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Lent is over, and with it hs ) about the dullest theatrical season Tne Jupce or any other amusement seeker has ever experienced. Nearly every theatre in town h a now play for and it wi most enterprising and captious critic se’ nights to write them all up—or down. Barnum is still with us—more’s the pity, and there is no let up to Italian opera. Just at present it 1s Mapleson with Patti, but there is some consolation in the fact that s provided take the eral few representations. The circus, notwithstanding the attraction of the alleged white elephant, is not nearly as good as it has frequently been on former {| occasions, and the three rings and a stage are | voted a nuisance by most spectators. The ladies that attend the matinees return home with sick headaches, occasioned by their futile efforts to see four things at once, and the wretched little children become dis- | tracted and cross. We sympathize with our Philadelphia cousins, who come next on Bar- num’s list, and whose tortures are to be aug- mented by the presence of Forepaugh and a second edition of the sacred beast. Cincinnati is to be congratulated, for with all its troubles, it has never been afflicted with two circusses at one and the same time. At Daly’s there has been nochange.‘ Red Letter Nights” is still drawing crowded houses, and Jenny O’June will continue her rollicking performances till the end of the e” also remains at the Bijou, but | “The Merry V has ceased its extraordi- | nary run at The Casino, ‘ Falka” will doubtless prove as great a success here as it | has done in Philadelphia and London, Cazauran’s new play has been produced at the Square, and Jessop and Gill’s dram «Stolen Money,” is said to be a success at the New Park, but we cannot yet speak advisedly of either of these plays, or of Betsy,” which was brought out at Wal- lack’s Monday eve Harrigan and Hart got in their new comedy, called ‘‘ Dan’s Tribulations,” one week ahead of the other theatres, and of | course this last production is as great a suc- cess as any of its predecessors have been. Nevertheless, we are sorry to bid adieu to || Cordelia, whose Aspirations have been pro- || vocative of mirth and laughter through all | the weary winter months. Harrigan has so much tact and talent that we verily believe he might continue the Mulli- gan series forever and still keep up a lively in- terest in the affairs and fortunes of the family, | and as long as Mrs, | services of the irrepre | she need never say die. sible Rebecca Allup, piece and vibrates with agili son Tommy. the gallant Colonel’s season is limited to a} Mulligan retains the Mr. Hart fills a double bill in the new i between the part of Rebecca and that of Mr. Mulligan’s Mrs. Yeamans is the same enterprising | Cordelia, and Dan—well, Dan has our sym- pathy in'all his ribulations, whether on or | off the stage. Long life to him, and to the jolly Theatre Comique! t the Fourteenth Street Theatre, vements of Paris” will be played through | the week, and on the 2Ist Milton Nobles | | will appear in a new comedy called “Love and Law.” | Even Irving has felt called upon to make | a change of bill, and on Monday he appeared, for the first time in New York as Hamlet. He and Miss ‘Terry have been drawing full houses in “ Much Ado about Nothing,” and as Beatrice the fair Ellen has fairly bewitched the town. Mrs. Henderson’s Japtation of ‘Claire and the Forge Master” met with a certain | | amount of success at the Fifth Avenue last | | week. This week Harrison and Gourlay are holding forth there in ‘Skipped by the Light of the Moon.” “May Blossom; or, Between ‘Two Loves” | has been produc the Madison and ‘ Orpheus and Eurydice” have moved from The Peoples over to the Third Avenue | Theatre. On the 28th Mrs, Langtry will appear at Niblo's as Galatea, and has engaged Rather: ine Rogers to play Cynisca. When this play of Gilbert’s was first pro- duced at Wal h many years ago, Kather- ine Rogers was the Galatea, and remarkably well she played the part. Mrs. Langtry had better look to her