The New York herald., 1879-09-13

70 th. music which had just the right ring to it.
and secondly to the fact that the truth OF the thing
| became recognized.
| ..It was quite short tooY
I ..Only lasted twenty minutes or so. IT was the
| origin OF the series that Acknowledgements Day.
The sons of Temperance The Ginger Blues The
! Skidmore Guards The Regular Army ana Others
song was the main feature OF the enterian Is
and the first taught me that marches In SIX,
eight and two-four time we're very taxing ana
kept them up. -
| THE plays folowed?"
.erhen began preparing plays into which intro
duced songs Ny Old Hat and 'Muldoon the Solid
Man were of that kind They da wel out o r,sS ,asS
character. One of the most popular OF my songs is
! the Babies on Our Block
York;"
not successful The people outside Of New York arc
not familiar with what going on among them a.
we are here. Another thing, don't think there Is
the same local color anywhere else"
Western life affords some good opportunitiesT
$50 1t does. and many excellent plays have been
written illustrating it. AS tar as am concerned.
find my hands full here. have ever so much work
ahead of me. Some Of ii is mapped out and only
waiting for time. That VIII not prevent me. how
ever. from giving others chance
"Other authors you meany
Certainly; want the bright young American
writers TO have show. Any that come to me with
suitable material shall have it, too.
''You get such long runs out OF your pieces there
does not seem TO be much opportunity
.'Oh, there's no telling about that. Managers OF
theatres always looking for big things and when
we find anything better than what We have. why.
that shall have the preference.
NO FEAR OF COMPOSITION.
"You make regular trips through the country dur
ing the summer season.
1--WE take dash through the provinces for couple
of months. Tiresome work it is. travelling and play
ing"
are going farther away from you dailyY"
mot bit of it, 1 am happy to say our house Is
always FULL and what is still more satisfactory. the
quality of the audience is much improved. or
COT rse to us, public amusement caterers have
right to examine into the kind OF people who
to the theatre SO long as they pay their money
and are well behaved, but we cannot avoid seeing
difference II there is difference
.And Is there?'
"Wonderful. 1t was not understood for some
time that we gave Q performance any one may at
tend, and the very best people were probably little
shy of us. Now we get them and plenty OF them.
See the ladies that are in the house out there now
1t may be, mind you. that We ourselves have grown
somewhat toward that class OF theatre goers and have
naturally attracted them Whatever is there they
are. Nobody now feels any trepidation in saying,
4 am going to the Comique.' At least SO they tell
me-"
'Your purpose is. Of course. TO keep the theatre
what it is nows
Il shall try to get it as near the Folly in London
as 1 can. As to being too far down town. look at
Niblo's. Mr.. E. g. Gilmore has come from mp town
to Niblo's Garden"
.Don't you fear his interfering with some of your
"Quite the other way. We shall help each other.
From what understand he will present attractions
the full extent of the resources OF the theatre
Doing things well is sure to draw custom and bring
the people into the habit of coming into this neigh
..About that comic opera?'
81 must be silent for the present. Come and see it
when we do it go and talk to Dave Braham on the
subject. I afraid I've been talking too much
about myself already"
And there's whistle" said Mr.. Hart ga hop,
skip and jump and we're Mulligans. Say, don't
let that cat out of the bag or you may spoil Eds
great juggling trick. There's one thing about this
town. the minute the fellows get hold of thing on
you they give it to you. II you say anything Of it
now every time We 60 in the street we'll have some
imp cry out .Psti Csti'"