New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-12-17
LAURA KEENES THEATER.

The i1epressbs conflict has taken possession Of this
stage also, and last night devoted to sitting up
with the dear sioR old Union, now believed by some
queer people 10 be in monetary danger of dissolution.
Wheeler moved by the of the Octoroon, the
debates 10 Congress, or the memory Of Uncle Toms
Cabin we cannot say; bat probably in the hope OF
making much money during the prevalence Of the
prese Mt political epidemic, Miss Keene produced new
play. called DISSENT Relations, or Southerner ia
New-York." There Is NO plot to II; but hetero-
eeneous mass of people are brought IN to make up a
series Of soeres, Eros, Of them morally impossible
to have taken Place outside Of q lunatic asylum
A, there !, no story, only Indicate the style OF
the characters. John Arkwright a Southern planter
Mark smith, and ihs old house servant Toby bar
retn, arc toleri,ble types, and well played by both
gentlemen But do southern planters find thelrc max
Of Vengeance when things 60 wrong in "kicking
niger or do they usually swear in The presence Of
sdies or boast of that that their hides are
AS clean az hers George Nkwrigm DAILY, DISC
bedient son. and bis wife (Norah Leigh, have little
or nothing do yond representing the traditional,
slways forgiven young hust and and wife. The parts
were cleyerly done. Edwin M0deyille ,Levickl, and
HE wife ada Plunkettl, who is Arkwrights
Ssnabter are fashionable NewY orkers, badly drawn.
TIE lady was suffering from cold, and neither
looked nor acted well enough to satisfy the audience.
Her style ia of the provinces Mr.. and Mrs. Dash
well. ID. A. Smith and Annie Deland), are also FASH
onable peooe, with nothing TO do but look well. Both
succeeded; Mifs DelaE3 was tastefuly dressed, and
gave Der namby-pamby words as naturally as such
unnatural trssh could 10 given Fitzsl etter, an ez-
IRENE fop was made cutie effective by Me. Felix Vim
cent despite the venerable antiquity of all his written
" situations." Laura Kcene herself personated a
rowdy Bowery GIRL well enough OF itself; but 10 such
character exists III any way as ret down by the autho
Mary Wells was a skin-fint boarding-house keeper,
and was made bash ~ all the stale Jokes applicable
10 this sort Of wits Mrs Mark Smith strong-nind-
ed wouan, doctor by profession; broad carica.ure
upon respectal and sefnl class Whose numbers at
the SICK beds Of their sisters ought to be much greater
Mss Henry, promising young actress, did an Irish
girl INTENDED for Msa Mccarthy, who is ILL and did
not oveIdo H. which ia very commendable. Mr.. L. j.
Vincent plays young lawyer fairly. Dir. Peters
does COcIney rs wei rs the text will permit. There
ire several poor rel.tiOni-a sort Of haw-worm with
a well subjected wife; Bambooze, Spectator,
and Others These poor relations after Arkwrghts
money; but be makes ap with bis son, and the! do
rot get il. The planter fnds starving lrisIman in
the streets, (Mr. Whea.eigh and takes hun to
his sauaid home az the Five Points, where
l. found a newsboy lAiaster Fred. Wrenl whose
psrfo1nsnce was decidedly the best thing In the
piece, and won wel-a9erted applause in this den we
had the stereotyped cant about taking care Of your
white slaves, with the discovery that the wreched
boyel WAS the northern terminus Of the Underground
Railroad. OF course Toby il iisgus'ed and occasion
Is taken to glorify toe comforts OF the old plantation.
The situations are mostly hose Of broad farce Fast
ening live lobster 20 strange vsors coa,-ai, tip
ping over dining ablss, breaking efoekeTy, and getting
toe danny to ru away with great masculine negro
instead Of delicate lady, are specimens ~ original "a
thew ere probable a respectable houses in New
The only life in tie whole mass is summed up IN
tie newsboy and the spread-esgle andauon OF
the Union-at which everybody, as in dury bound,
yoeierously appia1d. But bow long tho public viii
endure for these fsw vital points the d-eary, wishy-
vsshv. meeningkss Of badly j0inea words which
bury them, il hardly question. As Z literary pro-
duction it il mr. tgated trash collection o. ancient
ice hilers thGosn together without order or design.
IL Il as harmless as watergruel exc a IL gross eYg
eerfon Of the foles and vces OF he people Of tins
CITY and In one instance the use & words which we
are sure Mis- Keene did not observe, or they would
have been sunpresesdwhsn the hypocrisical Smooth
Martini i peTseested for csb., he ssys, For
" give them, for they know not wk@t they
ado 70 We are suIe ihs va> overlooked by
n. management; bu. VINO IS The writer thos fppantly
blssphsmous with words uttered under sach awfa
eiIcumf.aaces So far - the getting p was eoa-
eerpes the play pot upOa the stage muh better 'han
il dessrSss; and the acting was, IN tie main, better
thar eOud have been expected from twenty-five Peo-
re Aoundering in sea Of platitudss AMI I'D JOKES
without the shadow Of plot story, or purPoss. tn
house wac full, and she patriotic baneomoS was duly
sppls aded but lie Of the rSy did not elicit a-
protAticr. II viii be repeated until further notice.
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