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Show iNon Barrelt. At the Theatre lwt night, the audience -w hi, h gsthtred to wlt-neVHse.n wlt-neVHse.n Bartrtt and his London c 'l'1'. highly gratified. As in e aai-xt 3U itl.nueof the r " 'c' 1 that has eer ia.ed I i. 5 --J ths Ls -ajlnarireat -' rc i' 'Ir. frj, I ' . ' l E 1 t ' re f the ruernbeis of the company gat to Mr. Barrett and Mlgj Uastlak-e most excellent support "Chbd-Ian" "Chbd-Ian" Is n sorabro iuelodrama, with little to relieve Its sorrow ful tccnt-, j and yet it contains features that c'ostly rivet the attention throughout through-out the entire ierformancc. Itsitory Is that of a profligate young nobleman noble-man of Jizautiuut, who t-urchatcd tlio beautiful wife of a Chri-tian who has been seized iuto idaxery. Her huilond is flain Iu the attempt at-tempt to tear her from the guards, j She manages to escape ahd finds! refuse Willi a hermit. Claud Un ' follows her aud mortally wounds the aged man who endeavors to i protect her. But ere he dies the hermit pronounces a curse upon tlie young nobleman, that he will i live on, never apr.cr.rlDg to grow j old-T, and that every good action he I Itrforms will bring nil uton the! rccliiie-at of his klnduct" . The spell thai comes ujion him tilings a desire de-sire to amend for lib pn-t, and he liberates his fair cajitlve, nhotc dealii results f'om tlie Midden good fortune. As the ceLturx rolls by the curse follows him, until at hut, lu an aprearauc" of the hermit's I ghost, he is given an opruituuitx to ' s iffer dealii and meet the iualty of I hia crinif. Afier a struggle lie I accepts the proIIVr, and the curtain fills upon the reunion of lhc wlus; ' lives he ha-s In later veil, j blighted. Mr. Barrett lossesscs grta'. power rs an aetor, and In Claujiin ' ho improves the line opiurtuultlet j given. The care and precision ' with which every move vrasuut-ie and every wonl --jiokeii, -huw hu closely he has tuuied his art, and marks him for a place near the front rank. Mis Ijistlale iia lino abilities, aud draws out the m-Btl.k-s of tlie audience-. At the clos; of ech ret Mr. Barrett was call-d l-ebre the curtain. Tonight 'Ti.e .Silver Kii.g"' will te given, and tomorrow night the engagement closes with '-Jkn. Mc-Cree." |