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THE JUDGE. THEATRICAL BRIEFS. | May tt please Your Honor: Is view of certain evidence, pictorial and otherwise, recently sabmitted to me by the celebrated Professor Charles Collins, an expert of great fame and reputa- tion, I am obliged to report that the sole and exclasive right of Mr. D’'Oyly Carte to produce, present, and per- ferm the comic operetta entitled “Patience,” were grosaly infringed upon on Monday last, by one Ric ‘The said Rice is a gifted young man of Bostonian ori- gin,who, having reduced divers musical compositions by Verdi, Donizetti, Rossini, and the like toa plain, straight- forward hand-organ level, called them, in the aggregate, “Evangeline,” and thereapon became The American Composer, par excellence. The said Rice, after many and several experiences of ‘a financial character, has taken one more stride in the direction of absolute insolvency, and become an oper- atic manager. He has induced several worthy persons of mniddle age and quavering voice to join him in bis nefarious designs, and began, upon Monday night afore- sald, to obtain money upon the false pretense of pla | ing, performing, and producing the said opera of P tence with the connivance, complicity, and aid of ce: tain ex-residents of the Old Ladies’ Home and several veterans of the war of 1812. Among these is one Gustavus, or ‘Gns" Hall, to whose sad case I ventare incidentally to invite the at- tention of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Human Animals. The sail Gustavus or **Gus” Hall is | an estmable old gentleman of many, many years’ stand- ing, who is mentioned by historians of the reign of George the Third as having had a soft voice in the pre- ceding century, which hed been the pride and glory of at least two foregoing generations of Englishmen. Within the last hundred years, Gustavus or Gus" Hall aforesaid, has not actually sung a note, but has, on the contrary, practiced with much industry and ac- amen at all the bars known to the jurisprudence—and others—of these United States. Whence it clearly fol- lows that to drag him out of the comfortable shelter of oblivion and put him up In the alleged part of the Col- onel In Patience, to be langhed at, sneerod at, flomted, Jecred at, guyed, ridiculed, contemned, scorned, de- nounced, abused, and perhaps, even, hissed at, is an act of monstrous cruelty on the part of Edwanl Evangeline Rice aforesaid, which should be punished, even, if nec- essary, io the extreme lim{t of compelling the said E. E. Rice to sing in public one of his own compos! tlons. In respect to the Union Square Theater, It becomes j fe a Janai maa barbers, becr-sellers, coronersand other owners of Spitz doga, perform during the week past, in a certain play, so-called, entitled, “The Doctor of Lima.” As faras I can depend for reliable formation upon the testimony of one Ezekiel Chamber- lain, door-keeper of the Union Square Theater, the au- thor, writer, and composer of the said play, farce, or comedy aforesaid, is one Salmi Morse, who, it 1s all ed, recently founded a comic opera upon the Divin: Passion of Jesus of Nazareth, which was prevented from being produced on the stage of Booth’s Theater, simply and solely by the exasperated piety of the Board of Al- dermen. There is reason to apprehend, however, that ekiel Chamberlain aforesaid, does not know U ing or value of an oath, seeing that he is a ver gal in respect to profanity, wasting bis execrati the most trivial and unimportant matters. When may reasonably conclude that the said Salmi-of-Moant- of-Olives Morse did not write the play, farce, or come- dy, entitled * The Doctor of Li Having, at the risk of much injary to li attended a performance of the play, fare aforesaid, U bave to report that nothing more remark- able has been seen upon the stage of any theater in thy world. The gifted gentloman whose great drama had a tremendously prolonged run of one consecutive night at the Academy of Muste threo years ago, has heen out plotted, out-lialogued, out-sitaationed, and out-twaddled and out-rolled by the other gifted geutle- man whom Ezekiel Chamberlain, aforesaid, persists in Wentifying as Mr. Salmi-of-Pontius-Pilate and Mount- of-Olives Morse. It is.a play which can be witnessed hy the most eminent lunatics at present confined in Bloom- Ingdale without a twinge of envy. In short, no pro fessional idiot, no matter bow talented in respect to tt coherence and imbecility, would feel any sentiment af ter observing its performance other than one of almost divine compassion for the inspired ass who wrote It. It is with real pleasure that I pass from a conside tion of this painful subject to a review of the case Edward Harrigan and Anthony Hart, who are at pres- ent occupied in giving certain theatrical performances in anew and commodious establishment situated w a six-mile radius of the New York Hotel. The sald Harrigar. and the said Hart, it seems, have long been accomplices and conspirators together against the my daty to report that Fr ind reason, oF comedy Htogether peace and dignity of the people of this city and county | especially, and