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UNCLE TOM AT THE CHESNUT.—To the Editors of the Sunday Dispatch: To-morrow evening we are to have Uncle Tom's Cabin, the original version, as produced to successfully in New York—at the Chesnut Street Theatre. The piece is said, by all who have witnessed it, to be superior in every respect to any dramatisation ever presented. It is, in fact, an entire picture of Life Among the Lowly, as written by Mrs. Stowe; and with the superior stock company attached to this theatre, in the respective characters, must be offered to the public in a style hitherto unequalled. New and effective scenery, grand effects and properties, have been made expressly for this piece, and Mr. Parker, the talented scene painter, has been actively engaged, with his aids, for weeks, in getting up a superior scenic representation. The cast of the dramatis personae is really great. Mr. John Gilbert, one of the leading actors of the country, appears as Uncle Tom; Fenno as George Harris; Jefferson as Gumption Cute; Parker as Phineas Fletcher; Miss lizzie Weston as Topsy; Mrs. Gilbert as Aunt Ophelia; Mrs. Tyrell as Cassy; and the flower of the South, gentle Eva, by little Louisa Parker. The other characters in the hands of the whole of the efficient stock corps of "Old Drury," combine to make this the greatest concentration of talent this piece has ever been presented with in the Union. T.J. |