Amusements

For several years Manager Sawj'er Iihs been tryiug to gut Maxwells Grand Speetacular Uncle Tom's Cabin to return to Ann Arbor ugaiu. It will be remembered that some tour years ago this sanie company played here and filled the opera house from parquetteto gallery, reserved seats and all. This tiüie a whole car load of new scenery has been added, new actois secured, and il is now acknowledged not only the most complete and lauccst compaiiy of the kind traveling, but the best Uncle Toni troupe ever put on thè road. Friday and Saturday etanlngt, Oct. 9th anil lütli. Keserved seats at Uoughtou & Payne's. i . Uuder the auspices of the University Musical Society a public rehersal of the Ana Arbor School of Music will be givea in Uuiversity hall on Friday eveniug, October 9th. The program is to consint. of vocal solos, dúos, and trios bv Miss E, Louise Clark, Miss [dl üelle Winchell and Mrs. Anna E. Warden, piano solos by Miss Julia Oamthers, violin and 'cello solos by Mr. Win. Luderer and Mr. Harold VVilson, together with readings by Miss Laura Kose. Tickets f ree, U be had on Thursday and Friday at the bookstores. Students of the university can secure tickets at the Stewaru's office. There will be a promenade social in the parlors of the Unitarian church next Monday evening, by the Unity Club. Music by the Huron Band. Miss Cora Benneson, a gradúate of the University of Michigan, haring just returued fiom i trip around the world, will be present and jive an interesting ta!k upoh her travels. Admission 10c. After which a reception will bc given Miss B. in the parlors of the church. All tViends are invited. We have in the play of "A Brave Woman," which will be producecí here Tues: day evening, Oct. 13th, a play aptly molded and put together, and telling.': its story in a plain fashion, without a partiële of sensationalism, and in which Miss Von Leer linds in its heroine a character which, while it does not force her to act, nevertheless enables her, without the effort of acting, or of resorting to the tricks and devices of mimetic art, to make the charm of her personality answor every purpose. The action of the play does not compel her presence In every scène, nolis it atter the fashion of the usual onepart plays, built up around her like scaffolding. VVhen the curtain lias tallen upon the last scène, and you make your way out of the theatre with the joyous expression of the little wife, "Take roe, Ivie," lingering in your memory, you scarcely remember that you have been sittinff throujih six acts of a play, with its rlare of lijihts, its music, and its changes of scène and siluation. You feel as if you had been reading n pleassnt story or' l"iil... I mi lit.-; Oll Of (!¦. 1-tylfi WhK'U bascil Upon somi' uiuuiuun paam ui uut every-day social lives, are sometinies s;iven to us by the novelist or poet, and wbich store the mind with kimlly thouirhts and a better and broader rejtard for the vlrtues, and a gen tier comuassion for evils of our social relations. Mr. Hardie and Miss Von Leer will be supported hy a company of metropolitan artists. The greatest play nver put on the toards, by all odds, is that grand old drama, Uncle Tom's Cabin. It never fails x fill the house. It will bring thecrowd when others, with pet haps greater merit will only have empty benclies. Uncle l'oin's Cabin is America's greatest drama irom the people's itandpotnt. It. appeals to their hearts. Friday and Saturday evening, at the opera house. RINK NOTES. Messrs. Wyuian and Watts were In the. city Thureday to attend the openinc of the Palace Rink, and take iu the fair. Hereafter the Rink will be open on Tuesday, Wednesday, Fiidiiy and Saturday afternoons and cvenings. Music every evening. A very large audience was in attendance at the opening of the Palace Kink last Thursday evening. Miss Adele Barrows, "only9 years old," gave au ei inhiiioii of fancy skating. She is not as [iroficlent as some we have seen in'the more difflcult moveinents, but for gracefuluess we have never seen her equal.