Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-12-01
Especial Cor .respondence Of the Globe. I

Especial Cor respordence OF the Globe
New YORK, Nov. 26.-If New York is in
Sustrlous az d busy at work by day, it is
apparently equally busy and industrious
at night n enjoying itself. Of course the
number Of visitors to the city
for bus mess and pleasure gives an appear
ance OF great activity,bot day and night,
independent of permanent residents
While all visitors may not do business
every day, they are all pretty reliable to put
in an appearance at evening amusements.
When to this great floating, TRANSIENT mass
is added the resident population, enjoying
the means and inclination for amusement
an army of theater and opera goers is
developed, which makes any meritorious
entertainment in New York sure of a good
patronage. 1t is not unusual for popu-
lar play to run year, and 1 think Hazel
Kirke ran between two and three years
without intermission, and I find it now run
ming with fresh start. If new
play is brought out and runs less
than one hundred nights, it is
counted dead failure. All sorts of de-
vices are resorted to in order to keep a
play on the boards for hundred nights or
more. Then the hundredth night is made
little extra event by printing the pro-
gramme or cast on single or a delicate
colored bit of card board (which is the
same thing.) and the play goes out
to the rural districts to be mummed
over like cold victuals for perhaps five or
six years, and travelling all the time on its
alleged New York endorsement. Iremem-
Der, two or three years ago, of strolling up
Broadway about 8 clock one evening, and
passing Abbey's Park theater, (recently
burned) flaming posters announced Flor
ence in 'The Mighty Dollar" The per-
formances had run up to nearly two
hundred nights. In fact the two hundreth
was announced to take place few nights
hence,when every lady would be presented
with gum-drop, warranted to relieve the
collie. The not uncommon announcement
also stared me in the face, s'Standing room
only I was little skeptical, and going
to the box Office asked if there we're any
reserved seats left. The ticket
seller assured me that he could
supply one for a dollar and
half, and concluded to try the expert
ment. Entering the theater I found a
beggarly array of empty seats. There was
scarcely anything but empty seats, and af-
ter remaining half an hour it was positive
ly SO lonesome for lack of an audience
that I sought standing room only''
on the sidewalk, and continued my
stroll. l noticed few days later that
the New York papers gave the 1.-TWO hun
dredth performance" a great boom and
shortly after "The Mighty Dollar" was on
the road quilting the gudgeons on the
strength of its great run in New York.
MRS. LANGTRY.
New Workers also acatch ON Frequently
to something that has had an alleged run in
London or some other great foreign city.
and the present Juror over the "Jersey
Lily is fair case. in point. One of the
absurdities of this at present popular craze
was the running of special train from
New Jersey, night or two ago, containing
six hundred excursionists who went to hear
Mrs. Langtry in GAS You Like It." simply
because she is styled the Jersey Lily"
Desiring to see this much advertised
actress for myself, visited Wallack's. I
cannot say that was disappointed, but I
would have been if had imagined that 1
was to see a really great or excessively
handsome actress. The most exceedingly
bad taste, might almost say vile taste,
has been displayed in advertising this
lady by means of photographs,
which, to draw it mildly, do not present
her with a sufficient amount of clothing to
make the picture decent for a parlor center
table. These photographs with mercantile
advertising cards printed upon the back,
have been circulated in st: Paul, and boys
were busy crying them between the
acts at Wallack's. This is the
most reprehensible style of
theatrical advertising that can be adopted.
as it is an appeal to the baser sort. can
not speak for her appearance in other
plays, but in GAS You Like IT, she bellies
her photographs. Her dress was modest
and unobiectionable,and there was not the
least appeal to the sensual in any act,
speech or gesturs. Why she should
become party to this disgusting style of
advertising, am at loss to explain, un-
less it may be that some lecherous mana
ger has induced her to believe that it
would be a drawing card, and the love of
gain caused mOdesty to take wings. If the
photographs ''drew'' any one the night I
was present, they certainly were disap-
pointed.
Mrs. Langtry is a rather pretty, by no
means handsome, sprightly lady. Her ac:-
ing is fair, but not remarkable. I have
seen 1t surpassed many times by far less
famous persons, and if an audience could
be transformed into sort Of ''blind pool'
(''as we say in Wall street'') and listen to
her without being aware that they were
being entertained by any one famous, it
would rank as quite mediocre. 1t is
to go into ecstacies over the
beauty OF the Jersey Lily" and to ex-
praise her voice or movements,
and all connected Herewith. Hence. hard
y ever, is there anything but favorable
comment heard relative to Mrs Langtry.
must decline to be in the fash
on, and can best express the impression
he made by stating that after gratifying