, 1879-07-13

spcct these ladies render good service to the
production. III our first notice We spoke admir-
ingly OF the debutante, Miss Blanche Wheaton,
the Parkx. OF "Engascd." DURING the week
We have seen no reason to change our first i'm
| pressions concerning that young lady. Sne pos
scsses physical qualifications which are very
valuable in the career she has chosen,
displays an an nteilesuss rarely op
ices. atr. Herbert, clever comedian,
whom We have had here before, gives capital
bit OF charact er i'll dnyus, aud Mrs: j. ": bru,
TOMS Hrs Mac{ariaae is as truthful Us Il I. had
| stepped from the pages ol Scott. Alr. Hudson
Llston and Mr. Charles Collins complete the
| cast Of - Engaged" which will be played du--
ing the coming week.
NEW YORK,
| LORD DuNpREARY AND THE " JOCK" OF BEAU
| FORT.
S1,ecfal Correspondence Of The Tribune.
| NEW YORK. JULY 9.-Thts fishing cruise Of
Sothern's, away into the depths Of Canada, is
turning out to be one Of the funniest things that
ever was seen or heard Of. Dundreary, you re-
member, purchased a river last year, which he
| intended should serve the double purpose Of
furnishing him with summer sport and adyertts"
luz material. He paid goud round sum for
the stream, invested heavy amount in supplies
and fishing tackle, imported more or less
| genuine live Duke from England, and generally
| spread himself on the scnu-oT When the
party, including Billy Florence, soshern, md
Beaufort, started for Canada awhile ago, every
body was acquainted with the facts, owing to
| the skillful way in which the New YORK papers
| we're manipulated.
and from that time to this, folks have been
looking out for tales Of great catches which
should outYic the awful whoppers that
| he
regarding the pscatorial performances Of the
| Princess Louise. But thus far nothing
whatever has been heard BY the eager aud ex-
pcctant public. sothern having relapsed into
one Of his brilliant flashes of silence. Yester-
day. however, Prof. Horace Wall-he is q Pro-
fessor of theatrical engagements to the college
| in Union Square-showed me q letter FROM
! Dundreary, saying that the river WAS poisoned
in the spring, and that all the salmon the party
had taken thus far were totally unit to cat.
| This, OF course, is what poetic man would
describe as ''great leathcr.'' But I, being Of
commonplace and prosaic turn, merely call it
| ''talfy." The probably
CORRECT SOLUTION OF THE WHOLE BUSINESS
/ Is to be found in the hypothesis that the river
never had any more gancy fish in its waters
than the frisky bull-head aud the blithe and
sportive pumpkin~sced. Suckers were what
| Mr. Sothern apparently sought, aud be has
| certainly caught lots Of them. Indeed, begin
| to wonder II the whole river scheme wasn't
| big sell. And between YOU and me, I don't
believe they hare gone to any stream at all.
| The letter which Prot. Horace Wall showed
| me contained, in addition to what I have
| already quoted an announcement TINT the
| party. were OIL the point Of packing
up their traps !; and going over to
s'join tie Goyernor-Gcucra1 ut the Rlchtigouche
River, where fish are penty.nn. .WIeW1. Isn't
TINT rather cool talk, Tor sotherna BY and BY,
If be sgets auy, encouragement, be will be
patronizing the Queen: That is what call
"gaul.".. -.&,.
The Dramatic Ntips, has insisted from the first
! that Sothern's Duke was an entirely spurious
| article OF i'm portation, aud about two-thirus OF
! the people who know anything at all about
Beaufort's presence IN America believe he is
fraud. This morning Byrne received personal
note from the Duke, complaining bitterly Of the
treatment bestowed upon him, aud saving,
among other things, believe that he had en-
couutered difficulties in getting his letters Of
credit cashed in Quebec, because the bankers
thought be was not the old original Beaufort.
The Mems tomorrow will contain the letter in
full, together with some interesting remarks
| concerning its author And, on the whole, I
| think sothern's vacation this year ia panning
out good deal more fun than he imagined it
would But the humorous part OF the affair
| isn't exactly as Dundreary would like to
| have it.
Isn't Locke, OF the Bush Street Theatre San
Francisco, alittle out OF his mind? He has agreed
| to pay the railway fares of Sothern and Ills
company from Chicago to California and
return. and to share equally the receipts Of an
nt-cfa 0nf }hnra &rtfto $c
| by any means a favorte in Frisco, aud don't
sec where Locke's profit is to come in.
| These are
THE BUSIEST OATS OF THE YEAR
for dramatic agents, managers, and stars. Dur
ing the last OF June, all Of July, and the first Of
companies, aud devising new modes Of adver-
tsing must be accomplished, and consequently
there is little rest for those interested. The
condition OF affairs has to outsiders the appear
| ance Of quiet, but In reality everything is
whoopng right along, just as if such q thing as
| summer never had been heard OF. In regard TO
| vacation, theatrical people as rule assume the
! virtue though they have it not. That is why
! there is always SO much more news about Union
| SQUARE in the summer than at any other season
| Of the year. This month things are particularly
lively. The formation of new enterprises,
which ,i is now golng lar ahead OF ANYTHING in the
ingly lively. The Square is having its boom
| nov, and the takers are liyclier around its
borders than dcas upon the edges OF a red-hot
grida]e.
One of the big events Of next season will
probably be the production OF Joaquin Millcr's
''Forty-Nine,' which has for long time been
in the hands Of Mckee Rankin and his Wife
They have been furnished with congeuial parts
i by the author, and they think the new piece is
going to make greater success even than 1.-THE
Dauitcs.'' But it is not yet ready to be brought
out. Like all of Mr.. Mler's work, it lacks
perfection in its construction, and that defect