Show I Young Mrs Winthrop The Walker Opera House was crowded last night at the first presentation pre-sentation of Young Mrs Win II throp by the Madison Square Company Com-pany Without going into a detailed account of the play or referring minutely to these who assumed the several characters and referring to it from the impresson such a performance per-formance would have on an ordinarily ordi-narily sympathetic person with average intelligence Young Mrs Winthrop and its rendition last evening came as near being perfectas perfect-as anything a majority of mankind have any reasonable hope of seeing D in a lifetime Mr Bronson Howard has produced a masterpiece of the kind and we question it the author could find aught wanting in any of the characters last night The piecfe is so home like so natural that it is I almost impossible to keep present in the mind the fact that it is fiction that those who seem to live the characters char-acters are merely actors The language lan-guage is elegant the situations easy and natural the sentiment pure and noble almost beyond comparison com-parison and the moral of the whole is Inculcated without an effort We question if any person last night could resist emotion refuse to laugh help sighing keep from tears or could sit unmoved and unaffected at tbe sweet pathos the momentary I exhibitions of selfish natureorat the rays of humor alternating during two and a half hours and the heart must have been cold indeed that failed to beat in unison with some at least of the sentiments expressed How many incidents brought like incidents home to every heart and softened it and filled it with tenderness tender-ness or pleasure or regret at past events thus recalled and how few 1 when the denouement brought its sigh of relief but arose with firmer resolves and kindlier thoughts If there were any who did not feel something in common with the characters in Young Mrs Winth rop then the mission of the drama is lost on earth to such and we can but feel sorry for them Mr Howard has given to the world a drama which renders the office of the critic the philosopher and the moralist useless so far as relates to his production pro-duction It may go the woill over be seen time and again by old and young the wise and the ignorantthe cruel and the kind and no one can find in it the shadow of a thought i ran r-an act that is not pure and thafdof snot s-not inculcate noble seutiments What is equally gratifying to note is the fact that in this socalled dP generate age when the legitimate drama is said to be declining 7hen the pure and nobler productions of the author are said to be scorned that in this age a homely generous tender and loving play draws crowded houses nightly It shows that something is wrong either dramatic authors are bilious cavil less or else the public has not the sense to discern the spurious from ho genuine But the success which has everywhere attended the production pro-duction of Young Mrs Winthrop proves that all the critics in the world have no cleurer insight into what is inherently good nor can they tell with more unerring certainty cer-tainty when that which is truly good in a dramatic lirifc is truly wall presented With such a company Young Mrs Winthrop can never grown old for it will last as long as there is freshness tenderness tears smiles and pity in humanity It will be produced this evening and tomorrow night |