The New York herald., 1873-12-07

He is the well known patron OF two or three up.
town Episcopal churches The speciality OF Nibo's
Garden has been melodrama and spectacle. It's
managers are industrious and intelligent caterers
10 their peculiar puolic, who never seem weary OF
recalling Byron's lines
Not pious David when before the Ark.
His grand pas seui excited much remark
TALL MANAGEMENT.
The Messrs. Booth come next in precedence, ,, OF
mate. Their diet ior the season may be likened 10
q sandwich, In which the scenic forms the slices OF
bread, and the substantial layer between them Is
variously changed from Shakespeare to the partlcu-
lar pieces OF stars like Jefferson Maggie Mitchell,
ings are larger and more extensive tnan any in
the country. Their managerial resources are CON-
prehensiye In arrangements lor heating. iiehting
and machinery or atOrding facilities TO carpenter
shops, paint rooms and dressing apartments.
THE BowERY MANAGEMENT
and he successor OF George Fox tthe Grimaldi
OF the presently manager OF the Old Bowery The
atre. Ii has been made in mis- hands emphatically
peoples playhot Sc No money is wasred upon
ad0rnment nor extfavagant stars. And he Is re-
quired by the law OF his patrons to change his bill
at least once every week. The house never closes
except on sunday, and in the course OF year
tragedy, comedy. farce, melodrama, comedy
playing and minstresy have each and all had their
like varying batter cakes on hotel 'griddle.o
VERSATILE MANAGRMENT
George Wood, OF Woods Museum, Is an old
stager in management and originally came to as
BY the way OF the West. After Barney Williams
surrendered the first Wallack building, he con-
Quoted it as the Broadway Theatre. When that
was pulled down to make way Tor stores, Mr.. Wood
leased the Banvard Museum and Theatre, on upper
Broadway, and has made OF it an uptown Bowery
or London Adelph. He has frequent changes OF
bin aud rapid aternations OF actors from sterling
provincial dramatic schools who come to this city
periodically In order to obtain metropolitan re-
freshers Tor rural use.
ELEGANT COMEDY.
Mr.. A. NJ. Palmer is tue more recent manager.
For many years librarian OF the Mercantile AssO-
Shook In the Union square Theatre large acquant-
anceship with business men, society and dramatic
literature. This theatre s manly run upon its
company for comedy and hight melodrama, but
does not dsdain to occasionally enlist star In Its
armament
..CCtNTEMPoRANEoUs COMEDY OF HUMAN INTEREST,"
Augustin DAILY is New York boy, and although
only about 80 years old, and veritable juvenile
walking gentleman In appearance, snpervlses the
management OF lour theatres and has absolute
control OF two. They are the. Olympic, Grand
Opera House, Broadway and the New Fifth Avenue.
the Erie Company, the third by A. 7. Stewart and
the last by the Gisey estate. 1t Is estimated that
Thus he directs four stock companies, and, in
age, resembles for executive capacity Commodore
Vanderbilt. The latter waters his stock COM
panies, as IS said but DAILY Is expected to iniuse
spirit into his. To think out amusement for other
people is probably a matter OF work. AS yet his
duties have not worn him into managerial ner-
vousness, which in London has often cropped out
in ito brusqueness and the very opposite OF Yielding
diplomacy. And his elasticity seems chronic.
Both the Olympic and Broadway appear TO be
maintained as star theatres with "DaLan' as well
as Thaiian auxiliaries OF company, scenery and
Oates, Emmett McWade and Miss lie Clercq have
appeared at one the other OF them. The Grand
opera House Is devoted to melodrama, spectacle
prefer Of his wives over the Others there is no
doubt Mr.. Day's warmest love win be given TO his
New Fifth Avenue Theatre, wnich opens next
Wednesday evening. 1t takes its name from obe
dience TO the Latin saw, iucus a non tuce1tdo. He
in Twenty-ourth street, as it now viii be IN
Twenty-eghth street, located nearest to Broad
way The people, however, got to calling the cosey
IN u mo
and, like discreet merchant, Daily stuck TO his
trade mark.
