The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-11-05

FAsHIoNABIx SocHrv AND THE ITALIAN OPElA
-MoRx FUNNY DIsoLosURKs.-The great commu-
nifty OF this mighty metropolis are always in want
of some topic to talk about to laugh at, and to
furnish amusement by its Oddities its freaks, or Its
eccentricities. The recent attempt to reconstruct
fashionable society in New York, and to establish
ltilian Opera, promises to be fertile and luxu.
rant In furnishing this species Of entertainment
We have already gwen to the public curious
and unique card of the beautiful rrufi, eontainln
some disclosures of the newspaper tactics lately
adopted by Mr.. Fry; and we have to-day, to add
another card, disclosing some further details con-
nected with this matter 1t is letter from Allegn
celebrated artist, dlsclaimlng any paternity in
the see Die daubs present exhibited in the Italian
Opera, and commenting on Mr.. Fy's conduct, in
using his name without due proprety and respect.
Here it ID;
New YORK, Nov. 4, 1s48.
JAS. GORDON BENNETT, EsQR -
My DEAR SIR:-Observing in your journal Of yes.
terday an editorial article regard the Italian Opera
Of New York, in the course Of which you say, that
the scenery, the veriest daubs stuck up in q
shilling theatre would not be tolerated at the
! am compelled, without attempting to dispute the
justice Of your criticism, to relieve myself from the
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ton Of Mr. Fry has thrust upon me.
In the grand bulletin announcing the plan and
by Mr. Fry, few days since, my name, aud Sig Mo.
iins were placed on the list the scenic artists of
the establishment This was done without authority
rom either OF US Our services have not been, and
are not likely to be, at the disposal Of manager who
appropriates to his the and the
Of artists in order that he may enjoy the credit of pre-
parations never made, and receive the reward Of q
munifcence exhibited, except in the sounding
language Of his manifesto
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cious to me; and know, MIR Bennett, that you would
be a. unwilling to encroach, yourself upon q just,
Though perhaps subordinate claim to popular favor
you will be to regard imposition praotsed upon
the subscribers to the Opera and the public, with an
indifference unbecoming to the Herald the organ of
the operate circles of this metropolis.
Very respectfully, your 0bt serv't,
G. ALLEGRI
This Is sad commentary on the magnioquen.
and pompous displays just made by Mr.. Fry, and
the claims he has put forth for preparing, arranging
and perfectng the Italian Opera during the present
season. 1t is fit card to 60 side by side with that
of Truf6; and we have no doubt that both are but
the dvaat cowi0s Of further funny and amusing
disclosures, that will furnish the town during the
coming winter with rich fund of original and
racy humor.
Another point, we see, has not been forgotten in
Mr. Fry's programme. 1t seems this Napoleon of
the green room Is not satisfied with some of his
other artists. Heretofore, Benedetu Truffi and PIco
have been the principal objects of the newspaper
critics. directed by the &c sinister influence" as
Trufi correctly calls coming from the green room
Thes anne tactics are beginning to be applied by the
to Dubreul and Laborde. There is
penny a-lner under the signature of "R. T., who
made his appearance regularly last winter in the
columns of the Des Etats Unis, and who has again
appeared there during the present season. In his
first illusions he begins to cut up Debreul and La
borde, and even extends his threats towards Trufi
for daring to come before the public in card to
state her grievances and to attribute them to sinis
ter Influences" All this lsaccordlng to the system
OF the new management. The artists are to be
lashed into every requirement of the manager by
the peny-a-llne badgers whom he has employed to
bite at their heels, and compelled to submit not
only to the overbearing dictation ofthe green room
but to the open depreciation and attacks of the
press. management of this kind, composed of
equal proportions of imbecility, despotlsm and
trickery, cannot long hold together in this commu
nifty or permanently. establish the Italian Opera is
this city, nor the reconstruction OF fashionable
society on such basis as the ancients did the
pyramids Of Egypt.