The New York herald., 1876-01-16

- """ooSonn VIII play boethoVens c0ncefto iOf 'io-
lin, opus 6I
mr. Lester Wallack's performance OF Gilbert Greene
IN Married In Haste" finds universal praise, and wo
do not wonder for one Of the most feIctous pieces
OF ight comedy that that master Of comedy has
given US for years II Is the perfection Of ease and
the many brilliant things which the author has given
10 MI Greene could not be said more brilliantly than
they are by Mr. Walack. Taken altogether this COM
cay, though deficient In purpose, Is extremely enter
tanning "a fronsttL There four especially good
parts, intrusted Messrs walack Gilbert Stevenson
and Miss Ada Dyas There but one thing that could
be objected to In this bright comedy as unpleasant II
is common fault in English plays thas they will in
troduce creditors Here, for instance, have fire.
quent references to butchers and wine merchants
who are urgent for settlements, and tho creditor is
actually incarnated in the landlord who energetcaly
presents his little account Situations such these
arc apt TO produce disagrecable impressions upon
miscellaneous audience assembled in the innocent pur
suit Of pleasure We thought we could perceive
gloom spreading the theatre the other night when
ever the dun appeared. Young reminded Of
their taors young ladies Of their miners aud vague
visions Of unpaid washerwomen, grocers jewellers
&C. lowered In the air The debtor class is very large
in any modern assemblage and when these bills were
presented on the stage We reminded OF what
Hamlet said -
That guilty creatures sitting at a piay
have, by the very cunning Of the scene
Been struck so to the soul that presently
They have proclaimed their malefactions
and half expected to see convicted sinners starting up
in all parts Of the theatre and crying out "oI Oh
owel"
When Mr.. Stuart named the Park Theatre tho Paais
Royal OF New York he probably did not that he
Intended to initiate the Paris theatre any further than
In the excellence OF It's acting An article in
English journal mentions several qualities OF the
Palais Royal which IL would not bo wisdom for our
American managers to emulate It was celebrated
ninety years ago, and 'then now II was famous for
the broadest arces and those who entered its doors
had either lost the faculty Of bushng thought that
bushes we'll became the human countenance. Again
we learn that ''what Paul do Rocks novels are in
literature that the Palas Royal is In the dramatic
world If one judges its farces by English canons
there epithets too strong to condemn them-in
deed, they defy translation, analysis and oven
allusion so completely that they cannot 80
much as be named. But we must do as Par
SLAMS do leave squeamishness tho check.
taker's counter with tickets and when this has
been done we may perhaps agree with the French
audience that the Paais Royal plays are fairly harm
less But this Is not all ''rhe Palais Royal" we are
told s the sole existing theatre of prosperous income
which rejects entirely the MAXIM Segni,ts yr1tant
dnimoS, dc (mr stuart VIII pardon the Latin.l Its
scenery is vile In all secondary parts II places actors
who are little better than supers' In scenes where
there is feast the Palais Royal managers still fondly
cling to the traditions OF cardboard fires and koco'
champagne" Finally, 'the house is horribly ventla-
ted, and in summer an oven; the stalls hard and
narrow seats, where fat spectators get wedged and
where tall and thin have to their knees till
they are almost able to kiss them to the boxes they
are dens OF torture apparently designed for other
purpose than TO give cramp" Here is picture OF the
Paais Royal which is not alurng, speak mildly of
it-bad morals, bad scenery and bad accommodation
But as the article from which We quote remarks,
'None of the spectators complain, would do SO
even II they had TO sit the whole evening spikes
The excellence Of tho acting compensates for every
thing. There present the company eight Grst
class comcdians-L'He Heritier. Geoffroy, Hyacinthe'
Brasseur, GIPerez Lassouche, Rene, Luguet and Nine
Delile. II Mr. Stuart can give a company good
as this he need not quote the title Of Palas Royal
describe his house for in all respects except that Of
acting his theatre is the better Of the two.