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Evening Star, Issue 6913, 28 May 1885, Page 3

Emerson’s Minstrels at the Sydney Gaiety arc playing to good houses. It is ten years (says the ‘Herald’) since Mr Emerson himself was here before, but time has dealt very lightly with him. He is as lithe and agile as ever, his humorous powers are undiminished, and he sings as effectively, but some of his jokes in the first part of the performance want the charm of novelty. The company are principally strong in the song and dance line, and the dancing is especially excellent. Then there are one or two good ballad singers; and, in addition to Mr Emerson himself, a clever and genuine comedian in the person of Mr Charles W , Coghill,

The latest aehettie In the States is for qperii fitiltg tty Aiiifc’ricaliS ottly. A Mrs H. N; Thurbfet, bt KcW tofk, Jia« tioltitl Ivtwftfd ip, b‘|clt MB. irifeanS Sn enterprise >v)uen,.w(|( eiilfgi .sterest. The Academy of Muqjc hag b.egp, the interregnum of Italian ojSera seiispn, beginning next January, for fifty representations of opera, to which there shall be none but American singers. This, of course, includes Italian-trained Americans as well, and negotiations are proceeding with Albani, Von Zandt, and Nevada, as prime ilonue, for their services. Theodore Thomas wMI assume the position of musical director without remuneration.

Not Venus, but the Maid of the Mist, should be the ideal of feminine beauty ; for mist, you know, is death to bangs,