The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1882-08-19
Our New York Letter.
Regular correspondence of ADVOCATE.
Nkw YORK, August l5, 1882.
THINGS THEATRICAL.

Regular correspondence Of ADVOCATE.
Nkw YORK, August Is, 1882.
THINGS THEATRICAL.
Midsummer is dull time in the nmuse-
ment way, but as New Years is the time
when we are counselled 10 review our
deeds and misdeeds for the yfar that has
gone, so the end of the theatrical year is
the time whtn the records and the cash
books are made up among the show peo-
pie. New York spends pretty penny
to keep the wolf away from the doors of
the IA principal places of amusement,
and yet New York city alone would not
support so many. 1t is estimated that
the floating population of the city is
something like 200, 900 that is. there are
about that number of non-residents here
all tue time, and upon them do the man
ayers largely depend for the success OF
their seasons, About 81 900 600 we're re-
ceived at the box offices of - Theatres |
and the Opera, last season-not enough |
to repair IN iron-cla or to pay for the
wines and cigars of a Congressional Com
mittee on an investigating cruise. OIL
this amount the Madison Square Theatre
(includIng its travelling companies) took
in over $500 600. Booths Theatre Bern
hsrdt played at Booth's), $3.50, 900, the
14th Street Theatre, S2l0 900; Wallnck's,
Sls6 600; the Standard, (where the stock
Of Patience rarely gave out). S203 600;
NiUlo's Garden, $l9S 600, and the The
atre Com,que. $225,000 1 haven't time
to figure up how many flannel waistcoats
for the Hottentots this would buy. nor
for morallziug over the amount of good
that the money would have done even
among the poor of our own city And if
l did it would not make particle of diff
| ference, any more than it would to tell an
old smoker that twenty-five cents day
for cigars, is equal to $50 year, and that
500 year invested at compound interest
will, III fifty years, amount to enough to
pay plumbers bill for an ordinary sea-
sou. He recognizes the vastness of The
ultimate result, and how gratifying it
would be to accomplish it, but il he gives
mp his cigars the quarter would go some
where else in the way of Disqualification
and wouldn't be sav,d up at all for this
taste of luxury. So with the theatre goer
who feels an intense interest in the well
fare of the heather, but nevertheless
could not give the money to them, even
if he renouuced the drama.
1t costs round sum, nowadays, to
either fit up theatre or to run a travel
ing company, aud the expense for scenery
and costumes, for the elaborate plays OF
the past year have been enormous, to say
nothing OF salaries. rent, advertising, &c.
! is risky business and the number OF
failures in it has been greater than the
success 5, Thus, the theatrical world,
is an enticiug one to outsiders and, as 0
: general thing, they see only
THE ROSY SIDE.
! Now and then sketch or par graph
: concerning n leading actress. goes hi
round of the press, giving the terms up
n on which the "fortuuate manager" hal
d been able to secure her services, or COS
c sip about her elaborate wardrobe, or th
e nuulber of priceless dogs she keeps, 0
: the eleganc OF her ponies and pony Car
II riages Just now the theme is the en-
l. gagemrnt of the noted Mrs Langtry 10
le an American tour next season, the term
n reputed being the same as given last yea
D 10 Bernhard, who c. rried of Sl4U, 900 {
y. American money MS the result OF her 81
s- months stay. 1t is prepost.rous an
I'd thoroughly absurd that an amateur O
ss the stage, not SIX months behind the foo
II lights would be able to command equl
lie terms with the woman who has stood
lis the top of the theatrical ladder, for EN-
ch lional acting. for years, but Manag
'at Abbey las tested the capacity of Il
u American iurure for celebrities and know
as what will draw and so theatre goers, he
Tor autumn will be allowed to gaze npon Il
er, Lngtry at So per evening Langtly ph
'as tographs aud Langtry autographs VI
nd soon break out all oyer the country, Ill
the measles in country school, and eve
attitude that the female form is eapat
OF assuming will be the subject of pi
fis- ture of the professional beauty, and tn
the Will come, in regular succession, Ian
try hats, LAngtry gloves, Langtry ''Bloo
75I OF Youth. and Laugiry cigarettes: Al
700 in year from now the lady may retu
75s with fortune, praising God aud Anne
94O can extravaganee for the means whel
ole with to live without labor for the rest
Is3 her life.
sl9 THE STARS OF LESSER MAGNITUDE
o1 get likewise their share OF notoriet
o., Wb,n used tO go to that monument
theatrical bad luck in London-the
o5s james Theatre-to see Rose Coghlan
by Vcr,-Vert, she was content to walk to al
G. fr,m reheaTsal4 and p, rlormRnces aud
Os7 occasionally indulge in the extrayagan
unt e hanson cab on rainy nilhf;
her carriage is as 'toney" ~ any on