Mr. Ditrichstein called his adaptation of Mr. Bahr’s play “a comedy.” The terms applied to plays, by way of classification, are somewhat indefinite at the best, but as to _Comedy_,--the general understanding is that it should be a dramatic composition which, in delineating character and manners, while piquant by virtue of delicate exaggeration and amusing by virtue of clever equivoke, moves within the limits of reason and probability. “The Concert” begins with farce and proceeds with violent absurdity. The persons implicated would not, in real life, act in a manner even approximate to that which is prescribed for them. The note that is struck, considered at its best, is that of burlesque. The play, in as far as it is a play,--the clash of character and the exposition of conduct,--begins in the Second Act. Sixteen persons are implicated in the action of the piece, but only seven of them are seen after the first curtain has fallen. The tone of the Second and Third acts, except at moments, is radically and extravagantly farcical. But toward the end an opportunity occurs, and it is duly improved,--perhaps in jest, perhaps in earnest,--of saying the magnanimous words that are usually attributed to philosophical lovers: “If you love a woman, and that woman happens to be your wife, you wish her to be _happy_, and if you discover that she thinks she can be happier with another man than she is with you your wish is that she should join him, if she can be sure of her feelings”; and so forth. At the close of this piece the wife of the genius affectionately assures him that she has all along understood his conduct, but is willing to pardon him if he will be faithful in future, and, by way of emphasizing her docile, charitable, and eminently tolerant spirit, she produces bottles of hair-dye and proceeds to rejuvenate his fading locks.--The scenic setting, the stage management, and the acting by which this farce were commended to public approbation were so appropriate, so resourceful and deft, so careful, zealous, spirited, and effective, that it gained immense popularity. This was the original cast of “The Concert”: _Gabor Arany_ Leo Ditrichstein. _Dr. Dallas_ William Morris. _McGinnis_ John W. Cope. _Helen Arany_ Janet Beecher. _Flora Dallas_ Jane Grey. _Eva Wharton_ Alice Leal Pollock. _Mrs. McGinnis_ Belle Theodore. _Miss Merk_ Catherine Proctor. _Fanny Martin_ Edith Cartwright. _Claire Flower_ Margaret Bloodgood. _Natalie Moncrieff_ Adelaide Barrett. _Edith Gordon_ Cora Witherspoon. _Georgine Roland_ Elsie Glynn. _Laura Sage_ Edna Griffin. _Mrs. Lennon-Roch_ Kathryn Tyndall. _Mrs. Chatfield_ Mary Johnson. LOSS AND GRIEF.--“NO MAN BEARS SORROW BETTER.”