Judge — August 11, 1883 — page 12: what you’re looking at

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SS soa ee Ar ms am — ena, RAS ee a =e a THE JUDGE. torn inside out with a view to ‘alterations and improvements,” the notes of preparation for the son echo loudly from “the rts where actors most ger who has just returned from rope with his pockets full of new play tothe little ** supe” who has be for the first time in his life for a ** sy part,” and who will call himself an after next September, But every on viewed from the standpoint of early st, is going to be a grand on rording to the profession, It is only after a few weeks of trial, travel and tribulation; dozen shows have gone to. pie component part have tested the walking b tween New York and various points west and south, that the season begins to be viewed in its true colors, and, plored. spect having been broken in the general smash up, is conceded to be pretty much like other sons—in the eyes of some perhaps a sh worse. It is too soon to venture any predic- | tion on the outcome of the season of "83-84, | but it is safe to say that it will be strewn | with many d atic wrecks, and will be an epoch fraught with many bitter disappoint- ments, For there is a great deal expected of he outlay in preparation for it has been ceptionally large, and there is no reas expect that the returns will be proportionately | tisfactory. The prevailing mania for fc ly responsible for th ome time since the h managers for Europe. The return tide has set in, and th ims have returned and are returning, loaded down with dram- atic ware, in return for which many a good American dollar has found its way into the pockets of Enghsh and French play Such purchases as these are intrinsically ex- vensive, and they are very, very risky. As | Tne JpGE remarked on a previous occa- sion, a play that has proven successfal in London may or may not succeed here. Its run on the other side of the water can by no means be accepted as an assurance of its run for it ma r succeed in London, owing to a train of altogether adventitious circum- stances which will be without weight in York. It may have had taking peculi in the way of local color or characterization; or it may have dealt with some local foible of the day, and thereby secured an antage | at the start which will be lost to it in Amer- | ica. On the other hand, a play that fails in vwillalmost inevitably fail in New York, for its failure is traceable t me fault in construction, lack of interest in plot, pov- erty in dialogue—somewhere or other the play has failed in awakening human interest; and as humanity is pretty much the same the world over, the san ses that have brought about its damnation in one place will secre | pencil, I presume the same result in another. But our mana- srs do not seem to give this matter much thought. As long as the piece | eign trademark they seem to be sati undeterred by past ¢ nce, fling it public with self-satisfied air, as much as to : ou must like this; it was writ Pinero, as the ured the American now come and us for it. public will do next season as it did ctly what it pleases, Of one thing ers may be sure. They will have 1 to choose from—for our man- » brought over London failur sand London. quasi succes: sesin infinite profusion, andasthey (the ma gers) say the season is to be a grand one. Just at present, of course, theatrical affairs are as pulseless as the Sleeping Beauty. The midsummer calm is upon them, and all whose arrangements for next ‘on are completed are enjoying themselves at the various sum- The end of August and the wails the Is, will be pressed The Union pment, nd many are toits prospects, and also as to the fate “Storm Beaten” —one of the last London season's quasi suc- —with which it ‘The concensus of opinion conder I but we shall see. ‘There is many riddle, at present all insoluble, which the next few months will furnish an answer to. ‘The present is an anxious time r theatrical speculators. ed to open. id anen- u should “With a lead atid his rival lang see the houses she draws. Near the Heart. Tavera pain—with a You ask me if “tis s where E put th Imon, salad, suish Lam stricken; the heart— chicken, cream, cherry tart! wealthiest man, our fier all, hold in y earth, and that ts the natural t pauper. — Berne umb’s corp: (Such treatment was ‘They tell n when they buried it, nmerited), n Thumb disinherited? "Tie dude now objects to th Its chirp doth his tender ears harrow: And he How the bird apes bis "Thin legs and coat-tails avs it is vile A CURAS political club whose the independence of Cuba, | ized in Philadelphia. Irish political club, wh tisthe inde- pendence of Ireland, has been ized in every city, town and hamlet in the United hey burst up ina row, country for political clubs of this is well’ to free oppressed safe distance Ir is estimated that through the laying of hands in the 4th, fro Port Jervis Daily Union, that through the laying on of hands: it least double as many clergymen have been licensed to cure of souls during the past d cade, COURTING by te clectrie spark. ph must be a sort of QUITE TOO ALL BUT. ~ ARABELLA—I suppose you would like me to beliere that you ure an angel ? GrorGE—Oh, no! I'm not an angel, but I feel that Lam pretty near to one, comicbooks.com