New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-05-27
THE NEW MANAGER OF BOOTHS.
,nuy srrTsoy's PLANS FOR NEXT SEASON.


THE NEW MANAGER OF BOOTHS.
JOHN sTETsON's PLANS FOR NEXT SEASON
Jobn Stetsou. of Boston, who has leased Booths
Theatre was i'm the city yesterday and tribune
reporter asked him about his plans. He SAID l
Dropose to play fTst-class stars ana comDlnatoiH'
Ross will appear in the latter part OF Octo9er loI
three or four weeks Louis W., Romeo, manner anu
Othelio think his Romeo Is ms 1est a.,
10 me very highly of him. and when one actor Nafs
another is good You may he pretty certain tha' TIC
is shall play Booth II he COMES n%TS mS Hc %
haps and other stars and combinations on us shoIt
q time IA / can get them so as TO MAKE llequenV
changes in theprOCrammc and as variety ~ pos
sible There will be the best dramas, NIUE Oh
Shakespeare and opera, but no musical trash. lhere
are theatres in Newlork better suited to that sort
of thing than Booths"
what about pricesr it,.
"Thev will be fixed at popular rates, according 70
The attractions, which is a new thing IN New 10TH
Orr regular prices will be- dollar for the best seats
ON the lower floor, 10 cents for seat on the next
floor above, it'll the exception OF Two rows, Wlieh
will have dollar seats and the OPP hoOr 20 cents;
The admission will be 50 cents: These prices VIII
hold good for all but extraordinary attractions III
the case of foreign star i3r lstace OF an
on the lower floor and the floor next TO It, but never
on the top floor. Ny idea is that yOn can touch a
rich mans poe ket but not poor man s.. MY expert
.nce with Salvim and Bernhart III raising pricesGn
the top floor was that you kept people away. me
ticket Spectators will not get any tickets from tle
box-office BY my aid Hotel keepers and newsstands
will have certain number of tickets, according 10
custom. but / shall not charge any profit nor take
any tickets back. My lease lasts As long as want
n Iv giving three months notice before May. The
theatre is well appointed, hut shall make some
alterations brighten up the entrance aud recaretl IL
over the proscenium arch Mr.. Abbeys lease was
for $32 500, aud mine is not much better. ..
- You have not forgotten previous attemptsto
make money out Of Booths Theatre r.
BY 10 means but Mr. Booth, Tor instance, tIled
to make VI Shakespearean theatre the year round.
He failed because the people may go TO see snake
speare PLAYED perhaps three mont year, Out they
want y change, and amusements have changed won
1s ade % d %Es Of and
but they had nothing ready to follow. bouSlcsul'
failed because he started to give new drama
Rescued aud played himself to enormous prices
After his failure he didn't try another piece: B4t
Boucicault is no manager. he says 80 himself ne
used the worst thing ne had written TO open s MN
instead of tried pieces 1t folly to charge " TO
see Rescued "a drama and not u great star Ab-
hey wanted TO produce the Passion Play, after he
lost the IN the lace 81 erce pIpn amd
when he asked for Salvini in its place was not al
oil surprised" 49,. ,,
phlosophically that he hoped to make money ~
BOOTHS Theatre but if he did not succeed, he would
"only be $4,000 or $4,000 ont"
LIES BURDENS TOO HEAVY.
The Melbourne Argus of April contains an &C
count Of the suicide IN that city OF Mrs. ElzaOeth
Petrovitz wife of Paul Petrovitz, an artist and
former resident of New-York. Mrs. Petrovitz was
married in America in 1870, aud was twenty-elght
wears old her husband being many years older; he
latter has been paralyzed hye years anu MS
moment. This seemed 10 cause Mrs; PetroWH
great anxiety, and, awaiting herself on the morning
Df April 3 of a revolver that had been kept loaded
fourteen years i'll her husbands room she shot her
self through the brain She died III the evening In
hn unconscious condition. IL Is thought that the
OCT Was committed in fit of temporary insanity.
Eiiakim H. Rice committed suicide III his room nj
No 2S7 Grove-st., Jersey City, at a. M yesterday,
by shooting himself ia the head with large re,
H.. had made careful uTepHrdt1OnB ana ldu
put on clean underclothing and written letters 70
some of his relatives Mr. Rice once the
First Ward in the Board of Aldermen OF Bergen
He anassed large fortune from several inventions,
but met with losses and became 80 reduced in cir
cumstances that his wife went home TO her Drother
His suicide was caused by dependency
An unknown man, age about nifty, Is supposed 10
have committed suicide by throwing himself under
n train at Winfield, l.. l., at 10 a. H. yesterday ne
was instantly killed
THE DEBT OF THE CITY OF ELIZABETH.
The Common Council of Elizabeth, n. j., has
adOpted "a plan for the settlement Of the city debt
In is TO refund the debt i'll bonds for nifty years
with interest at per cent for five years per cent
for five years. per cent for ten pears peT cent oI
twenty Years and per cent for ten years-belng
An average of gig per cent. The Indebtedness Is
b. 400. 900, with $972, 900 accrued interest to-
wards the payment OF which there IL @11f1Y'OUT ~
unpaid taxes and assessments of doubtful value;
The accrued interest is TO be met by the issue OF
bearing bonds, to he paid from the re-
cepts from psStdue assessments as last as coecteu
For the next five years the current expenses Tor
city. coanty State and school interests are esti-
mated at $4,000, and for interest and sinking
fund $S1 600 making Big per cent on ST., OO0,O 900
valuation. The increase the valuation, IL is es-
timated, will meet the Increased demand of per
cent additional interest for the first five years.
Another plan is TO issue bonds for 90 per cent of
the whole debt and pay per cent for twenty-five
wears and o per cent for twenty-five wears more
under the same terms the plan first stated The
Controller invites bondholders desiring to accept
either of the proposed plans to inform him, stating
the number Of bonds they hold