New-York tribune., 1870-09-13
when those that came could

" Richly W shor hours"
and were made adder-deaf with prpin cry" and the
importunate cry of Buy New Booze when actors
ceiyed $50 year, and when Shake peares annual in
come about 500.
The Globe of the world resembles that OF the old
but in name for it would be diicult ind prettier
heaer than the upon which Mr.. Cheney avshNd
time and money. Renovated Throughout T., is
Portable behind the is charming IN the audi
tOrium. The house adjoining the rear OF the thea
ter has been thrown into dressing rooms the green
is quite cosy enough TO adIE., OF flow
OF soul, and Manager Fcchter and Proprietor
Cheney have private parOrs wherein % transact busi
ness. The stage appointments are excellent. And all
this is the work or business man who invests IN thea
ter out OF love for the Drama He has engaged Mr..
Fecher at very great expense Fechtr pref ring the
position Of tired star to that Of migratory comet 10
has engaged James W. Waack, OF tn, ceverest art
OTs in the country whose Fagin can never DC for
gotten, aud whose King Of the Commons is al
inirable; he has engaged Miss Carlotta L. Clcq ne
has engaged rs. Chanfrau, whose Tepti'tion Is en-
viable; he has engaged-but their names are many
as well as good, and columns are not everlasting.
All this Mr. Cheney has done for Boston, city wLichs
not the metropolis. Let hope that Bost VIII be
faithful in support Inspired by pccuui4ry SIC ess'
both proprietor and manager prepared fr rcaeSed
effort, and Shakespeare will have 10 rejoice at he
manner in which his plays viii be produced.
But why not open Shakespeare Globe With shakss-
TO solid things until the Globe grows gray W;h frost
Melodrara is the connecting link between th' comedy
OF the Summer and tragedy OF the Winter Mont Cns,o
may be called sensational but i tn r. not vas d'a "
written and talked the subject oi tae tesa'
tional dramal one Is led 10 cunclude froL o. manner
in which Shakespeare is lauded and mto Ira 300 d'rid'L
that the Swan OF Avon swan in the most ple oi niI
streams whereas there never lived GraWat!st sho
showed so great mastery OF "efc,t." There Is not
shakespearan play holding the sS that Is not IN inc
truest sense sensational, and Shakespeare Is aeeN,
not because OF his poetry, but because I"
his knowledge of situations and Low
command the interest OF an audience. Ham
let the noble Of all plays, teens Wit sensation Muf
der most foul and unnatural precc'cs Do, -L0S '"As
abroad in the first act, there is marder again in 10 lhd
act a mad scene and drowning In th' fou,h. unlimited
poisoning and sabbng in the ~ h att Wh1' Is nor.
sensational than Othellos smo uerng OF D2ieA'o'~'
What more thoroughly mclo-d.-A1t.r tHIn t"e 'as'!
Of Macbeth What more oppo5eI % nature i''h "''
summer Nights Dream. ana the Tt"pa'i AN' ."
Richard the Third and King Lear pastoral P''hN'
When Shakespeare icaorcS "efrc'S he becomes N'''
poet and his plays. like those o. Ben JpSoh HN' '''
are read, not acted. The theater demAuds S''"
first language secondly. The dIh1rcncc between aA'
snearc and the hghC 4 order Of sensational dlah''
mat one has great genius and other s.eai eie'er'
ono IL a poct a well as paywiight tAc other is cio,
n ap,aywright one ennoDles his plot by the he w! v
hIs Ian nuagc the other belittes II by the YhiS'ES
dialogue. one endows his meancst characters ", "''n
t.pcct far beyond what such types possess !"
u.e--.he o.her gives his heroes nothing '". -,
tlon," The greater Includes the less, but tbe less
mn, h,cinde the greater IT, then Shakespeare Do So
aatho.ty, melolrama is thoroughly ce''H'1''' -,
seu,.t nal actor u lac VINO produces "a 'eF'"i'h ,,
audience eaIgot be excited without o'As '-'''''''