New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-03-15

or tho technics o. lsdes sboemaking or tie art Of
selling borse, oranytbing else which may be in ef.
estingly told bat it must have plot, and that
plot must reyolv, the raserrassiou and tie diff
cul,ies which 10 socially. herctitary, fatally,
not specially OF accidcnay, in the road to tho hap
pn,ss of the levers Nov. for the purrose Of comedy
or the novel where does any such obstacle exit
with us
In the comedy written by Mrs. Matilda Heron
Stoepel, The Belle Of tie Season. in which, too,
she il now performing at the Winter Garden, il is
assumed that such inpedments do exist, and they
are made the poyocs.on for five sctr with inteec-
onal subsidiary matter, intended TO daguorreo'!p e
certain actuslities. TIE manner in which the dlfli-
culiies are seriously ret forth is TO this effect
Miss Objectionable daughter of a deceased gentle
man of Il a. name--t the belle. She has a widowed
mother, aad IN unmarried elder brother. They are
very rich and fashionable She is .extualy " the
oneen of fasbion" in New.York. As such, her posi-.
lion is, ihsatrcaly imperial. But she is full Of noble
sen,imcnts At heart rhc is III conocIast, and would
tr'uae the Dagonian Fashion into inpapable
powder. For che has fallen in love I" beneath heI
station" The object Of her affection is her deeeased
| fathers " clerk "a law student IA well. The law
student ia educated, ambitious handsome. virtuous-
bnt poor. she acknowledges her passion to hel
mother, who although the relict of dead lawyer
himself poor It's jobs turkey, before he stole
a certain widows property, denouices the match N
a strain tiat an English Duchess might assume il
leaini that her only son was about TO esiouse the
| beirees Of O ST. Giles washerwomsn. Now, under
favor this is English or something like it, but IL Il
not American. Fashionable fociety is, here, NJ best
gamo of chuck -firthpg. About ten miles OF
palaces have been built this eide Of the Central
Park in ten years, aud the builders often
are their credit the first or second generation Of
heaven knows what all from the importers Of gen.
Il he II GLAND gin manufactured in New-Jerey, io
tie cleaners Of old clothes by new and improved
process Such society does not slam lis doors in the
face Of good-looking young feows, who have leisure
| 10 polk and m evening euii, and are " go nice
which tie brilliant author OF the Poipbar Paperr
SAVE means clenn." Ii is not real therefore q
represent such beter-sketer extemporizat'cn of q
decade or two, AS though il dated from Norman
towns and The dOoms.d day book, and considered pro-
fs.ona men us the noun ebanks to be introduced 10
relieve he grandeur % fashionable characersn payf
such rs be b!eckguarl idiot who represents the legal
/
the elgrier The iaintirg cf this young msn whom
tie belle Of the season loves an'ng through the
succession Of want OF meils is ccr.ainiy not New
York hie II might do in scenes in certain parts Of
Eu,ole at cert in times. but fool IS too cheap here
aud ocIloymeat ior any 70 clever aid good look
ing could be had II IL were ever 20 little. The nsb
i,nabe swells who make IA descent On tpe millinci
shop srd marry the miilinerJ,-oLe Of them the RE
ter Of tic hcro--r not kcw-iork lie. Tie carrying
OF all tie characters to Niagara, with tie Falls. ro
neces ary TO tie scene, il not dramatic AID the e.
plosons in tie general parlor OF toe hotel there are
radmssib'e The plo, of the piece Is that tie belle
and tie belle family IRE in procession OF the prop
eny-a vast es,a,s--teiongng to the her
AMI his ,iser. Tie villain ia lawyer
no, over young. WHO possosees the socret thai
,he la,o Mr.. Up erton wts Il s~indler, nnd on th'
strength Of Tat professional secret "a about 10 force
Miss hyperion into detcs'ed alliance: and N pur
tuurct OF tlis he soushi 10 mako the hero TOOL o.
hin; but tic hero Was too well instructed, having
discovered his own rights; and matterl are Clarified
eventually by the hero many INC the then lennii,s.
belle aud tio Lcl,e's brother marrying he sister
TIE dot il 70; clearly eluclatcd;-poluH of Il mr.
erky, and lie legal parchment s&pos'ion especially
drngs There WIS one scene, tte end of The fourth
act, loudly sppiauded; snd the monologue' OF the
belle may safely le praised Tor their moa excellence
and rhetorical iluency. Tie dialogue bes'.iA! hei
and tie villain Was the best in the piece.
OfMrs. Stoepels performance we will brehys'ai'
thu, il would he improved il she would avoid stage
eocuon. or the multiplication Of the sounds OF th'
yovel.. aud some vey sudden changes Of lniona'ion
As We do not consder the play d staple contribution
10 Comedy-as no native comedy can be-an'
nothing else can answer with It's preisnsions-w'
shall Lot enter into special notice OF the mode .
pre.enling it, further than TO say thai 1t i hand
soInely put on the stage
! Doubties, there " III be numbers esger 10 see
new comedy, and one worthily illustrated. Among
them there mus, he those who do not eubtcribe Il
the tsxs abOut the existence Of reilning society
an American A,mac1 biased on wealth and ds
play as they know by experience, that there
higher society-recognized Us such-a society which
has the beet secrets Of the culture Of many years
which repudates all fuch oognomens "a bellies OF Tbs
season, which docs not depend on very new nn'
splendid houses, or largo feelings and balls, an'
whose names arc written in The annals Of the State
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