New-York tribune., 1896-10-25

afraid OF losing Is the complete effect of the
cry Many times play Is produced In New l orK
with elaborate scenery. which the manager inis 1t
too expensive or inconvcniont to carry with him on
his tours. Many times II Is practically Impossible
to carry all without spending the total receipts
Of the play for II eight bills. Many times. when
NewYork scenery IL carried, II Is found inpossipe
to set IT up out-cf-town stage. on account OF
its small siz, deficient cquipmt nj. but many
times too. a conscientious manager. finding the
thing practic able gives his out-oftowh audiences
exactly what his New-York audiences get In every
respect.
OF late years many fine theatres have been built
in the smaller cities of the United States. particu-
larly In the West. They commodious. con-
venient safe handsome and thoroughly equipped.
Any effect be produced on their stages that can
be produced anywhere. few OF them. In fact. are
declared TO be In every way good ~ any theatre
In New-York and there is one. half way between
here and Chicago which IL declared 10y the actors
who have played in 1t TO bc better house, FOR the
actors purposes. than any In Ncw-fork or Chicago
either When a manager has built such theatre
Az this he nat raly wants to ofcr TO tine local pub
lie which supports him the very best that N" mar
ket Of the country affords Therefore there Is
growing tendency for him 10 demand OF travelling
companies better equipments than wer" common "
few years ago, and II Ia natural Tor th"T IN 'h'lr
competition with another. 10 try TO give him the
best they can. That they do not give him quite all
that they bestow upon New-iork Is doubtless he
cause hc and those Ike him do not make NJ the
whole booking OF the season. The manager OF tho
company has TO TAX. his show to many PAGES
where he could not use ar the scenery demanded.
and IL does not pay him to carry II through the
whole country for the sake Of III" few w'ilequpp"d
theatres where he could use II.
BUILT FOR THE ROAD
still the most OF the scenery that Is now buil'
for Ncw-York theatres Is built with the inten-
,ton of carving IL on the road. and special "nort
ls almost always made to adapt II 10 that purpose
There are plays which built altogether Tor the
road and which start In Ncw-fork only DechuSe
this Is thought TO be the most advantageous plh''
IN make "A name to sound aloud across the lhnh
These OF course carry all their scenery WIN thoH
unless some OF II IL OF the sort that every thcaUr
* supposed to keep In stock. and II the smali town
does not gee what New-York II II because the
couipments that have been brought But even TINS
never having had and hoping to nave
any permancnt home. may not carry AROUND All 's
furniture as well as its scenery. scene repre-
sentinx the brooklyn Bridge by night, with SHIN
NOR OF the moon on the East River. the manager
knows well will be found In few OF the towils thh'
no Visits but parior furniture he does expect TO
have wherever he goes. and he does not thinK IL
necessary TO cucumber himself with 1t. lie may
evon take the risk OF finding garrett scene. win
broken window stuffed with an old hat In the dis-
tant theatre whittier he is going, and so leave tha'