The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1889-10-27
PLAYS THAT PAY.
1t Is Better to Be Rich Than to Be
a Genius.

Before Charley Hoyt made his great
used to be editor of the "All Sorts col
umn of the Boston Post This was col
umn devoted to paragraphs of humor-
GUS nature, and Hoyt was very good at
that work. He had the faculty for see.
ing absurdities in the common practices
of humanity, and the wit to hit them off
sharply and in crisp sentences.
He used to write dramatic criticisms,
too, and took deep interest in theatrica
matters. The idea that he could write a
play grew up in his mind at an early stage
of his development. Like good many
other funny men his first work was of a
serious nature. 1t was q melodrama
which failed, though it was not so bad
On second thought / find that / cannot
say positively that it was his first extended
work, but at any rate its fate overlook it
some time before Hoyt launched his first
farce comedy
Having failed to do what he couldn't
do Hoyt fell back upon what he could do
Just there is the difference between the
man who gets something out of this
world and the man who gets nothing.
The latter continues to try what he is not
:
which most Of us will never learn, for the
learning of it is rendered exceedingly
difficult by the fact that the destiny
(which shapes our ends rough" has made
1t much more agreeable for most of us to
do the thing which we can never bring to
successful maturity. The man whose
abilities and inclinations match is rare
animal Most of us are put together like
the blocks in the old sixteen, fifteen. four
teen puzzle, and no amount of twisting
will ever get us into the proper order
Our desires are like a knock-kneed pair
OF ready made pantaloons on the
bow legs of our capabilities. They do
not fit. There are also some of us who
have an exhaustive outfit of desires and
no capabilities at all, but we will not
consider these cases. for they are hope
less.
But it was different with Hoyt. He
had a gift for comedy of the rougher sort,
and his inclination toward melodrama
was not strong enough to make the puz-
zle of success impossible of solution. He
seized the nuisances of existence, as they
are seen in the ordinary walks of life, and
he made the public laugh at them. The
practical side of his nature helped him,
too, when it came to the selection Of
companies, and his choice of available
people was singularly accurate. He
knows as well as anybody else that his
comedies are not works of genius, but on
the other hand he is equally sJlre-and
his bank book is the witness-that they
are available, profitable, worth any
amount of sentimental melodrama which
will not exchange for the dollars of the
public.
His skit, "a Hole in the Ground" will
be seen at the Academy of Music in this
city this week. 1t hits off the comic mis-
cries of railroad half way house, and
lunch counter. 1t is laughable and has
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cludes many clever people among whom
are Katie Hart, who can dance in won
derful fashion, piquant Alice Evans,
Gussie Hart, Lillian Ramsden, Charles
H. Clarke, Jesse jenkins. Frank Lawton,
Harry Gilfoil and number of others
more or less well known. Mr.. Clarke is
making great success as the Stranger.
Hoboken Theatre.
The Corinne engagement opens at the
Hoboken Theatre this afternoon in the
new burlesque Arcadia" written by
William Gill, author of s'Adonis." music
composed by John j. Braham, and is pro-
duced under the supervision of Mrs. Len
ME kimball. Corinne plays T0m-Tom,
the pliers son, who stole pig, and home
he run, and looks very pretty in her
Scotch dress, Her voice is much stronger
than last season, and she always was a
than she has ever had before, and in
cludes eighteen handsome girls as the
chorus and ballet, who appear in several
magnificent costumes, march and pose.
forming very pretty stage pictures. The
chorus is well drilled, and adds much to
the beauty of the scenes Corinne is on
the stage nearly all the time, and appears
at her best in the songs. "Where art
thou now my beloved, !" st is awful
nice, but it's awkward" The last scene
of the burlesque is formed by TRANSFORMED
ton. and with the girls wearing beaded
armors in their marches, forms a picture
such as is seldom seen outside of those
New York theatres where spectacular
effects are made speciality.
Theatrical Notes.
Gilbert and Sulliyan's new opera is on
its way to America addressed to Rudolph
Aronson, Casino, New York.
The Fanny Rice cranks, of whom there
are not few in this section of the coun-
try, will be glad to hear that she has
made great hit in ''rhe Rrigands" in
Chicago. The applause OF Chicago is
rather a doubtful compliment, aud vet
the City Of Pigs has TO be right once in a
while as a mere matter OF chance.
The bones Of the much abused Hugh
Conway Will have To turn over again to-
morrow. A comic opera called iona" is
TO be produced IN Manchester, Eng, and
the lihretto Is charged 10 Mr.. Conway's
enormous posthumops account. OF course
IL WAS written by John Smith and Is very
had--or. IL II isn't, the record Ia this post
norton business will be broken.
Miss Emma Jueh has made creditable
success ns Marguerite, IN Faust in
Philadelphia tho past week
II 10 Bald that Henry Adonls Dixey,
Nelll McHenry aud Laura burt wear
riagsy on their thumbs, and supersti-
tlously attribute their success u this
pgetlee. Mr., plxey Is mistaken In eratl-
Ting HIS success 70 his thumb 1t Is un-
Qaest lonably due 90 his legs.
upslave Kahn haa been unable 10 make