The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-08-27

ana we cannot resist the conviction that
Prince Gortschakof spoke sincerely when he
said that ''the recall Of M. Catacazy might
at the right time have been settled in an
hour"
The Council OF the Crowns-Prussiaa
Ovation to the Potentates.
The Prussian people are preparing to accord
a magnificent reception to their Majesties the
Gar Alexander of Russia and the Emperor
Francis Joseph of Austria on the occasion Of
their arrival in Berlin to visit Emperor Will
liam. The German capital is engaged in
continual effort for proper observance Of the
event, which will occur on the 9TH of Sep-
TENDER, so that its consummation will be
made in every way worthy of the impor-l
lance of the fact itself. There will be grand
military parade state banquet, royal attend
ance, with citizen crowd at the opera,
German torchlight procession and then a
general civic illumination. The Emperor Of
Austria is about to place his house in order in
Pesth, where he will address the Hungarian
Parliament on the LIST proximo. He will then
pay visit to the King Of Saxony in Dresden,
of the late unpleasant ''race" for the Saxon
capital, set out to meet the victor of Sadowas
Minister Andrassy, attended by the chief
members of the Austrian Cabinet, will accom-
pany the Emperor to Saxony. The Hun
garians will have had great many apparently
pleasant sentences from the imperial speech
just previously delivered in Pesth, and them
in oh Of RI cd
Francis Joseph of Austria will find himself I'M
the presence Of his peers. It is difficult to
divine the subjects which will be brought for
ward by the imperialists FOR discussion, but it
is safe to presume that the great and never
dying one Of the Church, particularly in Rome,.
will be one Of them. And then there will be-
France and the democracies, with Turkey and
her balances, and England with her Ballot
bill, her transatlantic relations and her
marches and advance in Asia after having
cured the "Sick Man." The Emperors will
find plenty of subjects to talk about, so that
the coming meeting at Ischl or in Berlin will
be very likely to eclipse that which took place
years ago on the raft at Tilsit in the matters
Of present effect and future consequences,
The Summer Solstice and the Thea
tres-Thc Approaching Dramatic Sea-
SON.
Among the many evidences Of the growing
greatness of New York the theatrical pro-
gramme for the coming season will be found.
Summer seems to be reminded of its limited
days of existence by the clamor of Fall an,
nouncements outside the many-fashioned
temples of Thespis. Many goodly things
are promised us, and there appears
to be less Of the meretricious in;
store. No one can be held accountable for
the freaks Of managers in the dogdays, since
full house is q difficulty only as great as
keeping the audience cool if they could oncd
be induced to come. Hence, that bad plays
are inflicted in addition to ninety odd degrees
of Fahrenheit must be condoned by their
utter failure. In this manner Zone Wife,
at the Olympic went the way of all flesh.
being buried under deservedly indignant
condemnation after dying of public neglect.
Phantom companies take possession of the
theatres and play to empty benches; sporadic
''stars" perform in a dismal way and disappear
unexpectedly. 1t would seem that few ad-
venturous artists are always reserved by the
fates for display of childish incredulity by
mourning load of debt during "a short
summer season." in the belief that where
so many theatres are doing nothing, or
next to nothing, they may have chance They
take q theatre each and become mutually
astonished to find preliminary puffs appearing
one after the other in the papers, and finally
see all the theatres open and close ftfullys
with woful result on the wrong side of the
ledger. The mere contemplation of this
human weakness makes us sad; but
we know that "short Summer seasons
will obtain, in spite of all pocket
logic, to the end Of time. There, Is perhaps,
another side to the secret, which is equally de-
pressing. Actors are among the most ambi-
tious of classes. and the feelings of a ''walking
gentleman or utility as he sees himself by
the road of time walking into second old
mans shoes, can hardly be described. 1t is
hard to bear. Give to this actor an unfedged
author with trashy play, and the utility
will hug himself with the delusion that IL
he becomes not ''star," he will be discovered
some Summer night from the critics OBSERVE
tory as, at least, new asteroid. The mad
ness grows upon him through the Winter,
ef1oresces in the Spring, and drives him to his
doom in the "short Summer season." He
makes his flash, but is only meteor after all;;
he bursts forth, 'falls, falls and disappears"
and is voted bore along with the rest of the
fimsy August star showers AS the weather
coos the theatres begin to look CHEEKY and
bright again, as if the funeral of dead hopes
were over, and the managerial lists of good
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