The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1888-04-26
Sfaunton Dramatic and operate Club
la ClsarIOf feSVille.

SfauntOn Dramatic and operate Club
in Charlottesville.
Wednesday night Of last week, the
Staunton Dramatic and Operate Club
rendered with great success to crowded
and delighted house, the opera Chimes
of Normandy" in the Levy Opera House
at Charlottesville
The train bearing the opera troupe. the
Stonewall Band. and many of the friends
and admirers of the organizations, left the
G. & O. depot Wednesday afternoon at
o clock and after a delightful run of
two hours, which included a delay of
twenty five minutes at Waynesboro, pulled
up at the University crossing, where the
band left the train to march through the
streets. In their new bright scarlet uni
forms, they made splendid appearance,
and the excellence of the music, for which
the band is noted, stirred old Charlottes-
vile as has not been done for many a day.
The reporter of the VIRGINIAN leaving
the train to pass on its way to the Chars
lotteSvile depot, spent an hour or more on
All the boys to be seen were enjoying
the sport of lawn tennis, which in large
measure seems to have taken the place of
base ball. The place seemed very quiet,
and there hung around it that sleepy.
drowsy atmosphere always to be found
about such places, And yet there came to
us memory of the grand history of this
great seat of learning, and we seemed to
tread upon sacred soil as we wandered
over the places where those men once trod,
who have since filed the world with their
fame, and given to this noble institution
a reputation second to none in all our land.
We found that the Staunton and
Augusta county boys had given our Staun-
ton club a god name, and the students
were prepared to give them a good house.
We expected. therefore, to see well filled
house, but were not little surprised to
see the great overflow Of people who
crowded the Levy Opera House, and filed
it TO its utmost capacity before the rising
Of the curtain for the first act. Every seat
in the house was occupied, and the stand.
ing room packed. 1t was evident from
the first to those who had seen the club at
at home, that all of it's members had
caught new inspiration from the splendid
house they had before them, composed as
it was of the most highly cultivated and
appreciative people of the town and the
| University. The large audience gave eyi-
dence of their appreciation of the play and
the actors. by long and continued bursts
of applause, and the encores were contin-
uous throughout the entire play. Staun.
tonians present felt proud of the splendid
exhibition given by their people. 1t was
grand occasion and grand success. Prof
Eisenberg, as musical director, assisted by
his pupil. Miss Mabel Tinsley, rendered
the musical parts with perfect skill ani
accuracy. Those who have witnessed thu
parts of the principal characters of The
cast on the boards of our Opera House
will remember them with unboundet
pleasure, but in the Levy Opera House a
Charlottesville, these parts were rendered
with increased attractiveness, force an(
beauty, under an inspiration born of tn,
occasion. Where all was so molly don,
there is no room to particularize. Staun
ton may well feel proud Of the talent O
the members of its Dramatic and Operate
Club.