MADAME GODDARD'S INTER RUPTED CONCERT.

Colonist, Volume XVI, Issue 1162, 22 August 1873, Page 3

MADAME GODDARD'S INTER RUPTED CONCERT.

(From the Sydney Morning Sordid, August 4.) Os Saturday afternoon, Madame Arabella Goddard, gave, at the Victoria Theatre, agjand farewell oonoert. In tho second part the band played a fine concerted pieoe of music. After which Mrs. Smythe, Miss Christian, and Mr. Andrew Fairfax sang a well-known trio, " Tell me, shepherds, &c." Madame Goddard followed with a solo pianoforte "Home, Sweet Home," by Thalberg, and was, as usual, greeted with an enthusiastic outburst of applause. So far all had gone " merry as a marriage bell," although there had been some vague tokens of the presence of a few rather turbulent spirits in the pit and elsewhere upstairs. The noisy applause gradually became louder, and Madame Goddard having reappeared, oorteously acknowledged "it and retired, evidently not intending to play again that evening, being (as it afterwards transpired) indisposed. The noisy applause developed into something like a continuous disturbance, when a gentleman.(understood to be Mr. Jones, tho stage manager) came to tbe front as if to explain, but being hissed and loudly hooted at, after a few minutes bowed and went off. By this time it was evident that several parties were getting very angry; the hubbub.was incessant, and the remarks shouted by one of the roalcontf nts were, to cay the least of them, unpardonablj rude, and unduly demonstrative. Madame Arabella Goddard evidently would not reappear: and for the lady vocalist who had to follow her to face tho angry storm was, of course, quite out of the question. The curtain was lowered in the midst of the din, and remained down for several minutes, this rather summary proceeding evidently exasperating the irritated parties instead of having any soothing effect. At last the curtain was raised, and Mr. Andrew Fairfax faced the storm and attempted to sing his song " The Wolf," obviously in order to spare the two lady vocalists who were set down to Bing before him. The uproar, however, became tremendous, and he had at once to desist. Obtaining a hearing, Mr. Andrew Fairfax warmly remonstrated,with the comparatively small number of loud-voiced disorderlies on their conduct, and explained that Madame Goddard waa too much indisposed for a second encore, and that the uproar made had been so violent that Mrs, Smythe and Miss Christian had both become muoh alarmed at its vehemence, There were several angry rejoinders, many parties demanding the programme, &0., and some few their money baok; but the upshot of it was that the curtain oame down for the last tbie, and the concert terminated abruptly through the unreasonable demands of some of the aadienoe, and a rather needless display of temper.