The New York herald., 1873-10-07

circumstances calculated 70 dampen tne ar0or OF
any audience, achieved an extraordinary and
blonde, possessed Of pure, high, soprano voice,
Her physique is almost too robust to make it possi
PIE lor her TO become the perfect embodiment or
Of But this Of physca
assimilation was lost sight or to great extent,
In the last act, where her very exquisite rem.
dlti0n OF the final scene, ending with "Spargt
di qualche pianto," drew forth rapturous plaudits
and recall that gave thrilling ratification to all
until the r0le Ii repeated, or until Mile. TOrriani
appears In something equally worthy OF her
Campanini, as Edgardo, accentuated his success
as Gennalo Del Puento, as Enrtco, that obtained by
him IN Cermont. The temperance or Mime.
Nilsson is set down positively for tomorrow night
The Negro Mel0dist Drama 1T tho Broad
way.
There ore great many people in the populous
and cosmopolitan city OF New York, and where
there are great many people there must neces-
sariy be great variety of tastes. 1t was this
consideration, no doubt which induced the man.
ager Of the Broadway Theatre to produce an origi-
nal play by the English dramatist Henry J. Byron,
With X. Emmett in the principal character. 1t was
perhaps happy idea. The citizens OF large me-
tropolis have as good a right to be well supplied
with amusements suited to all grades Of intellects
as with eating houses suited to all palates and to
all conditions In life. We cannot all Afford and II
we were all wealthy we could not all enjoy. the
elaborate dinners OF our fashionable hotels, and
hence 1t is fortunate that we are well
supplied with restaurants through oil the
gradations, from the gilded saloons OF
Fl tn avenue down to the coffee and cake dive ana
the cruller and ice cream stand at the raiings OF
the City Hall Park. We cannot all AFFORD the opera
and we should not all enjoy Nilsson and Lucca IL
we could; so 1t is as well that we can descend
through all the stages of dramatic merit down to
Byron and Emmett.
There is modern dramatic school which grinds
out things called plays as rapidly and as easily as
modern machine will stiike of tenpenny nails 1t
is designed to supply the wants Of those who
regard shakespeare as a bore and who greatly
prefer negro meodists to the regular drama. or
this school Mr.. Byron is distinguished
professor. Give him an actor OF the requisite
calibre, and Mr. Byron can fit him with
piece as neatly as Chatham street tailor can fit
cOuntryman with coat. lie can make sensations
old Joe Miller material and construct poems whole
sale with the aid OF dictionary. An actor who
desires play suited to his pecnarities can de-
pend upon being well supplied by Mr.. Byron,
for he is an actor himself OF the class
for which he writes. 1t is no injustice
to accord Mr.. Byron so prominent place
in their ranks. Fairness demands it: for In his
peculiar line IL the only failure WITH which we reco-
personate the hero in his own drama of "Not such
fool as he looks" There is a school of acting
growing out Oh the banjo and the bones which also
belongs to modern days. Its professors are sensa-
tonal to order and funny by rule. Their great hits
negro minstrel. Each has mis- peculiar talent
Sometimes it takes the shape OF a supposed Ger
man accent which no person ever heard on Ger
man tongue. Sometimes 1t affects brOgue which
never anected any genuine Irishman. Sometimes
u contributes medley Of singing and acting, and
IS not above breakdown in dramatic
These actOrs tv
men in stock company, but their ideas are above
such drudgery They aspire to the fame OF .'stars,
and hence, being fitted to no conceivable produc-
ton that can be legtlmatey called play. they get
plays made by machine dramatists fitted to them.
Byron should manufacture a play for Emmett, ex-
cept it be that Emmett should personate charac-
ter manufactured by Byron.
"Max, the Merry Swiss BOy,r IS the title Of the
piece which was presented TO the New York public
last night at the Broadway, and Emmett is "Max."
There little in the play that but little can be said
about it. In Of the advertisements is Is called
a 'sgreat protcan comedy and in one respect
the title is well applied 1t readily assumes different
from wear.some insipidity to downright stupidity.
Its object Is to enable the principal actor to sing
tiresome number of free and easy songs, to play
on mOuth-organ and banjo, to dance break
downs over and over again, and to dress himself
male and female. the only wonder is why
Mr.. Emmett does not 60 through his songs,
dances and performances m I;an as the cSlored coll
tience Of the audience by filing up the intervals
with long, stupid play. People who admire such
cause 1t would be sooner ended. When "an en-
tirely new and original musical, romantic, modern
has right to expect something better than down
right trash, and they got nothing else last
night either from author or actors. 1t would be
absurd to say that the piece has plot. 'Max,"
when Child has been left in Swiss village with
out friends, his mother having died stranger in
widow with pretty daughter The widow has
found from certain papers that Max is q
rich mans SOM SO she conceas the fact until she
can arrange marriage between him and her
daugher, Carline. An American general and his
niece ore staying at the Inn kept by the widow 50
is Q disguised Italian brigand, who looks like a
Third avenue car conductor. and who wants to 40
something which Is uncertain Tor some object which
does not appear pn nnere no is Bowsfy sm%gger
loves Carline and hates Max. The gentleman
brigand, for some unaccountable reason, steals
Max, who does not die of his wound, and escapes.
Then the american General :, turns out to
Maxs ns father ana ns paren MAX wsn
melodies and breakdowns, Bruno bears Off
Carline INTO hole at the top Of the mountains
can co. and which Is accessible only by rope
placed there by Bruno. Yet Bruno manages to
pounds, @ "a and presently the gentleman brisand ap
ssk,ss ,ns into
throwing him over. Then Max is heard singing
and climbing up the rope, "Ha baw cries Bruno,
half way through, and gives notice that there is
only one strand left. Carne picks up a pistol
and shoots at him. Max gets up safely and
at the same moment an awkward squad Of soldiers
break through the middle OF the mountains and
seize Bruno. Another song and breakdown from
Max and the curtain falls on Byron's new and
original drama. II disposed to be critical, we
might inquire how 1t is that Max, born and brought
up in Swiss village, speaks broken Dutch, but
this we presume is Byronic mystery. Emmett
can speak with o Dutch accent and what Is there
to prevent Byron from enabling him to do soS
Musical and Ora m NJ tic Notes.
Edwin Booth appeared last night at Boston and