Saturday Evening Gazette/June 7, 1856/Theatricals
Theatricals.
Business of the Week.
Boston Museum.—June 2, Silver Spoon: Urgent Private Affairs.—3, Black Eyed Susan: First Night: Urgent Private Affairs.—4, (afternoon) Wandering Boys: Muleteer of Toledo. (Evening, Whitman’s Benefit) Nick of the Woods: Urgent Private Affairs.—5, Still Waters Run Deep: Urgent Private Affairs.—6, (Mrs. Skerrett’s Benefit) Paul Pry: Wreck Ashore.—7 (afternoon) First Night: Wreck Ashore: Spectre Bridegroom.
Howard Athenæum.—June 3, (Fiske’s complimentary Benefit) Sweethearts and Wives: Two Buzzards.
National Theatre.—June 2, (C. L. Allen’s Benefit) Ireland as It Is: Hiawatha: Charles II.—3, (Doorkeepers’ Benefit) Grace Darling: Charles II.—4, (Taylor’s Benefit) Bear Hunters: Rafaelle the Reprobate: Evil Eye.—5, (J. Sutton’s Benefit) All that Glitters is not Gold: New York as It Is.
National Theatre.—The performances at this house ceaed on Friday, and we presume the theatre will close till its opening by Mr. Willard next fall. Mr. W. has been in town for some months, and the re-modelling of the house will be immediately commenced. Mr. Henry Wallack is daily expected from England to take charge of the stage, and we are assured that the company will be an excellent one.
The Davenport Benefit.—This affair, which occurs at the Howard on Monday, has been taken hold of by its projectors with a spirit which assures us that it will be worthy the recipient. The demand for tickets has been large, and the Howard will doubtless be filled by an intelligent audience of Mr. D.’s many friends. The female talent which will appear on Monday is of the first quality and quantity, and the entertainment will be excellent. The peformers are Mrs. Barrow, Mrs. John Wood, Mrs. W. H. Smith, Mrs. J. M. Field, Mrs. Hudson Kirby, Miss Charlotte Crampton, Misses Fanny Brown, Allen, and Florence, and Mrs. Marshall. Also Messrs. Proctor, Daly, Wood, Curtis, Roys, C. Stuart, Stephens, Pilgrim, N. T. Davenport, H. W. Finn, C. F. Jones, Green, Brown, George, Taylor, and Adams. Mr. Harrington has the stage direction.
The bill selected is excellent both in quantity and quality. It comprises The Love Chase, with Dapenport as Wildrake, Curtis as Sir William Fondlove, Stuart as Master Waller, Mrs. Barrow as Constance, Mrs. W. H. Smith as the Widow Green, and Lizzie Emmons as Lydia,—The Loan of a Lover, with Mr. and Mrs. Wood,—Faint Heart Never Won Fair Lady, the Duchess and Ruy Gomez sustained by Miss Crampton and Mr. Davenport, and the 5th act of Macbeth, which introduces Proctor, Roys, and Mrs. Kirby. The performances end with a musical and terpsichorean melange, in which Mr. Davenport gives us a touch of his quality as a vocalist. The house is sure to be crowded.
Miss Crampton’s Benefit.—The friends of Miss C. Crampton have taken the Howard for Wednesday evening next, when she will take a farewell benefit, and as very many of our resident artists have volunteered, and a very strong bill will be offered, we have no doubt of the complete success of the affair. Mr. E. L. Davenport has kindly consented to remain in town and appear on the occasion.
Forrest Dramatic Association.—This amateur corps performs “All that Glitters” and “Slasher and Crasher” before their friends on Wednesday next, at their rooms in Howard street.
Engaged for the National.—We hear that Mr. Willard has engaged Messrs. McMillan, (from the South and West,) McDonough, J. B. Howe, and J. H. Robinson, for next season, and that the leading man will come from England.
Debut in New York.—Miss Julia E. Oatley, a native of Philadelphia, made her debut as the Countess, in Love, at the Broadway Theatre on Monday evening. A correspondent who was present at the performance, writes us that she possesses a fine form, handsome and expressive face, and that her positions were good and readings generally well given. The fault of her first performance was that generally noticeable in all debutantes, of not giving force or sufficient modulation to the voice. This, however, can easily be remedied by practice. Miss Oatley possesses the talent and qualifications, which with experience and careful study will render her an ornament to the arduous profession she has choden. Miss Oatley has performed every evening during the past week at the Broadway, appearing as Mariana in “The Wife,” for her benefit.
Theatrical Items.—The Varieties is the name of a new theatre at Norfolk, Va., fitted up at an expense of $35,000, which was opened on Monday last by H. C. Jarrett. Mr. Murdoch plays there next week, and afterwards two weeks with Mrs. Farren. The stock includes S. Murdoch, (stage manager,) J. B. Howe, T. D. Kemble, J. H. Allen, Blake, P. C. Byrne, Wentworth, Proctor; Mrs. Proctor, Mrs. Cappell, Miss Lewis, Virginia Kemble, Miss Salome.—Mr. Wyzeman Marshall has been acting with English at Portland during the past week. At his benefit on Tuesday, a young Greek lady, Miss Alfredeta, born in Athens, but a resident of Boston for many years, and a pupil of Mr. Marshall’s, made her debut in the Greek character of Parthenia. Mr. M. recited the Famine from Hiawatha. He opens at Bath, Me., on Monday.—Mrs. Farren was at the Holiday St., Baltimore, this week.—W. V. Spencer has published the Patrician’s Daughter.—Miss Adelaide Biddles’s position at the Bostom is to be filled next season by Miss Lizzie Emmons.—Buckland opened at Montreal last Monday with the Pyne troupe.—Mr. and Mrs. Barney Williams leave for England immediately.—Mr. and Mrs. Florence return to this country in August. Laura Keene leaves for England, shortly, for attraction. She undoubtedly wishes that she may get it.—Cony and the canines are at Albany. Report speaks highly of the progress which the latter have made in the profession.—J. W. Wallack, Jr., leaves for England next week.—Mr. Murdoch had an apoplectic stroke a few nights since in Chicago.—The Odeon, Williamsburg, has been leased by La Belle Adams.
