New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-03-30

strorg aod growing contradiction TO this theory
OF dramatic marasmas. Our thessors have bs.
coue Institutions which bear tue .sq,c rel.,o, -
those existing when 1t vas said the ar.n, s,,,.
i.hed that Fifth avenue does Go the Fl % Point,
The ss'ge appeals to TIE sense
witch requires that . drawing room shoali not
looA like lumber gsrret. a palace like a ho,pi-
tai, or landscape like Chinese saucer-are uox
true and vivid, ard in nothing has the gro 9TH of
taste exhibited more advance than in the repre-
'eptation, 90 our stage. whea We ada to ths.e
facts shat thester the Academy OF Music, has
lately been constructed ia this City, q. 80 st-
pense Of nearly four hundred thousand dollars,
sum that Shskspere would have dee net in.
possible aud Gsrrick absurd. for such an end,
it,et ms idle to TAX Of the decline Of dra matte
representations.
What we need, therefore, is no. the exdrpiioa. ,
but the Improvement and retirement Of the stage.
Habisual criticisms Of pieces and actors are
necessary to keep up the standard Of excellence.
diminish pre.entious assumptions, and certify
positive excellence; and ia this regard our Ptess
generally exhibits como Ell fsole Independents,
though formerly it did little elss sha, pub.
Bat for the good of the public as well as tbs
theater, we need the disuse If the profsni-
ties and indeceucss which lover the calling Of
the actor. Not at the sc;or ia worse privately
tran The audience which applsnd his moral short
&C uirgs but wOrse as public msn 10 abusas
his trust We cannot recommend any oae to
visit some thea.ers ofthis C,sy, on account oftae
sreariog and other iwproprietles OF the chief
actors. Whist makes this disgrace Of the theater
more remark able is the "a I that several of the
actors are vel. read men, and fully conssiOls that
there are certain rules in society which are never
violated without entitliog the offender 10 Dc ex-
cluded from it, For example: A man 10 a draw
rg-room who would, Ia the presence of woueq,
swear every FIVE, ten, or fifteen minutes would
be sent TO Coventry Why the drs viag-room good
society, whom mimicted on the stage, should die
peuse with the rules of good breeding which save
society from f,lipg iato Ysaoo:m Outright, iss
question which the actors on ht 70 settle at sheir
next Convention. Actors now bestow the great
est attention On their theatrical dress and Jepof.-
ment Some of them are as happy as caro-
ful in this regard. Bat they forget tnas
the bsckgusrd is onnipTeseut 10 their words,
which 10 d.ess or department can hide and they
SHOCK, if they I, not deb.ucb, the young and the
virtuous. As it 10 possible that manager my
be perv.ous to an idea as well as other people.
suppose that reform bs tried, by way of ekpert
ment, for calendar month AUD let US have to
speak Of the increased success Of the refjrmers n
our Theaters-for success will in crease uuder
such moral regimen.
Another reform, absolutely necessary for tbs
dignity of the Theater, is the exclusion from all
OF them, as is done by six Out u the seven lead.
ing houses here, of the old third tier-ihst high
change of brszeDdOm in shame and sorrOw. Ia
we mean the exclusion Of bars. "To raise the
"geDius ard TO mend the heart" does not mesa
pouring down alcOb d aud rottlDg the stomach;
end, as thing irrespective Of Temperance laws,
let the Tbeaters be tue to their assumed mission
ss moral reformers and representatives Of poet.
cal justice, and close the Internal dscs Of infany
which lie their ddsctic professions out of counts
rance. But, if they will not DO an voluntarily,
we say to them as the Rev. Rowland Hill said tor
his crowded congregation one night: 81 lear3c
that there are two pick pockets present, engaged
in their professional duties: l would inform
" rem Il at the eye of the Lord ia upoa them,
"tnd, if that ia net enough, there are two Bow.
street officers presents" and, II moral sQssloais
not CROUCH, the Legislature gill Soon pat the
crews into the coffin Of orr theatricsl run shops.