The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-03-06
that Of any former period. When people dance
rayly and spend their money freely for adver-
Using we may look around in vain for signs of
decay or hard times.


The american public-particularly the New
York pubhc-h proyerbially the most patient
and the best natured in the world. 1t submits
with martyr-like. forbearance to municipal
tyranny, TO impossible streets, to overcrowded
.cars, to extortionate prices for food, rent and
'clothing-to all sorts Of imposition. II
sneekly swallows the new ethical law that the
moral quality Of drink depends upon its
being taken five minutes before or five
minutes after midnight But to no i'm
position does it bend so humbly as to
the Determination" Of the Associated Mana
gers. Nowhere does II exhibit so completely
the plenitude fits long suffering as in nightly
crowding the theatres of the metropolis. 1t
NO longer ventures to remember that it was
ever critical If the old cushions are brushed
and the old curtains are shaken once in a
.a-hile they are contented with the same old
ma. ces and the same old familiar faces.
n recent revival Of the Shakesperan
drama so loudly proclaimed with great
aouris. of trumpets, consisted chiefly, after
all :, a. introduction Of new costumes and
SCENERY. ~ was mere upholstery-and tailor
revival An the audience resigned itself to
ann,and;,o n same studied and not over
powerful elocuti, N to which they had become
accustomed witbo, 1t even whispering to each
other tho confsss;on, lat they still sadly missed
tho tbr;l,;nr ,,arnot;s,, of the elder Booth.
4T.e ;nn,e,oe s,oooa. of Ristori, the Queen
Of the i;vino STAGE and ., Dawson, the great
German tragedian. has show, that New York
ers have by no means utten. 1'' s'u0 u','-
matte taste and appreciation. lazy Don -
winning favor. And why should no' So'is'
senterpris.ng and energetic managers p. :"
genuine dramatic revival by further "po''a
'tons of foreign talent? If they detea '''''o''
not to encourage the native talens which on-
couragement would doubtless develop ana y
writer's and actors; if they will not ask 10
new plays which there are many young college
graduates not incompetent to write, at least
let them import, in place of wornout pieces
which are wearing out even American pa
thence, few fresh specimens Of the dramatic
wealth Of. Paris and London. Why should
there not be as brisk and lively demand for
new plays as for new bonnets? And espe-
'cially why should not he English adaptations
VI cTcucH pleceS NC SklIiuily uuupNu III tHelH
turn 70 our own stage? La FdaniVe Benoiton,
for example. which is now being SO admirably
presented by the persevering and praiseworhy
French company in their Fourteenth street
theatre would require but slight changes to
adapt it to the peculinrities of New York life
and society.
Why should the managers Of our theatres
a. &c tlr ~ hiatt
little tugs in cur harbor? In the spring new
name is painted on the paddle-wheel, and the
old sea captain who swears he will not be
taken in again by Hector" which seemed last
year as ii it would never tow him up to the
city, is delighted at seeing "venus" rise from
i the waves to welcome him. But he finds only
too late that a change Of names does not change
the same old worthless tug. It Is not enough
to change the names of tedious old plays. Let
us have new and good ones.