cler, "fit like a glove from the shoulders to the
hips, and are almost as close thence down to
the feet. She has quite enough filling all by
herself, and is a good deal more expressive
than if bundled in numerous skirts. Very
neatly fitting underwear is necessary for
gowns SO nodded to the form. A chemise
with too large a band or with the fullness
gathered to a small band would be ruin to the
bodice" 1t is well to have these matters def
nitely understood
Lewis Morrison and shis wife, Rose Wood
have baby girl. Last Monday week the little
one was so seriously sick that its life was de-
SPARED of. But its father had to leave for the
west that afternoon to join Salvini, and the
mother was at her post to support Joe JefIer-
son in Brooklyn that night. 1t was ques-
tion of a seasons engagement which they
could not afford to trile with. Happily, the
child improved. The bos'un in Midshipman
Easy argued duty before decency" In the
profession duty before devotion is a more
frequent and honorable rule.
The JetDish Messenger adds its remonstrances
to those of the other religious journals to the
proposed production in this city of the Pas
sion Play" 1t says: "There is positively no
demand, as there is no necessity for the pre-
sentation; and the exhibitor may do positive
injury, in a way probably not imagined, with
out adding any treasure to his Golfers. If,
despite the objections of the press and the
better portion of the public, he insists on pro-
ducing the play, the best form of rebuke will
be for all people to refrain from patronising
him."
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