The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-09-22

NEW YORKISMs.
From Oar OsOn Correspondent.
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In my last / mentioned how Ste wart had
added to his store, so as 10 make 1t include
almost the entire square between Ninth and
Tenth streets and Broadway and Fourth avenue.
Another improvement I'm very different direc-
! tion will be abundantly appreciated by the
lovers OF music, both for its own aud for
fashions sake. Steinwa Hall has been habit
tated. And it needed It, Those who went
thtber for the first time and unfortunately
everybody who goes there has to have first time
expected to see sumptuous palace dedicated
to the perpetual honeymoon OF poetry and music.
Instead, they found themselves IN q glaring'
staring, white naked enclosure of walls, with
nothing to contrast with them but the mahogany
colored backs of the seats and of the organ loft,
which resembled q mahogany mausoleum for
music. During the last month or so, Stenway
has been expending his surplus energy in more
legitimate mode than Madame Rachel upon Mrs
Bovodaile, and has almost succeeded in making
his Hall look beautiful forever. Stucco aud
fresco have done their work, and the organ loft
which has hitherto stood in one corner, by
ITSELF like the brooding nightmare of music, has
been balanced on the other side by proscenium
box so contIived as to allow full passage OF
fresh air. Statues of poetry and music fiji
up the inches that have been waiting for them,
and Seinway Hall is the place to feel warm and
comfortable In. Last winter even Mr.. Dickens
could not warm 1t with his genlality. The
snow and frost seemed TO have got upstairs and
inside tho windows, and the rich vibrations OF
Parepa Rosa's voice occasionally seemed scanty
and thin TO those of the audience not hot.
blooded enough to remain genial under the
frost of SteInway. Mrs. Scott Sddons Is soon to
read and recite there. People who expect any
touch of the Immortal Sarah in her will be dis
appointed. Her photographs represent her to
be what she really is, a sweet, romantic, melan-
choly looking woman, with soft tragic powers
expressed in winsome features whose principal
charm is their appealing and pathetic regards.
The Broadway Theatre case is justifylng the
proverb about the laws delay. ANY number o.
wounded snakes could not drag their slow
lengths along slower than the Broadway Theatre
1s dragging its. The further hearing is adjourned
until 10 o'clock this morning.
There is q great amount of talk about the
merits of the burlesque company which next
Monday is to be introduced to the public of New
York-the principal member of said company
being Miss Lydia Thompson. Those who regu-
larly read the English newspapers are perhaps
slightly acquainted with the name of this actress,
who is favorite in London as an exponent of
John Wood was to New York. The vast majority
of the people here know very little about her
beyond what the papers have been examining
down their throats. For heavens sake why
should there be this perpetual heraldry about
everything that affects the stage? Let the
people come, and the critics and the people 90
and judge for themselves, without any of that
fummery which creates an interest in advance.
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classes of people in the world, and that they get
well paid and well applaIded ought to be quite
enough for them without the meretricious pub.
licity which money aking managers seek to
confer upon them. This with reference not to
Miss Thompson personally, who l. in common
with all New York, am prepared to believe is
charming. Many man OF no ordinary talent
in all the professions, goes down to a grave of
undeserved obscurity, whilst the actor that does
not understand the role be plays has enough
publicity TO satisfy any moderate hankerer alter
notoriety.
And what do you think of John Allen by this
time? There are certain facts in the case which
cannot be overlo oked. He has awakened q
more widely-expressed sympathy probably than
any other pseudo-convert that ever lived. He
has been prayed for and wept over by thou |
sands of pure hearts in thousands of holy house
holds. However mistaken his pious friends
may have been, and however foolish they are
made to appear in the light of events that have
transpired since they first attempted his con
version, the fact remains that they did the best
they knew how for him, and that he has gone
back, like the dog and the SOW with re-
spect to which certain Scriptural illusions
exist, that the Bible-reading reader OF
THE EVENING TELEGRAPH will readily cal
to mind. Much, perhaps may be pardoned
John on account of his natural coarseness and
lack of taste; but think of his exhibiting him.
self, wife, and his little son Chester on the stage
of the hall of some small Eastern town, and |
attempting to commence a tour whose attraction |
consists of boasted wickedness prefer the |
refined naughtnesses of the cdn-oan and opera |
boufe to the bloated retigieuG of Water street. |
And yet all liberal-minded men, even those who |
are not professors of religion, will regret that
this movement has been unsatisfactory. 1t is |
better for the myrmidons of Water street to have
little religion than none, aud l am afraid the |
whole precinct will now follow the example of |
the SOW and dog aforementioned. ALI BABA. |