The New York herald., 1850-05-23

Muse AND MoyEY IN BosToN--TuE RIVAL
HoUsEs.-The Havana Italian Opera Company,
un6er the management Of Signor Pader, after de-
spairng almost, OF drawing out the people Of Bos-
ton, with their splendid yocaliss, have been blessed
with perfect shower of Dan;e. We have else
where shown, by extracts from the Boston papers,
the character of the excitement. The immediate
origin OF il, however, is not so easily arrived at
The Boston people are very peculiar, and have
been So time cut of mind. Phegmatic as they
are, they can wake up sometimes to surprising
energy. On the elder Kean's summer visit
10 Boston, we Were at The old Federal street
theatre, when tn adnirng few" created
Il tremendous hrhj,ab because the tragedan
would not "waste his sweetness on the desert
air = and subsequent excitement drove the actor
entirely from the siege in that city, every pane of
glass in the theatre having been broken in the
Cooper and Conway created q great fivore some
years after MADAME Teron and Master Burke,
also, did wonders. The former, on one Of the
stormies nights Boston ever knew, for her benefit,
had two circles filed en,iiely with ladies' who
stayed all night in The drawing room saloon, the
snow being too deep to permit the passing of car
riaEes. Still later, Ellen Tree, Mr.. Macready, and
the Viennoise children, have triumphed wonder
fully, the people actually deserving the museum
as the Puritans like to call il, by conventional
hypocrisy-for the theatre.
Since the building OF The Revere House on Bow
doin Square, however, all the patronage of art pro-
ceeds from, or originates at two ponts-that hotel,
and the TremoniHouse. Occasionally, the United
States Hotel suddenly wakes up, and startes the
whole community with its admiration Of the fine
arts, and the Adams House enters the lists in the
same line. All depends upon the house that the
aItsts stay a during their sojoum. Miss Cushman
made mistake on her visit, and, consequently,
though 'native and 10 the manor bom," was too
coldly received. She will do better next iime and
the enthusiasm will be commensurate with her
merits. She will understand how nicely they
manage matters between these rival houses-t the
white and red rose-the York and Lancas-
tel--jhe Capulet and Montague; or, as the
Dutch would call il, the Hooks and Cobbes.
II is curious that all the taste in Boston
emanates from the hotels but this is easily
accounted for by those who know how they have
treated all their painters, poets and actors, for
the last thirty years.
Ii is the strangers in Boston who do so mach to-
wards giving Athens their Athenians. They 90
there TO see the emporium Of literature, aud are
ready 10 fall in with the supposed prevailing taste
of the refined and intellectual CITY, bat are often
sadly disappointed at the result II is only when
the hotels out, in their full strength-as in the
case Of the Havana company's performances-that
even the appearance Of Athens is exhibited and
even then there is hard work TO get up an exhibi-
ton Of the first families. The hotels alone save
the reputation Of the city-the intellectual press
having little power over the sold and indifferent
race whose opinions they are rather inclined to
follow than 10 create.
We perceive, by some of the accounts, that there
was falling of in the excitement on Tuesday,
when Tedeaco appeared; but there will be another
struggle, probably, 10 hear 50 Luca'-hat won-
deriully executed opera The hotels will set u7
the true standard OF taste, and higher premiums
for seats may be paid than those which have al
ready asionshed the public. The fremont House
has got the start; but the Revere will come up ia
timc and the other hotels may maxi Is .ht race
Of il. Go ahead.