The New Orleans Democrat. (New Orleans, La.) 1875-1876, 1876-01-02
Gotham Gossip.

5OOA uISsII WHO uTSb blttIteu IL lttu
splendid intentions, famed into being
by his most noble majesty, the Count OF
Monte Christie. / went about the time
Df this alliance and looked through the
on the form Of the victim,
md said, III anything is calculated
TO give your Purse-ll it Is the gentle
spend-thrift who has always Fetched.
her.
The principal stoekholder In the Ly-
ceum affair was w. Fl. Duncan, a tower
Of monetary strength, he seemed, but
the instant Chas Fechter joined his de-
structive forces, King Duncan was as
fairly settled as II his silver skin had
been laced with the knife OF Mac
beth"
SO the gingerbread man, being ever
30 many degrees lower In the pocket,
went to pieces in short order. Count OF
Monte Christie Chas. Fechter4 for
whom II was builded, took his como
elastic presence to another field.
The Park. conceived in greatness,
ambitiously, and turned out
Just like Aunt Hester's pound cake
She would put on check apron and
say, 'T'm going to make splendid loaf
of pound cake," and find she hadn't
butter enough In the house. and add,
"well, q loaf Of cup cake with plenty OF
fruit, will do first rate. What Johnny
eat up oil the raisins? Dear, dearl
Plain cup cake amt bad, though. No
eggs? Well, some saleratus biscuits
always please the children"
This theatre was intended for q pound
cake by Pursell, but it's q saleratus bis
cult as 1t stands to-day-on tho wrong
side of Broadway for business, a raw,
unfinished look about It, and q mean
ness and barrenness telling OF the pov-
erty that attended it's incompletion.
New York has got a lot OF old hum
bugs--pompous old pumps who some
way have come down to us with tradi-
tions OF former greatness ss-men who ore
called genial" and "unctuous"-m
to whom we defer, who utter with slow
ness and much smacking OF the lips
who fondly imagines he is the DIR. John
son OF the age, has found q Boswell in
Chandos Fulton, and the pair have been
running the Park Theatre.
oAKEY HALL.
One would suppose that was mischief
enough for q lifetime. But Dr. John
son. In his hours Of ease at the Man
haitian Club, persuaded Oakley He'll to
turn actor man. Knowing In his clever
old way after the Florences there was
nothing attractive available, and that
Mr.. Hall would get mighty sick Of
would be q big week financially, and
pay literally out OF pride's sake to keep
the place adoat afterwards, II once con-
nected with It's management.
It all came out rs DIR. johnson elect
ed. After q lot OF dreadful bad manager
ment Mr.. Hall was brought forth to a
house crammed In spots land vacant In
others owing to ticket spectators who
got stuck.)
After the tremendous success OF Pique
Tuesday night, 1t required unexception-
al merit to strike tho same audience
with much effect. Very nearly the same
people assisted at the performances,
and there's too much richness in Daly's
new play to make such a bread-and-
butter affair as "Crucible" come after
very palatably.
NOT BORN ACTOR
Mr.. Hall, as every one knows who
knows anything, will never make an
actor. No doubt he acts inside tremen-
dously, but II don't break out anywhere
ability. Mr.. Hall Is man OF intense
appreciation. The ready smile or
gathering tear, which will adorn his
frontispiece over newspaper in u
street car, proves that.
In reading Victor Hugo, no doubt his
heart swells with rage, rs tho injured
Jean, or softens with heavenly chari-
ty as Bunvena, and he humps up hts
back in his minds eye, and feels legs
crooked inside Of him as he tolls UP the
steps of Notre Dame. All this don't
make the actor.
The 'feeling q character" one hears
so much Of, interferes sadly with the
performance. While you're occupied
your heart and firing up your soul, you
lose sight Of your own words and the
other actor 3 cues, and make mess Of
it, Acting is mechanism, but acting
demands extraneous conditions, such as
o plant face and Timber voice and the
forgetfulness OF legs, born OF an early
tread Of the "board." !" tftif
But DIR. johnson, thought 1t a good
thing to persuade Hall to become an
actor. SO it was for Johnson, and Mr..
Hall has played now three times, and
the sooner he jumps back over the fence
which divides q splendid lawyer from O
poor actor, the better. 9e
TIMELY ToPIC--EC OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
About the most comfortable para
graphs we read these days are those
rehearsing the doing Of the thermome-
ter In New Hampshire where 1t has
reached the subteranean depths OF 35
degrees below zero. don't know as 1t
is so awful after all. When the mercu-
ry gets to zero or O degree or to below,
you get so cold you can tget any colder,
and twenty or thirty more tumbles
don't hurt you much. Another thing.
I wouldn't have q thermometer in the
house. They make you freeze to look
at 'em in cold weather, and the perspi:
ration breaks out all over you as you &c
very comfortably some July day and
find it's hundred and fifty in the
shade. i
THE SIDE-WAY CLUTCH.
The weather here has had some effect
| on the side-aUay clutch. Do you know
what that is !? You must have had it in
st. Louis. All New York women have
| it bad. It's the universal fashion OF
wearing the right hand as far in the
rear as practicable, with a fist full o1
petticoat in it. Out Of one hundred
ladies passing at any hour the corner
of Fourteenth street and Broadway, ]
will stake my best bonnet SO OF them
sail along with their dress-skirts wal.
Topped together in bunch, and raised
at just such an angle by frozen CLAW
in kid.
| About the first Of the pull back time
an item went the rounds Of the papers
giving directions for this sort OF thing
| The lady was ito lean back and sideway
| take as much Of her skirt as she con.