New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-12-16
THE THEATRE or ARTS AND LETTERS.
4 LARGE AUDIENCE SEE; THE FIRST PERFORM
ANCr Vt PROCTOR's THEATRE

, LARGE AUDIENCE SEES THE FIRST PERFORM
AXcr At PRoCToI's THEATRE.
The ncyr Theatre Of Arts ard Letters has passed
hovord tho stage Of pure speculation and mas rcach'n
rlat OF active experiment. \ large audience winch
included many persons 81 literary and socim P'om
roncc saw tho first PLAYS presented under IT. aspeS
n Procors Theatre last night. II WAS a remarkably
nrcmpt audience in arriving for the house was wei
Gucl y, least haf an hour before the time announced
for Loclnninr This was because II was well under
stood that those who came earliest would get the best
snats The system II assigning seats caused h'''c
corfnsion now and then but on the whole WORK."
better than could have been expected
Among The subscribers 10 this performances, INC NOS,
~ whom were present Charles c. Bcaman' MIS-
Henry Draper Daniel Frohman. W. Echard Golden,
H. O. IIavcrmeyer. Orlando VI. Harper, James D.
UIgginson Mr. ard Mrs. seth Low Ernest LOhsleHo"'
Miss Marguerite MerIingion. General Horace for'er'
Gustav H. schwab, Mrs. DayaTd Taylor DIR. ono IT,
Kilanl. CHARLES Henry Phelps, Mrs. George Kemp
r. W. Glider. f. H.. sargent. Charles a. Post, Mrs.
schuyler Van Rensselaer, Ms. Abby sage Richardson,
Mrs Helen Moody, Mr.. and Mrs. William 7. buckley
T. L. Cutting, !. Townsend Burden, Mrs Alfred
Bishop Mason, Mp. T. IL. French. Horace Dcmihe'
Dr. Aimee Raymond, Mrs. J. Ferpom Morgan
Mrs. Alice W. Rollins. William Van AIMEE, stamford
White Mrs. Gertrude Athcron, Mrs. /. Edwin Elweil,
Mrs Susan ". IIi!drcth, Miss Mary Agnew Mrs.
Edith Wctmorc Henri VI. Braem, Edward Lauterbach,
stephen H. Olin John Jacob Astor, Mrs. Evert Jansen
Wendell, Mrs.. Jacob Wendell Franklin Harper, Mr..
and MIR. John Harper, Miss Fannie Harper, Dr. ana
Mrs II. G. Grcenlcaf, Mr. and Mrs J. Henry Harper,
w. Jennings Demorcst, Charles Scribner, NJ and Mrs
F. H. Wand rblt, Thom's L. Cushing, Robert l.. cut
ting. IT,, Henry g. Marquand, Bronson Howard. Mr..
and Ms. Frank Il. stockton Mi. Isabel Hoyt, a.
II. scribncr. Miss susan W. Dimock, Edwin Ii.
Eiashleld. Charles V. Napc,, Henry {. Dc Sllie,
Miss Rosa Rand, Louis C.. Tiffany. e. Chamberlain.
Z. G. stedman, sidney A. smith, f. II. Boswortb'
Gerard Foster and George \. IIlbbard.
There music before the curtain rose or
between the acts. At exactly 80 o'clock little
chime Of bells rang and the curtain went up on
the first play, which was a oneact sketch called
Drifting II Was a5out a mddloagcd man. who
admired Young girl and male her love him with
cut intending to do So and then left her without
knowing the damage he had done. The actors In
ia were Nelson Whcatcroft, john C. Buchstone, X.
J. Dusjan, Miss Adelaide stanhopc and Miss Kuhne
Beverage. After the curtain had fallen, II was
raised again twice in ponsc to applause, and Mr.
Wheatcroit announced that the piece vas the work
Of Mrs. Emma sheridan Try and Mrs. Evelyn Green
leaf sutherland.
After rather dsasrocably long wait, the second
play, entitled Mary Mabcrly," began. 1t told a
story II two friends who loved the same woman.
They con,y,d to misunderstood which Of item 1t was
whom she loved I'm return, and tie wrong man went
away TO Australia. The other followed hin after
staying in London for few years and finding that his
love was Aopcc-s, died I'm his friends arms Then
the friend retained to England 10 seek vengeance On
the woman, who now married, but, finding that
be sull loved her and learning that she had always
loved him. changed 81, purpose ana RESCUED hcr
from dangerous intrishr' This play in four acts,
ard was played By EDcn Ilympton, Charlie, Machay'
Charlie Wocot John kelaid, Franz Mills Russ
WhYel, julien Barton. Julien Grcr. Mr. Ormstcad,
Mr.. Weed. MI NOm Ncuvmeyrr. Miss Dorothy Dcne,
Mrs. Thomas Mhiiitn and Miss Eleanor Moret At The
end IL was announced that tbs author wa Frcdrrlck
J. StimS j. Of Boston, whose pen name Is J. Of
Dale.
me names Of the plays To be given at the second
performance, IN january 36, at the Fifth Avenue
Theatre, printed on The programme Of Last night
as The Oiher woman ana The squirrel Inn" The
rtcrs not meIOnci bat these titles also belong
recent stories. the former by Richard Harding
Davl, and the latter by Frank Il. stockton.