New York Dispatch

Sunday Edition. Dec. 4.

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Want of space will prevent any very extended notice of the dramas in this issue.

AT NIBLO'S Mr. and Mrs. Barney Williams have had a week of immense success in the "Connie Soogah." Not only have all the seats and the lobbies been occupied, but the stairs leading from the first to the second tier of boxes have been used by people "for desp" as places of lookout. The play has been put upon the stage in unexceptionable style; it is full of interest to its close, and the scenery possesses the merit of fidelity of the localities which it portrays. It will be run until further notice.

At Mrs. Wood's beautiful little theatre "Milky White" and "St. George and the Dragon" the latter by our Mr. Sefton-have been the attractions during the week. We have heretofore given favorable notices of each of them, which were fully deserved. On Monday evening, Bourcicault's play of "The Streets of New York" will be the attraction. It is emotional, scenical, spectacular and sensational, and will be cast in the strongest manner. Mr. Harry Pearson had been engaged expressly for the purpose of acting in this drama. It is to be hoped that this, Mrs. Wood's last effort to hit the public taste, will be successful.

AT THE BROADWAY THEATRE, Mr. John Owens has met with another success in the part of Gilmore, in the "Happiest Day of My Life." His drunken scene is one of the finest things of the kind that we have ever seen on the stage. The piece is well cast, so far as its leading characters are concerned, but badly as to those of a minor position. Mrs. Hind, Miss Nellie Johnson, Mrs. Tyrrell, and Mr. Maeder, are each deserving of praise: the rest are not--and there lies the difference. The "Happiest Day of My Life" and "The People's Lawyer" will be acted throughout the week.

AT THE FRENCH THEATRE were performed last week "Les Poseurs ou Etre et Paraitre," scenes in Parisian life, a three-act comedy by MM. Lambert Thiboust and J. Duval, and on Saturday we had "Le Misanthrope et L'auvergnat," a comedy in one act, of M. Labiche, and a repetition of "La Joie de la maison," by Anicet Bourgeois.

We must correct a wrong impression left on the New York public by one of the Sunday papers which lately informed its readers that a piece called "La femme qui se grise" was to be performed and translated its title as "a woman who gets tipsy," conveying thereby the idea that we were to have the disgusting spectacle of a woman in liquor. The French words "se griser" mean to get intoxicated, and everybody knows that success, joy, enthusiasm often excite the spirits to a kind of delirium. Such is the case in the piece we refer to. Cecile becomes intoxicated at hearing the news of the breaking off of the intended marriage of the young man whom she loves in petto, and at the hope of still conquering his affection.

On next Tuesday evening "Le Gendre de Mons. Poirier," (the original of "My Noble Son-in-Law.") will be given. It is infinitely better in the French than in the English version.

At Wallack's the sensation of the week has been the first appearance of Miss Henriques as Peg Woffington and Mrs. Jennings as Mabel Vane in "Masks and Faces" to Mr. Fisher's unapproachable Triplet. Each of the ladies acquitted themselves with credit. "Rosedale" and "To Marry and Not to Marry" have been the other attractions. On to-morrow night Boucicault's "new" comedy of "How She Loves Him" will be produced, and will be acted on Tuesday and Wednesday evening also. On Thursday "Rosedale" will be repeated.

The Perkins' Testimonial will probably yield the beneficiary $2,000.

Mr. Charles Pope will shortly appear at the Stadt Theatre as Othello, in Schlegel's German translation of that play, and will be supported by Mad. Methua Scheffer as Desdemona. We have a great curiosity to see how Mr. Pope, an American, will acquit himself while acting in the German tongue.

Barnum's Museum-Mr. Barnum ever alive to the importance and value of originality and novelty in business, of no matter what nature it may be, favors us this week with a poetical advertisement, which we feel we cannot do better than recommend to the reader's attention, as it will give him all the information we otherwise might supply, and that, too, in a more readable and amusing form than we could here possibly present it. Do not fail to read it.

The Working Woman's Protective Union will hold a meeting at Cooper Institute next Tuesday evening. Rev. Henry Ward Beecher and Hon. Charles P. Daly will deliver addresses in behalf of the working women of New York city. This will be a very interesting affair, and will doubtless prove very profitable to the Union.

