New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-01-23
FROM BOSTON.

! world. You know how large and handsone
room the Music Han here is. Well, imagine i,
Sled in az ts parts winh children, from ten to fl
teen years Of sge under the double excitement Of
holiday and Of Concert given TO them BY NJ Thai
berg. A large ProportioA OF the children were
girls, in the brightest Of pm and blue bonnets and
ribbons, and they gave The 'cdy of the house and
the front balcony the air of 81 minated Tulip SHOW
Behind item and in the uppe-s aconie' was oacA
ground Of srown.UP people, niidren OF larger
growth, who had been invited BY the competent
authorities in charge Of the eIth lnmenf. Inns was
he second git of hit harnOnies that NJ IhaIoer9
had bestowed onYouDg Bost on. The TWO lnciuded al
the children of the public schools an age TO ap'
| preciste and ENJOY such boon. WI en- the Master
first came upon the stage and took in he Hvely ID
pretty scene, the seriousness which ms the haol
| Of bis fine countenauce dis '0fved int smile, Tor
| the first aud only tame Of his public opearances
| here. Madame ID Angri and SignOr NJ relh were
| more demOnstratiye of the pleasure tbe charming
| picture gave them, and they did theTr BEST "
| make the occasion one to be remembered Il II many
| years-ds long as any Of the yOuBg crowd survive
| to tell of IT, The delight of the children nd the
| elappirg If the tiny lands was pretty 10 70 ok at
| They were not satisfied unless their encOres We're
answered, which was done with the greatest God
| nature possible. -.
| After the entertainment was over, the artists, NJ
| Thalberg, Madame DAngri, Sgnori MCrellt and
AbelIa, took seats in front of the platfo' On,
| (which, by the way, crowded with may OF
| Our First Men and Women), and the Rev. Df
| Lothrop, in his capacity of Chairman OF The
| School Committee, made brief speech of thanas
on the part of the children. Then four nice little
girls came forward from the side OF the stage, each
with a saperb bouquet or basket of the rarest hot
house fOwers, and gave one TO each OF the artists
in acknowledgment of the pleasure they had com
| muDicated. These gifts being graclOusly received
| the children and sung " Han Columbia
together the concert Of sweet childish voices dis
pusipQ in some measure the horrors OF thai dread
full Anthem which has been visited upon this guilty
nation as small Dstalment of tee punishment dss
| TO its manifold sins. At a word from one of th5
managers for the schools, the air was all Halter
with the handkerchiefs of the girls waving adeu t.
| their kind friends, while the boys gave vent TO
| their animal spirits in a vOlley OF cheering. Inc
| company then separated, shut up IN measureess
| content" 1t was altogether perfect affair, and
| undoubtedly gave much pleasure to NJ. Thaberg
ard his fellow. artists as it did to the young objects
| of their harmonious bOuntles. am glad 10 learn
| from unimpeacbable authority (the rather, that
reports of an opposite character have been INDUS
tri0usy circulated), that NJ Thalberg is entirely
satisfied with the success of his visit to Boston, IN
all its relations He has taken more money than at
any other place be has been in even than IN New
York in proportion 70 the number OF hs concerts.
To be sure there is reason for this, In the tact
that the Music Hal holds nearly three times "a
MANY people as Nble's. And this financial prosper
ity has been achieved in spite OF (possiby because
% very liberal distributions of free tickets to per-
sons not likely 10 feel able to go at their ORn
| charges. 1t is said that he gave away thousand
the fret night, and f7e hundred the second and
that after that the Hall filed itself with good paying
people. This after and Monday he gives con
| ceris at Chickering'S rooms, holding four or hve
hundred persons. at FIVE dollars ticket, aud
tomorrow he performs at grand concert, or
whatever the, call ii, OF the Handel and Haydn so
cety-and so will end memorable fortnight III the
history of all lovers Of the highest order OF plansm
Th.atricals are abundant enough here, If not
| hourisbing. imagine we are rather overstocked
| than otherwise. Some one Of your city papers
proposed taking Mrs. John Wood away from US, on
The gr ound that We are rot fond OF teatrcals and
that you are. If the number Of theaters De test
of the love of them, fancy We mus excel you In
that virtue; for We have four theateTs, with pop
| ulalion of say two hundred thousand, while you
| have but eight counting the Academy of Music,
with at least four times as many resident citizens
and ten times as many floating travellers. But then
| we Save two too many, Two theatsrs would do an
excellent business. Indeed, two do now. The
Boston Theater, under Mr.. Barry, pays its way
and the interest its debt, without dividing any
| thing among the shareholder; but as nobody took
| stock with any idea that it would 1t IA OF no i'm
portance The troublesome question as to the free
! admission Of shareholders is settled here IN way
| that is mutually satisfactory and which l would
| recommend 10 the attention of the unharmonlous
parties to the battles periodically waged between
the prOprietOrs and lessees Of your Mandatory OF
| Melody. Every owner of share elects at the be-
| ginning of every season one of two things lie may
| choose the right of passing the dOOrkeeper and
| attending any entertainment without paying for
it; but in this case he stands on the foot
| ing of any other dead-head, and must take bis
| chance for seat. Or, he may waive bis right OF
free entrance and select two seats In such pars Oh
the house as he prefers to which he is entitled
giving notice at the boxoice at the time OF open
ing the same. he paying fer hem Ike anybody ess.
There is one other advantage appertalning to
shareholders adopting this latter alternative, and
10 none others and that that they never pay more
than the regular theater price, at times when the
| prices are doubled and 4uadrupled. Thus, e. pro-
| prieter selecting his seats on these terms a. the
beginning of the season would only pay hty cents
| for them if in the pSr4uet or boxes, or dollar II
in the balcony while all his neighbors Were paying
dollar and hsh or two dollars, at any access OF
a Grsi Rachel or La Grange fever This arrange
ment is satisfactory 20 the public to the managers
and TO the prOprietOrs, and the mischief insepara-
bic from sharehOldiDg privileges IL. comfortably
avoided. The Museum is always paying con-
cern as have tod you before and i'rather think
has cleared more money in the last ten years than
any other establishment in the country The How
ara Athenaum which is very pretty theater, OF
about the size Of Wsllscks, generally passes into
two or three different hands every Winter. The
Marsh family that "aerie Of children, little
eyAsses, that cry out on the top OF the question,
al and are most tyranDcally claPped ior II, are 10
possession OF il now, believe, with moderate sue
| cess Such an entertanms ~ must be very per
feet 10 be tOlerable and litts George, who IS rea!
very clever little chap, is mrdly enough to carry
l Il as mo