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Mapawe Hevesa Monsesea, Coustess Bozesta, has ween playing Rosalind at Booth’s Theater, and has xiven very general satisfaction. Such is the public venlict, and Tie Jvpor is pleased to lend it the sane. tion of his authority. For it 1s a righteous verilict, as verdicts go, and strictly in accordance with the evi- Modjeska's Rosalind is far from faultless, but Is very intelligent, and In a great degree satisfac- tory. Her accent is against her; many a line loses i point by a tripping tongue, and sotnetimes Ti was inclined to suspect that she miezed the meaning of speech or a phrase. But about the meaning of the character there was no ambiguity. She grasped the Kifal hamors of her Rosalind, and expressed them racefully and naturally. She did not miss a single light or shade that n of the sweetest and most womanly of Shakespeare's nes. She wore her doublet and hose with rare and never forgot that they did not belong to her disposition—a pretty, graceful performance, intelli- gently given, although almost In a foreign tongue. Such is the Rosalind of Madame Modjeska. What a contrast to the last Rosalind we saw—this macb-advertise] Englishwoman, who minced throug! the part as she minced through life, totally missing its ner traita and higher feelings, anderstanding nothing of its sebtle, underlying Leauty; a self-conscious, vain and overrated novice, dashing at such a part as Rosa- lind with the confidence born of ignorance, getting throagh It somehow as a bull gets through a gat Bat enough, and more than enough, of t scent Langtry. Modjeska has given us tie bes pretation of Rosalind the stage has ever seen since Neilson. The support was good--far better than that gener- erally supplied with a star who Is supposed to draw a ase on ber own merits, and please ber audience the of other characte Maurice Barrymore, as Orlando, was especially pl ht serve to bring into stron here and— without adventitious aid asin kind-hearted, loving, manly boy, handsome and gal- 109, to both inspire and excuse a Rosa- | lind’s passion. Indeed, with the somewhat important | exceptions of Jacques and Touchstone, and the tritting one of Phebe, the cast left little to be desired. And the basiness has Leen such as to glasiden the heart of the manager, for Booth’s spacious theater has been fall, or thereabouts, at every performance. “The Queen's Shilling,” at Wallack’s has passed away—eulziter fzzled out. It wasa moribund pro- daction at best, and it has been wisely relegated to that well,filled chamber in the dramatic mausoleum which Is set apart for Wallack’s failures, * Les Rantzans,” at the Union Square, pending preparations for “Le Roman Parisien,” is fling the gap and emptying the house, * The Princess of Treb- izond ely produced at the Thalia Thea- | ter Inst week, and scored an Instantaneous eucce: Those down-town theaters on th ant enoush, the was elaly would seem to have * caught on.” crowd is not so great at the Standard Theater as It was during the early days of the production, but the public turns up In comfortable numbers every night, and it is to be remembered that, with the price of the best seats advanced to $2, the house can h than it used to do daring the run of Ulessed_ memory, and daring the pre operatic successes anid failures that ha Prohably, for its size and pretens! New York is doing a more remunerativ Harrigan and Hart's, “MeSorles’s Inflation,” the managers no doubt think, might with advantage be The Id more money * Pinafore,” of | ress of various sneceeded it no theater in | | tragesli THE JUDGE. taught to lend some of its qualities to the material building. for if the theater were larger there woul be more people in it. But thisis holiday time, Wh rly started in the year of grace 1883, it will be as managers to augur from the omens and portents that the theatrical beaven will then show, what sort of showing their ledgers will make when summer warns them that it is time to close. Some Theatrical Departures. For yeara have {pondered on this subject; from my early childhood, when I collected by means fair and foul th acy of lucre which enabled me to wit- ness the gory drama from the lofty heights of the gallery, to my ripe manhood, when, in expansive, glossy shir: .