“At the Stadttheater this evening’s performance will benefit Mr. Hoym. For this occasion, Dingelstedt’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s ‘The Winter’s Tale’ will be presented for the first time here. In Germany this play was a big success, with songs, dancing and Olympic stunts (first act). Messrs. Röckl and Dornbach created several new decorations and apparatuses which will certainly cause a sensation. Additionally, new props and costumes have been promised. For Flotow’s music, the chorus has been very carefully rehearsed, and the orchestra has been augmented. The Olympic acts are going to be executed by the gymnasts, John Heinz and Fitzmeier. Our readers can grasp, from all of this, that tonight’s performance will be something extraordinary, and, if we may add more, Mr. Hoym, Mr. Knorr, Mrs. Hoym, Mrs. Becker-Grahn, Mrs. Steglich-Fuchs, et al., will be participating. Therefore, we believe we may be permitted to assert that this performance will be something extraordinarily good.”

Full cast list included. “For the first time.”

“Last evening, the play given to benefit Mr. Otto Hoym, ‘The Winter’s Tale,’ was performed before a full house. It will be performed again tonight.”

“The [Stadt]theater had a big hit with Shakespeare’s Winter’s Tale, which was presented with brilliant scenery and costumes, and a polished performance. The fantastic tale with its half-medieval, half-classical figures, holds the spectator in suspended anticipation from beginning to end. The play is now fervently stirring, then exhilarating, then [illeg.] shocking, but throughout through the charming, gripping poetry.”