Morning journal and courier., 1886-10-22
Entertain menlS.
 

STORM BEATEN
 At the Grand Opera House this week is well produced by an excellent company and at tracts large houses nightly. The attractions in the curio hall are also we'll worth seeing.
 THE NIKADo.
 At the New Haven Opera House this and tomorrow evenings and to morrow afternoon a company of artists consisting of the best talent in all of John Stetson's Mikado troupe will sing this charming opera, in which Miss Geraldine Ulmar appears as Yum Yum.
 NANCY & co.
 This new and successful comedy drama will be produced at Carll's Opera House this and tomorrow evenings and tomorrow af- terpoon by Arthur Rehan's company. The play achieved a big success in New York and is warmly praised by the critics of that city.
 MIDNIGHT MARRIAGE.
 This romantic drama will be produced at the New Haven Opera House on Monday and Tuesday of next week by Redmuna & Barry s company. An exchange in putting the mer- its of the company in O few words says: Large and appreciative audience. Thrilling climaxes. Affecting ard effective love scenes. Dialogue is spirited, Not a weak spot"
 eARLL's OPERA HOUSE.
 The clever Kindergarten" party, with Stanley Macy, the fat boy, and all the other comical artists, are announced to reappear at Carll's Opera House next Monday evening for an engagement of three nights. The mu- sic and antics of the company are well He- membared. They are very likely to enjoy gratifying returns from this their second visit.
 MAkE REGARDS MoNoLoGUE ENTERTAINMENT
 An entertainment agreeable as it was novel was the one presented last evening at Loomis' Temple of Music. The artist, Mme Ricard-for it WAS almost strictly mono logue entertainment-enjoys national repu- tation, having achieved marked success in the West as well as in New England, the dis trict of her greatest popularity. The pro- gramme presented is made up of yeeitais, none of them of hackneyed selection, and unique impersonatjop, original or borrowed from public characters of note. Mime. Ri card possesses all the qualities necessary for success in the particular line she has chosen. With remarkably powerful voice, which she controls to perfection, almost unlip's. ad capabilities in tba way of mimierv and no little. vqntriloquistie art, s1es stands in the front rank of her P. ..ofession. In her recitals She seens Scqually at home whether power or II,athos is required and were the programme to conclude here it would be an elo- cutionary treat we'll worth the enjoying. In her character impersonations Mime. Ricard's dramatic abilities are set of and rendered more effective by her very accurate costum- ing and her remarkable power of mimicry. In none of them, however, is anything like a caricature attempted, the aim being only a truthful copy of the original; and we might add that there is nowhere to be found any thing otherwise than elevated in tone. Her impersonstion of Gen. Butler is famous and deservedly so, but it was in ''Grandma's Courtship," rather familiar sketch, that the lady was most successful in last evening; this was near perfection as it could well be. If any criticism were to be passed it would be that Mime. Rfcard does not intro duce into her programme more that requires refinement of rendering and less of the "heroic." In the latter she is good, in the former excellent. Interspersed with the regular features of the programme were q series of vocal selections, hardly artistic, but quite acceptable.