The Sunday herald., 1886-12-26
THE PASSING HOUR.

81 saw Mrs. Langtry looking through the jewc!fy
at Tnany's the other day." writes the New YORK
correspondent OF Zoe Boston Home journal. "The
store was crowded but every one stopped 10 watcn
her She was worth looking at, for never saw her
In better spirits, or look better. She wore long
tlgh.f,ilng garment OF blue brocaded velvet,
II was very snowy, OF course; but then she always
goes about In her carriage. She really thinks
strongly OF having theatre IN New York. and would
ike tue old tabernacle on West Twenty-third street,
which was altered into u theatre for the late Salml
Morsc's Passion Play. which was never produced,
and where the great painting OF 'Christ before Pl-
late Is now exhibited. Il shall either take that oca-
tlnn, said Mrs. LanRtry recently. or else build on
Fun avenue. II has neen suggested 10 me that
theatre IN the immediate vicinity OF the Windsor
Hotel would do WELL understand there are sev.
eral gentlemen, who are known In the fashionable
clubs OF New York, and who have plenty Of money,
who would favor the scheme of a genuine Fifth
avenue Theatre. I'VE have long had the name OF
"The finh.avenue THEATRE but we have never
had theatre 40 located, said a member OF the
Union Club. MIR. Fred Gebhardt is one OF the prime
movers, backed by many OF his friends. 'Would
:, Mns lahng'ry h play all inc ,imeg was @ asked; 10
would play about three months each season, with
change Of bill monthly. Her recent popularity In
New York seems to warrant this. BE she capable
or not as an actress the fact remains the people
fock 70 see her. The remaining months OF the year
would be given up TO English companies producing
plays that mad long runs in London. There are n
great many delightful comedy successes that never
md hearing In New York, Of course, and the new
WOUlu ne tneAe Drlgnt hOClety plhyb.
and Mrs. Kendall would come, and MIR. CHARLES
Wyndham and company. No one play would be
permitted to run more than a month. tis the In
tcnlon to keep the fact Of theatre on Fifth avenue
secret as much as possible so that the price OF the
land required will no, be cxorbtant, and It Ia said
that Is why Mrs. Langtry's friends have given ont
she intended purchasing the old Twentythird street
Tabernacle. 1T ls splendid location for theatre
near the Windsor HOTEL said gentleman supposed
to he Interested Look at the Immense population
Of fashionable people above there, and around CEN
tral Park then, too, II would he but short distance
from the Grand Central Depot, and the many hotels
adjacent, like the Murray lIlll. for Instance II
seems as though the time never was In New York
whena new theatre somewhere In the city was not
talked Of"
Tho photographed chapters which Mr.. Howells
will contribute to the Youths Companion during
the coming year will be perused with great interest
by his friends and readers There will be three In
staments. From one OF them the boston CORE
spondent OF the critic has been permitted to make
an extract relating to the novelists og-cabin days
SIN the fall OF 1850 my father removed to property
on the Little Miami River to take charge OF a saw
mill and prlst mill, and to superlntend the never
accomplished transformation of the latter into Q
paper mill. The property belonged to his brothers
physicians and druggists. who were to follow lael
when they had disposed Of their business In town
but my father left a disastrous newspaper enter
prise behind him when he came out TO apply his
mechanical taste and his knowledge OF farming tc
the care OF their place. Early In the century his
parents had brought him to Ohio from Wales, and
MS DOynOou WIS passed. lu tHe new country, WHeTe
pioneer customs and traditions were still rife, ant
for him 1t was like renewing the wild romance o.
those days to take up once more the life In a lor
| cabin interrupted by forty years sojourn In matter
offact dwellings OF frame and brick. lie had pas
sion for nature tender and genuine and deeply
morallzed as that Of the English poets by whom /
had been nourlshed, and he had taught us childrei
all that he felt for the woods and fields and oper
| skies; all our walks had led into them and unde
them 1t was the fond dream of his boys to realIZ
| the trials and privatOns which he had painted TO
them in such rosy hues, and even II the only clap
cupled by the mills, should have dlsdained 1t 70
| the log cabin In which we took up our home.
One day found In barrel In the loft paper cop
| then wholly unknown to me, and while the old girls
mill, whlstling and wheezlng to itself, made vagu
music In my ears my soul was filled with this new
strange sweetness v