Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-11-13

Inc metropolitan Opera House is
| immense and one feels homeless in it:
the stage is the comfortable looking
place in sight. The amphitheatee OF
the Madison Square Garden is so large
that with two thousand people seated
in the balconies and on the main floor
the place still looks empty. To light a
place like this is an item alone, and
with their audiences, Manager French
lost sometimes $1,000 night durin g
the Strauss concert engagement.
The little lyceums that are so nu-
merous are much pleasanter for con-
certs, and as for club ceptions-they
are invaluable. The GardeL Theatre,
attached to the Madison Square Gard
en-, is very small and elegantly fitted
up.
Manager Hammerstein had a good
deal of trouble in getting his new
house at Harlem opened but finally
succeeded after much bad emper. He
was all ready, ne thought, and sent
for the insp ectors to look over the build
ing; and they found fault with one
thing another and poor Hammerstein
had to refund the money taken in for
that nights performance. His expert
ence developed another case. 1t seems
that Manager Worth wants to open
the old Haymarket at 2oth street and
9th avenue as museum and altho' he
has complied with the law in every de-
tail, and the inspectors tell him SO,
still Mayor Grant will not grant him
his license. Mr.. Worth claims that
an enemy of his is at the bottom of the
difficulty, but that hardly exculpates
our Mayor.
Mr.. and Mrs. Kindal are playing at
the Fifth Avenue and fill. that barn
every night with fine audiences. They
indulge in wonderful melodramas but
are so very English and we'll bred that
one pardons the plot for the sake of
watching the movement. Mrs. Ken
dal is not beautiful at all. but is very
sympathetic and magnetic. You
watch her intently, suffer as she does
and feel with her every pain or pleas
ure. Mr.. Kendall dii not like so well;
be appeared stiff
Jerome n. Jerome seems to be q
great favorite at the moment. At
three If our best houses plays of his are
being given by first-class companies.
The Master of Woodbarrow will be
compelled to move shortly as the
Lyceum's regular season begins.
New Lamps for Old also has to make
way for one of Daly's adaptations, but
at the present moment plays are doing
well. aud q curtain raiser, Sunset is on
at the Garden.
New Lamps for Old is an eccentric
Comedy" d aling with happy couple
who are induced to read Mona Cards
articles on the failure of marriage. AS a
of a too free indulgence in
that lady's effusions.l, they resolve to
elope; he with a strong minded girl in
shirt front and high hat-she with poet
who gees into fine frenzias and tears |
his hair. The affair is managed sue
but they both elope to the
same inn where the Ia andlady arranges |
that her two sets of visitors shall dine |
together, the electric light goes out, |
brief glimpses are lad of ia amiliar faces |
and each of the four braves a wet |
night and various difficulties in order
to reach home undiscovered, for they
have eloped with each others hus bands
and wives.
OF course reconciliation follows, to
the intense disgust of the family solicit
tor who had hoped to make divorce
case out of it. He had bad time col
letting his evidence and deserved
better fate, for he had stepped into
left" not knowing that the thing was
in its disposition; it went up
and down all fine and the poor man
was obliged to make the shortest notes
Imaginable while he sailed in the air
between lady's bedroom and the .
kitchen. 1t all lead up to one of
Daly's eypilogues in which the butler
md landlady of the hotel took part,
I'd dvising people to be rational, while
allowing at if there were no cranks
he philosophers would have to find a
lew profession.
The whole thing is healthy-no
orcing of the emotional, no dragging
n villain, but just pure, unaffected
delightful to witness. And
uch satire on all the agitation started
~ Cards question "Is marrige a fail
lre?" All the novelsts and periodical
writer's have taken up the cry and
till they come. Tolstoi made the
greatest sensation with his Krent Ger
Sonata, which Mr.. Wanamaker ga We
uch a boom to by prohibiting the
nails from carrying it. A few right
minded satires, such as New Lamps
or Old will do more good than all
rolstoi and Grant Allen together.
Oct. "a 1890. ELLIS.