The herald., 1837-02-27

DINNETeRD AND THE RowERY.-After an absence
of nearly six years. we visited the Bowery Theatre
last Saturday evening Mr. Dnneford is now the
sole manager Of that splendid establishment and the
advantages of combining the gentleman and the man
of talents in the person Of manager are seldom more
obvious than in him. The audience, the actors, the
coup d Gii all improved since the last regime
Even the animal creation begin, under Dinneford's
management to be the most sensible, discreet and
knowing creatures ever seen, manfe testify surprising
many of the human beings engaged at the same the
atre during the time Of Hamblin, the convict.
The piece was Mazeppa, and all Cookies celebrated
stud of unrlvallcd horses with the whole family Of the
Cookies, from top to bottom, are engaged. The old
proverb that "many cooks spoil the broth, is now
reversed. The Cookies Of our day make the pot boil
and the broth good-and SO Dinneford has found il,
if we are to Judge from sample ofhis house on Sat
urday. 1t was pretty nearly crammed full, and a
more orderly and respectable audience we have sell
dom seen. Even the pit-the uproarious plt-the un-
jacketed pit, as it was formerly caed-is now filled
with better behaved persons, and showing more
gentlemanly tone, than many of oar fashionable sol
rfes, of seven hundred invited and three hundred
unlnvted.
Mazeppa wild and spirit-stirrng piece, is well
the piece is Cookies unrivalled stud of horses. The
town has already been wched with their feas in the
Circus but now we have this meo-drama with fifty
horse power. 1t is utterly impossible to enumerate
the many surprising eVolutions of single and mixed
combas, which these horses 60 through with all the
precision and skill of human beings. Those who
have seen the Cooke family at the Circus will be
pleased and delighted to see them in a new light and
performing more graceful set of movements in Ma
zeppa The horses are surprising animals After the
fair angels that cast hue ofhappness around this ne
ther world, l do not know but the horse is the next
race of beings that are loveable and talented Since
the age of congresses, legislatures corporations riots
and mobs, man has visbly degenerated The hsrse
is rising in the scale of intellect and the travels of
Gulliver are approaching veritabc existence. The
horses of the Bowery Theatre decidedly the best
stock company of the day. They no not quarrel in
the green room-they neither backbte OF tear up each
others characters-they never have cod-they do
not get drunk-they kick up their legs occasionally,
but no riots. They philosophical, orderly, obedi
ent precise, energetic and talented. They follow
Hamlet's advice to the leiter-they never tear a
good passion TO rags-to very tatters-they merely
shake their tail They never spoil mar the text by
speaking what is not set down-they simply snort
little and if they were to speak, have no doubt
they would speak much more dramatically than San
ford or Western, the counsel Of the famous Hambln
gang of convicts. Their stage tread is magnificent,
and if we had been Onska, we should have admired
Nazoppas horse instead ofMazeppa's SELF
The Bowery Theatre is really worth going to SEQ
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