, 1879-06-19

ACT Ir.
X: Currv--nlack sheep dwell In every fold.
All that Elitters e not gou.
Stofke turn out to he but logs, ]
Dulls arc but inflated frogs.
-F'nn<y77:so they b.
At this noiut ol tue Juct q TgIBuHE reporter |
broke Ia upon the amateur managers. They H.
yEucd hs mission. Naturally acssrs. Curry md
Finncy arc wrotly; in fact, thug arc as mad as
March l,ates and swear tl'at aley' SEQ this
thing "to tho bitter end, SIR" for, as they bo!ll
said TO the reporter yesterday, they have d
contract with those parties"
"You Bec," said one Of theso gentlemen,
''nhen we arst undertook t!lls thing, Mr. ]. II.
IIayerly was written to and asked II lie Wuuld
nut Oh the Church Choir piualore,' and, II 50,
when could lie do it3'
"An1 he replfell"
"Thnt he could Eive tic 9th Of June,-one
veck,-because the next fortnight was engaged;
tint ho could give Juue 30 aud July and IA.
With that information III our possession We Gun
ssacted With thoao various s|ngcrs,-malo
positive contract With them for one week, With
the privilege Of i've other wceks.'
"Eycry ono, 1 prcsume," remarked the
writer, "knew ttlara would 10 an lnterregnum
In tllcr cngagetncntf''
"Thcy did, and Will, this understanding VIC
began the opera. The arst three nights wero
failures. Wo had to spapcr' tho house like
tttmnetcr' to got the people walked up. On
Wednesday afternoon tho houae was atttl poor,
and I then made up my mind that 1t Wns going
to coat us at least $500 to get out Of tile thing.
| Tho tide turned on Wednesday night, however:
tue crowd bcgan to como In; Oil Thursday the
| attendance Increased, and on Saturday night
| the venture cultnlaascd In q SUCCESS"
The reporter remarked that tho smatcur mnu-
agers had been lucky.
"Yes. In tho meantime We had been ap-
preached eY Mr. payia, ME. HngcrDy's manaEer,
and asked what We Wero go!nE to do.--"hother
no would take the 7ti or tho 14th OF July. l
eaId we would tako the original date OF Juuu 30.
lie replied that Iavcrfy bad sold the time. not
hayluy becn ablo to take our chances Of srccsaa
4 TINT week, declined to say whether We would
take July or not, believing that VIC should
luyo been given our original date NJ agreed upon.
| / asked him To give nsu until the next day,
however, aud aatl then should answer. lott.
and hlr. Davis, understand, went straight oil
and telegraphed to HaYerly "They won't take
july aud H." or worls to that effect. upon
which lIaverly pat his Maatolona up Tor ne 7s!i
and M, aaa siT: Davis M practically said You
uTl,ep,n continued ule lin nresssFl0, we went
to MI. McVIcker and coutructed with him 10
nner on tho 18Th Of july. Wo
could haye had tha 7th .and l4th, but
wo thonrht It be.t to give tho thing sass uatal
tls 9th"
Your contracts gave You tho right to make
/ this engagement, Jou thinsF
"Dec.dcaIy;. and; to make assurance douoly
sure. We gut Mr. McQaido aud Air. knorr to
Of them, to appsaE at McVlckes's on ths 18th;
We Jaw Dir. Fatk, and ho said h!s vile would
undoubtedly be glad to bear OF the engage
ibid you SEQ tho other members OF the
Yes, yesterday" said tho interyisEed, ~
saw ali III them, and they were delighted 70
hrar that III. McYlckcr bad contracted, and
this uaor,.lux No ars met With the astounding
tufor,na tion that Mr. HayeriY had actually Gu.
gagged every one Of those bartiea: aud ~ 01t !,
them to p!ay In hts theatre on The Gkh Of tu!Y''
"HaYe yuu .eeu IIaye1ly OF the subject"
.fu; but we are told that when approached
regarding the matter e7isca tAathe protested