The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1849-05-03


the opera under the scientific management of Mr..
Fry, and the dead loss of $4,000 to the managers,
besides $500 loss to some chorus singers, theatre
Gals in this city have experienced quite a revival
| in almost every department.
During the last three weeks, Mr.. Forrest has
been playing at the Broadway theatre to remarka-
bly, good houses, and we understand that his re-
celpts for these three weeks have amounted to
more than eight thousand dollars-probably within
handful of dollars to nine thousand. The terms
of his engagement are one moiety of the proceeds
Of the house. he taking the enc half and the mana
ger, and all the rest of the actors, down to the
scene-shifters, dividing the other half among them
selves the best way they can.
The Broadway theatre has been very successful
and very fourishing of late. The other theatres,
we understand, exhibit an equally prosperous con-
dtlen. The Bowery is always money making
theatre, cool, steady, and permanent. The mana
ger Of this establishment, since the unfortunate
confagration of the old Park, has confined his
talents TO the Bowery theatre, and is again rapidly
accommodating fortune by wise and certain pro-
cess The business concerns and receipts OF the
Bowery theatre are probably the most steady of
any other theatre in this city. If Mr.. Hambn
sticks to his ship but for few years more, he may
retire with his third or fourth fortune made
in the exercise of his profession. The other the
aires-the National and Burton's-are equally pros
porous. We learn that Burton's theatre has net
ted quite large sum, from that very successful
piece in which socialism and socialists were held
up, in amusing lineaments TO the very acute phi
osophers who frequent that establishment. The
character of the New York bhoy at one of the the
aires, and Massa Fourier Grsley at the other, have
fixed themselves in the public mind, and become
part of the public taste in this wide spread lively,
amusing witty, and sarcastic community. On
Monday, the Aston Place Theatre opens with
Macready, and the legitimate drama.
In fact the spirit of revival among the theatres
has got fresh start; and we observe that the i'm
mortal Niblo, who has been part of our theatrical
history for several years past, has commenced
enterprise upon his old ground, at the intersection
of Broadway and Prince street, which will take the
cream, and make the butter, and furnish the bou-
quets, for years TO come. lie has already laid the
foundation of hotel, opera house, and beau
tful grove of trees and, singular enough the trees
have grown faster, and outstrpped the buildings al
ready. The hotel will be conducted upon the Euro
pean plan, and in the first style of elegance. giving
comfort and convenience to that region of the city
The theatre, of which the foundation is already
laid, will be as large, elegant, and capacious
as the present Astor Place Theatre, and more con-
venient in great many of its arrangements. His
shrubbery is already planted, and twelve or fifteen
feet from the ground, Nibo having overcome ma
ture, and transpanted from his beautiful villa at
the garden of Eden, next door to He'll Gate, oppo-
site Blackwelrs Island, some OF his most elegant
and shady trees 1t is expected that this new
theatre will be finished upon or soon after next
fourth of July. Its situation is without doubt the
best locality for opera house, or theatre
in that region of the city; and under the unrvalled
management and great tact of Niblo himself, we
expect 10 the Italian opera, with the ballet and
Its accompanments, flourish there in tie winter
season, while in the summer it will be filed with
the amusements and variety more suitable for that
time Of the year.
Everything is fourshing in New York. Trade
is bnsk, industry is productive, the shipping in
teress are going ahead, and ,heatricals flourish
along side all these elements of general prosperity