Judge — January 20, 1883 — page 12: what you’re looking at

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Wuene Modjeska acted melodrama rei re is more or less occupied by The Certainly this is melodram n we have recently been treated nothing of the Romany Rye,” nothing of * Taken from Life,” or + Youth,” or * Black Flag,” about this | ma. It is a good, old, consistent melodram joint, at which you can cat and come again with a good certainty of finding some solid material to stay your dramatic appetite. But it so much depends upon the carver. Now, the last time Tue Junie hal occasion to look upon this time-honored drama, it was in the hands of Charles Fechter, and it suited him admirably Feebter, before and above all things, was graceful; Ih was also a skilled fencer, and handled his rapier like a maitre Carmes, two very important portions of the individuality necessary to represent Fabian Dei Franchi arlie Thorne, thy isfactory actor in some roles, is not the soul and im- personation of grace, and, worse still, he is an indif- th's Corsican of a better to. There is Th Brot stripe t ers.” ow, ha very sat rent fencer. Mozvover, there are memories of Feehter clinging about the play which Thorne’s ball- at-a-gate performance rather outrages. This is th first opportunity the former favorite of the Union Square has had of making his bow toa New York » the severance of his connection with the house with which bis name has Tux Jevae cannot bat think that his selection of the | vehicle was unfortanate. As long as Thorne could | jap his forehead with the air of a persecuted, yet at saint—as in the part of Osip, for instance— | exclai “My God! he was well Indeed, be bas proved in his performance of 1 Rochat that he can give satisfaction by merely ing his forebead, omitting the ejaculation alto- ether—for Daniel Rochat is an inzlel and bas no God to invoke. But deprived of both these trade-marks, and compelled to act and fight, and see a ghost as he is in “The Corsican Brothers,” Charlie Thorne ia all at and those who go to see him are the sufferers Elsewhere the cast is good, and Mr. Bangs is more than satisfactory. But the poor" Corsican Brothers"have had their day, and it does not lie in the power of a good cast, with Charlie Thorne at its head, to resurrect them. | Instead of the ghost of Del Franchi, the ghost of Fech- ter rises, and the whole performance is remin Next generation, perhaps, Charlie—not this generatic Dod public sin been associated. write good gen — Mr. Lester Wallack has at last condescended to ap- pear in the theater which bears his name, by kind per ission of Mr. Theodore Moss, Esq. The appearunc an event of, and with the ald of judicious | lay! advertisement has filled the house. The play is Rob- | rtson's “+ Ours,” a charming comedy, and the business is the best the house haa seen aince the days of * La Belle Russe.” “Ours” will be succeeded by another London jodrama (for no amount of ** Taken from Lifes” will teach Mr. Theodore Moss, E: entitled © The Silver Ring.” This new importation may or may not have merits of its own, but it will be welcomed by Wal- lack’s patrons as re-introduciny Mr, Osmond Tearle, a pod actor, who has been much missed since he went | to England, and whose place—uncooled by the fey per- | formances of the frigoriflc Mr. Herbert--is still warm to receive him. Some of th J & Lessor other theaters present changes of till daring the current ‘k. The management of the Union Square haa shelved the unh “ Rantzaus,” and substituted ‘A Parisian Romance.” Emmet at Haverly's has carried * Fritz Among the Gypsies"— the third of his phenomenally successful Fritz series. The Vokes’ have taken the place of Claxton at the Fifth Avenue, John A. Stevens has removed from the THE JUDGE. NOTHIN Why, Alice, what wat briag Elgar * Fur purtection, that Windgor to Harlem, and Clara Morris is occupying the Grand Opera House. The Hanlon-Lees are at the Windsor, At the Standard ** Tolanthe jgns charm- z and successful. * The White Slave” is at Niblo's 1 Daly's with “Our English Friend,” Madison * Young Mra. Winthrop,” Harrigan & "still keep on the Square with Marva with tenor of their way *MeSorley’s Inflation, The Deacon Explains. “Wuar dat piceaninny parson mean by dat dare he keep makin’ dis mornin asked Mra. Aromatic Sumpter Lee, as she strolled home from th synagogue last Sunday mort.inz leaning on the arm of Deacon Lee, the boss whitewasher of Gold street * What dat parson mean, I say? “You infers to de tex’ ob de sarmon which «i preacher inferred to on sebral occasions?" asked th deacon, a8 he depreciatingly wondered at his wife's ignorance. * You infer to de tex’, ‘decensus Arerné an facilis est “Dem is de wonls, dem 1s de quotation,” said Mrs. | Lae. Now, den, Mr. Lee, you'se an edicated man; spose you ib me de particklers:” * sald Mr. Lee, again depreciatingly Ho yon know de meanin’ ob dem words - dem is comm “non; You'se heard ol census, ob de census as was tuck ob de population ob city?” 1 wid de edies.ted masses. murmured Mra. Lee. You'se beard ob Vernon, whar de remain ob Ginrel ‘ashington is laid?" inquired the deacon Why, bless yer, honey, I'se raised down thar,” she answered. + Well, de place am grow since you'se gwine away. De parson he say de consus ob Vernon, de ce Vernon, facilis est—let me see, honey, let me see facilis est—dat am about foah tonsan’. De census ‘ob Vernon am about foah tousan’, Now you see what de tex’ ob de sarmon am?” Mra. Lee understood perfectly now, and trudged home us ob LIKE. BEING in such sreather + gota dog with him, so that needn't PREPARED, fear nothink from no ane 2" to entighten her sable neighbors, and dlescant_on ~dé tarnin’ ob her ole man.” A Smart Boy. Stwwensaeeze prides himself on his youngest boy's smartness, 80 the other day at dinner, when company as present, the old man gaid to Johnny, “Well, my boy, what did you learn at school to-day f° * Lots,” replie! the youngster, with i of food, “Can you tell the people the names of the four se sons! asked his father. * You bet.” “Well, what are they? Speak up loud and let every one see how smart you are.” “Didn't have that in the lesson to-lay, pa. Don’t T know ‘em.” *-Bat you must know what the four seasons are, my “Ob, yes; I know what they are now. pepper, mustard and vinegar. in’s I know © mouth fall v re They're salt, Them’s all the season- © SHORTYELLOW.""—Not a successful * Bust. when you hold a better hapa. A. D T.—Tue depor received your idea tor a cartoon, not his {dea—of @ cartoon atall. Mahone Js politically —dead as Folger. J. E, P.—Write out your ideas on paper. of course. It costs too much to send a slate by mail. 2 The “Patter of the Ticker” falls unbeeded upon our care Yet we hear the pat- ter of the office boy's feet conveying it to the waste-tasket, A. R—N.-You state that you write for the London comics, That settles it. Tie depae sa lively, fullof fun, a langhin-every-sentence American journal. Your contrita tions have been read with gloom. 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