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Show THE BROOKLYN DRAMA. The Leading Adors Portrayed by a Herald Correspondent. THE LEADING LADY THE WALKING , GERTLEMAN THE HEAVY VILLAIN VIL-LAIN THE OLD WOMAN THE AU-DIENCEj AU-DIENCEj Eto. Special Correspond enco of the Hehald. Brooklyn, Feb. 10, 1875. During my temporary sojourn in the city of churches, ftnd of BcandaU, I have been quite regular in my attendance at-tendance on the tragic farco, Brooklyn's Brook-lyn's Shame, otherwise Til ton vs. Beecher, now enacted in the city court. I will send yon no testimony as you get an excellent Bynopsis daily in the prcsa dispatched; but I will endeavor to present a free pencil sketch of one or two of the dramatis personie now so prominently before the public. By rare good fortune 1 last week I sat for three days im- j mediately behind Mrs. Tilton, the 'leading lady' in the drama, I have become a regular Jenkins and am able from personal observation to present some entirely new information informa-tion in regard to this lady. In the first place her perfume is violet, Lu-bin'a Lu-bin'a best triple extraot; secondly, her coatame is of tho very beat silk velvet, richly but plainly made up in the prevailing fashion; and finally she is fascinating; Bhe grows upon you ; a nice lovable plump little woman. Hairy Ward had'Jaslc .' Next let us take the 'leading man' or 'walking gentleman' in our serio - comedy, Mr. Tilton. The wood cu(a do bim injustice; be is essentially a handsome hand-some man, cast in a classic mould; his intellect massive, his education acholary. Ho gives his evidence in a clear, straight-forward way with the manner f a man terribly in earnest; ijio iuuuuu in iuiiy hiili unen poeu-cal poeu-cal and the jury watch him with the closest attention. Ho appears to be telling the truth, but if lie is perjuring perjur-ing himself he is one of the grandest, aublimest Hare that ever illuminated this mundane sphere. Now we turn to the 'heavy villain' .of our piece, the great Beecher himself, who, like most heavy villains of the dramatic otage, may turn out to be a very good man indeed, when the curtain is down ! He is undeniably restless during the trial; at times his face is of a blood red color; he reads, takes notes, plays with his pencil on his son's back, runs it tlirough bia hair or puts his arm around his neck. He sits between bia wife and bis son and frequently speaks with them and with his lawyers. At the noon recess re-cess he holds quite a levee with hia crowd of church people, whoare al- wayBiiij ott J -i "vj ,uu trust toTilton, who apparently finds but few to do him reverence. The end of the trial may probably work a change in this respect, however. The oldworuan'i of our piece, Airs, Beecher, may be dismissed in a few words; she appears upon the scene daily, more as a pantomimist than anything else. At one time in Ufe evidently beautiful, she would now bo considered handsome, were it not for the perpetual sneer which renders disagreeable what would otherwise be a pleasant face. Her depreciatory gestures and contemptuous manner toward the plaintiff and his counsel n re uuij uituiiitiu muu it wouiu iqok lar better and more consistent with propriety pro-priety were she to remain at home. In fact, if all the women in constant attendance on Mesdames Tilton and Beecher should remain away, their moral status would be much higher at the end of the play than it will now be, for where so much filth is thrown some will stick ! Mrs. Field, one of Mrs. Tilton's satelites, presents pre-sents no remarkable points, she sits next to her friend daily and is chiefly notable for her fine commanding Eresence, and a large mole on the ack of her left ear, which last is an original discovery of your enterprising enterpris-ing correspondent ! The lawyers we will 'cut' and pass on to the jury who will be 'cast' as the discriminating discrimi-nating audience of the play and who will 'call out' either Tilton or Beecher bofore the curtain at Ihe end, to crown the victor with merited applause, ap-plause, or retire in silence, i. e., disagreed dis-agreed ! Tho drama is interesting, pathetic, humorous, dull, sweet and dirty by turns ; the jury listen attentively at-tentively with two or three exceptions excep-tions and appear to be men of intelligence intel-ligence excepting the above mentioned men-tioned three; these, judging from their looks, would make first-class idiots anywhere; low, retreating foreheads, fore-heads, ears placed too far back for humanity, something on the "what is if'style. But this may be contempt con-tempt of court. I take it all back. Let us get out of the stifling atmosphere atmos-phere of the court room and hasten to buy a winter overcoat for ten cents. Do you know what that means? Why, it is what the Brooklyn Brook-lyn Baints call taking a drink; note it, ye imbibers of Salt Lake 1 And now farewell; in my next look out for Brooklyn girls, lunch fiends, etcetera, etcetera. Yours with pious regards, Custos Mobum. |