New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-03-14

| The agitation of the guilty monarch. Going into
some cheap theatre one night. he found that r'ai
Richard had pirated his invention ana ms sent
him home in great ill-humor. lie wouid nov he
soo:hed nor for some time explain his sulkiness
but when he suddenly broke out with " D. EN-
they all nave shaking swords" the household
| nnderstood why its lord was I'll at ease. lie
seemed 10 carry his admiration of mere bgness even
into his ideas Of q sister art There funny story
of the advice which he to n young painter VINO
| had sought his paironaGe-aD eminent writer ID
| Boston used to tell il thus with great gusto: "
knew your father sr good artist, sir! You
should give yourself 10 high art sir Have You ever
seen Paul Pot er's bull : That is what call hau
art sirr Old Andrew Jacks Davis, an eccentric
costumer we'll known in the theatrical circles oi
New-York, was a factotum of Forrest. His evidence
in the scandalous divorce case was amusing anu
will be remembered by those who perused those I'M
savorv proceedings Allen made for Forrest
Richard ILL., q magnificent, well.bnrnished SUIT OF
patent leather. Forrest was always IN the baDll %
chatting Allen. and on this occasion ne had oeen
particularly sarcastic in his illusions 10 patent
leather Patent leather indeed" responded
| Alien testify: - should ike to know what your
! Richard the Third would be without i'll! And with
this clever fepar,ee we may dismiss this uncom-
monty large actor. As an orator he IS not 50 well
! known. He delivered a wonderful Fourth Of July
| Grafton somewhere DebWtbu loOV Ahu low ~
this city, which was printed and glad collectors of
cu,iosa always are TO Obtain copy. NV recoliec-
ton of It, for no copy drfted INTO my hands,
j. that it was extremely beautiful, and one OF the
finest pieces OF calico composition ever sent to the
| press.
| | wish that somebody. with leisure and taste for
| the work woulG write history of the American
manias IN the mlttcr of amusement, from the far
away DAYS ofGsorgc Frederick Cooke and Edmund
! Koau, down to the present time. In 1871. W all
went mad about dancer, Fanny ElssleI, and long
queues from the middle of the street to the box
Office and great prices paid for tickets, attested the
sudden passion of Americans for the dciicacles OF
the Terpsichorean art. We had enjoyed coed ballet
dancing beforc-the evergreen Celeste in " The
French Spy," Augusta IN ia Bayadere,' TO say
nothing of Master and Hiss Wells, hopping about
between the acts and making a dancing-school OF
! the stage of the Old Park Theatre. Matcmo,scilc
was charming suppose but il all looks rather faded
| ana shabby 60 M now, through the mists OF all
| these years ONLY remember that people wero crazy
then about her grace and her smile. and her lovely
pantomine, her jumps and slips and hops and prou
cttes She had a Mons. Sylvan with her, wonder
ful also for agility, aud these two in pas lie dcp1
were considered inImitabe | was not much Of
Judge Of these gymnastics, but thought the lady
the perfection Of grace until Mr. n. p. Wills then
danced like a pair of t0ngs. After that, of course
! was IN doubt although a friend of mine often
avoved with every appearance Of sincerity that he
would give $40 at any time to see Mademolseile
| in her short petticOats, fake her seat
when the business of the ballet required the feden-
tary position. An know is that people went crazy
as they will any time If their enthusiasm be prop
erly manipulated. Once convince them that they
cannot get into the theatre without paying an
unoOnsconaDe sum of money, and they viii be
sure of the nsthoc excellence of what is to be seen
or heard within. ought to say that Mademoiselle
gave real ballet of action, with a story in it-a
kind of entertainment which seems to be lost. 1t
was not IN the least of the Black Crook
| school; it had a plot with beginning
and end, which, although undeniably absurd al
forlei reason for the saltatory exhibition; for all
the work done with leqs and arms BY the first
female and the FIRST male dancer, and by the many
twinkling choruses which twrlcd ard twined ana
went about in circles and platoons and atOned Tor
the general ugliness of everybody IN 1t by con-
scicntous attention to business. As for The moral
! ity of the matter-w lnOwsi Didn't MademOlselle
dance in Puritan Boston for the benefit of tire
Bunker Hill MOnument-that shaft which
was so long in the process OF construc-
toni They told a wicked story, with not
a word Of truth in It, suppose; but people will
! have their jest. Those were the days OF New
! England Transcendentalis whatever that nay
have been; and they said that among those who,
| upon one occasion Cazcd at the dancer from the
! boxes were Mr.. Emerson and poor Miss Margaret
Fuller. As the tale was told, upon some movement
of unusual and particular grace the philosopher
turned to the lady and said; Margaret, this is
poetry; and she responded; Ralph. this is re-
ligioni" ] fear that am making little free with
venerable and well-honored names and only give
the auccdote TO show how much chat wise OF fool
! ish bnt mainly foolish. the charming ard clever
! lady from Vienna Occasioned.
Soon after we mad another sensation. Up to 1913
we had cnioved but little vriuoso playing upon
the violin the violoncello, or the doublc-bass. The
| scopc of these Instruments was, in fact almost uG
| known here Thon Ole Bull VINO had kind of
| European reputation for doing wonderful things
with catgut and horsehair, burst upon us, and
am afraid. took advantage of our uncducated con
| diton. Far he it from me to undertake any crti-
clsm of his performances but a historian, may
set down the fact that we all made asses Of our
selves that we thought nonsense talked nousonsc,
and printed nonsense about this Norwegian. Dear
Mrs Lydia Maria Child. the kindcst and clever
est of women, among those who were
most egregionsly taken III. OF course, she knew
nothing whatever of violin playing. smart
Inu neal boy, with knack at the bow might have
cheated herr but when told that the piece was
called "The Mothers Prayer" she became instantly
dcvout heard aspirations in every trll trust in God
i'm each vibration of the G string al the experiences
of human life in shake piZzicato, and he sweet in
nocence of childhood laughing now on the + and now
ON the s. She was the New-York correspondent Of
~ Boston Cogri,r and she actually wrote g. that
i1unal-thcu edited by old. hard-haadcd Joseph Y.
BacAiughan-.iat in giving This piece, Nj. Ole
BrlPs hauds seemed often cias'cd as If in prayer.
n he had been an arcangel, fresh from the throne.
there could no, have been moro IcycTent rhapsody