The New York herald., 1873-12-04

AND lying skul-caps white with seventy ycsrx
Sweettempered matrons changed TO scoldine
Maids mild as moon beams crazed with murderous
hates,
Kind, simple souls that stab and slash and slay
And stick at nothing if it's In the play
Would all the world told half as harmless lies
Would all its real fools were half as wise
Az he who blinks through dull Dundreary's eyesl
Would all the unhanged bandits OF the age
Were like the peaceful ruffians OF the stagel
Would all the cankers wasting town and state,
The mob OF rascals little thieves and great,
Dealers m watered mix and watered Stocks
VINO lead US lambs to pasture on the rocks
The rings OF rogues that rob the luckess town,
Those INC eyli angels creeping up and down
Not stage, but real Turpins and Macaires-
Could don like us, their knavery with their clothes
and ind u easy as forgetting oathsl
I Welcome, thrice welcome to our virgin dome,
me Muses. shrine, the Dramas new-found homel
Here shall the statesman rest his weary brain,
Inc worn-out Artist nnd his wits again;
here aen Trade forget his ledger and his cares
Ana sweet communion mingle Bulls and Bears,
Here shall the youthful lover, nesting near
The shrinking maiden, her he holds most dear,
Gaze on the mimic moonlight as 1t falls
On painted groves Oh sliding canvas walls,
And sigh, my angel! What a life OF bliss
We two could live in such world as this -
Here snail the tumid pedants or tue schools,
The gilded Doors, the labor scornins fools,
The RrasS-green rustic and the smoke-dried cit
Peel each In turn the singing lash OF wit,
And as it tingles on some tender part
Each find q basam in his neghborS smart
SO every folly prove a fresh delight
AS in the pictures OF our play tonight.
FAREWELL The players wait the prompter's call;
Friends lovers listeners! Welcome and ali
Only part OF the address was allotted to Miss
Morant and as she ceased the curtain rose reveal
ing the entire Fifth Avenue Theatre company Mr..
Frank Hardenburgh then took up the ad-
dress and finished it. The company of the
theatre ranged on the ample stage presented
brilliant picture. The recitations were welk
done both by Miss Morant and Mr.. Hardenburgh,
the former especially delivering the lines OF the
poet with decided effect. The enactment Of the
piece which followed was not In keeping with the,
excellent promise OF the opening address and the
revelation which was made upon the nlt-
| Albery's play OF Fortune Is decided
failure. Ii is without characters withoutr
! situations and without art What it ia all aboue
! nobody was able TO discover. Evidently the play
| reads much better than 1t acts, or it would never,
4 have been produced at this theatre. The only
things about 1t which are to be commended arei
sprightly dialogue. Otherwise 1t is dull dreary and
nOnsensical, aud Mr.. Abery Is TO be congratulated.
upon writing one OF the worst plays ever produced
on the American stage. Mr.. Daily may cut down1
the piece and In part rewrite IL SO to make a
good acting play out OF it. but 1t last night.
1t was pitiful sight to see good actors FOUNDER
ling through parts 30 puertle that the strongest en-
deavors could make nothing out OF them. II we had
never seen Fisher. Clarke, Harkins and James
and Miss Davenport, Mrs. Gilbert and Miss Jewett.
in other parts we could scarcely have avOided
! pronouAcing them bad actors In bad play :,
Mr.. Lewis, whose name is in the cast is sick, ana.
his place was taken last night by Mr. owen Fawcett.
The scenery magnificent, and the furniture'
used In the first act. especially the carved chairs,
formance. erythng.was done In excellent style !;
! even the programmes prepared under the dlrec-
ton OF Mr. J. W. Morrissey, the treasurer, were or
/ SATIN The performance did not close till long after
| midnight,