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THE JUDGE. “Guess Venus thought Thad a footlike a fairy when she made me dese.” THEATRICAL BRIEFS, May t Please Your Honor: Is the case of The People of the City and County of New York vs. Bartley Campbell, dramatist, so-called, 1 havo to make the followin report: This is an action Lrousht by the platutitfs against the defendant to recover damages in the sum of $50,000 for loss of time and Injury to mind and feelings sus- taloed by plalotlils in eateavoring, at defendaut's re- quest, to accept defeadaat’s play, co-called, entitled “Tue White Slave,” as vew and original. Eilwin Neville for plalutidy; D. A. Casserly for do- fendant. Plaintiffs offer to prove: (1) That ** The White Slave” is oeither new nor origional; (2) that certain losses and Injuries have been sustained, as alleged in complaint, and (3) the amount and extent of said losses aud in- fartes Unclo Tom,” a negro, being duly sworn, testified as follow Dov't know my second name. Am a native of Ken- tacky. Was foveated by Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe Have figured in fiterature and on the stage for several years. Have always been known by my present appella- tion. Am grossly caricatared and misrepresented in “The White Slave.” All the * business ” and most of the situations in ** The White Slave” were sugyested by myself and my companion work of fletion, * Dred" 1 look upon the defendant's play as a clear steal. 1 dy not figure in bis play by my own name, but the Imi- tation of myself is exact enough to provoke laughter. Cross-examined.—Am not aware that I have become ‘an international nuisance. Am prepared to admit that my * nigger" dialect is constantly varying, and that 1 never epeak it twicealike. Am associated at preacnt with two or three troupes “of performing blood-hounds and a learned donkey. Have seen mytelf apostro phized on three-sheet posters as “The Ideal Uncle Tom." Am willing to confess that Iam pretty well tired of my celebrity, and would cheerfully give place to an Evangelical Chinaman or a Presbyteriun Zala asa popalar character of romance or the drama, Simon Le Gree, duly sworn, testifies as follows: Have been several years in fiction and on tbe stage asabeavy villain, Am one of the most utterly irre- Geomable villains ever {nvented. My usual language is of the most blood-curdling character, and my ordinary bebarior is too wicked for anything. Like my estoemed frend and old companion, “Uncle” Tom, I am the off- spriog (in a Iiterary sense) of Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Haveseen Bancroft ln * The White Slave.” Rec- ogmized him at once as a faint, pale, and colorless, yet malignantly devised carieatare of myself. If Thad not become a popular character years ago there would be uo Bancroft. Tie defendact bas never received per- wission from me to barlesque or imitate me, Cross-examined.—Am ct times conscious of being a trifle too utterly utter Iu my viZ!ainousness. 1 bave ve- casiovally felt an inclination to lazgh at myself asa humorous conception. 1 always bring Jown the gal- ery. I bave, at times, recetved the tribus of stafe eg and other compliments of the eamekind. Ban- croft does not compare with me asa diabolically cruel and ut erly depraved monster of iahumanity. As such, be ts Just a tittle off." Lawyer Marks, Leing daly sworn, toatifies as follows: 1 im familiarly known aa ** Marks, the lawyer.” Like He two previous witnesses, Iam the offspring, 1a a lit- erary sense, of Mra. Harriet Beecher Stowe, in a cele- brated character. Have seen the defendant play a comedy or whatever he choses to call it. In that or comedy, Lam distinctly and deliberately ecandalized, caricatured and imitated by a party calling bimself Law- yer Stleb, Lawyer Stieb Is an ass, To Is the vilest burlesque tn the legal profession Ibaveever seen. De- fendant never received perrolasion from me to copy or caricature me in his play. Cross-examined.—Am not prepared to swear that T ever saw a lawyer Dko myself in real life. Lawyer Stieb Is about as fair a representative of the legal pro- feasion as Lam. Am willing to confess that I am not by any means the first or the only serio-comie villain of the legal profession who ever appeared upon the stag Zoe, an *octoroon” of unusaal beauty, Lelng sworn, teatifles a8 follows: 1 am known everywhere io literary and dramatic circles as The Octoroon.” Mr. Dion Boucicault claims to be my literary parent, bat Tam very doubtful of my paternity. Ihave seen “The WhiteSlave.” Lisa, ta “The White Slave,” is wcruel burlesque and parody of myself. Tam 8 far lovelier, more sympathetic, and more diga!- fied character, Sulll the defendant bas evidently paro- died and caricatured me in writing the part of Lisa. Lisa {s maudlin and milk and watery compared with me. It to the provious fact of my existence that Lisa owes ber birth, Not cross-examined. Charles Harris, being duly worn, testifies as follows: Tham a Hinglisbman. I ham a hartist, although 1 am not a hactor. I came over ‘ere tostage manage the “Vorld,” and a more bloomink lot of cuckoos I never ‘ad to ‘andle bever sluce I first vent npon the stage in a hadvisory capacity. I know the Dleedink * Vorld” from vup bend to the bother. The steamboat bexplosion and the floatink log heffects vos taken slap bang hout o° tho Vorld"orI'maDatchman. 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