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Show ! "Maum Cre." j The above is the title of the new 'drama produced by Mr. Jos. Mur-jphy Mur-jphy at the Theatre to-night, fur the Times speaking of this play says: It is of fche heroic romantic sort; full of narrow escapes and startling incidents. The scene of the prologue is laid in Ireland. Owen Donnelly (Mr. Murphy), is driven from the "Old Sod" by royalist persecution, and seeks refuge iu America. On shipboard he begins his ail ventures; quells a mutiny, eaves $7o,000 belonging be-longing to a Frenchman, and ends the act with one of the best and most exciting tableaux wc havp ever witnessed. wit-nessed. He lands in America, knocks a couple of emigrant runners off' the deck, seeks for work, finds it in a quarry, but the ship fever onertakes him and he is taken to the hospital. Beecmmg convalescent, starts again into the world, but hunger and weak ness overtake him aud ho falls into the street to die. He overhears plot-Ling plot-Ling against a friend he mid in Ire-! land, and is soon found by the same party and taken to his home . Uwcu applies at an intelligence , office for work, nieets the old Frcucli-,iuau Frcucli-,iuau whose treasure he saved from I piratical avarice, and his fortune bo comes a:surcd. Mr. Murphy showed himself i Runerior actor in his live Irish disguises. Hi5 face during the ship fever was most deceptively made up, and his intonation simulated the prostration of his apparent rcoiidition. He carries an handful of Irish earth in his pocket and subsequently contemplates con-templates it during his .misery as a 'relic of his home. He sings agreeably agree-ably Ecvcrul songs "Maggie Macrce," ,a most beautiful Irish ballad, well suited to Mr. Murphy's voice, and "Maum Cre" during his illness, is cleverly given in vocal accordance with physical weakness. Tho ercat and original gambling scene is finely constructed. Mr. Murphy brought down the house as a Fourth Ward politician, and the final tableau of 'Tut Me Out," will long be remembered remem-bered as one of the finest pieces of character acting ever given to our city,' |