Variety and Hilarity at Frye’s Opera House

The opera house was packed last evening at the opening performance by the Reilly & Wood company, and long before 9 o'clock standing room was at a premium. The performance as a whole was a good one, and, judging from the frequent peals of laughter which echoed throughout the auditorium, the audience enjoyed it. Some of the variety features were especially meritorious; the negro sketch by Tierney and Wayne being funny in the extreme and the cause of more laughter and hilarity than any other number on the bill. Herr Pitrot, the German mimic and impersonator, was excellent, his disguises being in some instances almost perfect. The tableux of eight Roman gladiators was artistically done and proved altogether interesting, and the same can be said of the very excellent acrobats, the Nelson family, the skillful tumbling of whom was heartily applauded. La Rue was very dextrous in his exercise with the baton and Adele Wilson's performance on the revolving globe was novel and neatly executed. Mlle. Korjanski's pigeons proved to be very intelligent and the same credit is due her dog 'Tige.' Pat Reilly, in his Irish songs, was up to the average, but anyone having a fancy for the dashing soubrette ought to have been satisfied with the natty work of Florence Miller. The closing farce was dull, dreary and coarse, and the audience rejoiced when it was finished. The company appears again this evening and the indications point to another good house.