Better Later than Never

“Everything at last runs smoothly at Mr. Brougham’s nice new brilliant pretty little theatre.  We had hoped that Mr. Brougham would not have consecrated his little temple to the goddess of burlesque and extravaganza, in whose service so many of our theatres and opera houses are already enlisted, but have addressed himself to a higher, and more refined taste.  Now that Mr. Wallack has gone for a long season into Shakespeare, there is not left a single theatre in this great city where one can go and hear as intelligent, well written little comedy such as the ‘Captain of the Witch,’ ‘The Follies of a Night,’ or a hundred others that could be named, carefully presented and properly acted.  Is it possible that the whole community has gone mad on the subject of burlesque?  Did not Tammany, and Wood’s, and Niblo’s, and the Olympic, and the Worrell Sisters, and the Theatre Comique, and the two Opera Houses suffice?  This Burlesque is a perfect Moloch, and seems to swallow up everything.  We had fondly hoped that he would have left to art Mr. Brougham’s theatre, and indeed we are thankful that be only half devoured it, and left the other half for ‘Better Late than Never,’  which is or the class of plays we refer to.  Perhaps this mania, like others will soon run its course, and a few, at least of the managers and theatres return at last to more sober ways.”

“B. has found it necessary to change the program.” The new additions are two adaptations “from the French”, “The Irish Stew”, and “The Mysterious Widow of Long Branch”. The burlesque “The Dramatic Review” continues.