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Show Mr. John McCullougli's Engagement. Engage-ment. Last night Mr. John McCullough closed a most successful engagement of two weeks at the thcatro in this city with another crowded house. The weight and variety of the pieces played during the fortnight is unprecedented unpre-cedented here, as will be seen by the following roll: During the first week, Jack Cade, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Ham-let, Money, Richelieu, and Richard III. were played at the evening performances, per-formances, a heavy change every night; and Money was repeated for tho matinee. During the second week, The Gladiator presented for two evenings Damon and Pythias, Marble Heart, Virginius, and Macbeth Mac-beth were perform al; Marble Heart being repeated for the matinee. Yet, notwithstanding this amount of actual act-ual work on all connected with the performances, every tiling went smoothly, giving great pleasure to the large audiences; and Mr. McCullough has repeatedly expressed ex-pressed his entire satisfaction, alleging al-leging that the company is better and the plays were better mounted and acted here than in nine-tenths of the theatres in the Eastern cities. It must have been gratifying to him and to tho managementot the theatre to see that the audiences kept steadily increasing, his second week's business busi-ness being much better than his first. He shared every night of the engagement, engage-ment, and is the only "star" that has done so this season; while his benefits have been the largest of the season. These are pleasing reflections for the management to have and for Mr. McCullough to carry away with him; and the theatre-going public will unite with us in the hope that it may not be many months before we again have the opportunity of greeting him on the boards here. |