Morning journal and courier., 1885-01-06
THE KINDERGARDEN.


 cycle. Professor Livesey and Miss Gil more will do some wonderful fancy skating The floor will be cleared about 9 o'clock.
 THE KINDERGARDEN.
 ''The Kindergarten" was given at the New Haven Opera House last evening. Int play amused the audience, aud some of the Hebrew limitations by Mir Stanley Macy were very good. Also MT. Bruenning as the "Widow's Mite" made very comical ap pearance. The play will be repeated this evening. The proceeds are for the benefit ot the Norwalk hatters
 THE sTeBDARD LECTURES.
 The popular lecturer, John L. Stoddard will introduce entirely new course of lee lures at Carlls Opera House on Thursday evening by the lecture on "Versailles an6 Marie Antoniette." MT. Stoddard has beer meeting with unabated success in the large cities this season. The present course o1 lectures far surpasses anything he has giver before. Course tickets are selling very rapid ly at Loomis'.
 NEW HAVEN OPERA HOUSE.
 The appearance of Barlow & Wilson's mammoth minstrels at this house has beer postponed until next Tuesday, 18th, an offer cO0iA oSCCPtC1 OJ GIlciI JC appear the current week at the Walnut Street Theater, Philadelphia, where they are playing to the capacity of the house. Manager Wall has secured the latest great New York success now playing at Wallack's Theater. The drama is called "Victor Durand," and is by an American author, Guy Carleton, one of the brightest journal ists of the country, whose name bids fair to
  day. The production of the drama will oc- cur January 29, 30 and 31,
 BUNNELLs MUSEUM:
 Bunnells Museum still continues to attract the people. This weeks show contains a number Qf very pleasing features and can be set down as among the best Manager Bunnell has provided for his patrons. The attrac- tions of the museum that are the especial pets of the ladies are the two Ii tie Italian lnidgets, Baron Littlefnger and Count Rose bud. These dininutive gentlemen are great curiosities and very attractive in manner. Their stage fencing needs to be seen to be appreciated. It is a very amusing perfor- nance The Burmese band is a strong at traction. The Hewett Musetts give a fair performance, some of the specialties being excellent. The dancing of Lottie Sinclair brought out deserved applause and the audi ence were fairly convulsed by the ''Comical Cawthornes'' in their funny sayings and songs.
 AMERICAN HEATER.
 Standing room only was the rule at the American last evening when the Leonzo Brothers combination appeared with their acting dogs in ''The Planters Child" The rH1axy ia r1ada of ct a,I tableaux, lit up here and there with flashes of comedy, and admits of much display in the stage setting, which was very fine last evening. Vic Leonzo as the darkey with songs and dances; Harry Leonzo in his battles with the dogs Lion and Tiger, and Miss Maggie Ferris as the planters child shared the honors of the evening and were very effective in their several parts. The acting of the dogs was very fine, and should be seen by all who ad- mire the highest development of cannine in telligence. "The Planters Child'; will be presented again this evening, and tomorrow afternoon and evening "The Dog Spy" taking its place on Thursday evening and ] turing the rest of the week.
 MADAME RESTORE AS "oUEEN ELIZABETH" English history may furnish more romantic characters than Elizabeth, but she has no stronger character. We may admire the Salor of Alfred, we may scorn John, we may wonder at the high-handed supremacy of Henry VIII and may be bewildered at the ,oolness and determination of the hero of Naseby, who put precedent at naught, turned pack the hands on the dial of government rom kingdom to an absolute autocracy tyled ''commonwealth;" but we will pause Il wonder and admiration longest on that hapter in her island story headed ''The Virgin Queen" and will recognize the many distinct individualities in her person which worked together in her reign of forty-fve ears to fulfill the promise placed in her mouth at her accession by Lord Tennyson, when she said: If our person be secured from traitors stabs, ve will make England great Hers was a complex nature. You recognize at glance seeming incongruitivs of character which produced marvellous results She was porn great. Entering upon her queenship as he came to womanhood with her realm torn " religious struggles within and threatened y Spanish invaders from without, it de l handed all the strong traits in her nature to | her own and quiet the dissensons l t home and present a formidable appear |
 
 cred faultss She was firm, naughty, ambi- l ious, Jealous in government, proud, avari- l ious, fond of praise, greedy for wit in her | ourt as a woman. As we have said hers vas complex character; we recognize her | trongly marked nature and these reasons | ender her a difficult person to inn 8 hard character to dramatize | was in the impersonation of this role that 1 lme. Adelaide Ristori made her appearance l I this city last evening at Carlls Opera | Iouse, and it will never be forgotten by l hose who witnessed it. Long since critics | ave lain aside their pens and bestowed | pon her the crown of "Queen of the l rue that time has left traces of his ! ight with her and that she may l )r this reason be somewhat less | eautiful; it may be true that she has some | oreign accent in her adopted English, but l e do not take these to be blemishes or aults. They do not render her the less 'onderful actress. Her gestures are natural 8. Her command of expression ] feature and look tells us, even before CT voice, the thoughts and feelings she is of when in the second act she ac- epts Philip of Spain's declaration of 'ar, and declares her will to ear her illustrious fathers sword against l the Armada" How triumphantly, how randy, how queenlike she waves it over her objects and swears by and on it We then elieve her to be queen, not acting one: nd 50 until that last scene, when death and le unrequited love of the Earl of Essex aim her, we believe in a reality, not play. IT. Edmund Tearle as Robert, Earl of Essex, | as her leading support. He seemed etter suited for the climax lan for the intermediate steps, | Id the applause that greeted him on his it at close of the fifth scene was hearty and ncere. The parts of Cecil, Lord Burleigh," Id "James VI" were most satisfactorily lstained by Nessrs. L. Grissel and Ivan nrley respectively. Mrs. Augusta Foster ftLady Sarah Howard" and Miss Kate linton as Margaret Lamburn" are orthy of mention. No notice would be mplete without mention of the remarkably egant costumes of Mime. Ristori; in this, as deed in each particular, she has studied and litated her historic character to dot.