New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-12-21

tunste for the cause Of morality that be has cnosea
such phases Of life a. he has for the su''Scts
Of his pictures-still moro unfortunate mat
be has chosen to present. them TOO meca
oosesr de ross-bot TO say, too, 6esh color eu.
truthful reality 10 their predominant and SAVOY
quality He is the only dramatist to da7 wac
paints with eminent skill the manners OF toe Ene.
We may regret his selection; we must scyao~i-
edge that his mAD, er of treatment 10 mastery. In
his new piece, upon which he j, now working: oe
passes from the Denier monde of glded Prosu'u-
ton 10 that other glded world Of unclesu money
making An essential incident ia thes, qdite pop
ulsr pieces acted this week on our theasers, !, q
Grim con BY the side Of this fact and 70 qaali'y
your haI sh judgment Of Partisan taste-let alone
Paii.isn m0rhity-I ought to add that the Eeoi:
des Pees, now nightly presented to crowded and
enthusiastic audiences in one Of the largest SUB
urban thesters, is utterly virtnous from oeg,no'og
to end There Is not o scene not sttuatlon Ia
the whole five acts and three hours which could
call up blush if presented before young lsdys
boarding school There sre no less than tnree
prayers in the course Of the drama 80 OF foem
"by the whole company" arranged suplic .tlngy IA
the most gracefully religious of tsblesux. Wlthai
it is full Of incident and movement, and excepting
that it Wrges too much toward tue sen
timentsl and over.abOunds in commonplace
moralizrg, is really deeply interesting
Il, too, is of day. The time is 1855. the scene
Paris, ard farm in village not thirty iles die.
tapt. Quite in the other direction Dumas The
Elder Alexander tho Grea: is getting ready for
the public Of the Porte st. Martin Thea'er, olss-
sicsf Drama, " POrestie," which will be repre-
sented in the manner OF the ancient Greek tragedy,
perhaps but one does no. conceiVes OF Dumas az
a classic. Meantime this wonderful ly fertile pro
Queer has another piece modern and seml-hi'tor
ical liz rehearsal at the VAUDEVILLE aud il trying to
have his version of Hamlet, which resembles
Sbsbespesre's Hamlet as much as his Orstie re.
sembes anything known to the Greeks, produced
at the Theatre Franchise. We are to have more
Greek at the Theatre Lyrique, 10 the shape OF
libritto of an opera by Merry, entitled Eroststus
at the Grand Opera, Cruvelli 8 marriage with
titled persop rage ard her cOnsequeu. retirement
from The stage, are spoken of Sitn the solenoitS
becoming the growing likelihood of so important
an event Her successor is said to be Madame
BoIghi Ma uric, at present filing an engagement st
the italian Opera This lady is reported TO have
accepted a three years engagement with the
director of the Grand Opera, for $4,000 francs the
fret year, g. 900 the second, and sc, 900 the third.
I'll TIovstoJe," at the rebesrsas of which Verdi
himself presided. is Just now in great vogue al the
ItalieDs. 1t reminds me to tell you story OF the
origin of the libretto. During the civil var chat
waited Spain ia 1885, young man OF Madrid drew
the first number in the conscripton of troops
from that city, ordered by the Government
Few Gays dItTNhIus inc CoululttSc vi luo luc1hc
del Principe met to hear toe reading OF maou-
script drama, which was presented to them by the
author in tho costume of a solder. His modest
air inspired at once personal sympathy ADD distrust
of the merits Of his work. Ii was listened to
coldly, and accepted in committee by majority
OF one VOTE month later, it was played be-
fore full hOute curious-at Madrid, as else
whereof novelties. The audience began their
applause with the first scene which grew
to enthusiasm as the plot unfolded, and crowned
the piece at the close with the most complete sue
cess The author was called ont the fret night;
on following nights he was called for again, and
was greeted with bouquets when he appeared One
evening the public insisted that he shonld place
upon his head laurel wreath that had been Of
fTed him. The percentage of the receipts of The
the ster, due TO him as author, purchased him
substit in the army Since thence Garcia
GutirTez, to whose drama of the Troubadour Verdi
composed bis music, has become one of the first
dr. amatic authors of the country of CalderOn and
Lope de Vega.