New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-11-08
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THE HOPES OF THE THEATRES
BAD BUSINESS FOR WEEK AND GOOD
BUSINESS IN PROsPECT-GOLD TAKEN
IN AT THE BOX OFFICES.

The theatrical managers have been n merry
throng for the last few days. They So too
| In the face Of period Of uncommony bad busl-
ness They unfeignedly glad because Mckinney
| IS elected. and they recognize that nobody could
| be expected to 80 TO the theatre last week. and
that they had no right TO expect II This week the
Horse Show will keep the people cut OF the theatres
to some extent. and after that the managers will
begin. with fair aeld before them. to reap their
share Of the re-established prosperity Of the
try and the reaping will go until tbs holidays
como to cut their annual gap in the receipts.
This last week has been a hard one for the
playhouses. OF course nothing was expected on
the night before election. Everybody too
nervous to enjoy anything. Those who felt per
fect,y sure Of the result were nervous about the
size Of the result. Ii OF those times
when do nothing but think On cleo
ton night the music halls were crowded. but the
res. Of the theatres were not at all well filed.
After Election Day everybody was exhausted with
anxiety and excitement. and all wanted to stay
at home and did stay.
Yesterday there little improvement.
Most of the inhabitants Of New-York had begun
get rested and there unusual number
OF strangers in town. drawn hither by the approach
of the Horse Show But the beautiful afternoon
kept most Of the people in the streets. which were
crowded. and the matinces were only moderately
well attended. In the evening everybody happy
and the houses were full.
There Is the shadow OF a doubt that tho
theatres have profted and Will profit 10 no small
extent from the result OF the election. Amuse-
ment lovers Of moderate longer stay
away from the theatre because they afraid 10
spend money A little OF the money that has been
boarded is to be spent before the bulk OF II Is
put back In the savings banks. 1t Is proof OF
this that since Election Day great deal OF gold
has come into the box offices. At the box Office
of one Broadway theatre 800 in gold was received
the very day after election.
The managers fully realize. for once. that
political condition something TO them AS
q general thing they do not take much interest in
politics. Theatrical people. as q class. do not
take much. Actors are kept too much on the move
10 acquire a residence anywhere. or II they claim
one In this that place for divorce or other pur-
poses, the chances are ten to one that they will
be at the other end of the country Election Day
So. being poor voters. they get into way of think
ing that the affairs Of the country do not concern
them, and all that they care 10 know about its
laws is that Jersey City is the place to live in
when you owe more money than you have about
you, that a jury always decides in favor OF an
actress against a manager that anybody who wants
to enforce the terms Of theatrical contract must
prove impossible things, and that justice or
the peace In Hobokcr will marry you when Il
clergyman in New-York will not. And the man
ayers catch the habit Of keeping away from the
annoyances OF political strife. thinking. perhaps
What few managers there are in New-York who
let politics weigh their minds at al are mostly
Democrats were in the days when 1t was pos
sible TO distinguish what Democrat was. But
this year II was all different This year the man
ayers woke up and discovered that the vote Of the
country might make some difference TO thein
Thereupon they all became Mckinley men. Ana
Kinley men, too. Only one Bryan man has been
counted among the theatre managers OF New-n ork
bound Tammany He said frankly that the
reason why he was for Bryan was that TaInmany
was for Bryan All the res wore Mchney naGse5
every year they themselves were this year:
Whenever they saw n newspaper man, who was, OK
formation about everything. they asked anxiously
whether he thought Mckinley would surely be
elected. When he said yes. they said that they
why they agreed with him, having not the re-
modest notion OF the value Of any sort of evidence
the bfsso Inc Election Of Bryan would bring upon
the country would fall nowhere more quickly and
surely than upon me n Even n the ort
une and earning power are cut In two. the first
efforts at economy that he will make VIII be APP
rponne Under the head Of Injuries. There were one
or two indeed who affected TO care little how the
election went declaring tna dhcy neeved b ma hed
s sreed TO be just as glad Mclinleys election
ton Of Bryan would ruin them "a. free-siiver
law they said would sehd ap ra lse pyce es
f our seats to 50 s.. On the contrary. people
Would be willing to spend less than before on thea
tres; ,ns' e no doubt about IT, With house only
hall full for a week the managers have been calm
and and there has been doubt sIed hat so efes
OF the cIou1 sr q The maSSgers office when all seems
20 af Be going most merrily inside the theatre