Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-07-12
THE PLAY FACTORIES.
"Nym Crinkle" on What is Going
On in the Theatrical World.

"Nym Crinkle" on What is Going
On in the Theatrical World.
NEW YORK, July 10.-NOw that the
boycotters and anarchists being rapidly
sent out of town, and the chilling frosts
OF June have departed, we who know how
delightful the theatre is in this city dur
ing the heated term begin to enjoy our
selves.
We enjoy ourselves because there is no
theatre 10 20 to. The dead color of the
amusement world lying in the July sun
like tepid pool ls rippled slightly in one
corner by Roland Reed, who is one Of the
few men who can be funny with the
thermometer at "a. A few water spiders
continue to skim over the surface of the
pond uptown in the shape OF comic opera.
There is great Ominous lull of prepara-
ton.
Wherever there is a cool balcony over
looking the sea, there the managers and
the stars are hidden away and the MUIR
muir OF their voices mingles with the drOne
OF the sea as they read their new plays.
The song OF Gaylor breaks in with the
crIckets. Steele Mackaye will be heard
with the katydids SIX weeks before frost.
And when the late August frogs play their
bassoons there Will be a chorus of play
wrIgbts heard.
steele Mackaye has completed a great
play on Anarchy" 1t deals with tue
labor question and the social problem.
NV young newspaper friend, Keller, has
written a great play on the marriage laws.
and he assured me that Mantell Is gong
TO play il. Tom McD0nOugh has written
or bought great play which hinges on
the mind cure. Joe Arthur has got great
play on the Japanese.
Cazauran has got play on the impend-
ing struggle OF democracy and imperial
ism. Ben Magnify is pregnant with manu-
script.
was at Long Branch the other day and
went to the region OF cottages. | heard
that soft rustic OF the summer air that
sweeps rich with sea spray through the
corn. Joe Brooks laughed at my sentl-
ment and told me it was the sound made
by turning leaves OF manuscript.
Maddened, 1 rushed to the Adirondack
woods, and fell into the arms of Marsden,
the playwright, who mas erected comedy
factory in the Aeart OF the wilderness.
Lillian Russell is writing a comic opera
with Hoyt, the young Boston man, VINO
scratched The Parlor Match" Mr..
solomon, the husband, beats time Tor
them.
The Wild West" which has been ex-
hibitIug for a week at Staten Island, has
made bucking horses and Texan steers
quite the fashion. Inc proper Caper now
Tor our polo players is 10 ride UroncnO
in the park. Cara Morris, they tell me,
has put up tepee on her grounds AT Rlv-
erdale and practices daily on the bound
ing cow. Some of the fast girls VINO 90
TO Purcelps for their doughnuts carry
Mexican riding whips, and Wright sand
ford astonished the fellows at the Union
Club the other day by letting his back
hair down and dyelng his marble brow
with walnut juice. There's refreshing
air OF cowboy blowing through the gem
tel circles, and | believe that Buffalo
Bill could make a fortune il he would
ouly open Wild West school on Fifth
avenue.
theatrical news swelterS. | can take 4
fan and tell it all in puff or two. Casino,
"Zitka," Little Tycoon" That is nude.
lewd and rude in drowsv graduation OF
badness. DO YOU wonder that men and
women with immortal souls are fleeing
from the city, we are given up TO rural
cousins who have got their hay in, and
Western merchants who pretend to have
business in the metropolis when all proper
people shake OIL its dust and abandon il Z
| understand that Anthony COmstock
wanted to resign his position when he
went to see "IItka' played.
81 can stop people from circulating filth
through the mails" said he; "but GA.
heavens, how am | going to SOP people
from preaching 1t through the females ?"
lie can't. NNM CRINKLE.