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+A DUET. nobleman namel Count | a Montmoreney, or Earl On Do [t—Yor Pars Youn Moyer axp Taxis Yorr | Douglas, in your play, who Cuorce has won the beart of the beantifal village maiden, Tue Jepor To + Pansy Wedgewood, while What are you shouldering yonder, { pray? named Horace Jenkins?" | | What are those things in your hand-cart with wheels ie mel to ailini Ends hanging out of them? Sausages? Eels? | that there was nothing of | / © Curr” ro Tae Jc the kind in the play. Viscors, Invants, intestines—a name Ab!” said the: manager, Shorter they have, which my lips trame | thoughtfally, «that ts, in- You know their charucter—d o! | deed, a fatal error. Why Tin carrying them straight to the * Stalwart " Dear! even Mr, Tennyson had | . sense enough to use that 7 Jena. TEES 008 racket. Le sin ask ? | \ At Mr, Praident, hl theo aw | Soin wa haiae weane ECL Dato thas ones See one Feats Point dresses herself with taddeod thai you agen black paint under the eves 4 to the front of the off the fol | i THAT COMEDY bets Giese | | : | Tam th | ‘ fst-clase comedies, 1 claim t be | victim, and yet Lsay. + 4 chief reasou why F auepeet this.18 | on, thongh it should te fh at everything else, and asevery | ti heart from any bow | pa ” this mast he mi “| wan again forced yi writing what I call «The | of this | t iis not a bowling, ecreaming farce, with sixteen Irish | ‘Mi What maker Lin the picture 80 j y the fact of his having * stube | medians, a jackass, and a goat in the leading parts: | Comey,” “Avot 1 hel the town which his facorite carn Ut bo A he ta giving way to an une | neither is it a dreary walk-around, consisting of an un- | Tape of judgment.” con Ne Mov murth | faithfal wife, a lord with the blind-sta: three serv- | tinued the manager. It aan ants An billous live poolledog and two young | seems strange how you could fail to zet your charac+ { That's the way to write comedy orving, sir,” | female noolles in silk dresses of the thirteenth cent: | ters worked up lntoa position where the above sentence | and he tarned around to give putanewly- | ury, such as our English friends are so fom of making | wout) not he necessary. I will trouble you no farther, nl comedy jackass as eserelck: with: as 1 see your comedy is wanting in the most al sind anda Trepeat that it is none of these, but I conzratulate | Stomente a tuts i crete, tay san inyself that it 1s a good, clean, fresh, sparkling comedy, | " . . Irish comedians how oui begs (aplb e I sally rolled np my manuscript. and hied my way to | enzaged in give a recipe to two Trish comedians hon brimming over with the spirit of Amenean Institu- s ke upas genuine Indian chiefs, imported at ine : : amore congenial market. The next manager was of | ( make up as genuine Ini fs, imported at i tions, and containing over two hundred and thirty-five m | eredilje’ exienne” fromthe: pethless:foresisof the far “ | the pare comedy “Our Boanting Hou credible expense the far, jokes (all fresh), and sixty-eight morals, to say noth. | (eM can att | tar West. He stopped when I came iu, and on my re ing of the sky-scraping eloquence and w | nasy writing a bas ax of his | auesting him to read the 1 rie ou . ’ Sapte) . . latest play, in which the old maid is rolled down. | pardner, you're insane; Lean decide what your play 1 son of the heavy villain, anished by bis falling ee: soe kilt » feat wet; and have. yot Tun the eellatatepa, and splitting bis head Hinz stow me, haven't yout" Tacknowledzed the com, | many Todians are killed in the first act, and have you sown the cellar atepa, and splitting his head on a beer red him to look orer it. any exciting incidents, like the hero scout bei 1 keg, while virtae is rewarded in the person of the poor | “4 I tora wales trex by 000 Liood-thirsty'snvazer, halt ot : : we artist, who fille heir 0° $3,000 000 | _;"-Ath.SOFrs, my dear oi, he, pleasantiy, “bat | 8a 3. honest young, artist, who falls Reis (0 22,000,000") iii aes © of fourt. ve whom he picks off one by one, by the aid of his trasty | Ihavean averaze of fourteen plays to reject a day, and | 5 worth of guano on a South Sea island, and marries the | rite; and: thea allée down the tree ‘and kick. the row heroine of the fourth act to slow music, while the | Cold not possibly read them all. A few questions | rifle, and then sl Iather seattors blessings ant a allver plated bac, | SUL Settle It, however. In the first place, have you | to death" Twas force to audmit that my play