New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-05-11
THE DRAMA-MUSIQ.
THE PULSE OF NETWORK.

THE PULSE OF NEW-YORK.
The figure Of the angel flying the roofs Of sess
CITY, looking down into all Its houses seeing oil the per.
sons who there, knowing all their feelings and
motives and behoding all their deeds, s old nguret
bat It never loses Its significance. Around US, a al
times, mrth laughs and sorrow sighsj patience endurss
despair urrenders, leads on t pageant and
failure walls s face and shrinks into shadow and while
hope exuts pleasure sparkes tragedies Of the most
dreadful description constantly enacted To some
this inner life Of the great city repeats itSeh
in OF the Pressfor the tendency Of age
Is live very much in tho newspaper To extent
also II shows itself In uterature-for there
time when the storywIfters, and the poets,
prone they now TO dissect the mysteries ana
moralize O, or the contrasts social life and humaa
character But often-and no doubt hsppy-the
dreadful Incidents of this inner life remain secret II 10
chiefly in the faces of felow-creatures IN their
visible conduct and I'm their occasional chance express
sions that their experience is read If read at all
That dramatist should DO tempted to indulge con-
lecture the complex fabric OF life In the metropolis
and that ne should strive to indicate its nature showing
how full IL Ia OF contrasts and SURPRISES cannot b
deemed remarkable. Many plays exist that owe ther
origin to this impulse. The well known Poor OF Paris
might be cited type Of this class OF dramas In
that however, and In the majority OF s numerous 40
scendans excessive prominence Is given 10 the no OF
the slums so that spectator Of such works ire
ouenty required to ye bis attention 10 the gutter a.
contrast TO the palace and TO moraize over vice ana
squalo tho natural incentives to virtue and herom
Too often that In this kind or play wealth
is assumed to be necessarily corrupt and poverty 70 Do
necessarily virtuous and an ash-oarro the most inter-
esng object that can engage the attention OF the human
mind favorite scheme is to ally the millionaire wns
has obtained his wealth by OF imputed crne with
the damnable miscreant and murderer who Tor time
assists but eventually shall beray him, when scorned ~
his beauteous daughter. and who would triumph moss
unpeasantly FOR the determined yaor OF the In
trepid clerk who has dared to lift his eyes" to the
celestial visage OF his employers child out OF sucn
moss-oOvered old plot that 1t Is easy 10 deduce inc
dark-lantern meeting in the Mulberryst garrett tns
peril the assault; the and the Inevitable moral
That beneath social magnifcence there runs vein ~
noisome criminal intrigue. This view OF the supecr IN
deed has been so taken the stage that upon m
present an audience would be entirely justified
In singing Aud land syne TO close the proceedings
In the new play called The Pulse OF New-York" writ
ten by Mr. r. G. Morri,,which was produced last nSns
at the Star Theatre and by numerous ana some
times pleased ACKNOWLEDGMENT effort has been SUCCESSFULLY
made to treat th OF city life In fresh manner
This piece contains no slums and squalor Its poor
persons are not saints 1t does not bring on hose com
pany nor culminate I'm conhagraton It's author mas
been impressed in his Observance of love- money aud
education as affecting the condition OF the people In tina
great city OF New-YOrk, and likewise In MS
observance of the operation OF the laws which govern
the vast reputation that is here assembledj ana
he has told in action sensation story which Illus
traes some Of the possible consequences oil greed fof
money together with the practical operation OF the Grim
na modes of procedure in this. The pulse upon which
this dramatist lays his touch ia the pulse that beats AZ
the Central Police Office In act first man ia murdered
at O church door at midnight a Christmas Eve. In
act second an innocent is denounced as the muir
erer In act third this unfortunate person IL exposed
10 the gaze of the detectives at Police headquarters
In act fourth he IS examined before Q
police magistrate and committed to the Tombs. In
act fifth the real ASSASSIN seeks the wreck OF an elevated
railway train order TO kill the Inspector Of Police and
battle inquiry. In sixth and last the innocent man
yndoated This thin story, and II contains nothing
new Furthermore It is ganshed with divers inciden"
that are extravagant and in piece which claims 70
reflect TACT there should be distortion OF fact 10
snisodes--the inquiry ~ to the theft OF ash-paa
Being one OF them. Liberal copies Of the commGnpla9e
a play except when they help TO emphasize
some essential dramatic point fh Il. q nSs
whereas the scenery should be made tributary TO the
play The freshness, such az IL Is then, OF MT Morrss
peoe, consists In its negative merit OF freedom from
hackneyed details Of low life and in certain ingenuity IN
the SSff OF ana n d mSo @ night to
mend the work to favor There no literature nyS!yea
grow suddenly rich which infecs so large part Of our
population and leads TO so much crime and misery,
cs %t osscury hangs over the relations Of Gos and
Miss Gansborottgh, who In a league OF eyildongs,
aH ess 3 az was
the curtain at the end Of act third and the audi
Of supposed half hour in the office OF the Inspector Of
Police. The arrest OF a false witness, at the
s 55d @ nSHsa' yg Asn SsS ssa ss
and was the chief figure Of the nigh Mr. George CLARK
presented strong Image Of e
York Is weak play, but Il proceeds on thougnsfd
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