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Show Sot hern. The thcatro wan positively crowded . la.st night. Sending ni"iu was in I dciliiuicl in the Ir.wrr part of Iho I hon e. There must have been over I 1,200 people in the building, and "wasn't it a jolly party," though. A large majority of the audienco had witnessed the performance of "Our I American Cousin," but those who had not seen Solheru in his great cre-utiou, cre-utiou, Dundreary, had a very poor conception both of tho play and tho character. Without Sot hern tho drama is flat, insipid, even silly; with him, it is positively rich in gonuiuo wit and hill of the rarest humor. , Through the first two acts the audience audi-ence wondered how Mr. Sot hern could ! command such a price for hia services, I but throughout the next two acts they discovered all about it. Notwithstanding tho Tict that on all vital questions the vote was 8 to 7, uo jjuupio yt-nciuiiy were inclined in-clined to gloomy feelings on that account, ac-count, they laughed until they cried, and kept on laughing and crying. There is little in the drama outside of Dundreary, but the few other characters char-acters that can be called such in the piece were fairly represented by Miss Storrs, MissColebrook, Miss Cogswell, Messrs. Graham, Lindsay, Forster, Emery, and other ladies and gentlemen gentle-men of the local company. To-night Mr. Sothern gives his last performance here, appearing in another of his great characters, David Garrick. |