A Licentious Stage: Dramatic Hall

Dramatic Hall—A paltry imitation of a theatre, under the above pompous title, was opened about a month ago, in Leigh-street, under the auspices of Jacobs, Elmer, and Gardner-three fourth or fifth-rate actors, previously discarded by the manager of the " New Queen's Theatre." The place, as might be expected, soon became the rendezvous of all the loose characters about town-so much so, that the landlord of the inn, of which the "Hall" formed a part, very discreetly shut up the place, at the close of the play, on Thursday evening last. The expose at the Court House, in the case of " Lazar v. Stephens," is said to have had something to do with the " canny " landlord's " shutting up shop." In that trial one of these persons was flatly contradicted by two witnesses on oath; another, on being pressed, prudently knew nothing at all of the matter; and the third acknowledged himself a convict, and not married to the female who passed here for his wife. The Register has been praising the " Dramatic Hall," as a " place where respectable citizens could bring their wives and daughters, without fear of their being put to the blush !" So much for his vaunted " Christian principle," and "guardianship of public morals."