AN AUTHOR MANGER
On Christmas night the New Park Theatre OF Mr.
BOucicault iS announced to open. This has also
been described from plans in these columns, aud
will, OF course, be again enlarged upon when the
impending event invites as matter ol popular in
terest. Like Mr.. Daily, Mr.. Boucicault Is restless
and full OF work. Two Of his plays are underlined
at other theatres, and he is OF course, preparing
third lor his own. Perhaps he writes 100 rapidly:
and yet some OF the longest lived plays arc pro-
THE SUCCESSFUL PLAYWRIGHT
is born and not made 1t IS one thing to carpenter
drama and another thing to beget l., like as
Byrons and Gaylers do the lormer, but your Bouci-
canlts Sardous, Tom Taylors, Robertsons and
AlDerrys are born with dramatic knack. They who
may be called original dramatis.s write nice
closet plays, but never good acting ones
structed upon incidents and events that are
borrowed from writer's ON history. There must be
genius IN the successful laywright but genius
situations. Thls knack is to the dramatst what
saUoT Jdire is to the dlpomatist- 1t is the key to
his success IN the profession. one may character
Ze and identity it, but cannot give 1t definition.
Tue dramatist without this knack. and 1t seems
inborn will lind his dialogue degenerate into mar.
rative rather than illustrating and stimulating
action; his situations VIII often develop anticll-
max, and occasionally his best effects VIII ship.
wreck upon commonplace. Boucicault probably
possesses this knack better than any living au-
uthor. He writes with great rapidity, and all his
ideas seem TO fall at once into dramatic line with
the precision OF soldiers Oh parade. He evidently
pictures on his brain the stage effects as he ere
ates them with his pen. When he has finished his
has shown this Snack also in 'Under the Gaslight,"
III which the most mediocre incidents OF every day
town and country lie have been worked up
into complications and denouements which
engender heart-beats from the most unmagina-
tive. Their experiences as managers have Ell
hanced this knack in both Bcucicault and DAILY.
The lormer, however, has never been so successful
a manager as M author. One can be, be prodgai ,, OF
gality aids; but prodigality in management has
many times brought Boucicaut to his bottom dol
lar.
SENSATIONAL AND MISCELLANEOUS MANAGEMENT.
manager who has happy sympathy with the
popular instincts Is Josh Hart. OF the Theatre
Comiaue His playhouse is q dramatic restaurant,
where during the season everything III the market
has been cooked and placed on the bills OF fare.
He does not fish with reel and rod anu delicate
bait, but puts his large drag net into the ocean OF
amusement sailors, and through successive haGs
brings into his managerial control the wnoc of
these in the course OF year.
SHALL WE HAVE AvAuDRvILLETHEATRE9
Perhaps there is yet room Tor a Iarce theatre IN
Which people cau indulge premeditatcd design 10
laugh. The peals when sauted the voke's family
anu nightly yociierate ''lo Obige Benson" at Wal
lacks, are evidences Of popular demand. Fancy
sucn place OF amusement with S,oddard, Lamb,
Flske, Davidge. tawcett, Lehingwel and Beckett
men representatives or Momus, and Ellie Ger
mon, Mrs. Seton. Amelia Harris and kttic
Blanchard as actresses; and giving one short bur
iesque, one song, Vaudeville. and couple OF farees
every night, with an advertised timetable
OF tho beginning OF each one, that II
theatre goer couid not eat the whole dessert, he
might at least choose dish or two. OF course the
engagements would have TO be made months be-
fore such theatre opened IN order to secure the
material before 1t was scattered into other estab-
lishments. As the theatres conducted
merrlrnent becomes an incident, not the iuil el-
feet.
There is every prospect OF q remuneratve season
10 the managers Some OF them have, in COM
piiance with arguments first suggested in the
HERALD, adapted prices 10 panic purses. Others,
who can command exclusive audiences, still retain
the dollar and dollar and hall prices. People
must relieve their minds and crafty the Anglo