Morning journal and courier., 1883-01-19
Entertainments.
LITERARY AND MUsIcA

The Fairbank Mission Circle of Dwight Place church will hold literary and musical entertainment, interspersed with tableaux, at l half past seven Friday evening, January 19. Admission ten cents.
 HELD AT BAY.
 Miss Nellie Germon, supported by strong company, is making decided hit at the | American Theater in her stirring drama il- l illustrative of life on land and sea With a good olio performance preceding the drama | the audience at the American find plenty of amusement to while away few pleasant hours these long winter evenings.
 THE TWO ORPHANS.
 This celebrated play will be presented at Peck's Opera House to morrow afternoon and evening with Pauline Markham as | Louise, " the blind girl, supported by the Fifth Avenue Theatre company. The attrao- | tive manner in which this popular play is promised to be presented will doubtless draw 1 large numbers to witness it. Tickets can be procured at Pease's on Church street. l IoLANTHE.
 This evening and tomorrow afternoon and evening the new comic opera by Gilbert & Sullivan, Iolanthe will be presented at Carlps | Opera H ouse to large audiences by Riee's popular and talented company. Of recent performance in Norwich the Bulletin says :- | Manager Rice more than satisfied the an ticipation of his audience. Of the opera it. | self it is only necessary to say that in the | main the authors have followed the same plan of construction adopted in 'Pinafore, , 'Patience,' and The Pirates,' the cardinal ! absurdity in Iolanthe resulting from the | marriage of 8 fairy with a mortal The mu- sic is in Sullivan's best style. bright catch ing and sparkling" -- EXPOSURES IN sPIRITIsM AND ssEARcH1Ne" | COMMITTEE.
 That the large and intelligent audience who | visited the Atheneum last evening and wit messed the performance of Mir Stuart Cum berland, the thought reader and exposer of | Spiritism. are much wiser regarding the | mysteries of that annoying art, we very much doubt. That they were well enter
 tained and interested their laughter and ap.
 plause abundantly testified. MT. Cum
 berland is gentleman entirely at home with l his art and performs his tricks | in 8 clever and neritorious manner While
 there was nothing of importance that was l new in his demonstrations, they served to ] gratify all who attended and his revelation
 of some of the secrets of spirit rappings was
 particularly interesting. Reading names
 from folded slips of paper, slipping the ring
 on the arm while blindfolded, finding persons
 and articles thought of by placing the sub l ject's hand to the forehead and the cabinet mystery formed the basis of his performance.
 A great part of the success of the entertain
 ment was due to the happy selection of an able |
 following prominent gentlemen: Mayor Lewis,
 ex-Mayor Robertson, Professor Silliman, Professor Blake, Rev. Dr. Todd and Charles l.. Chaplin. Their presence lent dignity and gave unusual character to the entertainment
 and their good. .natured humor of receiving
 the slight practical jokes of Mir. Cumberland created great amusement. The searching
 of each other for the gold watch of ex.
 Mayor Robertson, which mysteriously disap-
 peared while he was being entertained by the
 ssspirits' inside of the cabinet, was Imaginable
 in the extreme, and the final finding of it by
 Rev. Dr. Todd in the coat tail pocket of Mr.
 Chaplin was the occasion for burst of
 laughter and applause. This evening MT.
 Cumberland's demonstrations will prove
 even more interesting, as he will plainly
 show to the audience how several of the ap-
 parently most impossible doings of professed
 spiritualists are easily performed. He will
 also attempt to tell the number of bank
 note which person may think, and though
 it seems incredible he has been successful in
 doing it before. large audience will
 doubtless be present.