The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1875-10-11

very much as the owner and occupant OF
IN deliberately appointed pew surveys the
sinners who enter the house OF the LOrd
TO lind siting In the charity corner.
Under such circumstances, no one has n
right TO complain if the Academy during
the gay season does not continually re-
sound TO the notes Of the high priced sing
ers of Italian opera.
As to the theatres, they are more demo-
cIntie, and therefore more securely profit
cble. No very extraordinary events in u
dramatic way are promised for the winter,
but the programme Is not an unsatisfac-
tory one. The italian tragedian Rossi
will try his fortune with a New York
audience, and seek to gather laareis equal
TO those carried of by sALvNI. He brings
great reputation and handsome person.
EDWIN BooTH, cured of his broken arm,
will rejnter New York stage after an
absence Of two or more seasons, an alb
sence prefaced by his failure as a manager
and theatre owner. lie is sure of warm
greeting, though the public has in FECnrKR
and SALvINI had an opportunity of seeing
and liking representations of the char
acters essayed by him quite radically diff
fcrent from those with which he has made
the play-goers familiar. CLARA MORRIS will
also come out Of suffering to find solace for
pain endured In the applause of great
audiences. AGNES ETHEL, after her brief
retirement from our stage, will again APP
pear to gain new plaudits from her
audiences. Mr.. DAILY has had to give over
TO the Union Square Theatre the play OF
~ Rose Michel - M ha kanf - OIf.
Boys Mr.. WALLAcK opens with COM
pnny of his usual high excellence; aud the
other theatres also make good promises.
In concerts, we have TITIENs and shall
have Won BULow, SO that the devotees OF
music will flnd high affairs at which to offer
up their sacrifices of admiration. The
vocal concert, shadow ne it is beside tho
opera, yet supplies a definite want of the
population, large share Of whom either
cannot afford to 20 to the opera or
have scruples against so doing. THEo-
DoRE THoMAss symphony concerts will
give delight TO that rapidly-growing
class of people in New York who
appreciate and thoroughly enjoy the
best music. 1t is really wonderful how
great the advance in musical taste in New
York has been within the last fifteen years.
To THEODORE THOMAS much of the credit
Is due for promoting this healthy growth.
The Philharmonic concerts have also
served good purpose in the same direc-
ton. The spread OF accurate, critical, ex-
pert judgment of music Is indeed remark
able. The ambition of improvement is
even greater among the audiences than
among the performers. The conservato-
ries where piano playing is taught have
yearly multiplied, and they seem TO have
no lack OF pupils. The sight OF the
young girl or middlv-aged woman,
music roll in hand, vending her morn
ing way to one of these conserva-
tories, is rs frequent as il is agreeable.
Occupation is the need of thousands of
women for mere occupations sake. just as
for ten times ~ many women II is tlls no
cessity for breads sake.
In fashionable society there will prob
ably be rs last year a prevalence OF kettle
drums, receptions, and other of the
cheaper forms Of entertainment The
enjoyment derivabe from these social
gatherings is even greater than from the
costly ball or rout, after which the host
blankly surveys the bills and the guests
contemplate their black-ringed eyes ana
disordcrtd clothes, and in vain try
to assuage their headaches. One char
acterstic of our society is the circum-
stance that IT is SO largely given over to
beardlcss youths and budding damscls,
their elders stunning its elamours and
taking their pleasures in ways they fancy
more sensible. This does not make IL n
q -, Al.
young people seem TO like II Just as well.
The bees must work that we may have
honey. SO the poor must sew, aud cut,
and plan that the rich may play. But
that is no reason for imagining that the
bee is without his joys or the poor with
out THEN delights. What the workman
asks, however is work for his willing
hands TO do. In the economies which the
rich employ let them not then, as is apt
10 be the case, first save on the labor they
reuuiTe.