Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1888-02-07
ADJUSTMENTS.

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day.
Frank @. Bangs will appear at PA
dncah tonight in Lawrence Barrett
great play Francesca da Rimini."
The Al. G. Field Minstrel perform
ance at the Opera House to-nigh
cannot fail to please the most fastid
ious. II Is highly recommended By
the press as being chaste and refined
In every respect, and everyone whC
enjoys good music and lots of fur
should not fail to attend. Street pa
rado will take place at IL 80 A. NJ.
The Eunice Goodrich Company'l
engagement in this city was not q
success financially. With the excep.
ton Of Monday and Saturday nights,
and the matinee, they played only to
fair houses. Two watches were CIV
en- away as previously advertised by
the Company; the one Saturday af-
ternoon being drawn by Miss Maggie
German, of this city, and the one
Saturday night by Joe Buckner, col.
The Company went from here to
Columbia, Tenn.
The probabilities are that when
Miss Mary Andcrson's lease of her
London theatre expires, she will re-
turn TO America, for a tour of the
United States. Her proposed Aus
tralian tour has evidently been
abandoned, but assurances have been
received here that she will appear in
Louisville, at the Masonic Temple
Theatre, for three nights engage
ment, during the month of February
1889.
William Mcfarland, one of the old
est actors in the country, died in st.
Louis Feb. LIST. For flfty-five years
he was on the stage, and he was at
one time recognized as one of the
leading meh in the country. He
supported Macready when the great
Englishman was in this country, and
later the elder Booth, John Adams,
efss-ss>Forrest and all of the oldtim-
clined toward traver -vos..ap. disin-
age.
The Louisville Courier-Journal
says: The engagement of Booth and
Barrett to appear here seems to be
definitely settled, and Mr., James b.
Camp left yesterday for Montgomery,
Ala, TO complete the details with
the actors.
The engagement is for four per-
formances, including a matinee, on
May 10, IL and u. The repertoire
will probably be "Hamlet," "King
Lear" "0thello, and Julius Caesar"
The scale Of prices will be as follows:
General admission, 81; reserved, 50;
season tickets Sc.
Exposition music hall will be used
for the performance, The building
was to have been sold in March, but
Mr.. Camp has gained the consent of
the holders of the bonds to postpon-
ment Of the sale.
MILE RHEA.
Mile Rhea undoubtedly stands at
the head of her profession, her ap.
pearances in the leading cities of Eu-
rope and America have stamped her
as an actress of genius and her COM
ing engagement in this city should be
an event for all lovers of refined
amusement to avail themselves of.
She will be supported by an unusual
ly fine company, and the costumes
will be an important feature of her
engagement. She appears as, "Frou
Frou," Friday evening, "Fairy Fin
gers" at the matinee, and "Camille"
Saturday evening. The Providence
Evening Telegram of Oct, 9th, says
Her Camille is not the convention
al Camille to which most of us were
accustomed before Rhea came to elm
mate from the character those gross
ser features which were offensive TO
the fastidious. The ennoblement of
vice has always offended sound criti-
cal judgment, but in Mile Rhea's Gre
alton vice is purified rather than en-
nobled, and she presents TO the audi
ence a beautiful woman whom a
cruel fate has placed in an unhealthy |
and impure atmosphere, but whose
innate goodness rises to the surface in
spite Of unfavorable conditions, and |
reveals to the audience a nature in
which is contained the sublimity of |
human virture and devotion.
The last act of Mile Rhea's "Ca-
mile" shows the refinement of her
astc, and proves that an actress can
win the sympathies of an audience,
move them to tears, and sway their
emotions by dying in a perfectly nat
iral way, without falling prone upon
he floor in front of chair, or rolling
III lounge in horrible stimulation of
lying agonies. Camille's death is as
luiet and unselfish as her life, the
more affecting because of the absence
If those strained effects which make
uch scenes repulsive. Her death is
| gentle translation from world of
orrow to better and a brighter
phere. Four times was she recalled,
md at the close of the fourth act a
floral tribute to her genius