Mr. and Mrs. Barney Williams

“Broadway Theatre: This theatre held a hugely delighted audience last evening.  The principal sources of pleasure were the performance of Mr. and Mrs. BARNEY WILLIAMS in the Irish drama of The Fairy Circle and the protean trifle entitled, An Hour in Seville. These pieces are as familiar to a certain class of play-goers as Shakespeare is to another class, and are no doubt as much relished as the best works of the Swan would be. They furnish, at all events, an innocent and wholly amusing entertainment, and for this reason are not to be scorned. They also exhibit Mr. and Mrs. WILLIAMS at their best, and as that best is of the good and most harmless kind, it is worthy of the vast popularity to which these undeniable artists have brought us. No one can sit through the present performance without being on a constant grin; and as this is a laughing age, the entertainment commands itself to the generation. Miss KATE NEWTON still continues ill, and her place in last evening’s performance was filled by Mrs. SKERRETT.”