New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-07-05

self very wicked In wiring about it unseen,
for i wrote avowedly at second hand and
quoted my authorities. | heard yesterday that
the house is well filed nightly, and that the
play will be kept on the boards t!ll past the
time when the heater usually closes for the SUMMER
Mr.. Irving DID not act ON Monday; by way al relax
alton he took trip to Dublin, twelve hours jour
ney. and gave reading TO the students of Trinity
College. returning in time 10 play on Tuesday. Inc
management of the Lyccum are advertising me
Lyons Mail" and Mr.. Irving by " sandwiches " IN
the streets with rough sketches of Mr. Irving in his
two characters of Dabosc and LesurqSe if he were
some monStrous production Of nature, OF the kind
which attaches itself rs sde-shOw to a circus. THIS
is the way in which, for the moment. the drama is
elevated" At the Princess. Mr. Dion B0uccault
again. as the author of after Dark OF
which need only say that il includes Music Han
Scene,r by the Great Mackney Miss Abrahans ana
other unknown celebrities. This also eevates the
drama AZ the Court New Men and Old Acres" for
the 1TGth time, play | saw once without
great fatigue, and for the other 10 times
have been willing to take the managers
word The Globe, like the Princess, is
PLAYING "After Dark'-whether the same or
different piece, cannot say. Perhaps 1t does
not much matter. The Queens Theater Is gwen up
to promenade concerts; the Folly to Miss Lydia
where, perhaps, Oxygen" which failed IN Paris,
and. has not succeeded in London. will meet the
views of this ladys admirers. if admirers she stili
have. '"The Pink Dominos" keeps the boards
at the Criterion, and gives scope for
the performance Of young lady who Is
said TO have been formerly painters model, ami
more lately to have attracted the attention OF dis
tnguished member of the royal family. AT the
Vaudeville "Our Boys 7Sjth night A statement
has lately been published that this piece has put
500 900 and more into the pockets of the managers
of the Vaudeville and about one fifteenth part OF
that sum into the pocket of the author. So equlta-
bic is the present distribution of profits between
the brains which produce and the business talent
which runs a successful comedy the English
stage. Mr. Charles Rcade's "Scuttled Ship" Is run
ming at the Observation-Disclosures OF the lntenseSt
melodramatic kind-Mr. Henry Neville performing,
suppose his usual series OF gymnasuc ieais Niat
IS left The Prince of Wales 1heateT, with London
Assurance" or the AihambTa with "Orphee aux
ENTERS" both Of them played out long since. If |
had to choose, should choose the Alhambra, for
there are three ballets and one dancer, Mile. Per-
toldi who knows how to dance, and is mistress OF
style which is rare in these days and becoming rarer
"a style which does not depend for attractveness
on feats of physical strength, on vugarity, nor
on indecency. You may well believe, if You date
YOUR impressions from the BLACK Crook" and
that sort of thing, that ballet IS no ba'iet
without these accessories but it is still possible at
times to see performer whose movements, Ike
those of Taglioni, are marked by finish and grace.
and who has not forgotten what can be done by
expressIveBeSs of gesture. G. W. s.