The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-10-07

REMARKABLY REVIVAL IN THEATRrcAIs.- There
| is no more encouraging sign OF the times than
the astonishing revival that has taken place in
heaTicals in this city. A few months ago.
when tie rebellion was SO much the younger,
and wheT the uncertainty and the novelty of
the situatioa produced alarm and dependency
in the pubic mind, all sorts of amusements
public and rsipate, dropped and languished.
People seemed TO vans the heart TO indulge in
frivolous distractions and the most straitaced
Puritan could hardly have desired to see COM
muhiSy more given over to gloom and scIede-
mai. Out OF our numerous theatres thsee
only kept their doors opcn---Laura Keene's.
the Winter Garden and the New Bowery-
and even these did so under the most
depressing circumstances. AS for the Aca-
deny Of Music, its doors were sealed up
with but dim prospects of their being reopened
during the continuance of the WAY, unless it
might be as quarters for a brigade OF soldiery.
What pleasant and astonishing change
little time has produced. The war has lost it's
novelty, and has grown to be looked upon here
as something not much out of TIE usual course
OF things, and which ought not to be allowed to
Interfere either with business or pleasure We
have recently shown, by the tests of the re-
markable increase in our advertising patronage,
and of the corrcspondngiy large increase in the
commercial movements Of this port, that bust
ness has resumed its wonted activity; and that
pleasure has reassertcd its rights is amply
proved by the crowds that nightly throng all
our places of amusement
The Academy never. in the pamics. days Of
the Opera, drew such fashionable and overflow
ing audiences as does that Incompatible Herr
mann, with his Straightforward and ventriloquial
tricks. Even the more roHs churchgoing peo
pie OF Brooklyn rushed in such aristocratic
masses the other evening to witness his feats Of
dioblcrie that their Academy ofMusic was entirely
too small to give adnittance to the multitude
And, then, see how Wallack's new and beaut-
tul uptown theatre has been patronized since
the first night Of its opening. We are sure that
even tie proprietor himself must be as much as
tonished as delighted with the first fruits Of his
enterprise. But why does not he drop that
stupid ard ridiculous title to his new comedy,
and restore to it its original and appropriate
Miss Laura Kecne has also cause to recognise
and be duly grateful for the theatrical revival
which astonishes us all Her extravaganza OF
the - Seven Sons" while more out,c than that Of
the " Seven Sisters" which it succeeded, is at
the same time still more popular. And so with
the Winter Garden, where the fairy extrava-
CANA Of Cinderella" modified, ard to that
S,I Al,
of the day, has had a most prosperous run,
with Mrs. John Wood as the interpreter Of
the role OF tie fairy's protcgc. Tonight
new comedy, written by Miss Grace Wacot
il TO be presented at this theatre. On the
east side OF the city the revival is quite as
noticeable. The New Bowery theatre is doing
a capital business; the Old Bcwcry is to be
opened this week. and metamorphosed into
circus; and German opera and theatricals are
exccllently got up for, and well patronized by,
that large class Of our fellow citizens who
speak the tongue Of German fatherland
As to operate oslccts, our regular thea
trical review, Published elsewhere in orr col
umns, rccounts fully what they are. The indie
fatgable Ullman is again in the field. prom-
Using great Things, and we all know that he
generally redeems his promises. He deems it
prudent, however, in advance, and to secure
himself against contingencies, to give series Of
four operate reprcs entations-two in this city
and two in Broeklyn-for his own especial bene-
fit Upon the success of these will depend to- q
certain extent the question Of Opera during the
coming winter.
In the brilliant success of all our places OF
amusement we recognise one Of the healthiest
and NEST encouraging signs. Itshows, however
it may be as to nobody being hurt, that at least
nobody is afraid. And therein lie the ASST
rance and best guarantee Of our national tri-
umph over rebellion and all other ills that
menace us.