Athens Theatre

The plby "In Da.rkest Kussia," wiiich Is to appetfur a tli& Athens Theatore on tlia evenin;? i Dei;. 27, ■Masei-nan gopd sa.tla(actton in irs for. rásits to the gnand opera, houwev 'Pudd'nhead W'ili=oin" is one o; Mark Twain's cancoptions, and Joseph Jeifei-san 6aid whan here tha ;t was ome of tbe Ideat Anisirii-an comedys. At Abbemfl Tlieatra Wedaesday ening, Dec. 20. The Tetuiiin engag&mont, of Tbe Me ai Cha.mgaigiiie Moanday erening. was gneeted witli a prood jiouse eoiisider. ing the se;isoin. Same of the shady jests and talk oH t'hs productlön -svere omatad tttilS time, to the eredft of t'be mangeiment. The iiroctoiioa at an sí }wp-iA IBOTreS pavo a cleaner entertainment than winoJi first here. Tuesday evening next, Dec. 28, Bdward II. Frye, the the Mouologist, will appear at the Athens Theatrein the Y. M. C. A. Course. Mr. Frye is a versatile genius, and representa rnany characters in a reniarkable way. On that eveninft he will give the great Jos. Jefferson play of Kip Van Winkle, tlie fatnous Legend of the Catskills as told by Washington Irving, and will iinpersonate the following characters : Rip Van Winkle The Village Vngahond Gretchen His U tfe Meenie His Daughter Derrick voo Beekman The Schemer - His Nepliew Nick Vedder Keeper of the Village Inn Hendrick His Son Swaggenoff A Dwarf 3eth The scènes portrayed being: 3pirits of Hendrick Hudson and his Private Crew. Pakt 1. The Village of Falling Water, "Derrick the Schemer." Part 2. Interior of Rip Van Winkle's Cottage "Driven frora Home." a The Catsktll Mountatns. Bakt S. b Summit of the Catskills. "The Mystic Flagon." Pakt 4. a Summit of Catskills. (Twenty years after.) b A Room in Derrick's House, e Village of Falling Water. (J A Room in Derrick's House. "Home Again." För a generation the play has been a gerfect delight to the American public ; it seems not to lose its drawing power; it possesses the same power now as in the past to sway the emotions and touch Hie heartstrings, causing merry laughter to bubble up and the fountain of tears to pay its tribute to her dramatist's power. The sympathetic auditor still breathes the charmed weird atmosphere of the primeval forest, alternately laught and weeps with the charmiug emotions oL the tender-hearted Rip and lives briefly once again in the forever departed days of the bluff but honest oíd Dutch colonists of over a century ago.