Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-04-18
NEW YORK NEWS.
|prGxxnRAcy on THE DRAMA ABB
WHAT HAS cAusgp II.
|wali-y.rsef Talk. Social Gossip, and
Yer.enals About the Honey narts.
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NEW York, April IL, 1856.
Jude has been playing here TO empty
houses. She il one OF the most exqui-
a. ,,,x artists tbs. ever came TO America
Round the correr Lillian Russell, . pet
u the FOUNDERS. packs the Union Square.
Rot reigns. Up ct the Standard .
komic opera has been produced called
The L,ile Tycoon" which viii give
kry nan Of average rational balance the
e,susl meningitis. | never IN all my
e saw such inane hog-sash scoopsd
h the bucketful from every available
sxspool Of idioey. The man that
broie The hbretto would have been
hired and fe.thered in half an hour had
De tried 70 fll the place OF humorist
a. q penny paper. His lines fail below
t6e candy notices Of children's tea
party. His music is borrowed baldsr-
1Ash.
v And vet large audiences sit the stuff
out and applaud the oldest and most
shTcadbare gags and grow enthusiasts
Us The immemorial "htm fat" that
krds The whole thing.
You must come TO the conclusion
bonsr or later that while there is one
ban in hundred who can tell az idea
Bom On icicle, and doesn't confuse .
pnnet with . ssrdipe, that there are
sneiy-nine who would quite as readily
becept seven-sheet poster as fresco
q Raphasl's. ] suppose that every cir
&slatipg library in the country that
tseps one uncut copy Of Dante
~ its shelf has twenty-five
Pom copies Of Upper on
be next shelf suppose you know
= bat the farrsgo called 1.-The Bunch Of
tJs made more money than Henry
rying did during his season. II some
kpOcent lamb should ask you what
= b n Of the intellectual drains had been
lost successful in New York for the
8 esi two years. you might run over the
kmes Of Booth, Barrett, Davenport,
Norris. and JanAuScbek, and answer
~ Dixie" II ZOE should ask me if |
|<4boughi the drama is powerful iustru-
!!<nentaliiy in drawing the minds Of men
ID exsrts q wide influence upon the
Immunity, would answer, - Yes
8 ben you put it in tights"
~ me i'fH e~.srn =. every manager in
kw York who has one grain Of self
tsspect is bow to do good work and
ktp out Of the poor-house at the same
be. ] can name you q double score
Z 4 prominent actors whose artistic tastes
bept their stomachs empty for years
ptil they took the dive into popular
Ebbisb.
FL The moment o manager announces
bat be is clean, ambitious, and got some
26ride IN his work, you ask him, How
Dir is your account: " What it costs
NJ. Hill to hold Shakespeare in the
beth Of . frivolous public we shall
6eyer know unless some enterprisIng re-
! 8srter steals his private account books.
bat il has cost Mrs. ThRrber to keep
IAnericKn opera on high ground whole
ksson only shrewd financial men can
xpess.
III At this moment there is not one thea
tre cut Of our twenty-four that is pre-
s.nting serious or worthy work. But
here are six ofthem making an exhioi-
sion Of ignorant and shspely girls who
pos;urize, giggle rhythmieAlly, and show
their leg.
These houses appeal 10 the foAting
populhiion-ihe hotel crowds, the idle,
gilded youth, and the country mer-
l chant, who leaves his obligations at
None when be comes - town to buy
e goods. The press, with very few ex-
B ceptions. treats these shows with the
name consideration that it bestows upon
1te most ambitious aud worthy efforts.
HE louder the exhibition the longer
De advertisement, and criticism may
e SAID to have given way 20 enter
uise.
.X here is only one way cut Of this
ck. II the theatre is Of any educa-
Cnal or sanitary value, or Is worth
deserving for its lost art, there Is but
be way to hold it in its best estate
ksinst this dsluge Of sensuality and
yolity. and that way is for capital
% intelligence 70 come TO its rescue.
Then you think OF what capital has
re fJr the opera you wonder
" some OF the millionaires do not
kcus the stage. One Of the richest
h in New York ssid to me
b winter al the Metropolitan Opera
ruse 1--WE want 8 national theatre
New York with fund OF million
Dollars behind it, where only the best
& players and the best plays can be
sesn, and il will come. Ii must not be
lathe mercy Of popular moods. lts
organization and character must guar
aniee excellence, and then the gresi
|;Iepuservative classes Will be drawn 10
li'sin the air." he said, " and il
y come
al Mr.. Edwin Booth been possessed
pluck and ambition he could have
RcipitGied this matter.
81 usi imagine what Booth and Bar
h and Joe Jefferson and Lester Wal
. might do If il had been given Il
SDrs. as IL is sometimes given TO othsl
D. "tO pool their issues"
Few York is very provincial IN som'
s,ects, despite its lareeness. don
ave there Is = town IN Illinois tina
ever been 50 shaken up bya travel
show as has been this metropolis b,
NUNS circus. We have riot aboa
= IN ten years, bat BArnum Gomez
- year and Bsrnum has this I'D
1hge-you know what TO expect
(. IL never do with riot.
A WOMAN or SOCIETY.
IA khe spring exhibition Of paintings q
Academy Of Design Is Just now Al
otinr the attention Of society people
rre IS one picture that draws grea
hber Of people about II, not 81
brh for its excellence, but because j
. portrait Of Mrs. Henry Clsws. /
painted by b. c. Porter, the Bosto'
rf;s.. and is well done, bat no artist
\cwsyer clever, could quite do Mrs
kws Justice, who is one OF the mos
sutifal women in New York. MAJ
i in America. Everybody know