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Holiday Amusements At The New York State Lunatic Asylum

Creator: n/a
Date: January 1854
Publication: The Opal
Source: New York State Library


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We regret not to be able to notice at length the entertainment given us on New Years day by our fair friends of the Southern Division. Its cheering influence is still floating around us, and the memory of bright eyes and fairy forms lingers like a pleasing dreams to throw its sunny rays o'er the pathway of our single heartedness. The following is the programe :

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HOLIDAY AMUSEMENTS.

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N. Y. S. LUNATIC ASYLUM.

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JANUARY 2, 1854.

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FIRST NIGHT OF THE SEASON.

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UNPARALLELED ATTRACTION!!!

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1. -- PROLOGUE.
Music -- "National Quadrille." -- JULLIEN.
80 performers! (See N. Y. playbills.)

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2. -- TABLEAU.
"The Duke of Argyle presenting Jeannie Deans to Queen Caroline as a supplicant for the pardon of her sister."
MUSIC.
"A King may come in a Cadger's way."

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3. -- TABLEAU
"Malcolm and Ellen Douglas in the halls of the Chieftain, after the proposal of Rhoderick Dhu."
MUSIC.
"Hail to the Chieftain.

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4. -- A PLAY.
"The School Committee."
MUSIC.
"Our Childhood's Home."

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5. -- TABLEAU.
ETHIOPIAN MINSTRELS.
MUSIC.
"Sing, Sing, Darkies, Sing."

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6. -- TABLEAU.
The Court of King James.
"He gently drew the glitt'ring band,
And laid the clasp on Ellen's hand."
MUSIC.
"I dream't I dwelt in marble halls."

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7. -- THE FORTUNE TELLER.
"We dinna care to tell."
MUSIC.
"Oh! we never mention her."

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8. -- GRAND BALLET.
"Well dance all night till broad daylight
And -- be at home in the morning."
Miss --- WILL PRESIDE AT THE PIANO

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