The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-08-03

Our Dun Correspondents

hCMn ANN eUC VI h0a ASAonCN " ANA6S |
Che sentence of death which had been pro-
nounced against him into that of imprisonment
for life was told him yesterday by the warden
of the Tombs, and Real appears to "bear up
under" the disappointment with considerable
fortitude. He feels, as under the circumstances
it is very natural that he should feel, that the
murder of Mr.. Nathan did not tend to make the
Governor lenient. He evidently thinks rather
hard of those newspaper representatives who
went away from their interviews with him to
prepare distorted reports only of all that he had
said. He is in that condition when Religion
does all that she can for him, and when
the World stands by with folded arms
and losses her head at Religion. If the solemn
statements of a man to whom eternity is very
near are to be believed, he was so prosecuted by
officer Smedick that his killing of that officer
involuntary as he believes it to have been-was
due to the instinct of self-preservation. In
view of these statements Governor Hoffman has
been pleaded with by Reals counsel and friends,
and subjected to an amount of pressure such as
is seldom exercised by the counsel or friends of
o criminal of SO humble a class of society. He
will die in the Catholic faith, and on the day
preceding his execution will probably partake
of the communion. There is "a good deal of
curiosity to see the hanging. Among newspaper
Offices more than one application has been made
for the use of such of the Sheriff's invitations,
comforting the Office of deputy sheriff, as may
not be needed by the reporters.
Amusoments - More Particularly Madame
Lanner.
The ideal home of minstrelism is to be realized
in the new opera house that Dan Bryant is
building on Twenty-third street, near Sixth ave-
nue.. Burnt cork is becoming elegant. The
wench business is to be g~lorifed. The new
Ethiopian theatre, which is to be opened in the
fall, will be extensively adorned, the proscenium
hnYQa will bQ cunnfnnus and If ia fn ha nra.
sumed that the character of the entertainment
will correspond to that of the house. Three of
the other theatres will open this month, Booths
and Niblos on the evening of next Monday
week and the Olympic on the 22d. Niblo's has
been cleaned and painted. 1t needed both
badly. That silly tangle of impossibilities, The
Dukes Motto, is to be the piece first produced
there. The only theatrical attractions in this
city at present are Madame Lanner and Bertha
Lind. 1 have spoken of the "poetic feet and
intellectual dancing of Madame Lam
ner, but while employing these terms did
not forget that they were unusual and
liable to be misconstrued. For example, we do
not look for intellectually in dancers. Even
the very great ones, the Ellslers and Taglionis,
evince very little brain cult ure. Life is not long
enough to permit them to equally cultivate the
heel and the head. The gossip that is babbled
in the newspapers respecting Morlacchi's intel
lectual taste and musical requirements is very
interesting. l will not undertake to say whether
it is true or not; but if it is true, that instance
Is an exceptional one. Nevertheless, a great
dancer may have had something of the educa-
ton of an actress. In that case the intellect is
put to work. She is not all leg, and there is
some proportion between the developments of
mind and muscle. This seems to be the case with
Madame Lanner. Without claiming to ''know
of my own knowledge" as a lawyer would say,
. 1t seems to me either as though she must be
intellectual, or, if a somewhat peculiar phrase
ology be admissible, as though she must have
strong Intellectual impulses. Figures, steps,
and enterprises which in another would seem
like the inventions of vulgar audacity are, with
her, poetic and refined. There are coarse men
who will never see in Terpsichore anything more
than an appeal to flesh and passion. For my
part l have no objection to define dancing as
the language of legs; but / must be permitted to
make this discrimination, that the majority of
dancers make it a language that corresponds to
the diction of those nameless books whose pub
LEGATION is prohibited by law, while a few, like
Madame Lanner, invest it with q pure and
poetic rhythm. 1t would be unjust to Miss
Lind, however, not to acknowledge that a large
proportion of the principal dancing of the even
ing falls to her. In the new ballet of Sttdla; or,
The Juggler's Daughter, a trinity of dances,
consisting of three in one, and Of remarkable
character, is interpreted by her to perfection,
and creates an enthusiasm that would be un-
usual in winter time but is extraordinary at this
season. The dances are called ''The Peasant
ess," ''The Coquette," and "The Sylph."
When Miss Lind first appears the
peasantess' dress which she wears of course
carefully conceals the dresses of the coquette
and the sylph. When the first dance is con-
cluded Miss Lind retires, and during the ap.
plause slips off the rustic frock, and ere the
Gaping of hands has died out, appears glitter
ing In the exquisite costume of the "Coquette.'
A similar change of costume characterizes the
conclusion of the second dance, and signaliZes
her appearance in the third. Each dance has
peculiar idiosyncrasies, and is performed by Miss
Lind with an ability 10 which theatre-goers il
this country are almost entire strangers. The
conclusion of the first act of Sitala likewise
creates excessive delight. 1t introduces, withou
indeceHcy, an approach to the genuine can-cal
nearer than that made by any other performer
who have as yet appeared on the New Yorl
stage. This can-can, which, upon the bills, il
warily called ''quadrille," is p~ervaded by thu
refinement of Madame Lanner, and is therefor
keptfrom becoming repugnant. The success wit
which it has been received is SO immense tina
it ought to be reserved for the last thing in thu
ballet. Those who see the first act see the bes
portions, and lose little by going away. I'll
deserved and unusual popularity of Madam
Lanner and Miss Lind is my reason for referring
10 them at such length.
No. IL West Twenty.third street
is still the object of general contemplation, an