The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-03-10
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ESOm Our 0t0n Correspondent
NEW YORK, March 8, 1870


The q ottschnlk Concert.
A Gottschalk memorial concert is to be given
ihis evening at the Hall Of the Young Mems
Christian Association. The concert will be
under the direction of his pupil j. E. Haner,
assisted by Madame Salvotti, Messrs. L. P.
Thatcher, Lacotti, Lewenberg, Berti, and DR..
Berge, and promises to be very fine affair. Mr..
Gottschalk was very greatly admired in private
circles in this city. For some time after his death
a curious suspicion prevailed here among those
acquainted with his manner of life and the pecu-
liarities of the disease from which he died. 1t
was stated by those who seemed to possess
authority for what they said, that for years pre-
vious TO his death he had been the victim of
similar attacks, and that the consequences had
more than once seemed to be as fatal as those
which had given rise TO belief in his death.
In fact, some of his New York friends did not
believe that he really was dead, and you could
not make them. They asserted most confidently
that news of his resuscitation would reach us
before we had recovered from the shock of the
first intelligence. They asserted that the obi
tuary notices were premature, and that their
darling Louis would live to read them and
laugh over them. His resurrection in fact, was
a ''sure pop" with some of his Gothamite friends
and enemies To these the memorial concert
tonight will be at once very touching gratifca-
tion and disappointment.
The Booth Hamlet Seuson
is drawing to q close. Hamlet will be performed
during this week and next and will then be
withdrawn, to be repeated no one can say when.
Mr.. Booth is anxious to produce A Winters
Tale, which would be novelty, at any rate
The Winters tale which he has been producing
at his theatre every Saturday evening during
the present season is an exceedingly dOleful and
discreditable affair. / allude to Mrs. Winter,
who is retained rs a stock actress at Booths
Theatre for no other earthly reason, so far as
can be understood, than that her husband hap
pens to be the dramatic editor of the Tribune
This lady, who, 1 am told, writes stories and
sketches, and does various things in a creditable
manner in a literary way, has not one
single requisite for the stage - neither
voice, figure, beauty, grace, nor even that one
last advantage discernible in few stage-struck
people, through whose awkwardness and angu-
larity thorough comprehension of the require
ments that are beyond their physique may yet
be seen struggling. Every season she is engaged
at some theatre, and it is newspaper gossip that
that theatre is sure to be praised in the Tribune
as long as the engagement lasts This gossip,
however, do not believe to be true. My own
observation has assured me that in many in
stances that il is not true. 1t cannot be alleged
against Mr.. Winter that he is not most intelli-
gent and conscientious dramatic critic. 1t is
unfortunate for a man in his peculiar position to
have wife on the stage; it is still more unfor-
tunate that she should be so little of an actress
as not to deserve serious criticism. AS a lady
she is unexceptionable as an actress, full OF
exceptions.
PunchenelIo.
Mr.. Stephens has found an editor for his new
comic paper, Punchenello. His name is
Charles Dawson Stanley extremely well known
among journalistic circles in this city, and Q
most graceful and genial writer. He has writer
a great deal for the Atlantic, though that il
itself is far from being a recommendation, ant
many of the funniest and wittiest of the funny
and witty editorials in the World drop from hi
pen. Since / am touching upon newspaper
matters might as well mention that two Phila
delphians who became New Yorkisms within tn,
last two or three years have experienced
change-not Of heart, but of position. One o
them is Mr.. r. w. McAlpine, for tn
last three years connected with the Tribune
But he has served as occasion required ii
almost any capacity within editorial and repor
torial spheres, and has always served well. II,
is a very useful man upon newspaper beinI
able TO transact q vast amount of work in seye
raj departments which have little afinity for on,
anolher. His detractors insist that the featur,
of his style as a writer is his ability to use
greater number of six-syllabled words in
shorter space than any other Journalist extant
but among his friends this is considered a
SYNONYMOUS with saying that he despises com
monplaceness in language and very commend
ably seeks to clothe neat and original ideas il
.,l,.o Tha fhnro oIo,,
that mentioned is that of Capt. John E. Norcross
known, l believe, among the members of tn
Philadelphia Press Club as ''The Dodger,
though for what reason is as obscure as tina
which would explain the mysterious disappear
ance of "Jim Jubilee's aunts teeth" a jok
which no one in New York has ever yet got {
the bottom Of Captain Norcross, after ten
porary trihing over poems and novelettes, l
disposing of which he was more successfI
than most Philadelphians are in New York, hs
gone back to newspaperdom, which he Intend
10 make his permanent profession, and he hl
accepted an advantageous post on the Brookly
Eagle.
Broadway is soused foil OF prurient puddle
The thaw has converted that highway into
broken sheet of liquid looking-glasses in whit
melted snow represents the glass and mud u
quicksilver. 1 call them prurieut because the
ia such an animated reflection in them OF gaite
boots and pedal prolongations. A lady Wi
slightly raised skirts crossing Broadway is bes
by bevy of men and boys, to whom the pr
,ongations and their reflections afford an unial
inc theme of observation and comment.
Colonel j. =. DuSolie
is slowly feeling his way back towards neal
again The old beamy appearance is Degnnu