HELLER'S Salle Diabolique.-To presume permanency with a conjuror is to suppose sheer nonsense "Presto! chango!" is the motto of his craft. Hence, it is not wondrous that Mr. Heller should announce that he is about, not simply to change handkercheifs into tar-barrels, or watches into good, edible sweitzer-kase, but to change his entire entertainment from what it now is, into what it is to be. The evenings of this week are to be the last six of the present programme. After Saturday next, the Goblin Drum will cease to be beaten, the Scarlet Spirit will pass from view into the spirit-land, "willie" will lose his second sight and have to be content with his first; Heller, himself, will desist from the deviltries to which he has hitherto been accustomed, and, by one wave of that magical stick of his, the whole scene will be changed. But as "Programme No. 3" is the best which Mr. Heller has yet produced, those who have not seen it would do well to pay the Salle Diabolique a visit during the present week. In addition to a new programme of magic and music, Mr. Heller announces that he has a magical pantomime in preparation which will be ready for production on Monday week.

Artemus Ward's Pictorial Entertainment. Good houses and gladsome audiences still grace the hall of Dodworth, wherein the gay and gallant Artemus nightly expatiates on Mormons, Rocky Mountains, Indians, Petroleum-oil, Mexico, black leather-bags, sea-going steamers, lion's tails, and other kindred subjects. On Wednesday afternoon he is to give a matinee. Why he has not given one before has been a matter of mystery to many; because an entertainment so peculiarly interesting to ladies is just the sort of one which matinee-goers are the most apt to patronize. Artemus Ward's first matinee will assuredly draw a full house. Leaving Artemus himself out of the question, the wondrous caudal appendage of that mystic stone lion in the last picture is enough to attract the attention of all who are interested in the fine arts. The whole of the scenery at A. Ward's is similarly grand and elaborate. As for the talk, those who know how Artemus writes may imagine how he speaks, and as for the music the piano-solos by Mrs. Jennie Holmes are agreeable interludes in the course of the imaginary journey to Utah.

Van Amburgh & Co.'s Menagerie.- The recent additions to this great zoological institution, render the collection of wild animals now on exhibition more complete in every department than anything of the kind we have ever before had in New York. Almost every imaginable variety of animated nature may be found included in this menagerie, many of the specimens being of singular rarity, among which may be mentioned the giraffe, the white bear, the black ostrich, the royal Bengal tiger, and the Isabel bear, the latter being the only one now in captivity, and the second one ever exhibited in any country. The performances given by the trained animals are of a most interesting character, and during the coming week the management offer a new attraction, especially intended for the gratification of the juveniles, in the comical feats of the wonderful performing monkey, Signor Victor, "educated in Italy," who will appear every morning, afternoon, and evening, and display his accomplishments, which are said to be of the most versatile character. He plays the drum, fiddles, fences, goes through the manual exercise, including loading and firing his musket, and performs many other almost incredible feats. The Signor will undoubtedly be a great favorite with the youngsters.

BOHEMIAN GLASS BLOWERS.-We are pleased to record the fact that the business at Hope Chapel is rapidly on the increase. The people now begin to realise the importance of this institution whereat the science or art of glass-blowing is so beautifully and interestingly illustrated. The gifts which are disposed of every evening is also another great inducement to attract the people, as well as the profiles cut by the artists in paper, and so long as the inducements are so numerous nothing less than full houses can result. It also should not be forgotten that on next Friday evening Mr. E. J. White, the gentlemanly treasurer of this establishment, takes a benefit, which we trust will be such as his merits deserve.

The Medfah.-This personage, as A. Ward would say, of decidedly Oriental extraction, has received "an offer" (not of matrimony, but of a matter of money) from a Down East manager, and has gone to Boston for a week. On his return to this city he will inaugurate a genuine Oriental entertainment at Turkish Hall. This place is being elegantly fitted up, and will become most probably "an institution" in our midst. There is no reason why the customs of the East should not become a popular and profitable theme.

Clinton Hall.-Mr. Benj. K. Brown will deliver a lecture at this place on the Oil Regions of Pennsylvania, next Thursday evening, when he will fully discuss the great "Ilk" interest of the day. It will doubtless be very interesting and claim considerable attention, as it should.

Museum of Anatomy.-All who desire to see nature unveiled, with all its mysteries disclosed, should not fail to visit the Museum of Anatomy, for there it is done in the most skillful and perfect manner. The Sleeping Beauty is of itself well worth the price of admission.