New-York tribune., 1870-09-13
FECHTER IN BOSTON
OPENING OF THE GLOBE THEAvy

NAMING THE HOUsE-TIIE GLOBE IN SHAKER.
PEAEES TIME-THB GLOBE OF THE Sly
WORLD.
30, BE- other uane
What's 10 naoeI tba. which re rose
by sny other nam ~ouh smell a. sweet
10" SewyRs" Eoah. 1T not" selwya's .c.not-
BoszoN, Sept. te-Hence, with the retire-
men VI Mr selwyn and the ascension of Mr. Peeh,o,,
the managerial throne, Bostons pride and Bostons pa
teular Aoti0n for the particular present, hs been han
tzcd 4" me GO6s" But let one suppose is bau,i,n,
10 have been accomplished without trial and tribuao
ANY who has gone through the mighty ordeal .,
christening a,boa;, yacht, horse or hotel or
dog town, a baby has FAINT idea q the in..I
ectual thDes necessary TO the naming OF tteaer rhs
Great Public il interested and, paving for Its t,chet
writes letters the sands OF tie sea sBv
gesting equally The actors have ter
pet dclusons the manager has his and the manager.
friends make life a burden 30 him by buttonaoling him
in chance corners and ponrng into his weary ears eo
quent arguments In favor OF their bumaeul.ta
conceptions Why Mr. Cheney has not been
drowned in a terrible Niagara Of foue hundrcd
names Is only 10 be accounted for by his having a
naturally strong constitution and the best Of semper.
"Ca ii Emerald" said green-eyed one; Diamond.
urged another who probably thought that n playing
diamonds would DO trumps; Amethyst" exclaimed
some scntmenallst; "Sans sOUci," murmured ganssr
"NO" clanorcd the practical; let IL be- after the neigh
boring Streets" and Washington" shawmut-
"Boylston' Essex" and Arlington" were borne upoa
the wind "Ah let recall the light Of other days and
be forevermore The fremont Thus may we link tae
good acting Of the past with that OF the present." Non
sense; remember the county, and cali It Suffolk
"NO; remember Shakespeare ~ say Metropolitan.
ado y0ui l. IL not jewel of theatcrl Ten why not
'BiouP" 81 prefer 'Art-Union'" "And State"
49, PhGnx PhUnix'" screams another, in memory o.
lis long loved fire company. "'s.lndari Is eminently
respectable" declares solid man, "'Sew Era Is sug
. H..a
pas 'Odton p" asks a Frcnchman. Then vo.as
speaks, saying "HonOr the actor. Can il 'Pech-
ter; or II not Fechter,' then 'Garrck, after the
father Of natural acting. Or, IL not 'Garrck, why.
then, remember shakcspearcs Old tAeatar and unite
the two hemispheres IN one Globe" No nothing
swers but Pantheon" Il must De temple for al the
Gods but when the gods" OF the gallery hear OF his
decision "reminiscences Of an old and questionable haAnt
known the Pantheon are revived, and the name dies
as 1t is born Then in desperation Mr. Cheney
retres within himself and receiving Illumination issues
the irrevocable edict-" Globe" ""Ts good phrase"
but The Dickens Theater would have been better To
thus honor great novelist just dead Fechters intimate
friend inmitabe actor and an ardent lover oi the
Drama would have been compliment as touching a. Il
would have been graceful Who would not have gone 10
The Dickens with delight The name is the more peril
nent from the fact that Dickens himself took no little
interest in the ftheater OF which his friend was to be
manager and suggested a national name, such az
" Union" or "Thcater OF the Republic" Bus might
have beens" are useless, and we salute The Globe.
There have been many revolutions in The Globe since
1903 when Richard Burbage entered into bond with
Peter streete carpenter, for the erection Of
theater 1.-THE Globe the southern side OF the Thames.
known az the Banksde glorious for its memories Of tho
ancient Kings Printing House, whence issued all the
Bibles, prayer-books and procamatiOns Of the land;
where the Bull and Bear Batting Garlens-othe The
Hope, and the Falcon Tayern-odesed entertainment
for man and beast where actors dge,t and died, and
where the children were named after Shakespeare's
heroines Who that has burrOwed in the Drama does
remember the old pictures Of the Globe with it, external
hexagon and internal circle, its thatched roof
and center open TO the weather, its sign
exhibiting Atlas suppOr; the globe, under which
inscribed TotS mu,ldus Ggt hstroae "a motto recon-
mended to its namesake its pole peerng far above the
roof and flying flag during acting hours In l6O3 the
year in which Hamlet was first printed King
James granted license to The Globe, "pro LGWentio
Fletcher ct WiHieloo Shaespere ct ais," for the
creation OF loving subjects, for sOlace aud
pleasure" and there, during the Summer months,
Shakespeare and his associates gave England her first
lessons in great art This theater ourished from 1894
1913, when it destroyed by fire originating in
the waddng OF gun that fell upon the thatched roof.
Rebuilt by royal subscription the theater boasted
OF tiles and patronage for hryon years at the end OF
which time it pulled down. All that remains Of it
now is Globe Alley.
Times have changed since those good old days when
the of plaques sin and the Of sin
payes therefore the OF plaques was payes :"
when theaters denounced as Venuss Palace and
the Purtanic sarst Stubbes marked the fockng and
running TO theaters and crtens dayle and hourely,
night and daye, TYNE and yde to payes and enter
ludes :" when
Fuscus 10th rise A, ten. aud ~ eleven
He goe to Gyls where be doth ea al one,
when those that came could
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