The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-07-26

editorial Opinions Of the Leading Journals
upon Current Topics Compiled Every
Day for the Evening Telegraph.
THE GLOBE THEATRE.

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tions."-Don QuiDote, Part m, chap. TL.
Mr.. Arthur Cheney has finally decided
and with great wisdom too-to call his theatre
''The Globe. The pertinence of this name
no one can for q moment doubt. There is
no unmeaning classicality to it; il is good
wholesome Saxon, well sounding, and COM
prehensive, while it commentaries, for the
first time in this country, we think, that
famous 'tGlobe Theatre" to which William
Shakespeare was first attached, of which he
became subsequently one of the patentees in
conjunction with such worthless as Heminge
Condell, and Burbage, and for which theatre
some of his noblest works were written.
The name selected will, therefore,
be recognized as one of extreme
Righteousness. The general management of
the theatre, as is already well known, will be
in the hands of that renowned actor Mr.
Charles Fechter, who will have associated
with him dramatic company superior in all
respects to any which has ever appeared on
the boards of Boston. Among those already
engaged for the season are Mr.. James W.
Wallack, Mr.. George H. Griffiths, Mr.. @. H.
Vandenhoff, Miss Carlotta Leclercq, Mrs. F.
S. Chanfrsu, Mrs. e. l.. Davenport, and
others whose names will be announced in due
season Mr.. Fechter will bring with him
from Europe Messrs. Arthur and Charles
Leclercq, who are both celebrated as ballet
and pantomimic artists, and the former of
whom will assume the duties of stage-mana-
ger, for which position he is said to be ad-
mirably adapted. ,ai
The opening will take place on the evening
of Monday, September 5, the drama of Monte
Christie being the first effort of the new
management, which will be brought out in
style of great magnifcence. The scheme of the
season, which will last forty weeks, was fully
laid out before Mr.. Fechters departure for
England, and will be adhered to rigidly
There will be no uncertainty on the part of
the management as to what to produce, and
there will be no disappointments whatever
with reference to announcements which will
be made During the recess the theatre is
undergoing general renovation.
The house in which Mr.. Selwyn resided n
Brimmer place, and adjoining the theatre, is
being converted into ladies' dressing rooms,
and also fitted up with private Office for Mr..
Fechter, and from this building entrances are
to be cut to the stage and green-room. The
nightly expenses of the theatre will, as a mat
ter of course, be greatly enlarged, and an
increase in the scale of prices of admission
will be necessary for the management to pro-
tect itself.
There can be no question of the future
success Of the theatre. Croakers there are,
even now, in plenty, who are only too happy
in decrying the management and predicting
utter failure. The wish is father to the
thought. Many there are who lament the
change which has been made in the manage
ment, and cannot see the necessity of it.
These are in ignorance of the attendant cir
cumstances which rendered the change an
imperative necessity.
"Diseases, desperate grown,
By desperate appliance are relieved
Or not at all.
Any one who is at all familiar with the
interior workings of the theatre: any one who
had opportunities for seeing how it was
managed-nay, let us rather say mismanaged-
during the past season, could not but be
aware of the fact that the future of the esta-
blishment, demanded the part of its owner
radical change in his agents, who, where
capacity was expected, showed nought but
incapacity. There was lack of harmony ex-
listing between the manager and certain mem
bers of the company almost from the opening
of the season; internal dissensions were
numerous; there was an evident want of
proper managerial authority and govern
ment; certain of the actors could and did act
outrageouslyt to the public and hostile to the
interests of the theatre, and yet the worse
they acted the more were they tolerated; faith
was not Kept with the public egotistical
managerial promises were strong, while
performance was lamentably weak; the
public confidence was shaken, the pub
lie patronage was withheld, and finally
there was but one course left open to the pro-
prietor, and that was a change of managers.
That the change will be for the better we feel
sure the coming season will demonstrate.
The position of manager of theatre is one
of great delicacy as we'll as one of great re-
sponsibility, and calls for the exercise of
varied accomplishments The theatrical
manager, like the poet, is created not born.
The faculty of giving tasteful setting to the
stage is but an infnitesimal part of the bus-
ness. A manager should be man of sufi-
cient scholastic attainments to enable him to
Judge of the literary aerits of a production,
SO as not to reckon as pure gold the merest
dross; he should be a man of firmness of
character. able to govern instead of allowing
himself to be governed; man not only capa-
BILE of commanding respect for his position
among his sub0rdinates, but capable of exact
ing it; a man, polite as a Machiavel, knowing
how to reconcile all differences and how to
deal with the weaknesses, the vanities, and
the jealousies of each individual member of
his company; a man so familiar with the
works OF the great masters of the stage as to
be an undoubted authority in all matters of
dramatic art, and from whose decisions no
appeal should be tolerated; he should be q
modest, lnassuming gentleman, strictly atten.
tive to his business, always keeping himself
in the background, and thrusting himself on
the public notice only when necessity calls
for it, being at all times felt but very rarely
seen. These are some of the qualities ne
cessary in a manager, and we believe tina
Mr.. Fechter combines them in an eminent
degree OF his abilities as an actor the public
are informed. We have faith in him as
manager, and believe that his career with III
in that respect will be to the full as satisfac