New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-04-19
ADJUSTMENTS LAST NIGHT.

| Laura KIysE'5 THIATTH.-s kev.iork audience
generally waiting neither n Intelligence taste ror
sIthusiAsm; but s1tienoel Als Ire indyidusls-thsy
hive their hrmoTs, ard their yay, IN those momsnis
are lot TO be sccoun,ed for List night for example
siiaDR cowd as,eubled e, THE Tte.er 10 witness
| TIE SRA, perform anoe Of The Midsummer Nights
Dream, pfet.rttd a. fairy SPECTACLE or the pl.y
We reid not spest more than 10 observe that il has
been very jncioousy sled but an e1hib ton
Of soerery, costume, mechanical effects ard general
display II hanover been equsod 10 this country and
we doubt II Il has been ever ,ufpa'sd 10 any other
Mns Kssre having msds large sun Of money by
Our American Cousin, has spent Il With unbounded
bberaiy ard tasteful discretion upon tbs play. The
mat critical ey defect but few faus rhe p,no.
rama in the iesord net, the fairy grouping ard trsrs
formations 10 tie thri-oorc uitng this feast
for tie eye with tie fairy iheaicr Displayed in
the latt soeneae most cred tabc to the management
sIo the artists IioJ ed to crose their effects Toe
music rejected chiefly from Mendel,sohn. was mos,
celtat,ly h,ndlsd by Mr.. Baker. The audience we're
pleased sCme; The Jodic inc.insi 10 be
delighted but a moIe provincial, thick headed public
| il never was cur nisforturs 20 sit amorg. They
lsu, bed a. triyiass pssed eIcellsno,s With in
| difference sfd eulGed down the whole Nth the ,told
ignorance ttStapig driven from Porkopolis eats tue
/
We csn only account for this by pre- umipg that the
! loug and loud flourish Of irurnpets with which Miss
Kseres la, usfered tbr pl,y bsio.o the public, had
20 eAtad their ideas that they cane with eStrsvsgnnt
notion, and we're 10, AIKEN by surprise Or, aud ths
| /, moro probable, much curio,ty AID greh expects
t.ops were felt 10 zee Mr. B,k.s performance OF
Bottom ard ,hst atst csn afford 70 Rave Il csudidy
stated that 10 wss exceedingly bad in the part.
| ~ Ia. IL n felIV of dsap-
pertinent clouded over tho general effect which all
The briancy Of the production could not entirely ef-
| fee Mss K,eue was most arch and excellent as
Puck and Aliis Mccarthy AZ OLeron displayed figure
| which gave the character charming prominence.
Mfs Ada l'on made her debut here FOR the season,
ard looked A. besuiifol ~ ever Mr. Couldock in The
teus felt he had absd pant aud conveyed his mpretfion
clearly 10 he sudieIc But ttese mall m,iier'
| The wont Performance even wore than Mr.. Blakes,
md ii at was h.rd TO boa the performance Of tho
audience In their capacity a. pablic and, ere we
conclude We would sAid TO them, II you can neither
appreciate an ftic tate dashpg eroipHse, II you
colcly lock on work which You shoud havo greeted
! with erihutiafm and IL yOu 10 not forthwith mend
| your ways and encourage with crowded houses
tuch productions these then you had b,tter abdcste
your pIeiersotsto be smetiopoltan public tell enter
prise no seek lie reward esewlers, either IN Lonfon or
Psiis for you are unwilling or u,able to understand
goodress until you are told why and when It is so in
the artistic Racquet Jour c)tdii on s reduced to what
was ten or fifteen years ago and you must patiently
waii, ~ you did then, until your betten arc served.
DO not magre that fifty cents paid at tho door Is the
wtges Of arr; Il is the tribute Of free Intelligence OF
pine iselpg. of all that IL fec and elegant and beau
tm in your nature that IL the sustenance Of the ar
tist; he wants your brsin', not Jour pockets.