Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1882-11-18

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Stoves In their Ears-..Flowers...
Fashion Sundries.
Special correspondence of the TnxEs.l
New YORK, November 5, 1882.
The sorrow over the sad calamity
which robbed Abbey of theater and
Langtry out of her debut, is still in
everybody's mind, even though Abbey
has made the best of his trouble and
will produce the Lily on the stage
at Wallack's Theater next Monday
evening.
The superstitious will ask: evil
Wallack's burn DOWN." New York
has been saved from theater fires for
some time now. With the advent of
The English besuty, the tiropod seems
q have awaken OFT 9t e.s io7harsy
aas! a24.. made IL, tefrlole presence
teit, On Monday, the Park Theater,
81 Wednesday night the .Alhambra,
formerly the Buckingham Palace;
that is we'll for a starter, and Langtrv
would not be woman and an actress
If she were not bit unnerved by the
superstitious fear. On the Union
Square Plaza, where ali good actors
SO after they have made money, and
bad ones congregate in the hope of
engagements, much sympathy is felt
for Kate Claxton whose main stock in
trade seems to be passing out Of her
hands. Some one showed a bogus
telegra m from Kate, in which she APP
peals to a friend to ''please do some
thing for me-" s'For seven years."
she says, mo one disputed my right
to, and ownership in fires, and there
this Englishwoman robs me of the
glamor in the first week that she is
here"
A great fuss is again made bv the
newspapers and the Fire Department
about the question of safety against
fire in theaters. Now with all due
Difference to the talent, it strikes me
that q safe thcater when it is crowded
with people is an impossibility.
Twenty exits will not make people
keep cool under momcntary excite
mcnt. Wallack's is the newest thea
ter in the city, and it has been pro-
yided with every means and appliance
known to builders in order to render
exit from it easy and rapid. 1t is
model theater III every way, and yet,
is it natural to expect that people will
remember all these model features
when the roar Of flames and the clouds
of smoke leap up with terrible hiss
of "savc yourseli:'
One cannot help sympathizing with
Rev. DR.. Talmage over the loss Of the
Buckingham. Its sgilded halls of
vice. its "artfully concealed and
beautifully decorated death-traps,'
which gave him SO many opportuni-
ties to draw crowd in the Tabernacle,
have gone to the "demnition bow
vows" as the elegant Mr.. Muntalini
would express it, and Mr.. Talmage
will be put to the trouble of finding
something else to talk about. When
the Buckingham was built ten years
ago, by Madame Sanchez, it was in
tended 10 make it an establishment for
the upper walks of the dcmi-monde,
after the manner of the famous Argyle
Rooms in London. The establish
ment was success at first, but it
gradually descended more and more
to vulgarity; the reason Of this is that
w have nothing corresponding to that
class 81 women which give tie boule-
! sarj papers of Paris SO much to talk
about. The women that shine at
night here, have as rule neither wit,
elegance. taste nor chic. Nulgarlty
is their main stock in trade. When
DR.. Talmags spoke Of the a,lurements
of vice in the Buckingham and other
similar places, he simply said what
was not true, for vice there was not
alluring. 1t was common and loud,
and Talmage by his imaginative de-
scriptions simply excited prurient
curiosity which was damaging
Patti arrived here on Tuesday morn
ing, and such is the anomaly Of affairs,
her presence excited but little COM
ment. When one thinks what she is