was ae aee ene of the ham pain all the fac | ot the regulation Irish lord. inventor, poet, books | lacking in this essential particu said the | ee dish at the fe oy pees . agent, newspaper reporter, and Presbyterian minister | Manager, ‘in that case [ suppose you have worked it heavy comestian makes the sparkling observation that | #6h' nemsnl | tna more Pizleyical styl No doubt the beroiseisa | Lore ama Gano: epee all thlogs 1 replied that Thad not. | young irl of wild seraphic beauty, says 'G | Bow, Ta Weta Koo bet coed ™ i “That looks bad,” replied the manager. But a | 24 ‘You bet your hatr,* and similar J, Hoe plot! 0: wateing thu Enare combined stder TOM eae BILE IC nee vikg | an the hero, a young school teacher, frum the East splitting mirth, delicate pathos, deep passion, and | Play might succeed without it. 1 suppose sou make | Sh" UM Mim & SOUR Act ee O. atock, «| sparkling witticisms; which are well calculated to call | €¥ery act end with some one getting blown ap, run | Tiber Trius Cum A Te forth the noblest emiotions of the baman soul, for the | Ofer by astreet car, chewed ap ty a goat, of falling | OSTEO We TT oo emarks that ahe ls unworthy small consideration of fifty cents per head. into a sto harrel, while the orchestra plas i ae ane at ean eas y Last week I got hungry, and afer bringing the eom- | music, don’t yout" Iya | & ene to chew gum, and pulverize the pi | ely to 0 hasty close by kil one-half and marrying | 1 replied that there was nothing of this kind in the ua bole f Se aie bas reriokingn aad off the other half of the remaining characters, I started play. leads him to the altar, amid the yells of the entire out with that comedy, with the firm resolution to sell | + Well, then,” aaid the man eis only one | camp.” 1 didn't wait to tell him that the “Gr it, or die in the attempt. The frst man I tackled was | thing that will as ar comedy, and that i8 for the | ee a Comedy iin? bat to the Esmeral et Kirke & Co. style of man: heroine to remark to the here, when he ishugsing ber. | teetine for home. nd ny own door Joba He receiveal_ me with a grave air, and asked me if f | that she would sooner he would do it sm’other way: 1 | sfecatiough happened to be passine--a lucky thought | J the @ats in the parquette over the heater, or by your long face that you have even neglectol 0 | struck me. 1 drew my pistol, and compelled him to in the balcony. is jaw fell about thirteen degrees | put that in. You had better revise your comedy, and | Sy un with me am read that comedy. from. heginnvn when be learned that I had not come for seats, and | makethe hero fall ie a cistern in the tirst act, Gool- | {) ony sell. anid Lee'what will, make it meat clear to-zero:Wiben be saw me enroll the play ley | Hethonght fora moment, and then said: You mast Ah” said he, “+a play; please be briet, Urejeetel | T next visited a manager of the howling farce, Harti. | ao one of two things, either put four salute, three | fifteen pounds of manuscript this m san and Hart style. I found bim busy training a vi gels, and a devil or two in the cast, and use it for much time for these things. Tr ly | hick up a pair of Hoots with its mouth, and to passion play, or else bay up a second-hand elephant, | T informed him that it was th t American | zood comedy squeal, He seemed to re tuffed camel. and hire thirty song Indies, dressed tn Comedy,” and even lihood to ask him | in my face, and condescended to look at the first paze | gtreviated bathine Lthen sell it to Kirulfy to read It, The last ed to madlen | of the play, | Brothers tor a Great Aek iar Drain b “You don't tell me that you have an ides | Ah,” said be, wit “this will doom P. S.—Thave dh | that a may as he wrote a witheri ever re: Is a play, do he snappes, postal card to a young lady, week he would give | dram, p her for acting “Romeo and Juliet.” “Well, they | Chinese, on son't; better to time, | row-xange dreases, in addition to on formed + Who will take Gambetta's shoes. in Fra Now, I can tell jast what your play Is, after a couple | every five minntes, such as ‘ten cents a peep. | We don't know who will take his shoes, bat we do of questions. Io the frat place, Is’ th iil right-apto: the present}? etc: | know:nobody‘can take hils place The repres success, must hav mative Am| an comedy, to b teen Irish comestians, a hues —_- | jackass, two nizzer comedians, Frenchman, and two young lad | who wrote to know how much rformin; A SPECULATIVE. ne have eomethi mag rey young | ‘there you comicbooks.com