Newspaper clipping of article regarding John Darcy being denied entrance to Bernard Ullman's theater. Transcription: ROW AT THE ACADEMY OF MUSIC. ? ARREST OF EDITORS ?THE PARTIES HELD TO BAIL. Last evening a disturbance accurred at the Academy of Music, growing out of the attempt of Mr. [Bernard] Ullman, the lessee and manager of the Academy of Music, to exclude Mr. John Darcie, the musical and theatrical reporter of Porter's Spirit of the Times, from the entertainments given at the Academy. Mr. Darcie was formerly connected with Mr. Ullman in business relations, having for some seasons f
Newspaper clipping of article regarding John Darcy being denied entrance to Bernard Ullman's theater. Transcription: ROW AT THE ACADEMY OF MUSIC. ? ARREST OF EDITORS ?THE PARTIES HELD TO BAIL. Last evening a disturbance accurred at the Academy of Music, growing out of the attempt of Mr. [Bernard] Ullman, the lessee and manager of the Academy of Music, to exclude Mr. John Darcie, the musical and theatrical reporter of Porter's Spirit of the Times, from the entertainments given at the Academy. Mr. Darcie was formerly connected with Mr. Ullman in business relations, having for some seasons furnished the librettos of the operas sold within the building. Owing, however, to some disagreement, the relation were not kept up, and as Mr. Ullman gave orders to have Mr. Darcie excluded from the house some time since, it is reasonable to suppose that the feelings of Mr. Ullman toward Mr. Darcie (who has been for several months connected with Porter's Spirit) was not of the most friendly character. Mr. Darcie's exclusion caused George Wilkes, the editor of Porter's Spirit, to address the following communications to Mr. Ullman: OFFICE PORTER ?S SPIRIT OF THE TIMES,} NEW-YORK, April 15, 1858.} B. ULLMAN, esq. ?Sir: Your letter of yesterday, repeating your determination to exclude Mr. John Darcie, the Musical and Dramatic Reporter of Porter's Spirit, from the public performances at the Academy, even though he purchase his ticket, has reached me, and I have carefully read what you say injustification of that act. My answer is that I send Mr. Darcie to the Academy, and other places of public entertainment, not as John Darcie, but as the representative of the paper I conduct; and I claim that so long as he bears himself lawfully and decorously while in attendance at such places, his personal characteristics are merged in his representative position. Were editors to submit to any other rule, and make managers the umpire of the private standing of their employees, they would be cont
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