Morning journal and courier., 1893-12-19
Entertainments.

eenteQ 'bocc8cc1O' DeIOfo large ana ap- preciative audience last evening. Miss
 Irene Murphy assumed the leading role of Boccsccio with her usual grace and win- someness. Miss Maud Dickson ss Fra mettmo made decided hit. She possesses a pleasing, clear soprano voice of unusual sweetness and compass. Maud Darcy in the role of Isabella was very good. Josie Intropidi as Peronella presented one of the
 best makeups of an old spinster ever seen in this city. Tho two we'll known and pop ular comedians, Arthur Wooley and Will liam Wolff, kept the house in g continuous roar from the rise to the fall of the curtain. MT. Wolff's rendition of the popular song ''Im Not the Only One" evoked vigorous applause. Martin Pache in the tenor role of Pietro is a recent addition to tho company, and Is by far one of the best tenors that has ever "My All" by Carl Bohm, a most difficult and classical aria, was rendered by MT. Pache in a manner which portrayed good method, natural tenor voice and abund- ance of taste and expression. His work during the entire evening was heartily en- oored. Francis Gaillard as Lsonetto as-
 stunned the role with dignity and showed off
 pleasing baritone voice to advantage. The rest of the cast were fair. During the first and third acts some of the most clever and artistic dancing was presented by Miss
 Mae Rose Baker. Miss Baker Is a hand
 some young lady, and her pleasing dances won her a host of admirers. She was forced to respond to many encores. The same company will present
 "The Bohemian Girl" this afternoon and
 ''Falks" this evening" The company is formances to-day. as there has never been time when operas have been presented in this city at popular prices by such an ex- cellent company as tho one Mir. Baker has at the theater to-day. The price this af ternoon Is twenty five cents to all parts of the house, and at the evening performance will be fifty cents to all parts of the house except the gallery.
 Primrose and West, with their brilliant company of merrymakers, are announced for Wednesday evening. A feature will be the exhibition of their skill with the pig skin in the burlesque football game, Ha- yales vs. Hearties. The Yale team is con- posed of the following: Captain Hickory nut, rough tackle; Murphious, fish tackle; Buttetine, hard tackle; McBeer, pretzel tackle; Hickskough, windy tackle; Beard less, rsa or tackle; Green goods, bill tackle; Thornstick, bush tackle; Armweak, ball tackle; Adieu, last tackle. The Harvard players are: Captain Springwater, yard
 back; Brewery, pull back; Neustall, tackle back; Macksroni, hump back; Stevedore, bent back; Manafoot, near back; L. Elm mons, shovel back; Atonite, hat back; Dunslop, slid back; Leivsus, bow back Wrightinbum. mile back. The game will be called at 9:3O p. m.
 Tuesday evening. December s6, Joseph Jefferson will appear in "Rip Van Winkle." Sale of seats opens Thursday.
 GRAND OPERA HOUSE.
 The perennial popularity of Walter Sandford's realistic mslodrsma, "The Power of Gold," was attended last night by large audience aud its enthusiastic re- ception of the play and leading actors. The narrative of the play Is too we'll known | to need reiteration-the substitution of an- other womsn's name and position by an adventures, the incarceration of the hero inc in an asylum, her subsequent escape, restoration to her rights and the punish raent of the evil doers, is familiar theme to all theater-goers In the intensity of its situations, graphic stage pictures. human interest and character delineation, the play has never before been presented to better advantage. The company was evenly balascea and the ensemble as per feet ss it we'll could bs. The characters of Lady Brandon, the adventures, as portrayed by Mary Timberman, was an effective bit of work that commanded ailairation, notwithstanding its forbidding aspect; while Lisle Leigh, charming young actress, gave to Meg Jud- son, the heroine, 8 personality that was extremely pleasing and we'll rounded. A
 bright vein of comedy was judiciously tile Norah, and Edward J. Heron as Sammy Smudge. George Turner made manly Paul Judson, and the vigorous work of George Body as the Malay physician con-
 mended itself for the praiseworthy man. ner in which so difficult task was main-
 tained throughout. The Mark Harley of
 Joseph Ransome was intelligsntly drawn. A performance will be given this evening
 and tomorrow afternoon and evening. Miaco's City Club Burlesque company
 comes Thursday, Friday and Saturday
 evenings this week. There will be the
 usual matinee Saturday.
 PoLI's WONDERLAND.
 A grand program is offered by Manager
 Poli this week, Everything is entirely new
 and every artist on the bill is star in his
 or her line. The Reed family, six in num-
 Der, head the bill. They are clever per
 formers and present an excellent entertain.
 ment, which is replete with good singing,
 witty dialogue and beautiful dancing The
 Whitings, in a new and novel act, intro I
 duce difficult feats on the hoizontal bars,
 leaping, tambling, songs, dances and fun
 ny sayings. Edward Adams, California's l
 peerless burlesque artist, in his refined l
 original novelty burlesque, "Carmencita
 Up to Date" Bennetto and Cannon, in
 their wonderful speciality entitled "Ana-
 tomical Knots and Twists" Bennetto fig
 considered the closest front bending con-
 tsrtionist in the world. Charles Robin |
 son, the extemporansous vocalist, in comic l songs. Richfeld and Diamond, character | comedians. Ed Maritime, the American l Jap. The three Renos, the premier gro- tesques, and McAvoy and Rogers, comedy | sketch artists, in their original produc- 1 ton entitled "Stimulants.n