New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-03-30
THEA TRICAL.

LAURA KlFNE's TnLAGEp.-A curiously bal drama
in three acts called "T.e Poor StIolers was played
last night, for the first time in America, at this house.
We pay that curiousy bad drama undeservei COM
pliment, and let it up Incredibly easy, WHEN merely
state that is the most incongruos and dieconnecel
play that it has ever been our fortune to witness ard
our experience in that way has been rather extensive
than otherwise The chsiacters all old Friends bu:
they to be out of place and not TO conduct them
selves with their customary mpertinent ease. Trey
do not fratenze; they obitinately refuse to have
any thing 10 DO with each other or to Influence each
others actions, on any consideration OF at any
price, The consequence is that the different parts OF
the drama are entirely independent and the effect is
delightfully."- confusing. II is if the author had taken
dozen or more conventional plays, and al decapta-
ted some and decaudated Others like sbrimps. and had
umbled the heads and tails together and left all the
bodies the connecting inks, out u the question alto
gether. And il appears to the behoIder Ike
skeleton drama. from which something Is missing ne
can hardly specify what.
II is not our old fte,d the grim miser, for he is
there, and is comfortably murdered in the first act
is rot the villain of an old lawyer who knows all about
the two wills and who waits to get tie property to
himself, for the cid lawyer appears as large a. lie; 1t
is not the ytuous heroine i'll distress, for the vtuouS
heroine is on the spot, vituous as ever, aud in
rather more distress than when We saw her last it is
not the good Young man who loves the yrtuous GIRL
for the aforesaid coed young presents himself at
the proper time ard Lanies the yirtuous young
woman in spite of her distress; nor ia the amia-
bic parert absent from the scene; We refer to
that disinterested old chap, who is very poor, and
who has chance to steal but who is so honest that he
wouldn't steal if himself only were oncelned, but
would lie down and grmy perish in CHASTITY spasm OF
very hungry virtue but who has fair daughter whom
he loves passing we'll for whom he does steal large
pile of money which nobody ever misses, and which
he never sperds and which is therefore only 80 much
cash suddenly withdrawn from the circulating medium
Of the country Yes this old gentleman is there, and
the comic servant is there and the funny landlord IS
there. and msny others OF acquaintance
are there all apparently in good health, but
for all that something is wanting; whist it is we
have not yet decided. But we have another serious
cause of quarrel with the author and we here accuse
him of wantony violating utterly breaking down,
yckedly setting a. neught, and mercessly smashing
che Of the most sacred traditions OF the drauia'
This dee.:ct author kills man in the very beginning
of bis play and here comes cherished right OF the
public, a right Of which they have been detranded'
Everybody knows that when pay-wrter gives the
public murder in the first act of hs piece, ne must
by the simple rule of theatrical progression, give the
same public in the last act at least an asssssha-
ion and four fatal dusls, TO say nothing
a wholesale slaughter of superuumerane' IN Inc
losing scene. The pubic have right to demand A.
nd they do demand it but in this instance tuey dol
ct IT, This the first one of the involable 'raniS'e
roprieties, this author hss ruthlessy trampIed on
There is no assassination there no due' ana nore
If tie supernunerarss ere seged, at lea-t not 'a1
eunarily co. On the whole the Play, as here p'a!e'
is sn absurd puzzle.
The names of Jeferion, Peters, Perry, burnett aHu
Mr.. V. c. Howard il the east are so many suh@.i"7'
that the fault OF the failure does rot lie with tue A'o''
BURTOy', THEArER.-The brothers hu,cnn.on,
TWO English acrobsts, gave az exhibition 'h@ii nI''
il this county last night at Burton 5 Iheater' ihe
feats consisted OF great number Of singular eVo'u'
tons with wooden globes Similar performances H.'e
been given here by the Segri;t brothers end nU1'e,
Of other perscrs, but Of them have app
the Hrtchnsors in de1.erity. they use iour o'oOe'
while others use bu, two, AMI they 'piu AID "ne ana
toss them about IN surprisingly skiLfai manner IN
;leir feet keepug pe-tec .ime tie WINE u '' ''''-
They received much applause.
WALGAck's THIhTER.-Ths boi's va II" ''N
egln last evening, "Js,se Brown 'ni Us j" -'
Bee l. 70 the a.t,sCf'cn'
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