Judge — December 16, 1882 — page 12: what you’re looking at

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Tue Jersey Lily went to Boston last Sum spite of the Blue laws which restrained the liberty of meaner niortals. She went ou a special traim, Well, “ay shouldn't shet JeDcE will be pleased to propose, second, and carry by acclamation, a vote of thanks to any train, ordinary or special, which has relieved New York of the arrant dramatic humbug which bas been inflicted pon us for some weeks past. She (Mrs. Langtry) changed her Dill before she tefl. She played the “Honey-moon,” and showed herself as conspicuously inefficient in that play as she has done in all else that she has attempted. Perish the fashion, if such a woman as this is the f ish the morhid curiosity which erects a Langtry Into a star actress and leaves a woman like Miss Patti son to support ber. Not that Miss Pattison is a great genius by any means, but she is 80 incomparably greater than the Langtry that the spectacle is as in- congraous as would be that of a monolith supporting a horsechestnut. Well, she is departed, at any rate, and Boston may amuse herself in teaching her “*cul- chaw” and the use-of protoplasms. New York has had enough of her and to span +The Queen's Shilling, inces, reigns at Wallack’s, vice we have a pretty bad play but of a tout ensemble below criti ” are supplied by Rose Cogl of mediocrity by the imported company, and the intin ity of bathos by the play iteelf. alar thing that the author—Tue Jepce forgets his name, nor is it matter of the slightest consequence—should take a theme so familiar to every lover of the good old classic comedy of the last century, Does he imagine that none of the present generation of playgoers has seen She Stoops to Cc or does he, perchance, im- azine that he can do a little better what Goldsmith once did so well? Very probably; for every line of th Queen's Shilling” breathes the vapidlity and self-con- ofthe writer, It is not difficult to imagine him holding a bigh commis rush in when Is fear to tre this shilling comedy Is a dress of a barmaid, {8 made love to as a barmaid and wells in ber true character. Ob, shades of Miss Hant- castle! And with the emptiest and inanest of di this writer goes on, attempting “To tread where Joldamith trod and strike the harps he sounded.” And this is the kind of staff which Wallack’s theater— arrogating to itself the title of the premier theater of Americd—presumes to foist upon its patrons. Prem- ier theater forsooth. Premier saucepan for the heat- ing ap of a nauseous mess of Eoztish failures! By the bye, when will managers and purchasers of dramatic ware awake to the realizing sense of their own folly in purchasing in the English market what they design to resell in the American? Lotta, who would seem to be a better bicker than she is a critic, ion. * promoted from the prov- ry retired. Here d in spots, The well acted an; the dead level sm. quer, nin that array of fools who wl. The hervine of young lady who, in the an; softer flat than she is either, actually paid Reid | and Pettitt $10,000 for the American right in an un- written drama. The drama, Love and Mone} some such name, was written, produced, and ran a consecutive night or two—the rankest failure that the London boards have seen for a generation at least Under other circumstances, THe Jcpce might congrat- ulate Miss Lotta on having procured a little valu experience at least for her money; bat as no amount of experience seems to cure speculators of their love of plays which bear a foreign hell mark, we are con- strained to consider the money absolutely wasted. Th fate of recent English importations ought to ma managers reflect; but somehow not even © Taken from Life” seems to have cured Wallack. The fact is that No one basa better right, and Tur | THE JUDGE. | @ play, because successful in England, is by 1 necessarily successful here; for it may often deal with types of life and phases of chai to say nothing of localities—with which our public is unsympathetic or unfamiliar. On the other hand, a play that fa England will be very likely to fail here, Lecause its fail- ure will probably be traceable to some lack of interest or lapse in dramatic coherence, or tameness in dialozw 3 1 Why go preaching to deaf adders? Let them lose their own money in their own way, It will be hand lines if the public—for whose interest Tie Jepar is looking oat 1 this little sermou—eannot find something to amus itself with somewhere. Said pablic, or that portion of it which lov er class of music than a good song well sun; a rare treat lately with Patti and Nilsson, in theit tara, have ha public, for their business has be Indeed business at places of amusement during the last week has been large everywhere—or almost everywhere, for the dear public seems to have already dropped to the fact that ‘Our English Friend” is a good sort of piece to stay away from, and are doing it according! $0 successfully that Mr. Daly will probably soon be 0} the lookout for a new piece. Mr. Daly’s method of selection is to rake up an old German farce from Heaven knows where, have it translated, and dress it up ala Americaine, in bis own inimitable style superfluous to say, therefore, that his failures I outnumber his successes. America is willing to U debted to Germany for its lager beer and certain kinds of sausages, bat it humbly conceives itself better abl to supply its own wit—at any rate, it prefers t th the home-raised product, rather than to t dosed with the fat-witted German species, and Mr. Daly's theater suffers in consequence. The American public does not suffer so mach, for it has always th option of staying away—an option it asually (when th German comedy is in swing) exercises by a very larg eter. Is in s abigh- bas Patti and a rare treat from the enormous. et along w an and Hart h | of bill, and will do better. The Union Square is running their French transla tion; they have made money by this style of thing in the past stick to the paying policy. The pr ot piece, ‘Les Rantzans,” is not much better nor than many of its predecessors, It is somewha oral than the conventional French drama, and (perhaps in consequence of that morality) duller to an “ones It is saved by the acting of Maude Harrison and Stoddard. Sara Jewett: would Killed the piece the first night. The story mestic and absolutely devokl of incident, At the Aleazar, Atkinson's Jollities, lity called the Electric something or other (eel, perhaps), has brought a clever comedian named Daniels to the front. Mr. Daniels will be heant of in the futare ve done well by their chi able degree, 8 lo in an abs ny statesmen squint at horrid spectacles, Soe of the jud show. 4 in this country make a very fine ] bene Tux great glacier in the Alps which bas been visited and sketched Is said to sh ently that an inbabitant of the moon it wu a hotele clerk was walking around with it pinned to his shirt- bosom. Tue young man who wished that he was an Ottoman was immediately sat down on. Wenver expects soon t into New Jerse him, on the violin make a sleigh-ride journey and Arnold expects to accompany Pacestas sobliers are labeled. they are to be shaken when taken. We suppose A Frexen woman says that she can read fortanes by the lines on their feet. She probabli some of her customers that they will he pretty corned. D was “removed” by Guitean, and removes” five Star Route sympathizers Gavi Arthar a “Git. o WHIFFS WITH CORRESPONDENTS, SROGENN AM right. Fire away. Lian Waiaur."=You are—sou are! Carioca” —It the cap Sts wear it—out 1, O.—And Tue Jepar mays, D ORLANDO."—Don’t bother us about Langtry any more, 1, C.—Your mule story ts about ofan age with sour initials ALM. W,—Do we thing else, dear bos. accept good things?" We don't do ans. 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