New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-08-14
ENTER TIE PL1YERS.

year. .
ENTER THE PLAYERS.
There il a current belief that IN hard times
tLe average theatrical manager l. always out
at elbows. and the poor player is inst on tine
verge of starvation. No doubt the business
Of supplying the public with amusement suffers
like other trades when the general industry Is
paralyzed. Metropolitan theatres get large
share of their custom from the hotels, and
The hotels at such times are nearly empty.
Travelling " combinations find the provinces
wrenched with severe attack of economy,
and so they break mp ard east their melancholy
wrecks upon East Fourteonth-st. But in the
large cities u season of financial depression Is
often merry and busy one for our friends
of the sock and buskin. Some Of the most re-
markable dramatic successes o. recent years
have been won in the midst Of widespread
commercial gloom no doubt because the weary
merchant, sbop-kecper, broker, lawyer, when
black care has sat unusually heavy upon him
NIL dav. Graves the much-nceded relief of
little amusement in the evening. And so a
play that deserves a run is pretty sure to have
it. at least in Ncw-York even though theatrical
ventures Of lower class are all ruined in the
catastrophe of prevailing dnlncSs.
The midsummer srroers who fretted their
brief hot nights upon the metropolitan boards
only By way Of an advertisement for the prov
inces, have mostly passed out of sight, and
that queer Gebateable period known rs the pre-
lininary season is opening at nearly all our
leading theatres. 1t is a time when adventur-
ous spirits of "A somewhat aspiring temper. ana
in general Of fair name, offer their service,
white "thosc we were won't to take much de-
light in, the tragedians of the city" are still
bathing in the surf, or catching trout III the
mountains. or tossing on the blue sea; and
they play TO an audience OF strange mixture
rustic visitors, Observation-Disclosures, and unlash-
ionable families prematurely returned from
vacation.
"You are welcome. masters; welcome all"
The city would be dull enough without You,
and we shall relish the Irregular" season all
the more for your previous tickling of the pub
lie appetite. The absurd and clumsy play-if
it is a play-that Mark Twain and Bret Harte
have built around the figure of Mr.. ParSoe puts
us in q pleasant mood of expectation, while
Mr. DAILY gets ready his important dramatic
novelty for the set course OF stables III con-
tempOrancOus human manners shortly TO be
resumed at the theatre called the Fifth
Avenue because it is in Twenty -eighth-st. Mr.
MacDOnough's disreputable Baby" makes
ready for Mr.. SOthern'S Crushed Tragedian"
by dIffusing a preliminary atmosphere of mer-
riment through the theatre called the Park be-
cause it does not front any park. "The Poor
"of New-York," whom we have always with
us every year or so, keeps the stage warm for
some future spectacle at the theatre called
Niblo's because it has always belonged to the
estate of A. +. Stewart. Even that mcan-
choly mausoleum of disastrous dramas called
the Grand Opera House because operas are not
performed in it, opens its doors to the Kerry
! Cow (Which the printers are particularly re-
questcd not to spell Cow and to such pant of
the great public as may wish to behold that
celebrated Irish character.
IN few days other preliminaries will be
arranged and all the playhouses in town will
spread wide their hospitable portals. The
perennial Thompson comes back with fresh
shlp-load of capering blondes, to frisk and
chatter on Mr.. Wallacks classic stage. very
naughty French intrigue connected with "Pink
"D0minos" succeeds the impossible and wo-
begone "Poor J0" at the Union Square The
atre. The New Broadway, sO-callcd because il
is old, piques our curiosity with play by
joaquin Miller it being apparently law of
American literary development that whoever
has earned reputation by poem, or a story,
or , lecture, or by writing for the newspapers,
shall make haste to peril 1t all 10y
undertaking drama. Mr. Florence is
coming back with "The Mighty Dollar; 4"
Topsy and little Eva are once more remind
ing lis of our buried shamcs and sins Well,
! though in all this there may be something to
| weary us, 1t Will be strange if there be not
| much more to amuse. So let the players re-
ceive from us no lcntcn entertainment, for
they bring merry thoughts and rest from care,
which are never more wholesome than when
the mind is yexcd and the purse runs low.
Gle that plays the king shall be welcome;
his majesty shall have tribute of us the adj
"venturous knight shall use his foil and target
" the lover shall not sigh gratis; the humorous
oman shall end his part in peace: the clown
- shall make those laugh whose lungs are tckled
90 the sere aud the lady shall say her mind
freely, OF the blank verse shall halt for IT,
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Senator Stanley Matthews will hardly be able to
! take out a patent for his scheme of Government
Railroad Directory His claim might be resisted on
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