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Show Last Night of Katherine Rogers. Editors Herald: The management of the Theatre announce Jthat Miss Uogers closes her engagement on Saturday evening, and from what I learn, elsewhere, 1 believe the lady is advertised to appear ap-pear at Chicago on the Gth proximo, preventing the possibility ot her prolonging pro-longing her stay among us,' should she even desire to remain and gratify her numerous friends. As Miss Roirfirs is " billed" for to morrow, andjbr Friday cveniugs, lam sure that she could not better gratify grati-fy the lovers of the drama than by appearing on Saturday evening in her great character of "Leah." In this play, the gifted actress could not fail to leave with us a remembrance of her talents and her faithful rendition of the Jewish maiden, that would be pleasant to associate with her name and the pictures of the mimic stage Blip hiw sn truthfidlv nor tra veil. In "Leah." thero is the conflict between the better nature of a pure and virtuous maiden and tho traditional tradi-tional teachings of an ancient faith raging within her. Sho feels the calamity cal-amity of being a prescribed Jewess herself proud of her lineage, yet disposed dis-posed and hated by the Christians and hunted by a renegade apostate, thirsting thirst-ing for the blood of his own race, wherever they stood in the way of his personal success or safety. Calumniated Calum-niated and abandoned by the man to whom she wits betrothed, and that abandonment, too, based upon a charge that was so abhorent to her I nature, afforded, her an opportunity lor displaying those strong emotional feelings which the finished artist can render so effectual in carrying away an attentive audience. Leah's anathema, an-athema, rendered by Miss liogcrs, was piercing and withering, and few of her auditors, did not almost realize that they were actualities instead of tlm nrnsilimu nf an mit.linr's brain. The flash of revengeful thought that lound interpretation in the repeatedly quick clutching of the ever ready dagger showed tho fierce warfare raging rag-ing 111 her bosom, and from that curse of hell murder how swiftly she passed to the most tender gentleness, when she learned that the infant of her lo3t lover was also "a Leah." The author triumphed in interpreting the superiority of nature to education, and the actress olotbud the thought with living fire. I have heard frequently tho expressed ex-pressed wish of many of the patrons of the theatre, that Miss Rogers should favor us again with "Leah." Bobbing Ahou |