New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-11-18
THE DRAMA.
TIME AND THE HOUR AT BOOTH

There is one particular mold for the casting
sensation stories into form which has been used
thousand times but which seems still 10 be considered
quite novel enough for all practical purposes This mold
might 10 labeled The Frightful Mystery; or, The
Villain IN High Life" Merely TO mention it is % call up
host Of memories TO the habual reader Of fiction. As
we ponder the play Of "T1me and the Hour" which
represented at Booths Theaer last Saturday
ing this ancient property Of romance rises very clearly
before the eye OF the mind. Mr. PaGrRyo Simpson has
laid hands upon It TO a dead certainty. Old acquaint
live again in this play and venerable incidents
renew their youth. Here is the elegant, melancholy
scOundrel. the man Of lone virtue and thousand
Crimes" who is fascinating all the women and I'M
pleasant to all the 1t is needless to that he
INDUCES alias. Equally needless is it TO add that
has buried the terrible past" and home from
the funeral to enter upon life. The reader will
guess Of course that he British Barone According
the modern novel; twothirds Of the British arisocraoy
OF tall gentlemen with flashing eyes, who have
performed similar obsequies and Obgingy come back to
be haunted BY day the Baronet gets well enough II
IS only by might that his recOeetiODs Of seduction,
forgery, murder and other little Of impotuous
temperament, become troublesome. Then, however.
Of nerve the casrOn stomach, and the
face brass pale breads every noise dsheveled
~ 20 his hair and wondrous wild 70 his rolling eye
ball aud discovers q propensity for tod. At this point
no will fail to conjecture that there is lady-ono Of
his early victims whom Ihe considers deadwhose heart
Is devoted this attractive being in spite Of her con-
seousnes Of all his internal depravy. Sne masks
q secret and alias. But there Is another lady,
exceeding fair. wealthy, and young whose cousin the
blood bothered Baronet has murdered and whom he de-
issres and designs to marry. This lady, though will
be correctly surmsed has other vews-pOinting toward
Door youth all goodness and noble talk, who has
away dudgeon, promising to be absent forever and
upon whom the Baronet has adroty fixed the odious
stigma Of suspicion. Finally, there is hoary
father; and there Is a cheap knave who re-
OId nal
a sort OF Paul Pry who plays detecuvepolice bust
ness and there several lowcomedy people, by way
OF padding Is 1t necessary to dwell upon their Conduct
Lives there the with eye blind not to see that
the BarOnet eventually be found out, and beng
found out must horribly expirei Three acts in Mr..
Simpsons play lead up this catastrophe. In one OF
them the amateur detective heard To declare that time
aud the hour will discover the murderer aud so We dis
Germ the significance Of the dramas title Time and the
hour as everybody viii understand do not discover any
thing but the BarOnet walks in bis sleep like Lady
Macbeth babs whole story in the presence Of all the
dramatis persona, and thereupOn wakes up and falls
dead In brief the representation OF this play invites
the spectator 70 how damnatory circumstance
Will. IN the very nature Of things, slowly weave
Itself around the life OF criminal tll-work-
Ing from without by tho pressure OF facts,
aud working from within by the pressure Of emo
tions--it reveals his guilt and brings him TO
punishment How often Of late days We have been bid
this of intellectual feast 1t were long 10
te-ofen enough, at all events, TO breed a conviction
shat either novel very barren OF invention
the world must be populous with murderers who
slowly Cravitatng, through genteel society, toward
heartdiseaso or the galows Wkio Collins handles this
kind of subject exceedingly we'll Mr. Palgrave Simpson
Is only moderately clever in bis treatment OF IT, Once,
and but once he attain the altitude Of real dramatic
power That is in the first OF act third in the man
agement OF all between his villain in high life
and the woman who loves HMM the despite OF her own
hiatt and her The
tons here brought into paythe struggle In both minds,
and the surrounding tone OF desOaton and terror-are
strong. natural and forcbly sympathetic Time and
the Hour" has been superOly put upon the stage OF
Booths Theater, under Mr. Walters direction Better
OF scenerymOre tasteful IN detail or handsOmer in
general effective have any Miss Fanny
Moraut played Marian Beck and Mr.. Theodore Hamilton
played Sir Percy DerereH; and, in the sceDe TO
which have referred they hotn manifested that sin
Cere feeling aud that actual, impressive power. which
bespcsK earnest mind thoroughly heated by the Ire
OF imagination. In grace, though Mr. Hamilton seems
wanting aud this defect lighter scenes cumber
aome and unnatural Mr Peters made himself a conf
cal buGOou. 10y way Of imparting hilary TO rather
performance. The rost OF the acting serene
mcdocty chequcred by occasional and extremely rri-
Eating imitation OF the tones aud tho walk Of Edwin
Booth Attention has previously; been called 10 this
latter folly which peculiarly trying to critical
patience. and must be essentially comcal 10 tho public.
"a" Time aud the Hour will be repeated at tOdays matt
These on may to testify that it Is
sensation drama lackueyed subject sufficiently
we'll represented TO interest the average
order Of ploysocrs without making any very decided
impression a work Of art.
HENRY DUNBAR AT wALLACK'S.
Mr. Tom Tayl0r's effective melo-drama Of
a" Henry Dunbar" VIII be revived nj waack's Theater
on Saturday evening With MI J. W. Waack In the load
ug charace0ne that he has invested distinct and
interesting attributes made effective in its appeal TO
human sympathy Miss Henrques used TO play Mar.
g1rei this dgaga exceedingly well; but on this
siou believe Miss Louisa Moore Is to undertake the
character The east will also include Mr.. Fisher, Mr.
.inggoid MI williamson MI. Rockwell, Mr.. Tom owens
Mrs Phillips, aud Others.
THE CIRCUS.
Miss Pauline llndey, the new female rider
who has appeared Circus has attracted the APP
Psuse Of cOnuOisseurs 10 the equestrian art by the
traO-diuary CELEBRITY OF heracOu ana by her uncommon
endurance She Is dark woman, muscular yet not OK
cessiyely physical and Is graceful In mOyement.-The
Arabs WIN great deal Of applause nightly The oener
their performances seem the is the spectator
impressed with Of their prod gous strength and
their almost dazzling agility 81 motion. comic pan
tOmime closes the entcrtaurcit bcrca great treat 20
children. Mr.. Lent has Fairy Spectacle IN preparation
fOr the coming Holidays
THANKSGIVING DAY At TIE THEATERs.
Attention has already been called to the
eGtaPerOIuaacgs aAA0gpced Of the theaters