Legend of Norwood

No music mentioned.

[Bulk of review discusses how long and boring the play was, just like Beecher’s novel from which it was adapted. The following excerpts deal with music:] “. . . . In the second act, we are told that Sumter has been fired upon, and the President’s proclamation is read, and the act ends with the departure of the villagers for the battle-field, led by a brass band, who defile past playing ‘John Brown’s Body,’ etc., which is the most effective scene in the whole play and had the effect of arousing that portion of the audience who had gone asleep in the first act. The introduction of the band is not original with Mr. Daly, as it occurs in the comedy of ‘Ours.’ The fourth act is a good representation of a battle-field, with the sick and wounded lying around, attended by the fair hands of their lady loves whom they had left behind. It is in this scene that Jenny [Worrell] introduces her clog dance which, it is needless to say, was so heartily applauded that she had to repeat it. Isn’t this a stretch of the imagination for a clog dance during the action of war, and while the wounded are being brought from the field to the tents? The last act is occupied with a not very impressive love scene between the returned soldier and the ‘Rose of Norwood,’ during which the returned veterans and the brass band seen in the second act defile past the house, looking, in dress and general appearance, more like coming or going to a ball than returning from the battlefield….”