Morning journal and courier., 1885-12-01
Entertainments.

NEW HAVEN OPERA HOUSE. The learned authorities who have written hundreds of pages on the reasoning power of the brute creation would have gained not little information had they been present at the New Haven Opera House last evening, when Prof. Bristol's equine school interested I eud;r S.ir own peculiar manner. nance, eacn 1nd1v1dua1 pIayeu ms Psrs wis.. l 8 proficiency which would put soma of his 1 human rivals to shame. No lines were for 1 gotten, the costumes were not inappropriate, 1 the prompter was called but infrequently into requisition, and each actor seemed to realize 1 from the pleasure they seemed to take in the applause bestowed were in this respect sim l liar to their human brethren.
 The entertainment commences with the opening of school, Ruth ringing the bell During the session the following are some of the things done:
 Denver helps the professor off with his coat. Mattie brings the mail. One stands on three legs, another on his knees, one lies down to sleep, the other goes fishing Mat tie brings writing paper and tells month, day and hour. Lotta brings either specie or currency from closed money drawer. Mattie distinguishes colors and catches ball in wonderful manner.
 Lotta runs, trots or jumps at the word of command. Eagle teeters Matte and Minnie across a one-haf inch oval iron rod He also turns on the end of the plank which is five feet from the floor and thirty inches wide. Next comes the military drill, during which they fall in, march and countermarch, come into line right or left, wheel right or left oblique, guide right and through a mum. Der of intricate movements. Ruth unties knots, answers questions, puts both ears forward, either backward or forward at command of the audience, and kicks in a singularly threatening manner with either or both feet. A mule trade concludes the entertainment. A crowded house was present last evening and it is not unlikely that everyone will avail himself of an oppor- tunity to see the show sometime during the week. There are matinees Wednesday and Saturday.
 BUNNELLs MUSEUM
 Miss Louise Pomeroy, supported by a good company, made her first appear ance at the museum yesterday afternoon in GAS You Like It." Miss Pomeroy is an actress of much ability and proves herself to be an accom- plished tragic and emotional actress Her acting was well received by the large audi ence. In the evening another large audience appears in ''East Lynne" and this evening in 'sAs You Like It.
 EsTELLE CLAYTON. l
 4hAAoo beauty, will appear at Carll's Opera House 1 on Friday and Saturday evenings of this l week in her original play, ''Favette, the Story of Waif." The New York Tribune l says: Miss Clayton has wide reputation as a beautiful woman, and her beauty success | fully stands the various tests which may be l imagined in the passage through all the stages from bare-footed waif to the gor- geously dressed bride of an English Earl
 AMERICAN THHATER.
 The large audience that attended the American Theater last evening witnessed an array of variety talent presented we'll bal anced programme of specialties, some of the features being especially fine, notably the is really wonder, even in these lays of marvellous things. With one leg and } crutch he executed a variety of precise and even steps that would put to shame many a man with bis complement of legs. Then, ss though this was not enough, he mounted a pedestal, and. without his crutch. did some louble tips and shuf1es that brought down ! he house. Miss Sells contortien act, Shee- ian and Coyne's Irish sketch and their fun y after piece were other features of spec ally good performance.
 CARLLs OPERA HOUSE.
 This and tomorrow evenings Roland Iced, the comedian, will appear at this ouse in "sCheek" and ssHumbug" Mir. 1 leed appears in 'sCheek" this evening and Humbug' tomorrow evening. The 'hicago Inter-Ocean says: MT. Roland seed is a most interesting comedian, not aerely because he is successful with class characters that appeal to 8 sense of the g lirthful in playgoers, but because he reveals ] ualities that will one day find their best ex- ression in honorable lines of genteel comedy. we are to preserve upon our stage the rder of plays with which the name of oseph Jefferson is so nobly identified, and ! . hich have no other exponent in these days, r must be by the rise from the lower to the | etter condition of our young and ambitious ,nedians, and it happens that MT. Reed is le only one of those young fun-makers who in the direct way of preferment q