The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-08-29
NEW YORKISMS.
From our Ot0n Correspondent.


(although some Of the particulars must have
reached you ere this) l am obliged to go further
into details. because the whole town Is talking |
about them al present. No town loves scandal
better than this, and no scandal is better appre-
ciated than theatrical scandal. As rule, l |
admire actors and actresses, especially the
latter and my sympathetic bosom swells to the |
capacity of Abraham's when | hear that the |
Ucast will embrace Md'lle Blondine, for should
so like to be the cast But do not admire the |
way leading actors and lessees settle their
private quarrcls. think the settling ought to
be done in the green room, or beneath the stage
anywhere except before the footlights.
l remarked in a previous letter that Lessee
Lloyd, of the New York Theatre tlately known
as the Worrell SisteTsO, and leading actor Har-
kins, the "Bobert Penfold" of Foul Play, hal
disagreed about money matters How sheriffs,
and sheriffs deputies, police coult justices,
supreme court justices, policemen, reporters,
call.boys leading Juveniles, utility men, heavy
old women, aud theatrical properties got mixed
up together in one heterogeneous and unrayel-
liable mass, am not going to detail here. 1t is
enough to say that from first to last the affair
has crowded the auditorium of the Broadway
Theatre, to which Foul Ptoy was removed, with
people and the treasury of the Broadway Thea
to see what will be the row to might" Ever
since last Monday evening crowds have com
menced to gather around the portals as soon
as the stores began to close aud clerks, por
ters, and store-boys felt themselves at liberty for
the nieht. In briei, everybody was in for a
SPREE and on Thursday night the spree came
of, though not in the manner expected. On
Monday night the homicidal assault was made
a., 10 o1 p0s Of
believe, was his name. On Wednesday night
one of Mr.. Lloyds clerks (Tho, whatever other
shamefaced sinners may do at doomsday, may
safely be trusted not to do anything so becom-
ing as to call on the rocks and mountains to
cover him, when has turn comes) skipped do Tn
the centre aisle of the theatre just when the
climax of the play was reached, got over the
orchestra rails Il don't know how he did iD,
and presented an injunction 10 Mr.. Harkns as
if it had been pistol. Everybody expected it
would go off but instead of its going Off Mr.
Lloyd's clerk went off, and so quickly, too,
that be might have vanished by spontaneous
combustion for anything the audience could
swear to the contrary. This graceful episode
enacted, the actors bethought themselves of
their pc and q's-the piece and the cues mean
and the drama amicaby proceeded. ALI this
was very good, but not enough. Since Messrs.
Harkins and Lloyd have gained so much pub
llcity already, am sure Philadelphians will not
grudge extending them those courtesies of the
press which they have received in the metropolis.
Thursday night the curtain went up, and the
actors went on, and the house came down, as
usual. Just before the second act was to CON-
mence, however, Mr.. Harkins stepped before the
tootlightS, holding IN one hand Brobdinagian
MSS. and in the other q Llliput1an
pamphlet. ] believe that it Is generally
conceded that there was only one man upon
the American stage who can make speech,
and that man is the versatile author of the Lot-
terry of Life. Notwithstanding such broom being
in his way, however, Nr. Harkinsmade one of the
neatest speeches | have lately listened to, and
begged to explain that an injunction having
been served on him, which precluded his per-
forming in Foul Play, as produced at the New
York Theatre, he would have the pleasure aud
honor of performing in the Foul Play of Mr..
Boucicault's dramatization, as printed and per-
formed at the Holborn Theatre, London. l
frankly own that my sympathies in the first
place were with Lloyd, thlnking, as did, that
Harkins had no business TO take the money in
the till-or, rather, out OF it; but they have
wheeled around IN favor OF Harklns, who,
whatever may be said to his discredit, has be-
haved in public with forbearance which is in
pleasing contrast to the conduct of his adver-
sary.
Mr.. Bergh's sympathies have lately been so
exclusively enlisted in the interests OF cattle,
instead of cats, that he had no time to prosecute
kitten cannibal who was yesterday brought to
the bar of justice at the Tombs. Michael Norton,
however, who bids fair to become worthy
successor of Bergh, when that gentleman shall
have honorably devoted feW more years to the
welfare of beasts, brought a charge against
John Geary, the name of the miscreant in
question, and accused him of biting of part OF
the leg OF live kitten. Kitten shown up in
Court with one OF her paws bitten off, Mr..
Geary's defense was that he was drunk at the
tme that his comrades dared him to bite off the
kittens tail; that he made mistake and got
one of her legs in his mouth instead, and that
in the confusion he bit off a paw. So MIR. Geary
was committed to the Tombs. am afraid, had
he been with Don Juan at the shipwreck, he
would have been the first to snatch at the
spaniel's forepaw
which Juan handed to Pedrillo, who
Devoured It, longing for the other, too."
Once in while thief eVinces legerdemain
of mind and muscle worthy of better cause.
This was the case with Dutch Hendricks" a
thief who is notorious for the successful raid:
he has made on banks and mail bags, his pecu
harity being that he always manages to escape
conviction. OF course he has numerous aliases
the last one that he gave being that of Ed ware
Marks. The latest chef dGeuure he attempte,
WAS robbiDg Mr. Patrick Dickey n pentlemaI