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Show Theatre. There was a large and discriminating discriminat-ing audience prcsont at the theatre last night, the attraction beipg "Romeo and Juliet," Miss Rogers repenting re-penting her truly great rendering of Juliet, and Miss Jean Clara Walters appearing for the first time as Romeo. Miss Rogers' Juliet is too well known to our readers to need extended notice; suffice to nay that lust night she fully sustained her high reputation reputa-tion in the part. Her efforts were appreciated by the audience, who manifested their gratification by continued applause and two recalls before the curtain. The' Romeo of of Mm Walters was a masterly performance. per-formance. She looked, dressed and acted the part to tho life, and her fineii reading called forth frequent plau- 1 dia. At the end of the piece, in ' answers to a call, she appeared before the curtain with Miss Rogers and both ladies again received the ovation of the audience. The other parts in the tragedy, in the hands of the same representatives as last week, were carefully and acceptably rendered throughout. This evening Miss Rogers takes her fare w oil benefit and oilers a most attractive at-tractive lull, appearing for the first lime in this city as' Rosalind in Shapespeare'B fine comedy of." As You Likolt." A lengthy notice of this play will be found in another place this morning, and it is only necessary to add that every exertion has been made by the management to render this production worthy of the patronage patron-age of the public. Some uuvaud appropriate ap-propriate scenery and other stage mountings have been added, the company has been strengthened, the comedy is strongly cast, and a most enjoyable evening's entertainment may bevexpeclel. We look for a large audionce to-night; ns every lover of the drama desire to manifest his appreciation of the talent and genius of the beneficiare. Tickets were selling very fast last ovening. |