, 1876-07-30

TIE POLICE ON THE WAR-PATH.
A TRIBUNE reporter heard yesterday evening
that the managers of the Coliseum had been
served with a notice from the superintendent
Of Police not to have any theatrical perform
anccs Sunday, and, consequently, called on the
Ham1in Brothers to learn what they thought OF
the order, and what they proposed to do. The
gentlemen stated that if the police officials meant
to make a test case OF this matter they were in
clincd to clnsc to-day and let the fun proceed,
confident that they would come out all right.
But, If this movement was directed in any spite
full, Puritanical spirit, they were not so sure
that they would not submit to it. In the first
place, they say that their Sunday performance
is the most rcmuncrative Of the week, and that
to abandon it would take away at least one
third of their weekly profits, and this would be
tantamount to closing up the place entirely. As
an ninstancc OF the
VALUE OF SUNDAY PERFORMANCES,
they state that the Adelphi has been kept up
only by means Of them, and not very success
fully at that. To prohibit Sunday performances
altogether would be to close it up. They also
claim that, owing to The suddcnness of the no.
tice, they have had no time to arrange for extra
matlnces to make up for their Sunday losses,
and that there is no relief for the necessary
pensc to which they have been put for adycr-
tising, etc, for the Sunday business. The sal
aries Of the actors run on just the same whether
they play Sunday or not, and on Monday
the payroll stares them in the facc.
The llalnlin Brothers have recently been
through pretty hard financial struggle, and
had just begun, they say, to see their way clear
when this order comes and tllrcatens to take
away that portion Of their business which is the
most renunerative. They are not fully de-
tcFnlfned just what course to pursue. Last
summer the Coliseum was ordered to close on
N1InH1ES. h11t the ftrfrr II of1n5
ran on as usual. They claim that their per-
and that the attendance is ''''tu quiet
and orderly. Whenever an actor de-
that repetition OF the oifense will cause his
theatrical decapitation, SO far as the Coliseum
is concerned; but there is seldom, if ever, any
occasion to SO caution any one connected with
the place. The Hamlins maintain that it is
much better for people to go to the Coliseum
about the streets, and finally bring up in the
low dives where they become bcastly drunk;
and lastly, they claim that if the Germans are
permitted to carry on their
SUNDAY CONCERTS
and Sunday thcatricals, there is no good reason
why American-born citizens should not have the
same privilege. They take the matter very
calmly, and are apparently disposedto avoid any
trouble, While they complain of what seems to
them to be injustice on the part Of the police.
night, and decide bcforc2 o'clock to-day what
they Will do. All persons interested in the great
question-to close or not to clOse-will, there
fore, have to await to-day's events.
TIE ADELpHI,
4 TRIBUNE reporter called in at the Adc1nhf
Theatre last night to find out whether that cs-
adjustment had received an order to keep
closed, and not TO give performance this even
ing. MID A. Allen, the manager, and Mr.. Kline
were found. The place WAS only reopened last
nTfDinE. and fha m is