Rhea At Ann Arbor

Rhea and her excellent company n "Much Ado About Nothing," Friday night attracted a large and first-class audience, notwithstanding the opposition of a rain storm which played to "all out doors" and beat a fierce "ratatattoo" on the roof of the opera house. The celebrated actress is still at the zenith of her power and popularity and has parted with none of the personal charms which, added to her dramatic talent, have rendered her a leading actress and favorite of the stage in America. Her support was excellent, especially as to the character of "Dogberry," that luminously ignorant but self-complaisant individual being intrepreted to the entire satisfaction of the audience. On Saturday evening the talented lady delighted her audience with a bit of lighter but no less engaging work. The curtain first went up on a one-act presentation of "Bonaparte as a Cadet." That a lady could really act the character of the great Napoleon, even in his boyhood, was scarcely to be credited in ad vanee of the performance; yet not only to act and dress the part, but to simúlate even the features of the world's military master of a century ago, was the happy gift of the charming woman who owns France as her country, yet devotes her talent to the republic to which in the hour of its need France showed friendship. "Pygmalion and Galatea" closed the evening's performance. In this as in the other plays.Rhea as Galatea gave such new and delightful interpreta;ionsof the part that the audience seemed led into new discovereries of the character. In Galatea, as a cold, marfale statue, the actress scored the most happy effects, and the murmor of applause that greeted the unveiling attesied the pléasure of the audience. The support was excellent and it is not too much to add that Ferd. Hight, as Chrysos, was "great."