Show Some two thousand actorn and theater nanagers have been holding a convention conven-tion In New York In the Interest of an endowed theater The Idea of course Is to give such exhibition as the actora think that the people ought to have but as to which the public does not agree with them and refuses to pay for It is altogether too much to expect that there should be sucb endowments or that they would amount to anything 1C they could be had A free theater would necessarily be controlled by the public taste even more than theaters are now for the managers of It would of course wish It to be a success ttntl the test of hiicccHS is popularity But 1C any one wants to strike the real popular heart in regard to amusements let him plo pose a free circus |