of the people of all cities and counties generally. Aided and abetted by divers comedians, minstrels, soubrettes and other professional enemies of sadness and melancholy, Harrigan and Hart, aforesaid, have been engaged for several wecks in shattering the and dissipating the vest-battons of some of the most exemplary residents of New York, Brooklyn and Jersey City. Notably has this been the case of the junior defendant, the said Anthony Hart, who, being the soul of good nature anid amiability, has frequently cen promised a large and popular funeral by friends. At the eamo time, I would gest that the said Hart be com; oath, the fact that he was formance of Patience at the unday afternoon last It gives me great pleasure to report In the case of many jed to explain, under nt ata matinee per- Standard Theater on Sat the young man calling hnmself Augustin Daly and pro: ing to be at one and the same time the son law of John Daff, Esq., and manager of the Broadway Theater, that the said Daly has not been left, ina pecuniary sense, by the Passing Regiment. On the contrary, the Passing Regiment is a comedy of much intrinsic humor, and is admirably, almost fault played by the excellent company which the sai called Augustin Daly has gathered about bim—to the great pecuniary profit, benefit and advantage of Au- gustin Daly, so-called, a8 aforesaid. In conclusion, I desire most respectfully to call the attention of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children toa very sad and deserving case. It seems that a pale, frail and delicate infant, Thomas or “Tom” Wyatt by name, has een cruelly compelled, night after night, to go through certain comical and gymnastic performances, in the Park Theater, by three heartless and unfeeling brethren, the Hanlon-Lees, by virtue of a second baptism, to-wit: The sail infant, Watt, has, daring the week, become incapacitated and disabled, and can no longer jump, dance, stride or perform the many difficalt tricks or exploits which he 1 ‘hek did, to the sat. | spectfally sug: | ‘was compelled to perform, whilo in a condition to do 80, by the said Hanlon-Lees. Any young lady of beauty and fortune desirous of adopting and rescuing | from a life of ignoble servitude and drudgery one of the most Leautifal blue-eyed children ever offered to prac ical sympathy will do well to give poor little Thomas or “Tom” aforesaid an early call. Mr. Haverly realizes that young blood tells, One of the most popular and efficient treasurers of auy of our city theaters 1s Mr. Wm. Black, of Haverly’s Fifth Avenue Theater, and Mr. Black, we believe, isn't twen- | tystive yet. Tue Rerenee. | NONSENSE VERSES. Ir you were a jubalong juko, And I were a tifalollee, And you sailed o'er the maddening tuko, While I strolled by the Kindamaree, | Then I'd wreatke sweet molung for your tresses, | And Pd strew mynkilos ‘neath your feet | And we'd sit where the sunshine e’er blesses | The lyn where the colytos meet. Then we'd sing of the Komyrotynos, Which bloom by the side of the San, And the wings of the Djinns and the Jynoa, Which the brow of the fongatos fan. We would whirl a tomkit to the zephyr, And smile a eylindrical smile, And write a weird hymn to a heifer, Or a ballad in Gilbert's best style, Tue clock struck eleve standing in th Myrtle and Billy were @ hallway, her arms twined ubout him in the ecatasy of love. ‘And you will love me aiways, Billy!” Myrtle said, softly. “Yes, my precious one forever and ever” And when shall we be married?" came tn low, duicet tones from the girl, as ber bead nestled confidingty above his liver-pad. Now was Col- onel Billy's loget-tor opportunity. Two years before, Myrtle Lad iaugbed a merry, heartless saugh wher. he aad seated bimse:f in a ple at a picnic. Drawing him- self up proudly, be said, while a lemon-hke smile fut- ted over his clear-cut features, Yes, 1 will marry | sou, Myrtle.” “But when?” pleaded the girl. * When the Washington monument fs completed,” be answered; and with a hollow, mocking laugh, he fed Into the ‘ness, leaving her In the front hall, aione and des- te.— Chicago Tritune. Epwix Boots bas introduced new business” into | Hamlet. We are glad of it. We trust he will so im- | prove the play that a man won't feel like a funeral pro cession for two weeks after be sees it. A little acto! with local “gaga,” is the great | of Hamlet in order to give it a relist to the average | play-goer.—Peck’s Sun. : HF, S—Didet 300 forge oelow the tll you speak of? 8. TAcoento UM. We=fland op yor ret To ax Owioax—Tax JCDOE doe note “American Pan “QRESCEST."—Reapctily bande hack with cost Siosey frb.—Dt. Rel, you shovd earn wo wrt, valet 1 Your things may be very Boo, nt we ml wager Ga ont oows thera ta youre reco you can read th weting sow that lcold, todd year cory” tse ba nat purine fl typo who toed t At tha of Trac Grey witsoat “Pook ToK"=It soar wife Hits you ont of ed et ito | mentor trgea ke tat, Stier wouhd Tur Jems couse ie were tase fatter to eal a cowant” No, ever tte a tromanWicking nto mec more etetiva “Bomrostas."=You ate mistaken, Ell Perkins ts not a come wrer. 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