New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-12-28
THE DRAMA.
BOOTHS THEATER

III IS very seldom that SO nne q piece OF
acting Is upon any stage as was last night at
Booths Theater, in the Neg R77iiie, Of Mrs Emma
Waller The character Is one that calls tor vivid imagi-
nation acute sensbiity fervld passion intense energy
knowledge OF the dsordered bnn perfect sym
PATTY with the physical and mental mods OF age and
fine and delicate appreciation OF the picturesque; and
in every particular, the requirements the character
fulfilled. Mrs Waller stiIs in us feeling Of admra
ton long dormant aud arouses an enthusiasm TO which
will not give hasy expression He personation Of
Meg MeriliGS grand strong, fine ant deeply impress
work Of art, and one that we shall return TO
with genuine interest. For the momcntwe are content
10 record its complete and absolute success artistic
and popular Mrs. Waller has not played in
Hew-YOrk for about seven years-her last appearance
here having been made in Irish drama a. Laura Keanes
Theater, now the Olympic. Her return o our stage is a
matter for cOngaulaton. so good an adress ought
TO be spared from the New-Yerk stage The play OF
"Guy Mannenng" was produced with beautiful
scenery and acted exceedingly well all the parts.
Mr.. Theodore Hamilton embodied Dante Diifnont 10
the very life, and gained the richly deserved reward OF
the hearties applause Mr.. Anderson accurate and
humorous Dominic Sampson. The m9ical part OF
the performance done in an lefcientnanne The
opening song and lchorus the first gypsy sing. and Mr.
Mathison's serenlde were tho musical hts OF the
presentation The performance was altogether success.
STRAY INCIDENTS.
A few stray incidents are to be ghaned here
and there for the weeks theatrical record9r Lester
Walack has made arrangements for the Production of
Mr.. BOuccauits drama " Lost at Sea- Tho new
piece. however will not be brought out in hurry. A
revival of Ours Is promised, and yeyeral the DOpu-
lar bills erepeated. ForEew-Yesrs
Night Mr. WallaCk announces "The School fr Scandal"
MIR. Fox will reappear at the Olympic Tlsater next
Monday, the 80 Of January in play called he Writing
the Wall" The managers design, we unerstand, Is
to present Mt Fox in a series Of character ad comedy
parts, before reyerng to his speciality Of panme 1t
is q good idea and that ought to succod.-After.
performances are given every day at be Circus
This is holiday time for the children, and IL the wee
creatures would be happier for seeing Cherella'-
ovid oats" will be repeated at Waldcks heater to-
night, Central Park will be given again Oh Wednesday
and " Ernestine" and Trying 10 on" on thursday
"Keni worth" the afternoon piece at Wood Museum,
will be played only until the end Of ts present
week-Ar. DAILY is sufficiently discreet to alE another
week to "Tlo Dukes Motto" The piece has been very
handsomely mounted at the Fifth Avenue Thater and
pleased to notice that II is not % be miskod a
before the public has had az least chance 10 &C.
For the afternoon and evening OF New-Years Day, Mr..
DAILY announces Eyerybodys Friend" NeX'week no
will revive The Busybody" and on the 18th January
will present comedy by Miss Olive Locan-The San
Francisco Mnstrels have "Tne Carton Giant on e1hi
bIton and, III addition to their pautommc HASH
they present comic, sable illustration Of thcFat Mems
Bal.-Hermaun at the Academy OF Music tonight and
tomorrow night-Various new features incidental to
tho buresque OF Bad Dickey," have been Introduced
into the Tammany programme. BelRinsen perform,
and velocipede riders mount their bounding seedsWe
observe that Mr. stephen Mascot will lecture the Bap
fist Church, Bedfordst this evening, China and
Japan. Mr. Massett has visited those eountrla ana he
dlscOurses about them with intelligence and humcr-
Three performances will be given in Woods Museum, on
New Years Day-Mr. Fechter Will arrive in New-York
this week. and at commence rehtarsals pt Nibo's
Garden We observe that his last Performance OF Ruy
Mas III London, excited the liyellest admiration.
BIT OF STAGE BUSINESS.
In n paragraph which we copied the other
day from The London AhenGuU, referring to Mr. Fech-
ers persouaton Of Hamlet the actor ia ensured be-
cause when he says II not very strange for mine
uncle is King OF Denmark, and those that would make
mouths az him when my father lived give twenty, forty,
fifty hundred ducats apiece FOR his picture IN little
he seizcs, with a show OF contempt miniature OF
Oiaudiis which Is suspended on Guad6nstsrs breast
This called "a pitiful piece OF stage realism ~ antag
onistic to probability as TO poetry."-We recur TO this
subject for the purpose OF saying that this criticism seems
10 US unsound. The stage business referred toch
Il isis not original with SIR Fcchtcr 10 Is I'D de-
vice. Mr Booth has often employed 10, and with excel
lent effect Mr.. Barry Sullivan uses H. And we hive an
impression that Il could be traced back u Mr..
Macready. And, old or new. It occurs TO as
being perfectly natural and thoroughly good. Hamlet.
whom he SAYS the wOrda quoted, has become irLediI
with ROSenerdHt- and GudcsJi and suspicious onher
designs and ms excitablc tremuous mind has aleady
begun to utter itself in the wild way half natural half
assumed which is consOnant 20 It's condition His nme
date theme is the condition OF the players who &c at
hand but his thoughts all the while busy wu tho
usurpaiion and iucestuous uquty Of his uncle Theght
OF that unces portrait depending from the neck Of me OF
his emissares and spies, might well prompt the thught
that Hamlet utters. the change lnEtmes and ahirs
And as TO the OF taking hold Of the picuret II
Illustrative; gives emphasis TO the remark and has
especial meaning and force 20 the spectator However
fine and lofty poetry OF drama may be- whenthat
drama put upon the stage It must be ILLUSTRATED by
action; and II this DO not allowed the drama mg as
well be kept the closet and there enjoyed In qud pc
rusal al the latter end OF "a sea-cOal fire."