Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-06-21
THREE MoNTHs FOR THINKING.
What Nym CrinlSle Has TO Say of
Theatrical Managers.


NEW YORK, June 19.-This may be
called period of CESSATION in theatrical
matters. Everybody who acts or manages
does his work for nine months of the year
and then takes three months-June, July
and Angust--tO do his thinking. II some
OF them could distribute their thinking
through the year the public would no
doubt like the performances better. Bet
they never do. All the plays and all the
plans are made in the summer. II YOU
meet playwright now he has his finger
on his forehead and his manner says:
Don't disturb me; don't you see | am ia
my thrOesW The crop of new plays
shoots up green and tender all round
Union square. The fellows them
selves remind one OF a brood of
hens scratching, digging and indus
tTiously cluckiug, with now and then a
clamorous cackllng, and you know an egg
has been laid. Yoe Will see thoughtful
man come into the Morton House, wrin-
kled, hungry and disheVeled. He notices
no one. A profound and painful air of
abstraction invests him. People avoid
him. He looks like man who wants an
office under the city government This
grows worse and worse, until criminal
aspect appears aRd he begins to look like
a man who has had an office under the
all changes as if by magic. He comes in
smiling aud elastic and ditfuse. lie has
roll OF manuscript in his pocket.
He has been born again. So
has that same play. Now
he has got a nine months rest. SO
have we. By August the local mana
gers have 10 climD over baTricades of
manuscriptto TO get into their offices. Mac
kaye has gone and done it. Fawcett has
"a
has got 1t. the harvest teams are COM
ing in from all sides. The cleaners are
singing the songs Of the reapers. Barry
more writes that be is coming back from
London with a double roll and that we
are to stand from under. Miss Barry tel
egrapns that che will be here in October
with a new one. Dauvray is watering.
and manuring and stirring the French soil
OF America. Bronson Howard is her gar
dener. Every member Of Wallack's COM
pany buges with pays, except Mr.. Wal
lack. Denman Thompson Is here spend
ing about $4,000 in preliminary work on his
"Old New England Homestead" John
g. Freund is organizing a company for
September. Mantell has got a new and
strong play of keller's. Kate FOrsythe
has captured Roach. Edna Cary broke
out as brown as "A berry with a play in
each hand and one in her satchel. Up
windows and entice passers-by with
manuscript. The only man IN New York
who hasn't written play for next season
is Charles A. Dana. lie, uUlike the rest
OF the population, holds his head up in
conscious rectitude. He dehes Paresls
and the playhouse With unwavering
strength. The only other man that
excites any admiration, and for other
reasons, is Wider, who has probably
written more plays than any man
alive, but who, upon his diving bed, can
''Thank God, have not written one line
that has been produced" Alas, how few
Of us can say that. There is my friend
George Clarke; be recently produced a
melOdrama at the Peoples Theatre. He
has been hiding in the caves OF the earth
ever since. All this is classed by recent
neurologists at the asylums under the
head Of "Suicide by the PEN"
The moment your friend begins 10 think
about getting life into "situations,v lOOk
out for Paresis.
Mrs. Tburber came into town with her
ulster and carpetbag the other day. She
said: II have been on the road. couldn't
keep my eye on American opera very well
unless / toddled after" The moment
the American opera arrived In a town
Juch and Hastrelter looked at each
other with pent.up Inalignity, and then
inquired II she was here yet. They were
generally answered: "NO, but she'll be
here before the end of ihe first perform
ance." Then Juch and Hastreiter ad.
journed their quarrel.
Katherine kidder has gone 10 the Madi-
son Square.
Pro nunc-this adds inches both to the
house and 10 the woman. But only one
needed them. NYM CRINKLE.