Judge — February 11, 1882 — page 12: what you’re looking at

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THEATRICAL BRIEFS, May it Teas Your Honor: herewith to ent my report dn re the Greek PI so-called, prod 1 according to compact and agreement, at Booth's Theater, on Monday 1 last, by a company of limi pility for such pur nized and chartered in the City of Boston and State of M tte. Attending the initial performance of in proper person, I was surprised to fi 1 innovations inthe arra sald piece 1 considerable ent of a bad been dispensed with, th ed to a back-drop and three ani every possible attempt had been made to recall to New York Aldermen, stock: classical mice en scene with which they ha scenery was I ers and others, the 1 been no- The Honor- of the leaders of th Twenty-second Ward, and a credible witness) assure under oath, that he distinctly rec 1 the uracy of the set was his testimony at all aken by the fact that he evidently confounded the Royal Palace at Thebes with the Four Cou toriously familiar in. their Terence O'Flanagan (0 sat Dublin, I regret very much to have to confess that the per: | forman hot an unalloyed success, A New street broker (whose name I afterwanl ascertained to 1 Lichter in) deposed, in my hearing, that the ¢ waa never better sp ek ken than by such accom: a dramatic ente Irish actor has a Greek play ly interesting lines Hebrew-Amer pas party ho ostensible reason whatever to a ertain hig English or Irish, or even in th He has simply to chan ' event: in one instance, while a voc ly goes blind, bellows | dialect that may be Greek, and, far aa the 1 auditor ia concerned —m Rassian, Ieelandie, or Kam carefal observer speeches in a n the other nd—as y be chatkan. The most nnot find a spark of the ¢ Greek fire in the performance of a Greek play, bat. on ences the effect of the equally cele bratel stove of Colonel Sellers, in which the ra of a canille did duty for the calorie of hot coals At the same time, I must report that the Greek play is an excessively intellectual entertainment, in that it | ts very difficult to understand and extremely fa to common-place intel brains and gigantic 1 me brated the contrary, expe ing, ive cof tha and Persons of mi to say nothi bt, deel THE JUDGE. refreshing, himself Wes into cesta. tin which he ptio ™ and singularly 80% is, no doubt, perfec 3 a form of entertain , by al 1 by, to impart a stros t nal views y company—bu ny OWN per the general public will always prefer an Irish-American play acted by ¢ | Hart's, to a Greek pl Booths, In respect to the amateur performance of Patience Murray Hill company at Chickering Ho a charity as yet unknown, I have to report that I the two followi Ist. The as a crit weks at Harrigan € acted by Irish-Americans at pveries of vast Importance y of New York is, on an 1 selfc er, however rash, would dare to ve her a place in his chorus. 2d. The “swell” young man of New York is so vacant of rnesomely stupid in behavior, and arance, that if I of the wandering idiot andall’s Island performers, on Frid swell” yo s0 homely, bony, and awkward scious, that no. mani e ever to prowl beyond the he would inevitably be arre and tr The urda blue by the police to and the is, were drawn, I from the blooded families in the eo The ladies on the sta the auditorium were all bony or dumpy, and there was not the reserved seats who would not have been flat and Sat o and i reality, by comparing him to his sroom, Tobserved, as another consy featury charity performance bony, and dumpy, and imbecil n of upper class, their pronunciation, if not bi ple of English birth, TI and “awfully clevah,” “howwibly young Ia is to be their appearance ‘y say “arn't,” and nid“ dweadful boah,” and and use all the other prepr terous phrases of the well-bred young i Great Brital From whieh poverty of beauty among the women and mind among the men of the * raw the in of the American people stand in-no imm: rof inguished by the ae Is itself “* our aristocrac, In respect to the burle duevst at the theater of the to report that w: chav beciles of I venture te ut upper class, rence that the tit ties fe danger of being see twenty times the brains on the and a hundred times the that are afforded hy a baker's dozen ama tenr performances of the *bluest-blooded ” gawks of Maslison avenue. All of which is respectfully autm Revere | | rauty in the a Ile who thinks much of himself has doubt. less contracted the ha bit of conside ing trittes Iy Press: A new work by Mr. plished exiles from Athens as Mr. Hagan, Me. Morri. | Blaine; to be called “Recollections of Place.’ son, Mr. Ed; dle. But so far as I coukl -_— gather from the ocular evidence submitted to me the | hoy T OKs equally to be avoided: ‘The goody: performance of a Greek play resembles more the per Ws ib aa 2 formance of a high mass in a Greek church than it docs OUT AME nO PANY Lovistana planters say that if the negroes | | wish to exodust out they may do so, and China- | men will be invited. ‘The Chinaman has taken | his queue and has gone there. OLD GENT (to night clerk) —Bout how high up is my roost 7 Nicnt CLeRK— elevator. OL Gest y more to-night, thank That last rum toddy did the business for me. th floor, sir. 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