Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-01-31
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
FEAT GOTHAM TALKS ABOUT.


ard Jsch-ttsasc,ai STARS seeie'y Gsssip
and Persouais.
iCorreepondenee Of the Richmond Dispatch
NEw YORK, Jan. 80, 1856.
The latest hit has been made by An
lie Robe at Wallack's Theatre. 1t is
curious to observe how the sown waits
for woman with personal charm that
has special talent allied. And the mo-
ment she makes her appearance the
recognition is electric. Ordinarily the
town doesn't know good play from a
bad one until il is told all about it. 1t
knows what it wants--that's all, and
as rule il wants pretty bad stuff.
Bat It never makes any mistake about
a woman.
And TO tell you the truth, theatre
roers have been aching for a new
woman for year. You see we don't
20 10 the theatre for talent. II we did
we'd throng the theatre when Jauau-
schek plays, but somehow we manage
10 thTong it when Lolita cspers. The
Merry Wives Of Windsor" will never
catch the eye and ear like " Adonis "
and Dixey and his bevy of heavy
limbod women. Robe brings an an
deGnable womanly charm that is new.
saw her on Broadway one day last
week. She wore a veil and was not
attired 10 attract attention, but men
and women turned TO look after her in
stiDctively. wonder If it was talent
that struck them. or only an individ-
uality that was betrayed in mien and
carriage and step?
The world longs for fresh lndiyidu-
atty and fresh, strong character. !
never was 30 struck by this as the other
night when ! sat in a crowded church
and listened to the celebrated Captain
Jack Crawford's talk. The gaunt, I'M
cou;h, untaught scout held his assem-
blage spellbound by simple narration
Of his life in the far West, told very
much as if he had been sitting at a camp
fire. lie said to me :" am going
through the country to talk to the boys
Of America. and give them a true &C
count Of the Indian-killers. and so cor
rect. if can, the dreadful influence Of
the dime literature"
shook him by the hand and told
him be had a mission.
New York is Wagner mad this win
ter. What with Wagner in German
and English and two thirds of the press
given up to his exaltation. / should say
that about 100000 will be thrown
into the art abyss before Easter. Talk
about Americans not approaching high
art: you ask stakeholder or musical
syndicate.
Things have got to that pass that if
man asks for tune he is cut by the
best society and there is a certain set
Of fashionable young women who select
their gentlemen acquaintance by the
simple ordeal, "Do you belong TO the
Italian or the German SCHOOL,"
And the consequence is that the men
about town whe cannot hum or whistle
Wsgner's airs to save their souls are
getting to lJok awfully careworn in the
1Geayor to save their regulations.
LITTLE EMMA JUCH.
Poor little Emma Juch, who came
within hairs breath Of being killed
the other night 10y the fall Of calcium
light that had been shaken from its firm
foundations by the orchestral thunder
Of" Lohengrin, had quite an ovation
when few DAYS later she reappeared
at the Academy. Miss Juch is mu.
steal protege Of Theodore Thomas, as
is now pretty generally known. She
is a gifted girl without any extraordi-
nary voice, but with exquisite taste,
who can phrase a song better than any
concert-singer of her age that we have
got. The other prominent woman in
the American-opera scheme is Has
trieter, who came originally, | believe,
from Chicago, where her father kept a
beer saloon, but who has studied
abroad. As is usually the case, both
4 women have their admirers in the au-
q diences, and the customary rivalry has
n grown up. 1t is now claimed by the
n Hastreter party that MIR. Thomas IA
d yors Juch with his baton and lets out his
81 BRASS at Hastreter, and on the other
81 side it is said that Hastrieter would
sing the hair off peoples heads if 1t
were not for the barrier Of the orches-
d ira that is mercifully interposed.
Steele Mackaye-who, by the way,
&sbas plunged into sudden obscurity-
& xould call Juch a Pyschic and Ilastrei-
"a ter a Cosmic woman. | presume you
know the difference | don't.
3 Henry Ward Beecher, who goes any
rhere that his agent, Major Pond, d.
b rects. made speech the other day at
he Thomas benefit. lie was sand
wicbed in between Harrigan's " Grip y
md Rice's &" Evangeline," and it was
3 Interesting to see, first, how genially
That audience of actors warmed to the
old man; and, secondly, how the old
man wIiggled in his remarks so as not
90 say anything that would commit him
and leave anything unsaid that would
tickle his hearers. Mr.. Beecher seems
TO have outgrown all conventional
limitations and to be wandering about
on the fields of good fellowship aud
humanity, saying pleasant things for
evolution and Christianity, the Evan
eelical Alliance, and the actors benefits.
FINANCIAL LIGHTS.
Such bears as Baron WoeriShollcr,
Deacon White, Addison Cammack, and
Wash Conner are hammering away
at the stock market, but make little
impression. When the firm Of Charles
7. Woerishofier was recently reOrgan-
lied we were told that the Baron -
would thereafter have little to do with
stocks, but as serpent is said to charm
It's victim, so Wall-street speculation
draws men to it in spite Of themselves.
Baron Woerishofer, however, is no,
it's victim. He is sharp. lie is
nearly always on the right side
lie will speculate at all hazards
Gaming Of all kinds has a charm fol
him, whether it be with cards. or rou-
lette, or stocks. lie is a skilful poker
PLAYER and also very fond Of faro. lie
is one of the luckieSt men that ever
stood the hazard Of the die. Being
yor,h CANA sIO OOO 000 he does moi