Calls it a melodrama, but mentions no music. Includes synopsis of plot.

“Wisely complying with the urgent popular demand for novelty and variety, Mr. Lester Wallack has suspended the representation of the old but sterling plays which have lately been produced at his theatre….”

“Wallack’s Theatre has been doing old comedies, well cast and well performed, and the attendance has not been bad, considering that there was no opera at the Academy during the week. But what are these old comedies, and these great casts when compared to the youthful Lotta, who, in the worst season of the year, crowded this house as it had not been crowded since? Would it not be policy to secure this little lady again?”