-ont and dead-head orehestra ticket, I attend all hts, I have come to the conclusion that a radi- e must be made in the play of the fature. Tam nauseated with raven-baired, dark-dyed stage 3 of the present; and by way of preparing the public for my fature novelties, am coaching for the coming season a blonde Iago. Blonde heroines no longer thrill me; serv and Irish peasant girls with abbreviated p low-necked. ses, French-heeled shoes and d earrings, pall me. The gooly-good hero who is falsely accused of mur- der, robbery, forgery, and the rest of the seven deadly sing, during the first four acts, and honorably acquitted in the fifth, is no long In all the plays, nowaday during four acts, and in the fifth virtue conquers, Now every theater-goer is tired of this self-same story; something newer and truer to life is wanted. In the play fam about to produce there will be the usual nu Fa novelty vice reigns supreme ver of acts (tive). ther will not tara bis children out in the cruel storm; but they, moving up R.C., will open door and exclaim: “Old man, git!” He will git. Tableau and curtain, The comedian will create much amusement by shoot- ing buttons off the vests of the male characters, by a backward shot. The villain will be a charming blonde, foiled by the virtuous hero during four acta, but will conquer in the end, according to real ‘The heroine will be thoroughly thin and thirty, with red hair (eighteen carrot), freckled face, rambling eyes, and olfactory organ pointing heavenward. The actress \lertakes this part must forego all artificial up,” as Lam determined the character shall be true to nature, even have {to send to Jersey for an exponent. The hero will bave raven hair, villalnous-looking mustache, a bad eye, moon-shaped legs, and hump- back; his virtue will overcome everything for four acta, bat will be folled in the fifth, The serving-maid will appear in a slattern calico gown, slip-shod, with perceptible holes in stockings, her hair iu a tambl e, and general appearance of slovenliness: I Intend to bold the mirror up to nature s case, should T be compelled to go to a Serv- gency " for the original article, The reat of the cast will be modeled on the same plan. The scenery will be astoundingly realistic and origi- nal. The scene of the first act will be laid in a bal- loon, Act second will appear on the cow-catcher of a lightning express train, Act third will be in the Hadson River tunnel (copyrighted). Act fourth will open In a sewer, where the villain has fled in order to open a Sanday barber-shop in deflance of the penal code. Act fifth will be a sammer scene at the north pole, where the hero goes in quest of a sunflower for dying wathete. It will be seen that all the scenes are of a moving nature, It also contemplates many other startling departares, a few of which I will mention, Comedies should not end by all getting married; it should be that those who do not get kille! should wind np by divoree. It is my Intention 10 remodel Billy jakespeare § #0 that they will end more agreeably for sen- timental femoles, In * Romeo and Saliet,” I will mal them marry in the last act, and Juliet's mother will s to live with them, to see that Romeo dors not stay out late at night with Mercutio, and the rest of the gang. Hamlet and Ophelia will not die, but as they should t married, and in an epilogue a pair of twins will appear. Leah will not be turned out to die in the storm, but will be utilized to mind the baby whea it cries, Uring up the coal, and do the chorea. The mos startling things about the presentation of these revised plays will be that the star will not be supported by sticks, but by Jona side actors. Another departure | intend to make is one for which the residents of Gott wiil erect a statue to my memory, it is this: 1 will present a new grand opera, and will engage singers who really can sing, and will have the price of admission #0 low that eve ionally attend. Another departure will be on the pre- mier danseuse, who will be young; at least I will sol- emnly promises abe shail not be over thirty-five. ‘These are only a few of the many contemplated de- partarea with which 1 will visit the theatrical world. bp. hank presidents ean occa Tux Jepar has heard and read so much of the in- terminabile + sweetnesses ” accredited to Mra, Langtry, that he is half Inclined to entertain the rumor, now current, which links her honeyed name with that of an opulent candy manufacturer. wet design for the season: her heart on a gold bracelet. A young lady has eet The effect must todeed ws has taken out 360 ps nt had been a stalwart delegate in th ational Convention, Grant would have been nominated at Chicago. Bat why invoke at this late lay so harrow. ing a recollection’ ents.—Ex. If every last WHIFFS WITH CORRESPONDENTS. + AGAG."—Yes, anda very old ove at that, © Quenisr, please, ©. Suanr."—Your ai fat order. 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