New-York tribune., 1882-08-14

cigar, and answered for tho boats officer: "Yes
madam" he said, this Ia the bcatn She lookaI
up at the speaker, a stranger and was abon
to thank him when he added, " / am going to tb1
end of the roue and will see that the children ar,
safe" The lady looked at him SO searchingly ant
possibly so suspiciousy that he flushed I'D for
moment and said 90 III take good care of them a
WON s%is ss excasd the ady s h
the face which painting and photography have nads
so familiar for tho last twenty years. She gladIs
placed the girls in such distinguished care and wa,
equally grateful and amused to see the General and
his little charges in conversation the deck Of thu
boat as 1t moved oil.
Dion Boucicault in a letter to The Pal NaI
Gazette says: / regret TO remove an impresso,
many leading journals have received, that tb,
simple precepts and principles underlying the art o.
acting are known TO the merest tyro in our profos
sion. 1t is not The young and rising comedian,
of the day will remain what they now are. ae
cOmplished amateurs if you fiatter them that the,
know all they need TO know. young LADY with
pretty face. influential friends. and pocketful n
money learns five or six leading parts-.Julet Rosa
lind Julia Lady Tcazle and others; she seeks an
old artist who teaches her TO play these characters
drills her, parrots her. Furnished thus she circu
lates photographs of herself in costume IN ths
various roles she is going to play she covers tho
walls of the cities with notices and woodcuts il
every form of mural literature And then she start,
on her professional career, fully equipped AZ 4
star sustaining herself by such means on plano
far above the actress who lifts her face from heI
studies to see herself beaten in the race by impoS
ture. This is one of the results arising from tho
teaching that our art is the etlusiOn of enthusiast
that any body and everybody knows its principles
If they can be dIgnied BY the name that grace
and prOprlety are Od-fash oned grooves and here
is something fresh and fetching IN the sqnlrm
and sprawl which appears TO be the modern method
an easy one, 1t may be confesSed-Of indicating
suppressed feeling Ii is this kind Of teaching thai
emascuates the yonng ones. whose minds arr Occu.
pied with costume and means to secure good pres
notices.. thus thcy follow the by paths leading tc
notOrety, trying short cuts 10 fortune over SwinGle
Common, rather tLan pursue the uphill highway to
fame"
Henry Irving, at the recent dinner of the Royal
General Theatrical Fund. in London, commenting
upon the assertion that the English drama is dead
said: ITO reflective people the conspicuous OF
the poetic DRAMA even these degenerate days, isnO
more dream than is the excellence of many of It's
interpreters We shall always hear the lament over
the dead past, for whose glories no one has more
respect than myself, though not forgetting the
vicisstudes of the drama in bygone days, or the
opposing and various methods of bygOne actors and
opinions concerning them-methOds and opinions
which varied without concerning Quinn and Gar
rick, as with Kemble and Kean. Why the drama
has always been In difficulties. possess playful
III which that great actor, Macready, is starred
large letters-they were. by the way, very fond OF
starring them in the palmy days-wIth a great ele-
phant called Rajah, whose sagacty is described as
having been the theme of admiration TO all visitors
at the Geological Gardens Let me only in cOnclu-
sion Say that We have believe, every reason to be
proud of the great and increasing body of dramatic
artists authors and actors. Let Us not forget what
we owe 10 our foreign cOmrades-the French CIR
man and Italian and last, not least, to our friends
and cousins, the Americans, one OF whon-the DIS
tnguished actor. Lawrence Barrett--I glad 10
see here Tonight, who have and all made
stage international, and given Us q valuable expert
ence and example priceless to the student, which
our predecessors, unfortunately tor them, had little
opportunity OF gaining. Dramatic art does not
stand still and doubt not that what IL done to-day
will no more be forgotten by generations TO como
than it Is by you, our friends and well-wisheis
around this table tonight"