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Show NEW YOHK THEATRICALS. No companies going out; all coming com-ing in broke. Fearful times for theatricals. At otic lime the metropolitan managers man-agers ail intended to k.jep open during the Centennial summer, but have given up tsto idea, liusiiic.--sb.ing so poor. . Don Piatt, editor of the Washington Capital, has a craze to produce some comedies ot his own, and id trying to get the Park theatre for that purpose. A San Francisco lady, who is now .visiting in B is'.on, writes the following impressions ol Anna Dickens n's appearand ap-pearand o in ''A Crown of Thorns," one of the last performances of which she readied Boston in time to see: ''I was disappointed in hrr, although 1 did not expect muel). The criticisms upon her. I think have been yorv lenient indeed. Sue is awkward and stiff ou the stage, and has an ugly walk; she cannot find any place lor her hands, which are largo and homely and hang heavily by her side; there is no grace in any ol her movements. move-ments. Her voice is mctalic, and is just as harh in tho softest love passages pas-sages as in her storms of passion. She may improve, but she is now very inattractive. She would not draw in San Francisco, I am sure, and probably proba-bly not in any cither ci:y, save perhaps per-haps Philadelphia, of which she is a native." |