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Show Exit Adams, McCullough and I Tract. Our play-goers will regret the departure of the excellent trio of; dramatic performers who made their final Low la.- niut, and who to-day t take their departure from among us. , They have amust-d an I cuiertaintd us highly. They have given us tragedy, comedy and sensation, and in all things , they have manifested genuine Ubnt of the highest order. The house has j rarely been crowded, but the business i has been good, considering tho counter coun-ter attractions and the excessively hot weather. Of Shakespeare's grand tragedies, four have been vouschsafed us Macbeth, Mac-beth, Othello, Hamlet and Richard III. Of the former we have before tiken occasion to speak; concerning the latter we must say a final word. Two Richards were in the field last night, and the innovation was a pleasing pleas-ing and attractive one. Mr. Adams was capital. From the opening speech where he denounces with such cutting and effective sarcasm the cessation of war and the reign of peace under the good King Henry, through all tho acts of treachery, cunning and deceit, the murders, the wooing, the assumption of religious fervor, the battle and the death, his powers never weakened, his energy never flagged. He was ever the same remorseless villain, forgetful of pledges profusely made, and instantly in-stantly resolving upon the destruction of every obstacle to tho gratification of his all-controlling ambition. It was well to call Mr. McCullough to the part, during the 4th act, in order or-der to allow Mr. Adams some respite from the labor of the tragedy, with I the mercury up in the nineties. It! give Mr. Adams added power for the closing act, tho hurry and bustle of Bosworth field, the final combat, between be-tween Richard and Richmond, when, for one or both of them, the time had come. It is not too much to say that Mr. Adams's Richard is a wonderful creation, or that in this difficult part he has few if any peers on tho American Amer-ican stage. Mr. McCullough gave with excellent excel-lent effect his small fragment of the cruel king, and made tho audienco desire de-sire a good deal ot that sort of thing if perfectly agreeable to Mac. Such a wish could not ba gratified, however, as it became necessary for him to don the habiliments of Richmond and do the agreeable to his former self, tho cruel king, whom he managed to slay in the heat of excitement, of which act he has not as yet manifested the slightest slight-est symptoms of repentance. Miss Tracy did nobly as Lady Ann; was sufficiently suf-ficiently indignant when first met by the designing Richard on the occasion of the funeral excursion, and not too yielding after beiug argued with by the calculating murderer of her husband. She was wooed and won after moderate resistance. No cards and no nonsense. Her performance was well sustained and vigorous, and her voice seemed much stronger than usual. The character was elegantly dressed, as indeed wero all the parts. We are here reminded to say that tho drosses of Miss Tracy havo boen uniformly elogant and tasteful, taste-ful, and that Messrs.. Adams and McCullough Mc-Cullough havo apparently exhibited most of the good cbthes in their possession pos-session during this brief engagement. Miss Adams as tho Queen was excellent. ex-cellent. She showed her best powers pow-ers in the strong speech : "Well, then, let's welcome blood and mossa- o.-q 1 Yield all our throats to the fell tlffor's rnfte. And die lamenting one another's wrongs." And now our noblo trio are up and away. Edwin proceeds to tho sea-side, to Long Branch and Shrews-berry Shrews-berry Beach, there to eat the sprightly 1 bivalve and quaff ocean breezes and temperance beverages under his own vine and peach tree. Mrs. Adams, his over faithful and accomplished wife, accompanies him. Westward the other stars, like that of Empire, take their way; Mac, to tha accumulation of added wealth all regardless of the faot that he possesses a palace at Santa Olara, aud owns the most of the Bank of California on tha boards of his own theatre in San Francisco. Tho fair Helen, fairer by far than she of Troy, to her home in Elko, there to gain health and vigor for her second season at Wallack's tho leading theatre the-atre of the continent, Peaoe bo to them, and blessings and honor I |