laurels, or Cynisca will prove to be the star part. Over at the Grand Opera House ‘The Silver King” has returned for one week, and at the New Comedy Theatre Leonard Grover has produced what he calls a comedy conceit, called ‘‘ A Great Scheme; or, “Our Dime Museum.” April 17th will be Actor’s Fund day and there will be special performances at all the | theatres. | Literary Notes. The Hoosier Schoolmaster is sweet on In- diana, Still Le Roi S’Amuse at the expense of Les Miserables. The Fair Maid of Perth has broken The Heart of Midlothian. The Bride of Abydos read The Scarlet Letter by The Light of Asia. Buck’ Fanshawe’s Funeral has been post- poned to wait the conclusion of Z'he Minis- ter’s Wooing. Wilhelm Meister was drowned while search- ing for I'he Great Haggerty Diamond at the bottom of St. Ronan’s Well. J The Deerslayer came to grief when he tackled T'he Golden Lion of Grandpere in the main street of The Deserted Village. The Ancient Mariner has married The Lady of the Lake, The ceremony was per- formed at Orley Farm by The Vicar of Wakefield. Their Wedding Journey will be { Salt and Fresh-water Cruise. Mack A YouNG Pennsylvanian, who had gone West to grow up with the country, applied for the office of pig-sticker at one ot the Chicago slaughter house In answer to some questions which the boss asked him } about his wherefrom and belongin, he mentioned with something of an air that his father had served a term in the Penn- sylvania Legislature. | of hogs, “we don’t much obj ct to that if “Oh,” said the man | VERY SIMPLE. KET MAN— Here! Sfare, there's a hole in it that's been filled up with lead. we can't take thin ten conta for Passe: mought aisily puneh the lead out agin ER—Ac that's all the matther wed it, yere Intercepted Letters. ANDREW MARTIN VAN BUREN MULD TO AUGUSTUS GOSSMAR, MY DEAH PRIEN, AND SON-IN-LAW.—Yer letter ‘bout Phronie am recebed and I write dese few lines to “form yer, dat I shipped her off fur ole Carliny moas as soon as I got der news ob yer wantin’ her han in marriage. ‘Take her, Gustus, wid a fader’s blessin’, an in de language ob de scripter may de Lor hab mercy on yer soul. Phronie am aware been a good gal, anshe ain’t no moah like her muddah dan I is, an dat’s sayin a heap in her favor, for dat ornery trash dat once called herself bone ob my bone an flesh ob my flesh, am gone off wid dat snake in wolf’s clothin’ dat dey called Brud- dah White. I tanks my heabenly fadder, dat I’se had de necessary grace gibben me to bear dis disolution ob probidence wid christian resignation. Now all I axes is to get back hum to de ole plantation, and I rays allde time, dat when Gabriel blows bis horn de fust toot will strike my ear in ole Carliny, Kole black Rose am also tookin her leavins, an jess as soon as I gits my fust monf’s wages, wid de help ob de Lor, I'll shake de dust ob de norf from my black feet, and make tracks for New Guinea. V’se glad, Gustus, yer had sense enuff to stay war yer belonged. Dar’s more lyin’ and tievin’ niggahs in New York dan yer oud fine in all de States sou? of Macy and Dixey’s line. Peahs to me, dar ain’t no spectable cullud pussuns up yer, an ebber since dat murderin trash dat calls hisself Jesse Williams got his sentence from de Jedge, de whole cullud population am looked upon wid contoomly an opprobium. I war in court wen dat sentence war pro- nounced, and de only ting I war sorry for, bekase de jedge didn’ gib him eighty-one years instead ob cightcen. Den dat Joafzome gal dat call herself Gertrude Ash! Sho! I ain’t got de patience ter waste spellin’ words about her. I’'se dun made up my mine dat wen I returns to the bosom ob what is leff ob my family, dat I'll jess take out a contrack fur a lecterin tower. My powers ob obserwation has been immense since I cum Norf, and I doan doubt de folkses ob my natib State would be glad to heah me discant unto em. Wid dat objeck in voo; I’se been in de habit LY, NEW YORK, NEW GUINEA, N.C you have never been there yourself; but what was the old man sent up for?” ob takin a stroll ebenins aroun among de | slums, as it ware. comicbooks.com