The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-08-17

seen or heard the lady, and am only repeating
what l have gathered from others. She may
have the eyes of a gazelle, the hair of an Eng
lish blonde, and the personal loveliness of the
fairest of Ewes family, but these traits are GER
tainly not visible in the music-store portraits,
those eminently faithful chroniclers.
Last night was remarkable as the opening of
the
Regular Season Mt Several of the Theatres,
the Fifth Avenue, the Theatre Comique, andthe
Tammany. At the Fifth Avenue, where Mr..
DAILY is to experience the vicissitudes of foot
light fortunes, number of flrst-rate performers
appeared in Play. Among them were Mrs.
Clara Jennings, Mr.. E. i. Davenport, Mr.. J. B.
Polk, Mr.. George Holland, Mr.. George II.
Clarke, and Mr.. Davidge. The stock company
at the Fifth Avenue is the strongest at present
existing in this country, a fit rival for Walack's
Mr.. DAILY, the manager, is yet quite young
man, not thirty years of age. For one so young
he has achieved great deal. He has written a
number of very clever and highly successful
sensation plays, which have brought him in
money enough to make him feel comfort
able for the rest of his days, if
to feel comfortable had been the
chief and only object of his existence. For a
good many years he was an able and respected
newspaper dttdcbe, and only within the last few
months severed his connection with the Times
as theatrical editor. He has made himself good
many friends, likewise good many enemies,
and his long experience as theatrical editor has
acquainted him pretty well with both the stage
and the newspaper office. Nevertheless, the en-
terprise upon which he is embarked is regarded
by his friends as a very risky one. Remembering
how many have already failed, who shall say
that the clever Augustn is not to be added to
the number? The man, however, who can edit
a paper as Daily has done, and manage theatre
as he is trying to do is more than an ordinarily
clever one; and, consequently, it is only just to
believe that he is capable of coping with the
obstacles that threaten him.
As soon as a person becomes proper in New
York, he ceases to have reputation. Mr..
John Allen, FOrmsrly The Wickedest Man in
| Is a shining example of this. He has become at
| once respectable and obscure commonplace and
unknown. He has dropped as quietly out of
notoriety as though he had dropped out of ex-
| istence and is at this moment standing behind
the counter in his temperance grocery store, at
| the corner of Chambers and Roosevelt streets.
| The Bible and the Police Gazette, "Bayter's
| Saints Rest" and the Last Sensation, no longer
| lie side by side on his mantel-piGces. He weighs
| sugar and coffee with a subducd-lOOking visage
| and there is not the slightest posi-
| bility that he will 90 lccturing around
the country, or exhibit himself wife,
and child at a menagerie. His aim now is to
| earn decent living, to turn an honest penny.
| That's his little game. The revivalists meant
to do him a good turn, and he has forgiven
| them in q very Christan-like manner for not
| carrying out their intentions Poor John Allen,
| the hurly, blasphemous victim of Oliver Dyers
stark naked style of presenting to public view
the subject of his pen, will never soar into
| publicity again. His soul has been vivisected,
| if ever mans has been, and the arteries are
vet bleeding. But if John will never amount to
much as II curiously-Gifted eXpounder of sacred
text he shines pleasantly as ~eigher of salt
and sugar. Perhaps at length, he has found
his sphere, but he has been long time drifting
| to it. ALI BABA.