Morning journal and courier., 1885-01-30
entertainments.

| The show given at the American Theate1
this week is excellent. There are many good
artists in the company.
| BUNNELL7s MUSEUM.
| Bunnells Museum is crowded every after
noon and evening. The various attractions
are greater than ever. Mile Eta is attract
| ing great deal of attention.
THOMAS CONCERT
| The third concert in the course given by
| New Haven Concert association will occur
Monday evening at Carll's. Theodore Thomas
and his full orchestra and Miss Emily Win
ant, contralto soloist, will appear.
CALLENDER's MINsTRFLs.
! There will be minstrel performance by
| Callender's famous colored MINISTRIES at
Carll's Opera House. The company is large
and contains none but frst-class artists The
| Hyer sisters will appear in new specialties.
VICTOR DURAND.
When this play was first presented at Wal
| lacks Theater, where it is now SO success
FULLY being played, it created sensation
Critics were united in their opinion, and be-
slowed the laurel on the author, H. g. Carrie
| ton. In that audience were many personages
| who had seen plays born, and had encouraged
them by applause or Missed them into their
graves. From New York ''Victor Durand"
went to Boston and last weeks encomiums
are fresh upon the air. With such judg-
ment we will not quarrel. The play is wonder
fully strong and the companyinto whose hands
it has fallen to receive It's exposition is rare
one. On the bill we recognize the names of
actors W hose talents have won place in the
dramatic art. It is seldom that SO powerful
a company is got together. Judge then the
result. Accredited actors make the play
thing of actual occurrence. The audience at
the New Haven Opera House last evening
was an earnest one and before the evening
was over an enthusiastic one. The parts were
SO well taken we may be pardoned if we are
backward in giving any special mention
Yet Mr.. George Clark as "Victor Durand,"
and Miss Sophie Eyre as his wife, were warm
ly applauded Mr.. Max Freeman was excel
lent CDR. Randolph" All are good and we
are favored that we may see them During to-
night and tomorrow and matinee all who
love good playing will find an opportunity to
enjoy here.
sTODDARD LECTURE.
Athens has two-fold history As we
read the one describing wars and devasta-
tons we lose sight of the other, in which
that grandest and most beautiful of all de-
partments of history took its beginning and
developed itself until works of architecture
and sculpture were produced which have ex-
cited the admiration of all succeeding gene
rations. We commenced the ''Tour Through
Europe With Great Sculptors," therefore, at
Athens last evening and Mr.. Stoddard gave
us representations of Athens with its Acropo-
lis, its temples and its statues, but the Par
thenon and Temple of Theseus in their ruin
gave US only glimpse of their former glory
Greek sculpture represents rustic forms in |
their happy phase. Phidias and Praxiteles |
will be renowned for centuries, as the forms
which they carved are handed down from |
generation to generation. From Greece we |
went to France and saw the form of Diana /
and the struggle of LAGOON and his sons |
with the serpents in marble. Then Michael /
Angelo beckoned us to Italy and we looked
upon the face of this great sculptor and saw
the work of his divinely guided chisel |
Nothing can be more ifelike than his statue
OF David as he stands ready to cast the
stones But for Thorwaldsen, the Danish |
sculptor, we have the most intense admira- |
tlon, ana no sculptor surpassed him in repre-
sentlng beauty and grace of form His |
venus Victorious and Poet Byron are worthy |
of great merit, and his representation of Night |
is it seems to US, the most beautiful thing |
that ever was shaped from marble The |
Italian Luceth next gave to us his works
while Canova of Venice enraptured us with
his marble pictures. Last of all we looked
On the face of that poet whom we all admire
70 neutrality-suspicious. in marble.
The subject of the next AMI last lecture is
The Castle Bordered Rhine"