The members of the Club. Concordia gave their opening entertainment for the season on Saturday night, to a full house. Notwithstanding that on the eve of the performance, the indisposition- of one of the actors, a lady, too—Frau Cellini-—rendered a departure from the necessary, ever} thing done went off so well that the German Company deserve an extra teed of thanks for the masuuer in which they met the difficulty. 'Two pieces for stage performance had originally made up the smme—'' Humoristiche Studien,' and ' Wer ist Mit," but the loss we have referred to necessitated the withdrawal of the second piece—a musical farce, which we hope, however, to see included in the next programme made-up.—
sisted wholly of music, beginning with the bie gerictage of the entertain ceric overture "Za:-berfléte," by the Orchestra, under M. Remusat, which was given with spirit and correctness. The Orchestra also kindly played the Claribel Waltzes, a very pretty set, beautifully executed. In these the cornet solo, on the air 'I cannot Sit the Old Songs," was much admired ai drew forth a' special round of applause. The Amateur Choristers filled up the first part with several good. choruses and o solo for bass voice, for which re-demands were made, Among the vocal selections were—the "Marschlied," by Stuntz, Chorus by Mendelssohn, and "An der blauen Donau"—(On the border of the blue Danube.) Between the first and second rts the Orchestra played the overture "Cenerentola," and their very successful exertions to second the efforts of the other performers were much appreciated. second part of the programme. Fritz The "Humorous, Studies" formed the Moller Sod Brausce, two stadenis, have been leading so fast' life that they are utterly destitute. In their predicament, Kolinsky, the porter in the students' chambers, suggests to Brauser writing to Fritz'srich uncle that his nephew has died from wounds received in a duel,
by Browser, and asking that he may have that the funeral expenses have been paid these refunded. So far the scheme works well. Brauser gets the money, but Muller, the uncle, cames to town to settle up his nephew's affairs, and pay his debts. Brauser and Kolinsky are thereafter engaged in telling ingenious "crams" as to the ciroumtances; the former gets up profound gri for the loss of his friend, the latter is no less affected, but insinuates his usefulness tothe late Fritz in such a way that the uncle rewards him with money, and Fritz's retty cousin, Gretchen, also bestows liberal largess on him. "The stern old gentleman pays offall debts—Messrs, Krebs and Sauger, money-lenders, after a good deal of blustering, accepting half, under the incitement of a visit from the ghost of Fritz. Then the uncle receives a letter, directed to his defunct nephew, and pushes Kolinsky and Brauser hard, but though confused for a moment they manage to lull the old gentleman's suspicions for the time.. The catastrophe comes on apace, however, and ter storming "great deal, the uncle forgives his repentant nephew, and Gretchen is made happy—K: generously taking the whole Flame of iby err Steinhauer, as the rich uncle, merits our best praise. He performed the stern and upright country squire with much vigour. Gretchen was the humble and loving creature! which might be expected, hectored over by a stern parent and suffering from a great grief in the supposed loss of her cousin lover. _Neukomm and Choufleur played the students' parts excellently. Farnes and Lowe, the usurers, were.admirably got up, the one of the bul lying, the other of the sanctimonious type, and their consternation at Fritz's unexpected appearance was cleverly done Herr Hercules never fails to be amusing, and was especially so as the students' factotum and familiar.
The whole entertainment gave such a pleasant evening as we are accustomed to expect, from our versatile and talented friends of the Liedertafel and Theater Verein.
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