Judge — February 4, 1882 — page 11: what you’re looking at

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M Say, chat air you givin ws? You know—air you fond of broken crockery, tamil them things? THEATRICAL BRIEFS, May it Please Your Honor: In compliance with instructions duly received from Your Honorable Court, I proceedel on last: Thursd ning to take testimony in the case of The Ge Public against Wallack’s Theater. The complaint in this case sets forth that when the said Wallack’s Thea ously prot fi all times and cor \led to be the most select, ned place of dramatic entertainment in these United States of America, the said Wallack's point of fact, descended to the quality nf a thinl class of dramatic entertainment and at the present provides and supplies plays a dramas of inferior merit, performed, acted and pro- duced by an inferior and incompetent company » which complaint the defendant, by its attorneys in fact, Theodore Moss and Arthur Wallack, make swer andal the said Wallack’s Theater is, in deed and in fact, the most select, fastidious ant re- tined of all places of dramatic entertainment afore 2. That the plays and dramas performed and produce: at said Wallack’s Theater are of superior merit; and 3 That the company of said Wallack’s Theater, which performs and produces such plays and dramas at said tidious and re Wallack’s Theater are in deed and in fact a superior and competent company, composed of actors of the very first el jasue being forced on the formanee in evidence of a Wallack’s Theater by th as aforesaid, such’ pl Schoot for Scanital, o points, T att rtain play or drama at company of Wallack’s Th or drama being entit \d purporting to be t sition of one Richard Brinsley Sheridan, late of the city of Lond nil, decease). Upon the evidence in such wise collected and col- lated T have to found the following report to your Hon- orable Court: 1. The said play or drama, The School for Scandal, is, all statements to the contrary notwithsta vu decent composition. It reflects with the accura a photograph the outspoken, ind respects abominable manners and customs of the time of the earlier Georges, Kings of Great Britain, when language, griefs, jests, phrases, jokes, and open expres- sions snch as would be received with indignation in a modern drawing-room, were common and conventional. It is truethat there is. a good deal of art in the reparte and a good deal of ingenuity in the contrivance of Uh situations, but there is nothing whatever to eleva great deal to disgust, and no small measure of what is tedious and incomprehensible tothe present generation. The School for Scandat, reduced to modern pli its dialogue, and tomodern garb, as to the costut its characters, would be hissed off the modern si Its only claim to toleration, except ita value as a piece of antique caricature, is that, at the hands of a skillful and appropriate company, it serves, for an hour and a half, to remind us how our great-great grandfathers and grandmothers looked to the satirists of their time. Bat iul-played’ and unintelligibly represented, the comedy and its characters serve no purpose, and cannot but Jed a per ly coarse, gross, anid at times obscene and in y of licate, and in some on; THE JUDGE. offend a refind taste and a fastidious Foul spec | gross images and unclean {eas, are none the leas fou | or gross, or unclean for being uttered by modern pe temporarily el with periwiga, knee sand silken bose. We may, with some adv: age, wear once ina while the garments of our ani tors, but we cannot, word for word, revive their language, or renew their coarser mannersand habits of speech and behavior. 2. The company at present employed at W Theater lacks all the dignity and stateliness and art | which imight enable an actor of skill to obscure | glaze over the ruder and grosser elements of the play; fone so everyday, 80 common: 9 conventional, that they project and em. the very indelicacies and improprieties whic they should dexterously conceah They are not sul ciently excellent in their art to become, with the clothes they put on, creatures and beings of a time long past, but are, on the contrary, mere masquerad sin .. the manners, and | the presence of people of to-day. Mr. Osmond Tearle, | as Charles Surface, is not as he should be—the ith F young tuck of a ee | Londoner of the seec in. ar raiment, and breech bat, on the other hand | place, and | phasi voic claas, a cle office, gaurbed for th utterly devoid of the airs and ance of acter he typifies, So likewise with Miss Ce is at no time the Lady Teazle of Sheridan, but, in qualities and elements, Miss Coghlan, uawill tired from a good dinner to put on the wig a | uyne of the period, in order that, with a supe snow of propriety, she may walk throug alt of “hig nd thus earn the the rest It is upon these grounds, and for these reasons, th for the plaintiff in the ease of th 1 Pubihe answer of sald! Wallack’s Theat fact, Thee dore Moss and Arthur Wallack, 14, in point of fact ae and un rchant’s © tea-house OF $9 nonce in unfar e char. lan, who hour and xth of andes All of which is respectfully submitted Tue Rerenre. ‘THERE have been so many conflicting stories told respecting Anna Dickinson's le—, that is, her—well, what she wears her tights on when she plays Hamlet, that we are astonished | » some of our illustr | not settle the matter once for all. Anna might “kick,” but then they musttake their chances ag blacksmiths do in shocing mules. caust ted newspapers do A Maw in St. Louis | count of witnessing a hanging. man in New York who went crazy on account It was his wife, and she was hanging on another man’s arm, zone crazy on ite- We know a of seeing one, ‘Turne is one way by which we can get the best of the elevated roads which now cover many of our streets from building to building. We can build a roadway over them, Sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander, Tarmace is going for Colonel Bob Ingersoll, and the performance resembles, and is in ef fect, something like a jumping jack kicking wainsta mule, He makes more noise than Bob does, but it is a different kind. A Rew very much shaken by the wind of adverse crit xe Jay Gould’s Tribune pocket-piece. Everypopy wants to stand as high as pos. sible in the opinion of everybody else in the worl—except the tax assessor, By him it is more agreeable to be under-rated. AN up-town physician's shin somewhat startling inseripti man.” misprint for * bears this “Dr. Kile We wouldn't like to suggest that the 1 the doctor's patronymic is probable A MARCANTILE gentleman, upon his arrival | at his office the other morning, surprised his oftice boy in the act of poring over some old ledgers. After watching him for some time, he demanded an explanation. “Oh,” replied the youngster, “T have ac cepted a position in a savings bank, and | only trying to get some points.” rom the North of {er its prohibition by the Emperor of Austria, republished it under the title of A ‘Treatise upon Saur Kraut, with full directions | for its preparation, and remarks upon its me | di THE author of * Letters { Italy,” properties”, AN professional fool, whereas a wa; ancient writer classifies a buffoon as a is an ama- teur fool. Where does the punning paragrapher co: in? OLD Gent (to waiter)—See here, what sort cheese do yer call this? It’s all full o° hoies, Watter—That’s Gruyere, sir. OLD Gext—Waal, then, take it away and bring me © that grew somewhar else, Holes ain't very fillin’ OLD Gest (inspecting esthetic Say, boss, | juarium)— w do you sell your red herrin’ ? OLD Get (to friend, who asks his opinion of the play of “ Othello ")—Well, for it, but have noticed it allers turns ont so when a white woman marries a nigger or an Injun. ‘t say much Question for beginners in E aphy: Bound the Tloly See. nest granted. Indeed. We give t a . COFFIN.—Obe accepted; one taken, and the o' are tsa puz S1-KE"--Your poem bas merit, bat ts badly const ‘Try itagain, We are not crusseyed, thank cnas. P.P.T. pay yor w. catch on ‘ery bad. If you ever find a paper who will n dollars for a poeta" like yours drop us a line. fot at all suitable for our paper, but you might the Christian Calon oF publications of that tix A. TH. R—Your articles are not balf £0 ambitious as the author le, especially when be names bis price. Authors wh expect shekels for thelr work must at least have an original lea, or aonle merit of construction. Savvy? This correspondent asks us what Oscar Wiide uses so Jong and glossy. 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