Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-05-06

swing, and the opera and theater troupes still on
the boards have been playing this week TO sensibly
diminished houses. II one wants to know how
much OF commotion several thousand people
make, who are bent on reaching the same point,h
may find out by getting on one of the main lines
OF travel before or after a performance at the
Festival / had the misfortune to be In hurry
the other night on the east side OF the town. One
train after another passed before any additional
passengers would be taken up. To use the old
Illustration OF sardines In a box would be a mild
way OF putting 1t.
There has been little variation In the comments
on the great undertaking. Madame Materna, the
only real novelty, has not been disappointment
All that the most dyspcptc critic has been able to
say or her singing Is that She lacks sweetness or
tone, and that concert hall is not the best place
Tor her TO exhibit her powers in. Nevertheless,
the great Flennese has been greeted by storm or
applause every time she has sent her smooth and
poweriu, voice resounding through the vast hall.
Campanini has been well received. and so has the
Off high honors. She cannot be COMPARED Iit to
Materna, as her method is so different, but she is
equally perfect In her way. There is never
anything grand without something ridiculous.
ridiculous feature OF the festival is found
in the futile efforts OF Theodore j. Toedt, one OF
the tenor soloists, to make his voice heard. But
he pipes In vain. He pipes In vain Mr.. Thomas
has done nothing hithel to that has reflected so
much credit on III, him as drector as the skitui
pieces have been universally praised.
TOWN AND COUNTRY CHORUsEs.
One or the features that has been of much inter-
est % me Is the visiting choruSes. discriminate
Ing eye could detect them In the rising terrace OF
faces where the chorus is seated. The city bred
singers handled themselves as If they had nothing
in mind but the business before them But the
amused as well as furnishing amusement. Be-
Sides their faces were freSher-that is, those OF
the young women. The young men endeavored
not 10 betray the fact that they not born and
bred in New York. Outside OF concert hours these
SongSJerS may be met in the streets. They travel
In Hooks and remind you of party OF Cooks tour
lists. They wear the look OF Wonderment and ex-
pecfation that people have in a strange land. And
how these shy creatures have been stared at by
the young Di0OdS ldllDg about town!
WHO WERE THERE.
The composition of the audiences has been an
interesting study, too The apoplectic face Of
Henry Ward Beecher has appeared once or twice in
the audience, as also the harsh pointed features Of
his rival sensa1onalist, T. Dewitt Talmage. With
out doubt Mr.. Talmage will tell his congregation
all about 1t next Sunday for he is not anything il
he Is net reporter. Here and there at every per-
romance one could see the faces of men prOmi-
nent In politics and the professions. FashiOna bic
society has considered it the proper caper to pat
ronze the show, and the boxes and front seats
have been occupied by men in claw-hammers and
white Kids, and women in brilliant plumage. One
OF The most striking elements is the German, high
CLASS ana low class. Many OF those to be found at
successive performances belong to the working
Glasses, ard live in the very democratic neighbOr-
hOOd o. Gfdnu street ana on the east side. The
only thing not entirely to their liking Is that they
have been forced to do without their mugs Of beer
during the performance.
THE YOUNG LION tanner.
Perry Belmont is very popular here. So is
Blaine, for that matter; but he isn't New Yorker
and is not so we'll liked as the younger man. Perry
Belmont'S popularity was always a mystery with
me, to tell the truth, and don't understand it
yet. His father Is arrogant and his brother snob-
Dish, and it is possibly because he is neither that
he's liked. Maybe people, when the Belmont fam
lily is thrust upon them choose the least ObtectiOD
aDie member, and make him popular by force of
contrast don't mean to say that Mr.. Perry Bel
mont has none of the characteristics which distin-
hearted and amusing fellows, but that the cause
81 his great popularity Is not apparent Still he is
uhqueStionably popular man.
SOCIALISM IN NEW YORK.
The extent Of the excitement here over the dis
covery of the internal machines sent to William
II. Vanderbilt and Cyrus w. Field can not be un-
derStood outside of New York. Every one talks of
it, though, singuarly enough. the papers have let
IL drop, and the subject seems to grow more and
more inviting 1t takes the public long while to
Iully realize any great event How many people
tSaay epmprehend the APPALLING fact that the
dered few months ago? How many more out
size OF New York can understand that the socialist
arily attempts are made to aSSaSSinate two private
cltlZenS, because they are guilty OF the crime of
success, and the people accuse the socialists. who
70 deny the charge? Yet the facts re-
main main They wished to parade on
police would not give them permit simply be-
cause there was a state statute against it, Still
they were 4OOC strong, and decided to defy the
law or the country tn 1t gives them homes Why?
Wen, they assembled and the superintendent was
obliged TO call 1900 policemen to attention in or
Der l 70 carry out the law, which has never before
Deen disputed. A riot would have been inevitable
but that the socialists were cowed into submis-
sion by the authorities. They do not attempt to
deny to the newspaper reporters that their order
knows much OF the ATTEMPTED killing of Messrs
Vanderbilt and Field, and the question of their
object continually presents itself. They are not
oppressed and dOwntrOdden here. Their chances
are as good as were Commodore Vanderbilt's.
Ihere IS no such thing as tyranny here, and yet
look at their immense organization and their un-
demand acts The end Will come sometime. They
Will go too far. Then the American people will
rise up and exterminate them, and that will be
the end.
ANENT MR.. BOOTH.
Edwin Booths place On the stage IS so well es-
taDlshed that he makes less stir when he comes
here to play an engagement than almost any other
star. Iou have to go to the theater where he is
playing to find out whether he is drawing or not
The critics are unable to write anything new and
so they let him go-all save One and he his strug-
gle to keep from covering his own tracks, gets so
mixed up In metaphor that what he writes Is either
set down to imbecility or stimulants.' On Monday
dgner 'ne at enas OF the tagedan gave him
are out for a dinner In his honor at
the house OF Mr. John Jacob Astor As far as Mr..
Booths plans have been made known, it is his in
tention to play "Hamlet," "Richeiieu" and t.Ber-
tuccio" through the British provinces during the
summer. Some OF his friends urge him to add
Don Caesar de Bazan" to his repertoire in order
comedy. l imagine that William Winter, the
critic OF the Tribune, Is tearing his hair about Mr.
Booth going through Germany on the Salyini plan.
He is going TO read his lines in English while his
support will speak in German 'Hanletn and
"Richelieu' have been translated for his
use by a niece OF Bayard Taylor To
make the week still more prolific of gossip con-
corning Mr.. Booth, the subject OF his domestic
troubles has been brought up again by the publ
cation OF the will Of his wife. There have Gscn
stories aOat that their separation was due to the
fact that the actor thought undue influence was
being exerted upon his wife by her mother It is
said that Mr. McVicker, Mrs. Booths father was
so enraged over these reports that he rushed on to
Chicago with the definite purpose of arresting Mr.
Booth on a criminal charge. He changed his mind
In her will Mrs Booth beQueathed all OF her Chi
cage property to her husband. This, It IL asserted
contradictS the reasons that have been stven for
the separation But OF this no one not possessed
OF all the facts can judge.
THE SISTER OF HER BROTHER.
Nrs. Scoville, who is here endeayorinp to excite
interest In Guiteau, is meeting with Door success.
She Is very much discouraged Her lecture last
Sunday was delivered to an audience of less than
hundred persons, and even they were not all In
sympathy with her. II she had gone on the lee
ture platform several months agoShe might have