Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1879-10-16

| IheltrIcal-SOme OF The BEST
Plays, Etc.
! CORRESPONDENCE OF THE HERALD.
NEW YORK, Sept. 30, 1879.
Our beautiful city has once more awaken
ed from its long midsummer lethargy, and
most of our fashionables are again seen on
the Avenue (by which, Of course, meant
Fifth -Avenue) and Broadway. Or, in the
words of one of the paragraph fiends,
| ''From Hampshire's granite mountains
| From Newport's golden sands,
From SaratOgas fountains
They're coming back in bands
And some will come back gladly
To luxury and ease;
And some will come back sadly
TO chckOry and cheese"
The gay season has not commenced here.
however, Notwithstanding the return of the
natives That does not fairly open until late
in December, but we have been reused out of
| that dead calm which so oppresses New York
during the summer months, making it like
some plague-stricken place think duller
spot than this is in dog days can not be found
under the blue canopy. The only people who
show any animation at all are the dog catch
ers and the strangers within our gates Coun-
try friends, for some reason known only to
themselves, always come 'to town" just
when there is nothing to see and nothing to
do, and go strolling about the hot streets,
gazing up at the elevated railways and tall
buildings like the truly benighted wanderers
they are.
But with the first autumnal breeze all this
is changed. The country folk hustle home
to their husking- bees and apple gatherings
and the New Workers return, some of them
to luxury and ease, but many of them, sure
enough, to ''chickory and cheese Shutters
are opened on the fashionable streets, the
large shops are filed with stylish women, the
theatres are opened and the streets are CAV
with handsome equippages. In short, we
unfurl our banners to the breeze, as it were,
about the first of September and prepare for
active life.
confess l should like to take peep at the
"walkers," but it is not exactly the thing for
lady to do. Oh, dear! the misery of be-
longing to the sisterhood! 1t is that great
French cynic, Alphonse Karr, believe, who
says that woman's doom is Imprisonment for
life with the death penalty at the end, a hor-
rible sentiment which has far more of truth
than fiction about it, unfortunately.
The Union Square Theatre opened last
week with an American play by BARLEY
Campbell, entitled, MY Partner" which is
said to be one of the best dramas ever pro-
duced by native talent. The scene is laid in
California and all of the Incidents and scenes
of early life on the Pacific coast are depicted
with mastery hand OF course it is we'll
mounted and strongly cast at the Union
Square. Mr. Southern has been playing
"Brother Sam" at the Park, and John T.
Raymond "Wolfort's Roost" at Wallacks.
Mr.. Daily has taken the old Woods Museum
and converted it into the handsomest comedy
theatre in the city, but at present his CON-
pany is weak. Boucicault has Booths The
atre and is playing in one of his own dramas.
The Bowery Theatre, one Of the old land
marks, has been entirely reconstructed and is
DOW as fine as any of the uptown places of
1t will hereafter be devoted to
he German drama. It is almost to be re-
yretted that this old haunt of the newsboys,
and other East-side characters
has been changed from its old well known
character. 1t is the one theatre in the city
with history and we had learned to regard
t almost with Veneration as something be-
onging to the past glory of the early drama
n New York, where the elder Booth, Charles
zean and Forest were the leading stars in
he theatrical empyrean. Since our infancy
lmost we have all been familiar with the ira
itions and legends connected with the ''Old
3owery' and it seemed as though some of
he sacred memories were being trundled out
with the bricks and old mortar
which the workmen dumped into the street
s indifferently as if they had been common
tuff. 1t is one sad feature of our country
hat nothing is ever allowed to become old
ere Nothing is sacred from the touch of
be progressionist.
FANNIE PALMER
A DREADFUL story is reported from France.
young sportsman went shooting. In
7ood he met a charming young girl, the