The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-02-25
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New YORK. Feb 25 1870.
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''POOr DIR. Cutler." |
Under this caption the spunky and spitetui
little Son has been invoking great deal OF un-
necessary sympathy in behalf of DIR. Cutler, the |
former organist of Trinity Church. IL repre- |
sented that his pay as organist was so miserable |
that he was obliged to convert loft in the |
church into a bedroom, for purposes of eco.
nomy, and that he hardly knew from one day to |
another where his ''victuals aud drink" were to
come from. Now the truth Is, that If the former
organist of Trinity Church deserves commlsera-
ton at all, it is not on account of the poverty
which IL is said his salary imposed upon him.
. He did have a bedroom in church, in communi-
cation with the choir, but the bedroom was not
exactly loft, and it tCds most sumptuously fur
nished He had room there for va
q rious reasons. One was his addiction to
art. His life and soul were in his
choir and his choristers, to some of whom
whose voices were particularly fine he gave
Sratuitous aud private Instructions in this iSo-
lated little music-boudoir. IL was he, believe,
who first perceived the remarkable qualities OF
Richard Coker's voice, rescued him from the
clutches of coored minstrel troupe where he
received FIVE dollars per week, and secured him
a position as leading soprano at Trinity, with
salary of $1,000 per year. In some respects DIR.
Cutler was the most devoted man in his profess
sion that the Trinity has ever had, making per-
sonal friends, as he did, of his favorite pupils,
and thinking no effort ill-spent which increased
the vocal value of those under his charge. He
was 'poor' in no sense applied to him by the
Sun.
Opera BOune
has zone up with an immense noise and splutter.
IL was supposed (by those who knew nothing
about the inside arrangements) that everything
was progressing smoothly. Mrs. Howard Paul
sang every night as serenely as though her
hundred dollars per night had been handed her
before the rising of the curtain. From the
Others of course nothing was expected, all the
interest of the evening focalising in the
"Duchesse," or Oregon" or whatever the part
might be. 1t transpires, however, that the sea-
son was the result of an enterprise OF two young
gentlemen named Starr and Byrne, hardly older
than many boy at school. These two young
gentlemen arc represented to be equally chunky
and cheeky, but never having to my knowledge
laid eyes upon them, 1 can say nothing positive
about that can only say that nobody appears
to have been paid, that the doors re-
mained obstinately closed evening after evening
without any satisfactory explanation being
offered to the public, and that finally the other
evening on the occasion of the announced bene-
fit of Mr.. Girrebeuck, the tenor, whose voice
was as frail rs the virtue of the characters to
whom he made love- the audience waXed mus
cular, battered the windows of the boX-ofice
open, used the ushers roughly, demanded theil
money back-this was particularly noticeable
among the deadheads-and did variety o.
things characteristic of q Christian community
to whom opera-bouffe is necessity Mr.. Graf
was out yesterday in crippled sort of eXplana
ton; but presume his business faculties were
so oyerwrought by the fneSse necessary in nego
tiating with Signor Ross the Italian tragedian
hnxn -, Afn,- flnk I.ol
no time to see how things were going nearer
home.
Dickens Voice.
What / am going to say now is not exactly q
New Yorkism, but it is the next best thing
perhaps Londonsm. Ripples occasionally
come Quietly to me from across the water, anc
one of the latest is that communicated by
private letter which lies before me. 1t is to tht
effect that. during the present season of Mr.
Dickens readings, there is manifest failure il
his voice. 1t is dim and husky, and the dim
ness and huskiness do not seem to be tn,
result of cold. They seem to be the settled
characteristics of voice which, how
ever opinions may differ In regard t,
its natural and acquired capabilities, ha
done more to charm the intellectual worlt
than almost any other living. If this be true, i
lis fitting that his second visit to this countr,
should also be his last, and that his presen
series of readings should be his farewell ones
Perhaps the change Is all part and parcel of tina
sad great change known as growing old. Dick
ems growing old Is it not strange and plain
tive thing TO speak Of? Artists in any line ar
not measured by other peoples eyes, and the in
tellectual or art-worker who, as q mere man
would be in his prime at fifty-fve, begins to b
spoken of at that age as past his meridian whe
he is known to the world as writer of book
or painter of pictures. Autumn comes earl
to the tree of genius.
Mrs. Il. ID. Wallace.
I observe among the theatrical articles i
several of the New York papers that Mrs. e. L
Wallace, who lately produced Little Dor
ri with such success in Philadelphia
negotiating with theatres East and West
and that there is not an unlikehood of he
effecting an engagement in this city. From tn
congratulatory notices which have already aI
peared, It is evident that the New York pres
would treat both her and her play with fairness
By the by, it is interesting to note the length G
time in advance for which some of the principa
theatres have made engagements. At Booths
for instance, there cannot be said to be for
night vacant for the next two years to come, an
at most of the other theatres the arrangement
ahead bear the same proportion.
FOxey-HamIet's Profune Joke.
At the Olympic Theatre, of this city, Mr.
IL. Fox, who is performing burlesque Hanele
seems to go out of his way in order to ''ring in
a jest which cannot but be painful to people
good taste, to say nothing of religious sent