Judge — March 18, 1882 — page 11: what you’re looking at

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THE JUDGE. ul THEATRICAL BRIEFS. May it Please Your Honor: Onn of refe! Boucicault, alleged to threaten an York, I proceeled to take testimon; In pps. 181-374, Small's Dramatic Reports, I find the recon, as follows, of a trial which took place in w York, at the bar of Public Opinion, in March, 1878. Dion Boncie: Englishman; by p indicted for literary grand larceny in the first degree 8 “Not guilty,” after opening by Abraham Ku ince in re Dion rly return to New pt of your on , aged Sf, French-Irish-American- fession a playwright or dramatist; John Brougham, sworn for the People.—I know the prisoner at the bar; have known him several years; arn a professional playwright and actor myself; know the prisoner's capabilit etotell who wrote London Assurance; declin tulars of the con- tract entered into by myself and the priso ing to swear that the prisoner claims the work of other writers, Cross-examined.—Have hi votion to his tiful; also, that prisoner would rather suffer any H children to publicity or scandal; prisoner's conduct to his first wife was even more exemplary than his beba- vior to his second consort; understood that he did beg her not to fall down a p the accident should get into the newspapers and cause him annoy- ance. Octave Feaillet, sworn for the People.—Am a French- man and a literary man; have written play member of the French Dramatic Authors’ Society; do not know the prisoner personally; do not want to; once wrote prisoner a letter cautioning him not to couple his name with my own (shown a number of plays, ete., claimed by prisoner as his own manufacture and property); recognize all these plays; “Led Astray" is La Teatalion; * Kerry" is La Foie Fait Peur;" “Louis the Eleventh” is Loals XL;" “ For- bidden Fruit” is ni;” every play pre- sented to me here is deliberately and willfully appro- from the French examnined.—In France the prisoner passes for an Irishman; in London for an Englishman; Tdid once translate the Colleen Bawn into French snd produce it —but I put the name of the prisoner and not my own to the play-bill as tho author. MM. Hennequin, Najac, Belot, Augier, Nus, Sartou, and Dumas, sworn for the People, give the same teati- mony. Case closed for the People. Case opened for the prisoner by Richard O'Gorman, Esq. The prisoner, sworn in his own behalf,—Am a dra- matic anthor; wrote all the plays claimed by M. Feuil- ¢ to give the part ier; am will. rd that the prisoner's do- an expose his wit Coup de let and the rest; am the greatest living pl the worl ywright in superior to Shakes- an of wonderful wit and the most ality; Tam the terror of the British Queen Victoria has repeatedly said tha Tam the only living man who ever caused her a mo- Tam the greatest actor of modern Umes; I have the most artistic qualities ever possessed by a dramatist; French dramatic authors—the dra- matic authors of every nation on the surface of the | globe—steal my ideas, not I theirs. Cross-examined.—Will not swear that I ever wrote anything; have had too much experience of law courts t ever having written a play in my life; I never recollect anything that it 14 convenient for me to forget. Case closed for prisone Verdict—guilty. | Sentenced to undergo a reading once a week of all his letters to the press about himself and Ireland for the period of five years, Note.—The prisoner swooned on hearing his sen- tence, From the above it will be scen that the said Dion, or Dionysius Boucicault, is a professional plot-stealer, scene-grabber, and incident-snateher, and that his ro- turn to New York with his alleged new play, Suil-a- Mor, will bea serious breach of the public peace, on which account I would most respectfully suggest that the said Dion, or Dionysius Boucicault, have the riot act read to him, with a caution to disperse, and, in the event of his refusal to then disperse, the militia calle out and ordered to fire upon bim, In re “Onlette," I have to report that A. Augustin Daly still persists in continuing his weekly production of an offensive and disagreeable French play, and that Miss Ada Rehan etill continues to excite the wonder of the general public a8. to how she ever came to be cast for such a part. In respect to “Lights o' London,” which, ¢0 far as prefigured in the play, are dark and dismal; and in ro- spect to Youth,” which is old and dall and stupid, T have the honor to report that they are netting vast amounts of cash for their proprietors. All of which is respectfully submitted, Tue Rerceer. Frightened Birds. You have scene rows fly from a corn-field your approach—you have seen carrion bird lap their reluctant wings in flight as one ap- proached their savory neighborhood; doesn't it remind you forcibly of the commotion at present existing among the types of these birds —the receivers? Why they have been allowed to fatten so long upon the carcasses of defunct corpora- tions and the shattered fortunes of individuals is one of those things that is past all finding out. But when the time was ripe, aye, over- ripe, the New York Herald threw a firebrand into their midst that has created consterna- tion in the ranks of these vampires, and Tue Jupce heartily approves, and shouts “s boy !” Until thi the Thunderer of Gotham, only their victims knew ew was stirred up by uncons the ca clutches regarded them y auxiliaries of the courts; men who, for a trifling remunera tion, relieved fhe judges of some of their bur- dens. But now they know that to be the re- ceiver of some defunct corporation, like a life or fire insurance company, is to be in posses: sion of a better income, with nearly the same power as the appointing judge has, and to be on friendly terms with a judge is to be on a sure road to fortune. ‘THe JuvGE joins in the cry against these jonable blood-suckers they were; | swear much about anything; have no recollection of legal lecches, and will not give it up until the whole business is reformed, nor until stranded corporations and unfortunate individuals have a lair chance to save at least something from their wrecked fortunes, the whole of which now goes into the pocket of the receiver and his friends “ by order of the court, A YORKVILLE goat refused to cat a theater poster that had a picture of Lester Wallack on it, because it did not like so much hair in the hash, Wirntovt a modest Thorn,” what wonld be the sweet: est rose? Without its present “ Mayor,” say, what would be Coboes? Way are those two bachelors, Senator Grady, of New York, and Assemblyman Me- Donough, of Albany County, the prime favor- ites among the lady visitors at the Capitol, in Albany? Tus is the sea n when the wily bonnet and foolish ladics, who are simple and credulous enough to be mentally and pecuniarily carried away by articles and fabrics fawningly de- seribed as ‘so becoming?’ so Frenchy!” just imported!” “never worn before!” “just from Paris!” ete., ete. IN striving to Dodge” the Mormon qu tion, while riding in a stage the other day, Washington, Hutchins, of the expectedly deprived of his argumentat equilibrium by a severe gale (Gail Hamil- ton") of consummate sarcasm, which is now meandering the rounds of the press. Post, Was Un- Mayy a new “page” in the Senate Cham- bers at Albany and Washington is now being mercilessly ‘turned over" by countless less favored, non-appointed applicants for simil positions. WHIFFS WITH CORRESPONDENTS. E. B. F.What do you say? AM. 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