The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-05-28
A GREAT THEATRICAL EVENT.
Interesting Comment on the Electric
Light WirCS.

Light Wires.
NEW YORK, May 26.-The Waliack testi-
monal, as it was called, was an event of
unusual theatrical magnitude, but not of
large dramatic significance. 1t drew to the
Metropolitan Opera House on the night of
Monday an audience almost equal to that
which has been assembling there on Sun
DAYS to hear the Methodist bishops. | mean
equal in numbers, not in ''sad sincerity A
cast of Hamlet, " i'll which Mr.. Edwin Booth
had associated with him Nine. Modieska
for an "Ophelia," Mr.. Joe Jefferson for the
First Grave Digger, Mr.. Frank Mayo for
the King, Mr.. William Florence for the
Second Grave Digger, Mr. John Gilbert for
the Polonius, Mr.. Lawrence Barrett for the
Ghost and Rose Coghlan for the Player
Queen, with hest Of similarly well-known
actors, ranging down to the court ladies and
gentlemen who stood round, was sure to be
an event of great theatrical interest, and
the consequence was the metropolitan
Opera House proved unequal to tho strain
of admission.
Beyond this the event has only two points
worth considering. One of them is tho tes-
timonial side, which places the handsome
sum of $40 900 in Lester Walacl1's hands
The other is the prodigious effort that is
required to play one of Shakespeare
dramas with an even cast of dramatic OK
cellonce
Actors will, on rare occasions, associate
themselves together for each other. 1t is
doubtful if they will do it for Shakespeare
or tho public.
There ought to DO INSTITUTED" an annual
corps parade and inspection of them, whore
they could show themselves en- moSse, after
drilling all the year in company front and
~, cl oh lines Then thpSa Affairs would
be worth seeing.
new seriousness is affecting New York
l suppose that you know that you can tell
a resident of New York in any part of the
world by certain crushed look he has,
and which is said TO be tue result OF the fiat
house and the .ianitor. Every man Of mod
crate means lives III tower OF Babel and
is waiting for tho confusion of tongues.
Bad rs that is, tho new misery is infinitely
worse. He now understands that he lives
and moves and breathes in the presence OF
instant cath.
The whole city is cobwebbed over with
electric wires, whose touch is anpihilation
"Killcd we're he stood is the standing para
graph in the papers. Mon and women on
the crowded pavements of Broadway walk
in the sunshine with dim foreboding that
il is the valley of the shadow of death A
worse than the sword of Damocles hangs
suspended by thread above every mans
head
You can't imagine the serious cast this is
giving to the population. | fancy Wall
street, even while it skips and jumps, keeps
one eye on the unknown for fear something
will break
Men are touched while they wait, jump
into tGo air and are gone, leaving their
sentences uncompcted. 1t disarrenSes bust
ness, leaves last words unsaid, keeps dinner
waiting, wear out the ambulauces. And
all the wi lie the subway commissioners,
whe were to put these wires under ground
sit up their in their Office on Broadway,
properly insulated and calculate how long
1t would take TO reduce the population to a
minimum If a high wind blew these wires
all down at once.
New Workers, as n rule, have got fool
ISL prejudice in favor Of dying in their beds
Country people who have tried their beds
will never understand or appreciate this
prejudice, but there it is.
NYM CRINKLE.